The Spiritual Foundation of Numbers

The Spiritual Foundation of Numbers: Numbers as Reflected in Cultural Development & Elements of a Spiritual Geometry and Arithmetic

Ernst Bindel takes us on a journey through the qualitative and quantitative landscape of numbers, and takes a fresh look at the mysteries that they contain. Without sacrificing geometrical rigor, he examines the image-forming powers of the different numbers, and uses it to unlock the meaning of specific numbers in human development, in the context of Biblical scriptures as well as some architectural wonders of the Ancient World (such as the Pyramids). His description culminates in a fascinating exposition of the Periodic Table of Elements as a physical testimony to the cosmic-historical development of planet Earth.

Content

Preface to the 1958 edition

1. The Book of Man and the First Ten Numbers
2. Quantitative and Qualitative Treatment of Numbers
3. The Attitude of Antiquity to the Number Five
4. Five as the Number as the Creative Individual
5. The Five-pointed Star as a Symbol
6. The Number Five in the Zodiac
7. The Number Ten and Continuous Division
8. Concluding Remarks on the Numbers Ten and Five
9. The First Seven Numbers in their Relationship to the World of Space
10. Space and Time within the World of Numbers
11. Twelve as the Sum of Five and Seven
12. The Numbers Six and Seven in Plant Development
13. The Numbers Six and Seven in the Structure of Calculations
14. The Number Seven and Man
15. The Septimal Number System and the Numbers 666 and 1000 of the Apocalypse
16. Seven in the Ancient Wisdom of Numbers
17. The Number Seven in the Rosicrucian Movement
18. Seventeen as a Union of Ten and Seven
19. Number and Language
20. Testimony of the Seeress of Prevorst about Number and Language
21. Kabbalah and Gematria
22. Gemantria of the Apocalyptic Number 666
23. The Special Position of the First Three Numbers
24. The Fourth Page in the Book of Man
25. The Number Four and man: The Right Angle
26. Earth and World Development in the Light of the Fourfoldness
27. From Four to Nine
28. On the Figures of the Number Nine: The Nine in Symbolism
29. On the Figures of the Number Eight: The Eight in Symbolism

The Periodic System of the Elements as a Document of Creation

Number Laws in the Material World and in the Development of the Earth

Conclusion

About the Author

Ernst Bindel (1890-1974) studied mathematics, physics and chemistry in Gottingen, Berlin and Halle. From 1924 to 1963 he was a senior teacher at the Uhlandshohe Free Waldorf School in Stuttgart. Ernst Bindel is the author of several books, including The Numerical Basis of Music Through the Ages, Conic Sections, Logarithms for Everyone and The Egyptian Pyramids and Pythagoras.