Six Continuing the pattern of self and other – with five being the human individual – the number six is other people. The sixth sign of the zodiac is Virgo which represents customs, duties and regulations: the constructs that allow groups of people to live together in relative harmony. Virgo is the sign of the …
Five Five is the number of man. It is the number of fingers on the human hand, and our hands alone place us above any beast. Those with hands as such are man. When man stands with his legs apart and his arms stretched out at his sides, his arms, legs and head form a …
Four Restoring the balance, like all the even, feminine numbers, comes four. The fourth sign of the zodiac is Cancer, the sign of emotions, ruled by the moon. The symbol for Cancer resembles the yin-yang symbol of Chinese philosophy. It is a symbol of duality, but shows that one side contains the other and vice-versa. …
Three Three is the holy trinity, consisting of the mother, the father, and their child. These represent the feminine and masculine sides of the individual, with the child being the individual itself, an amalgam of the two. The third star sign is Gemini, ruled by Mercury, the messenger of the Gods. Mercury facilitates communication between …
Two Two is the number of duality. If one is the self, two is the self and the other. Two is the world in which one finds itself. Where zero and one were one and the same, one and two stand divided. The former being the relationship of mother and son, latter being siblings, Uranus …
One From out of the void comes one. This is the monad, the Godhead, all that is rather than all that could be, opening His eye to the nothingness and speaking the words “I am” into the void. The first sign of the zodiac is Aries, the ram. Aries is the cardinal fire sign, the …
Zero Zero is the void. It is the empty space in which all else resides. But because it contains all, it is all, only it is everything in a formless state with no distinction between one thing and the next, one moment or the next. It is the primordial force behind all existence, from whence …
Reincarnation Reincarnation is the cycle of birth and death, death and rebirth. It is an endless cycle with no beginning. The soul passes from body to body as a flame is passed between torches. One flame dies out and yet it continues on the second torch. Both flames may go out but fire is never …
Being Human I once asked my tutor for a world religions class a question about being reincarnated as an animal, and her response was that the word ‘incarnate’ meant to take human form, and so one could not be ‘re-incarnated’ as an animal, and that’s as far as she went into the question. Being reborn as …
God The atheist claims that the existence of God has long been disproved by logic, and made redundant by science, but the god they have cut down is little more than a straw man, perhaps the creation of some nefarious plot, or perhaps just a side-effect of an overly dogmatic church. Whatever the case may …
