Symbols Of The Soul 7

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Symbols of the Soul 7 The soul as a sevenfold being, chapter 16 of  Mysteries and symbols of the soul   When someone hears or reads for the first time that the inner structure of everything is sevenfold, there is often surprise and the question is posed: ‘Why seven?’ In fact, there is no correct answer to this question, because the septenary is inherent to creation. What we can do, is mention several facts that make sevenfold structures plausible.  White light that is broken by a prism or breaks through water into a spectrum of seven colours of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The musical scale of western music consists of eight tones, the last of which is a repetition of the first on a higher octave: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do. If you have seven equal circles, for instance in the form of coins, you can place them against each other in a flower pattern, in such a way that the centre coin touches all the other six. A human head contains seven openings and in the head there are seven brain cavities. Our solar system consists, according to astrology, of seven classical planets that correspond with seven classical metals: Sun (gold), Mercury (quicksilver), Venus (copper), Moon (sil- ver), Mars (iron), Jupiter (tin) and Saturn (lead). The planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto have only been discovered later and are classified under the so-called mystery planets. In the holy scriptures from diverse cultures, among which the Bible, the number seven plays a key role.  Abstract symbolism systems like the tree of life from the Kabballah and the enneagram, are based on the septenary.  Helena Blavatsky mentions in her standard work  ‘The Secret Doctrine’  from 1888 in broad strokes the doctrine of the seven rays. Later on, Alice Bailey extensively elaborated on this doctrine in a treatise on the seven rays in five volumes. The seven rays are sev- en powers that emanate from the universal spirit field, from God, and each of them is sevenfold by nature. The seven times seven rays are interrelated. Catharose de Petri called these seven rays the absolute life, the absolute love, the absolute intelligence, the absolute harmony, the absolute wisdom, the absolute dedication and the absolute act of liberation.  Based on the age-old knowledge that seven is a sacred number, all kinds of septenaries have been invented in the course of history. In the Middle Ages, for example, the seven deadly or capital sins were known (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth), the seven virtues (prudence, justice, moderation, courage, faith, hope and love) as well as the seven liberal arts (grammar, logic, rhetoric, arrhythmic, geometry, music and astronomy).  The book  ‘The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy’ , which was