![]() ![]() ![]() The man is the tenth hierarchy of the "celestial chorus" that will replace, after the last judgement, the rebellious angels. The ten generations from Adam until Noah. The Ten Commandments of God given to Moses. The ten plagues of Egypt sent by God by the intermediary of Moses, according to the Bible: the water changed into blood, the frogs, the midges, the big flies, the plague on the animals, the epidemic of ulcer and tumours, the hail and the thunder, the grasshoppers, the three darkness days, finally the death of the firstborns in each Egyptian family. God move back the shadow on the sundial of Ahaz of ten degrees as a sign that He was going to deliver Hezekiah from his mortal sickness and the city where he was. (Ps 83,7-9)īoaz took ten witnesses to marry Ruth. The ten nations whose hostility towards Israel was constant. The ten vices that exclude from the kingdom of God. The ten impotent powers against the love of God. The ten horns of the Beast of the Revelation with the ten diadems on each of horns. ![]() The ten pounds given at ten servants in the parable. The Holy Spirit descended on the apostles ten days after the Ascension of Jesus. In China, the cross represents the number 10 - as the totality of the numbers. The ten was regarded as being the number of the life and the death. Represent the revelation and the Divine Law.Īt the Mayas, it represents the end of a cycle and the beginning of another. It represents the straightness in the faith because it is the first number "in extension" (of two digits), just as hundred and thousand, explains Hugues of Saint-Victor.Īccording to Agrippa, "ten is called the number of all or universal, and the complete number marking the full course of life." Also he attributes to it a sence of totality, the achievement, the return to the unit after the development of the cycle of the first nine numbers. The number ten is regarded as the most perfect of numbers, because it contains the Unit that did it all, and the zero, symbol of the matter and the Chaos, of which all came out it then includes in its figure the created and the non-created, the beginning and the end, the power and the force, the life and the nothing. The ten gives the indication of a spiritual regression since the marriage is a consequence of the fall of the man. Represent the first couple, the marriage: 1 = the man, 0 the egg fertilized by the 1. The zero in the form of circle is a symbol of unit, completing then the meaning of the number 1 to show that the number 10 contains all preceding numbers as a whole contains its parts. Blavatsky, the 1 followed by 0 indicates the column and the circle, meaning the principle of the female and male, and this symbol would refer to the Androgyne nature and also to Jehovah, being at the same time male and female. Sum of 5 + 5, the number 10 represents the two opposite current directions of the conscience: involution and evolution.Īccording to H.- P. Represent the Creator and the creation, 3 + 7, the Trinity resting in the expressed universe.įor Pythagoras, 10 was the symbol of the universe and it also expressed the whole of human knowledge. ![]()
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