777 - slot machine jackpot, true number of God, bad day on Wall st

"400 points in 10 minutes"
"162 stocks on the Big Board rose, while 3,073 dropped."
"This isn't a market for the timid."
"The Dow Jones industrial average lost 777 points Monday, its biggest
single-day fall ever"
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Sevens are scattered throughout the Scriptures.

The Number 777
The number seven has deep spiritual significance. It has been held
sacred by the Hebrews and other Semite peoples since the dawn of time.
It represents perfection and holiness. It is used throughout the
Scriptures and in this sense is the Almighty's Number. We read of:

* Samson's seven locks of consecration. (Judges 16:13-19)
* The seven pillars of wisdom's house. (Proverbs 9:1)
* The sevenfold sign of total commitment and dependence (2 Chron. 29:
20-21)
* The seven lambs to attest the conclusion of a peace treaty. (Genesis
21:28-30)
* The seven fold sprinkling of blood before cleansing was complete.
(Lev:16:19)
* The seven week count to Pentecost, the seven year count to the
sabbatical year and the seven times seven year count to the Jubilee
year. (Lev. 23:15, Lev.25:1-9)

The seven candlesticks, seven churches, seven stars, seven seals,
seven trumpets, seven thunders, and seven plagues mentioned in the
book of Revelation etc.

Seven is God's number which is considered the 'divine' number. Six is
the number of Man, not God. Man was created on the sixth day (Gen 1)
and God 'rested' on the seventh which as any Jew will tell you is the
Shabbat (Sabbath). If there is a finite number that God would choose
to reveal His triune nature, 777 would be it.
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SEVENS

Order of the Planets as they appeared to the Ancients in an Earth-
centered universe:

1- Moon; 2-Mercury; 3-Venus; 4-Sun; 5-Mars; 6- Saturn; 7-Jupiter

Seven are the planets known to the Ancients

Seven are the colors of the rainbow

Seven are the stars in the plough (The Great Bear)

Seven are the nights in each quarter of the moon

Seven are the directions of the circle

Seven are the power centers of the body

Seven are the planes of the Universe

Seven are the notes of the musical scale

Seven are the Tenets of the Wicca

The number seven has always been a magical and mystical number. The
sacredness of the number seven is taken from Pagan sources, as it is
found in the famous pagan romance, The Golden Ass, by Lucius Apuleius,
who was a priest of Isis. The story is a parable of his initiation,
and he tells how he obtained a vision of the goddess upon the seashore
by night, at the time of the full moon: "Wherefore, shaking off my
drowsy sleep, I arose with a joyful face and moved by a great
affection to purify myself, I plunged my head seven times into the
water of the sea; which number seven is convenable and agreeable to
holy and divine things, as the worthy and sage philosopher Pythagoras
hath declared." (William Adlington's translation, 1566)

There seems to be something basic about the number seven in nature.
There are the seven colors of the rainbow, and the seven notes of the
musical scale. Western science recognizes seven chief glands in the
human body, called the endocrine glands; while Eastern yoga systems
speak of the seven chakras, or centers of force, in man's subtle body.

Medieval astrology has its seven Ancient and Sacred planets: Saturn,
Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon or Luna. There are
the seven visible heavenly bodies which make up our solar system, the
planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto not being visible to the naked eye.
Strictly speaking, of course, the Sun and Moon are not planets, and
are more correctly described as the two luminaries; but the term
'seven sacred planets' was used for convenience. Everything upon Earth
is under the governance, astrological speaking, of these seven
influences.

This is why we have the seven-day week. Each day is ruled by one of
the planets. The Sun rules Sunday, the Moon Monday, Mars Tuesday,
Mercury Wednesday, Jupiter Thursday, Venus Friday, and Saturn
Saturday. These rulerships go back to the days of ancient Chaldea and
Babylon.

Also, in the Northern Hemisphere, we have the most conspicuous
constellation of the night sky, the Plough, or the Great Bear (Ursa
Major), which points to the North Star or the Pole star, and which
consists of a group of seven bright stars.

Occult philosophy connects the number seven with the planes of the
universe. There are four planes, corresponding to the four elements;
but as each plane above the physical has both a higher and lower
aspect, the planes can be tabulated as seven:

7. Higher Spiritual Force: Fire

6. Lower Spiritual /

5. Higher Mental Form: Air

4. Lower Mental /

3. Higher Astral Force: Water

2. Lower Astral /

1. Physical Form: Earth

The terms 'higher' and 'lower' in this connection are purely
figurative. The planes are not places, but states of consciousness,
and they are interpenetrating.

All of these manifold correspondences of the mystic number seven are
summed up in the seven-pointed star, which some traditions in Britain
regard as the sign of authority in Witchcraft. These traditions
connect it with the Seven qualities, which they regard as the seven
basic requirements for attainment in magic: Humility, Respect, Trust,
Kindness, Truth, Honor and Dignity. (Doreen Valiente)

The seven pointed-star, therefore, makes a suitable lamen for the
leader of the coven to wear. A lamen is an old term for a magical
pendant worn round the neck so that it hangs upon the breast over the
heart.

It is a notable fact that if the signs of the seven planets are
written round the star in the order of their apparent motion, from
Saturn the slowest moving to Luna, which has the swiftest apparent
motion, then by tracing along the lines of the star one sees the order
in which the planets rule the days of the week, beginning with Sunday
(the Sun) passing to Monday (the Moon), and so on ending with Saturday
(Saturn).

Seven is pre-eminently the sacred and mystical number. Most people are
familiar with its popular connotations, such as the seven continents,
the seven seas and the belief that the seventh child of a seventh
child has supernormal powers. But there is an important idea connected
with this number which is less well known, and that is its association
with the magic circle.

In the magic circle, we have the four quarters, or cardinal points,
north, south, east and west, plus the height and depth, above and
below. These are the six directions, and the center of the circle, the
place of stillness from which they all radiate, is the seventh.

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namaste;
bodhi
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