《Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtue》數字的神秘象徵 (Occult Power of Numbers)William Wynn Westcott (1890)
The Heptad. 7. The Heptad, say the followers of " Pythagoras," was so called from the Greek verb " sebo," to venerate (and from the Hebrew ShBO, seven, or satisfied, abundance), being Septos " Holy," " divine," and " mother- less," and " a Virgin." P'rom Nicomachus we learn that it was called "Minerva," being un- married and virginal, begotten neither by a mother, z.e.
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