And " Telesphorus " or " Bringing to an end " because the human offspring is carried 9 lunar months by the parent. And teleios or perfect for the same reason, and also called " Perfect " because it is generated from the Triad, which is called " Perfect." Attention is called to its being an emblem of Matter which ever varying is never destroyed ; so the number 9 when multiplied by any number always reproduces itself, thus: — 9 times 2 are 18 and 8 plus i are nine : and so on as below : In John Heydon's Holy Guide 166: number 9 to have other curious properties : — " If writ or engraved on Silver, or Sardis, and carried with one, the wearer becomes invisible, as Caleron, the Brother-in-law of Alexander, did, and by this means lay with his Brother's concubines as often as he did himself Nine also obtaineth the love of Women.
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