《Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtue》數字的神秘象徵 (Occult Power of Numbers)William Wynn Westcott (1890)
35. The number of Agia (AGLA), a composite Kabbalistic w^onder- working name. 36. Plutarch, "Dc Iside et Osiride," calls the Tetractys the power of the number 36, and on this was the greatest oath of the Pythagoreans sworn ; and it was denominated the World, in consequence of its beino- composed of the first four even and the first four odd numbers ; for i and 3 and 5 and 7 are 16 ; add 2 and 4 and 6 and 8, and obtain 36.
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