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the emblems of earth. Confucius, who was a con- 

 temporary of Pythagoras, used these same yang 

 and yin symbols, with the already age-honored sig- 

 nification above given ; and he taught that the trans- 

 mutations and comminglings of these odd and even 

 numbers corresponding, of course, with forces 

 kept " the spirit-like agencies " of the Kosmic 

 world in movement. 



Thus the theory of opposites and of the funda- 

 mental relations of odd and even numbers was not 

 confined to a brotherhood of " fantastic metaphysi- 

 cians " in Greece, and is perhaps worthy of the 

 serious consideration of modern scientists. The 

 twentieth century has not improved upon the Con- 

 fucian Code of Ethics, and ancient wisdom is a 

 vast storehouse of treasures for us. 



The seven-fold permutations of the Tattvas was 

 explained early in these lessons (Chapter VI), but 

 you are now to understand that everything in Na- 

 ture responds to this number seven, a compound 

 of three and four, and the factor element in every 

 ancient religion, because it is the factor element in 

 Nature. The most tremendous and baffling force 

 in Nature is the mysterious synthesizing power of 

 the triad, the " three in one." It is the Unity 

 which in all the apparent confusion maintains har- 

 mony and order. This synthetic power is shared 

 in only lesser degree by five and seven, and these 

 three are most significant numbers for humanity. 



