[UA] Pop Culture Update

[R. Menzi]

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One line specifically says "10 and not 11". Another
line speaks about the Sefirot in pairs such as a start
of time and an end of time.
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     Interestingly, this may have been a symtpom of a
switch between base 11 and base 10 conceptuallization
of math.  The number 10 is found in older texts quite
often, with some mystical significance (ten
generations between the patriarchs, ten plagues, etc.)
 Well, check this:

     I'm sure you are familiar with the way the digits
of any multiple of 9 will add up to 9.  Well this is a
trait of being the last digit below the number
system's base.  (Just trust me on this one.)  Using
base 11, the number 10 has that property.  There are
other indications of this, such as the hyperbole in
Genesis 4:24 in which Lamech murder gets him a curse
11 times as bas as Cain's (an order of magnitude in
base 11).

     My father, who translates this stuff, has noticed
that later kaballists describe the Sefirot in a way
that suggest they assimilated the concept of Zero
(thought to originate in India's buddhist tradition),
representing not the numbers 1-10, but 0-9.  This also
suggests a shift to base 10 way of thinking, in which
the number 9 has that self-consistant "rock of ages"
trait.

     BTW, this is the kind of worldview shange that
would make it impossible for moderns to use ancient
magics.


Regards,
- R. Menzi

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