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What Does 8 Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.
What does the number 8 mean in the Bible?
8: as above so below, the octave that receives cosmic light once the centers are fed
Esoteric lens · Ecclesiastes 11:2
Where the number 8 appears in the Bible
1 Chronicles 12:24
The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war.
1 Kings 7:10
The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1 Peter 3:20
who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
The number 8 through 2 lenses
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Esoteric · Luke 9:28
Esoteric
The climb into the higher realms of consciousness is what happens in a person who withdraws attention from the surface and lifts it toward the crown. The number 8 carries the whole meaning of as above, so below, the point where the earthly and the heavenly answer each other, and the ascent takes place after that correspondence is reached. Prayer here is not petition but the inward gathering of the energies as they rise.
The fading age of Pisces goes up with the awareness, carried along as the old faculties are lifted into a clearer state. To go up the mountain is to raise consciousness out of the valley of ordinary thought into the high ground where the inner light shows itself.
- Mountain: the higher realms of consciousness a person climbs into by turning within
- 8: as above, so below, the joining of the earthly and the heavenly
- Peter and John: Pisces, the fading age carried up as awareness rises
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Buddhism · 1 Corinthians 4:3
Buddhism
- **Upekkhā: Equanimity**
A steadiness that neither rises to praise nor sinks under blame. To count the verdict of others a very small thing is to let their approval and their scorn pass through without snagging on either. A rock in the surf that lets every wave break over it and stays put.
- **Lokadhamma: The worldly winds**
The eight gusts of gain and loss, honor and scorn, praise and blame, pleasure and pain. Man's judgment is one of these winds, and Paul has felt it shift too often to trim his sails to it. A weathervane spins with every breeze, and he has stopped being the vane.
- **Sakkāya-diṭṭhi: The view of a self**
The habit of taking a solid "me" to be defended and scored. Saying he will not even judge his own self, he loosens the grip on the very thing a verdict fastens onto. Nobody is home at the door the accusation keeps knocking on.
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Steadiness that neither rises with praise nor sinks under blame (upekkhā) lets approval and scorn pass through without snagging on either. To count the verdict of others "a very small thing" is to stand in that steadiness.
- Eight gusts blow through every life: gain and loss, honor and scorn, praise and blame, pleasure and pain (lokadhamma). Man's judgment is one of these winds. Paul has felt it shift too often to trim his sails to it.
Beneath the sting of any verdict sits the habit of taking a solid "me" to be defended and scored (sakkāya-diṭṭhi). Saying "I judge not mine own self," he loosens the grip on the very thing a verdict fastens onto. Nobody is home at the door the accusation keeps knocking on.
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What the number 8 means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisEight people saved: Eight survive. In Christian symbolism eight means new creation (the eighth day, resurrection); baptismal fonts are often octagonal.Genesis 7:1-24
Commentaries on the number 8
Bullinger, Number in Scripture (1921) · Eight
In Hebrew the number eight is (Sh'moneh), from the root (Shah'meyn), "to make fat," "cover with fat," "to super-abound." As a participle it means "one who abounds in strength," etc. As a noun it is "superabundant fertility," "oil," etc. So that as a numeral it is the superabundant number. As seven was so called because the seventh day was the day of completion and rest, so eight, as the eighth day, was over and above this perfect completion, and was indeed the first of a new series, as well as being the eighth.
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