Excerpt from Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues The Secret Doctrine Of H. P. Blavatsky, a work Of erudition containing a vast fund Of archaic doctrine, has supplied me with valuable quotations. If any readers desire a deeper insight into the analogies between numbers and ideas, I refer them in addition to the works Of Eliphaz Levi, Athanasius Kircher, Godfrey Higgins, Michael Maier, and John Heydon I have quoted from each Of these authorities, and Thomas Taylor's Theoretic Arithmetic has supplied me with a great part Of the purely arithmetical notions Of the Pythagoreans, the elucidation of which was mainly due to him. In conclusion, I request my readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.