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144 = 9
18 = 9
54 = 9
108 = 9
504 = 9
324 = 9
18 = 9
729 = 18 = 9
1296= 18 = 9
5184 = 18 = 9

108 108 --- 864 = 18

108 = 9 ---- 11664 = 18 = 9

And so the cubes:

27^2 = 729 X 729 = 18 = 9
18^2 = 324 = 9 9^2 = 81
81^2 = 6561 = 18 = 9

729 324 6561

6561 = 18 = 9
1296 = 18 = 9
6561 = 18 = 9
1458 = 18 = 9
648 = 18 = 9
39366 = 27 = 9
5103 = 9
972 = 18 = 9
32805 = 18 = 9
39366 = 27 = 9
531441 = 18 = 9
104976 = 27 = 9
43,046,721 = 27 = 9

The number 10, or the Denary, is the measure of eveything and reduces multiplied numbers to unity. Containing all the numerical and harmonic relations, and all the properties of numbers which precede it, it concludes the Abacus or Table Pythagoras. To the Mysterious Societies, this
number typified the assemblage of all the wonders of the Universe. They wrote it thus (theta), that is to say, Unity in the middle of Zero, as the centre of a circle, or symbol of Deity. They saw in this figure everything that should lead to reflection; the centre, the ray, and the
circumference, represented to them God, Man, and the Universe.

This number was, among the Sages, a sign of concord, love, and peace. To Masons it is a sign of union and good faith; because it is expressed by joining two hands, or the Master's grip, when the number of fingers gives 10 and it was represented by the Tetractys of Pythagoras.

The number 12, like the number 7, is celebrated in the worship of nature. The two most famous divisions of the heavens, that by 7, which is that of the planets, and that by 12, which is that of the Signs of the Zodiac, are found upon the religious monuments of all the peoples of the Ancient World, even to the remote extremes of the East. Although Pythagoras does not speak the number 12, it is none the less a sacred number. It is image of the Zodiac; and consequently that of the Sun, which rules over it.

Such are the ancient ideas in regard to those numbers which so often appear in Masonry; and rightly understood, as the old Sages understood them, they contain many a pregnant lesson.

Before we enter upon the final lesson of Masonic Philosophy, we will delay a few moments to repeat to you the Christian interpretations of the Blue Degrees.

In the First Degree, they said, there are three symbols to be applied.