Pythagorean Sacred Numbers: Symbolic Meanings of Numbers 7-10

the celestial beings". It was called "the one who brings to completion", as well as "opportune moment" or "destiny". The Pythagoreans affirmed that $7$ was not like other numbers and required special veneration, they called it the virgin number and associated it with the goddess of Wisdom, Athena. Iamblichus calls it "angel" and at the same time "guardian". It is the symbol of the Hermetic Androgynous Man. Number $8$: is called "peace" and "perfection", as well as "Eternity" and "stability". It was often associated with harmony due to the musical octave, so much so that it was also called the "panharmonic" number. Even in Christian tradition, the eighth day is the day after which there is no longer a new week, it is the unique and definitive one (Lubac). Number $9$: which was called "Ocean" or also "Horizon", the insurmountable limit before $10$, sometimes it was also called "Hyperion" because it went beyond all numbers, and at the same time defines their limit, so it was called "limitation". The $9$ is also a dissolver of various numbers, it decomposes them and makes them disappear. Number $10$: "Cosmos", "Heaven", "Everything", "Eternity", "Force", "Trust", "Atlas", "Urania", "container of everything", "receptacle", "Sun", "Inexhaustible Nature" and "Omniperfection". This number in itself represents the Unitotality of numbers explicated. You see indeed that the symbol of ten is the symbol of One because it expresses Unity, however while the One expresses Unity without differentiation or only with potential differentiation, $10$ expresses uni-totality, that is, the unity of individual individualities fully explicated. While in Unity the essences live in a still latent state, in the decade, in Unitotality the Essences are manifest in their fullness, therefore fully distinguished from each other (fully differentiated) yet nevertheless fully united by virtue of their common origin and substantial base.