:: : Maybe my first, instinctive answer ( a connection to Proclus ) should be given a bit more weight, because after writing the above I find this book ( search it for " hebdomad " ), in which we read ( p . 90 ) : " The unusual [ Boethian ] term of'hebdomads'is an allusion that is so opaque that it remained unexplained until our days . I have elsewhere proved, I think, that this is an allusion to the proclusian symbolic meaning of the number seven.
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After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several'stages'of the upper world ( " diastemata " ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year; i . e . the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ??????? according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:
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Both titles come from Boethius'words in the opening of his treatise, where he says he will answer the long-title question " from our hebdomads, " meaning, again, " from my seven common conceptions [ " koinai ennoiai " ] or axiomatic statements . " As far as I can tell, Boethius used the term hebdomad simply because he listed seven of them, which seems to have confused his Medieval readers to no end, because ( 1 ) many of them had no clue that " hebdomad " had to do with the number seven, and ( 2 ) the inaccurately transmitted texts of Boethius they had before them tended to give nine and not seven of the " hebdomads . " I gleaned much of this from this book, searchable on Amazon, and I have not read or seen " De hebdomadibus ", so, as usual, no guarantees!
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Both titles come from Boethius'words in the opening of his treatise, where he says he will answer the long-title question " from our hebdomads, " meaning, again, " from my seven common conceptions [ " koinai ennoiai " ] or axiomatic statements . " As far as I can tell, Boethius used the term hebdomad simply because he listed seven of them, which seems to have confused his Medieval readers to no end, because ( 1 ) many of them had no clue that " hebdomad " had to do with the number seven, and ( 2 ) the inaccurately transmitted texts of Boethius they had before them tended to give nine and not seven of the " hebdomads . " I gleaned much of this from this book, searchable on Amazon, and I have not read or seen " De hebdomadibus ", so, as usual, no guarantees!
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Both titles come from Boethius'words in the opening of his treatise, where he says he will answer the long-title question " from our hebdomads, " meaning, again, " from my seven common conceptions [ " koinai ennoiai " ] or axiomatic statements . " As far as I can tell, Boethius used the term hebdomad simply because he listed seven of them, which seems to have confused his Medieval readers to no end, because ( 1 ) many of them had no clue that " hebdomad " had to do with the number seven, and ( 2 ) the inaccurately transmitted texts of Boethius they had before them tended to give nine and not seven of the " hebdomads . " I gleaned much of this from this book, searchable on Amazon, and I have not read or seen " De hebdomadibus ", so, as usual, no guarantees!
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Both titles come from Boethius'words in the opening of his treatise, where he says he will answer the long-title question " from our hebdomads, " meaning, again, " from my seven common conceptions [ " koinai ennoiai " ] or axiomatic statements . " As far as I can tell, Boethius used the term hebdomad simply because he listed seven of them, which seems to have confused his Medieval readers to no end, because ( 1 ) many of them had no clue that " hebdomad " had to do with the number seven, and ( 2 ) the inaccurately transmitted texts of Boethius they had before them tended to give nine and not seven of the " hebdomads . " I gleaned much of this from this book, searchable on Amazon, and I have not read or seen " De hebdomadibus ", so, as usual, no guarantees!
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