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Very frequently when meeting a Seeker or a Cowan, the person will tell me that he or she has long been interested in magic, divination, nature, and so on. When "Nature" is mentioned, I've learned to hear "spending time outdoors" or "the natural environment." Rarely, someone will mean it to refer to "the Earth" or, even more rarely, "the Earth Mother" as a conscious entity. "Nature" proper is none of these things. The confusion probably started arising in the 1970s when we all started "fooling Mother Nature" with our delicious, chemical-filled Chiffon-brand fake-butter-magarine (Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVijP-CDVI or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDkiq5jD5Hc or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8).

If you are priest or priestess of the Old Religion, your subtle experiences of the Unseen will have fitted you admirably to understand what I will explain here. If you are some kind of some self-declared Tik-Tok-er or IG-er outside of the structure and tutelage of the Wise Ones, good luck to you. You chose your bed.

Nature is more akin to the female side of the One-Most-High. Higher in vibration and reach than the Earth Mother, or the Triple Goddess of the Moon, or even the Great Queen of Heaven. Nature is a set of laws and conditions, of stressors and flexors (just as we all are) and Her signature in physical manifestation is the number 7. She creates nothing in physical manifestation with the number 7 itself. She *IS* the number 7, and when you see something organized along the lines of the number 7, She is there, but in the background. 7 colors. 7 whole tones. 7 directions. The 7 shapes of creation.

She is present by Her absence. Look at the triangle above. Isis was Nature amongst the Egyptians. Erase Her line. What do you see? (the two remaining lines form a 7). Therefore, I repeat: She is present by Her absence.

The Wise Ones, both ancient and modern, call Nature the Virgin, because 7 cannot be divided by any number within the first ten digits except itself (the number 1 does not count inasmuch as, technically, no division has occurred in the result). She also bears no children because she can produce no other digit by multiplication in the first ten digits.

In the Greek Mysteries, Athena was the figure of Nature. In Greek numerology, Her name added to the number 77. She was called Parthenos (the Virgin), which in Greek numerology added to 515. 51.5 degrees is the nearest approximation to each angle of a 7-sided Heptagon.

The mystery that She is both present and absent at the same time is shown in Her mathematics.

When She is present, we cannot see Her:
1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 = 5040
7 x 8 x 9 x 10 = 5040

When She is absent, we know by Her absence that She must be there somehow, even if invisible:
1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 = 720
8 x 9 x 10 = 720

NO OTHER DIGIT BUT 7 WILL DO THIS. This is precisely why veils are used in the celebration of the Mysteries of the Goddess, and why OMMA THEIS EISO PEPLON means both "look beneath My veil" (see me, I am here) and "hide your eyes within your cloak" (do not look at me, I am not here).

She is Athena Parthenos. The Heavenly Venus of the Alchemists. Aseh-Neeta of Sais in Egypt. The Elohim of Netzach. The Hecate of the Chaldean Oracles. The High Priestess of Tarot. She is the link between the most subtle rates of vibration and the most dense rates of vibration.

Nature is like an ocean wave. The water is not the wave, but the water tells us that the wave is passing by. Nature is just like that. She is like Rilke's lover whom he could never catch. He could smell Her perfume on the balcony, but She was not there herself. He entered a street just as She turned the corner at the other end. In an antique store, an old mirror was still dizzy with the reflection of Her presence, although She had left the shop.

Rilke, however, was not a Witch. If you have been lucky enough to be blessed with inherited or learned skill, I will state that it is possible for a human being to perceive this "Nature-wave" by the inner senses. In other words, we are not engaged merely in theory and number-juggling here. Witches have the power to perceive this in reality. Never heard of all this before? Wash your nose of its ink-spots, and go find a Witch.

Are you interested in numerology? You need to know these doctrines of cosmology and number. Do you read the Tarot or playing cards? If your meanings of the 7s do not comprehend the above doctrines, you will never be a great seer or seeress for the Gods. You must learn the Universe's language. It cannot be compelled to learn yours. This goes not just for 7s, but for all the numbers.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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