William Wynn Westcott

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William Wynn Westcott


Born
in Leamington, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom
December 17, 1848

Died
July 30, 1925

Genre

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William Wynn Westcott—who usually published as W. Wynn Westcott or W.W. Westcott and occasionally under the motto Sapere Aude—was a coroner, Theosophist, and Freemason who was a leader in the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and went on to co-found the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, later remaining involved with the breakaway group Stella Matutina.

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Numbers Their Occult Power ...

3.79 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1911 — 122 editions
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The Chaldaean Oracles of Zo...

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3.78 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1895 — 54 editions
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An Introduction to the Stud...

3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1888
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Collectanea Hermetica

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The Complete Golden Dawn Ci...

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The Kabbalah of the Golden ...

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Hermetic Arcanum: The Secre...

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Isiac Tablet or the Bembine...

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Somnium Scipionis: The Visi...

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Hermetic Arcanum: Collectan...

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“Numbers are a key to the ancient views of cosmogony—in its broad sense, spiritually as well as physically considered and to the evolution of the present human race; all systems of religious mysticism are based upon numerals.”
W. Wynn Westcott, Numbers Their Occult Power And Mystic Virtues

“No doubt can exist that the ancient Egyptians were fully aware of the wondrous mysteries which numbers are able to disclose, so, considering that Greece, and neither Judea nor Babylon, succeeded to the empires of ancient Egypt, it is a curious fact how little knowledge of the dogmas of the Hierophants of Sais, Memphis and Thebes Greek literature has transmitted to us.”
W. Wynn Westcott, Numbers Their Occult Power And Mystic Virtues

“The numerals of Pythagoras,” says Porphyry, who lived about 300 A.D, “were hieroglyphic symbols, by means whereof he explained all ideas concerning the nature of things,” and the same method of explaining the secrets of nature is once again being insisted upon in the new revelation of the “Secret Doctrine,” by H. P. Blavatsky.”
W. Wynn Westcott, Numbers Their Occult Power And Mystic Virtues

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