Number 72 – The Master Number

The Number 72 is known in esoteric numerology to be one of the master numbers. By definition, a master number is one that encompasses patterns that replicate the frequencies and vibrations of certain energies of the manifested Universe.

The Master Number 72

How 72 Shows Up in Religion

We can find the reference to this numeric vibration in many of the ancient texts:

The Bible:

The number 72 is used four times in the Bible.

In the Bible, 72 numbers written in their cardinal form are multiples of twelve.

Old Testament

There are seventy-two races resulting from Noah. There are fifteen descendants by Japhet, thirty by Cham, and twenty-seven by Sem. (Genesis 10)

In the vision of Jacob’s Ladder in the Old Testament of the Bible (Genesis 28:11-19) and the Zohar, Jacob perceived that there were 72 steps between Earth and Heaven, with angels traveling up and down these steps.

72 was the number of people in Moses' council at Jethro.

Seventy-two of the Elders received the outpouring of the Spirit of God from Moses. The 70 ancients were accompanying Moses, plus the two absent ones who had remained in the camp, Eldad and Medad. (Numbers 11:25-26)

New Testament

There were seventy-two Disciples of the Christ, as well as the 12 Apostles:

“After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.”
~Luke 10:1-3

“The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name."
~Luke 10:17

“Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
~Luke 10:23-24

Christianity

In the Gospel according to Philip and in the Gospel of the Childhood of Jesus, it is written that one day, while he was a youth, Jesus entered the dyeing house of Levi. He took 72 colors and threw them in the cauldron. Then Levi was in anger, but Jesus takes out them all white and tells him: "It is thus indeed that the Son of Man comes as dyer".

According to the visions of Ann-Catherine Emmerich, after his temptation in the desert, Jesus is served by 12 superior angels and 72 angels of less rank.

According to the Rule in The Order of Saint-Saviour, given by the Christ to Saint Brigitte of Sweden, who lived from 1303 to 1373, the number of the members of the convent could not exceed 72: there had to be at the most sixty sisters and no more, accompanied by four deacons and eight laity.

The seventy-two Instruments of Charities of Saint Benoit are given in his rule on the spiritual art governing the monastic existence.

Judaism

According to the cabalistic tradition, the name of God is composed of seventy-two letters. It comes from the mystical text (called Schemamphorash) of the Exodus, chapter 14, verses 19-21, of which each one is composed of 72 letters in the original Hebraic text. It is this ineffable name of God who murmured to the great priest in the middle of the shouts of the crowd. It was later replaced by the sacred name, YHWH, which cabalists pronounce by spelling it out one letter at a time: Yod, He, Waw, He. It is also by the extraction and transposition of the three verses of the Schemamphorash that cabalists deduce the names of the 72 spirits (or angels) of the Cabal, which they call the "explained divine name."

According to Midrash, it is said that the Hebrew language was intentionally designed by "Seventy-two Scholars" so that words and phrases in the sacred texts with similar spiritual significance would have identical Numerations. The "Scholars", being seventy-two in number, correspond to the seventy-two letters of the Great Divided Name of God: Shemhamphorasch.

According to the Zohar, there were seventy-two old men of the synagogue.

Seventy-two is also the conventional number of scholars translating the Septuagint, according to the legendary account in the "Letter of Aristeas". The 72 Jewish translators (six of each tribe) that Ptolemy II, King of Egypt (283-246 B.C.), asked Eleazar, the great priest of Jerusalem, to send to translate into Greek the books of Moses, written in Hebrew, for his library in Alexandria. It is the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament written in Hebrew. It is designated under the name Septuagint because, according to legend, these 72 translators would have produced the same translation independently of each other, and this in 72 days. This translation is recognized officially by both the Church and the Vulgate.

Islam

The Mahomet Prophet (the Prophet Muhammad) suggests beginning and finishing meals with salt because it is a remedy against the 72 sicknesses.

The number of virgins a Muslim might get as a reward in Heaven.

Other Religions

The good God Osiris was enclosed in a coffin by 72 evil disciples and accomplices of Set.

There were 72 disciples of Confucius.

There are 72 Immortals in Taoism.

The 72 companions of the apotheosis of Houang-ti.

The number of devils according to The Lesser Key of Solomon.

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Historical Accounts of the Master Number 72

Plato, in his work “The Republic,” discusses the number 72 as a nuptial number, or a number that symbolizes the union between Heaven and Earth.

Plutarch speaks of the existence of the five days that the god Hermes added to the circumference, or a year of 360 days. Hermes 1/72 of each day to be added to the total.

The Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Hebrew civilizations always counted over their “Magic Calendars” the presence of 72 Tutelary Angels.

Astrology

There are 72 semi-decanes.

There are 72 Paranatellons: extra-zodiacal constellations that rise and set simultaneously with zodiacal constellations and serve as witnesses of the great power of the Cosmos in constant expansion.

The axis of the Earth moves by one degree every 72 years compared to stars and the vault of heaven.

72 years corresponds to one day of the Pythagoric year - mitacomesis 360 X 72=25920 years or an entire cycle of the Precession of Equinoxes.

There are many more examples, but as you can see, a fantastic list of significance emerges when it is related to the vibratory signature of the number 72.

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