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  2. Number of the beast - Wikipedia

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    According to Paul Louis Couchoud, "The number 666 has been substituted for 616 either by analogy with 888, the [Greek] number of Jesus (Gustav Adolf Deissmann), or because it is a triangular number, the sum of the first 36 numbers (1+2+3+4+5+6+...+36 = 666)".

  3. Therion (Thelema) - Wikipedia

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    תריון — ThRIVN; a Hebrew transliteration of “θηριον” / “therion”, Greek for “beast”. Το Μεγα Θηριον — Greek for “The Great Beast”. Koine Greek is the Greek dialect by which the books of the New Testament were written, including the Book of Revelation, where the original mention of The Beast's number is ...

  4. Legends surrounding the papacy - Wikipedia

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    One misconception surrounding the papal tiara suggests that the words Vicarius Filii Dei (Latin for "Vicar of the Son of God") exist on the side of one of the tiaras.. The story centres on the widely made claim that, when numerised (i.e., when those letters in the 'title' that have Roman numeral value are added together as in a chronogram) they produce the number 666, described in the Book of ...

  5. Satan - Wikipedia

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    Some Christians associate Satan with the number 666, which Revelation 13:18 describes as the Number of the Beast. [115] However, the beast mentioned in Revelation 13 is not Satan, [116] and the use of 666 in the Book of Revelation has been interpreted as a reference to the Roman Emperor Nero, as 666 is the numeric value of his name in Hebrew. [115]

  6. 666 (number) - Wikipedia

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    666 is a Smith number and Harshad number in base ten. [13] [14] The 27th indexed unique prime in decimal features a "666" in the middle of its sequence of digits. [15] [c] The Roman numeral for 666, DCLXVI, has exactly one occurrence of all symbols whose value is less than 1000 in decreasing order (D = 500, C = 100, L = 50, X = 10, V = 5, I = 1 ...

  7. List of occult symbols - Wikipedia

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    Norse mythology: Ancient alphabet used throughout North Europe and prominent in Scandinavia, used in modern times by various religious faiths, such as Asatru. Seal of Solomon: Alchemy, Christian and Islamic esotericism: A ring attributed to king Solomon in Jewish and esoteric tradition. Also modernly used in Western occultism to symbolize the ...

  8. Jewish mysticism - Wikipedia

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    Jewish mysticism, from early Hekhalot texts, through medieval spirituality, to the folk religion storytelling of East European shtetls, absorbed motifs of Jewish mythology and folklore through Aggadic creative imagination, reception of earlier Jewish apocrypha traditions, and absorption of

  9. List of theological demons - Wikipedia

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    Leviathan (according to certain interpretations of Jewish, Gnostic and Christian mythology) Lili/Lilin/Lilim (Jewish mythology) Lilith (Akkadian mythology, Jewish folklore, Mandaean mythology) Ljubi (Albanian mythology) Lucifer (Christian theology) Lucifuge Rofocale (Christian demonology)