Cultural Reference of #4 List

Native American

• As in other cultures, ceremonies and ritual acts are repeated in fours.
• The Native American cultures have used the number 4 most frequently as in the four cardinal directions.
• The four winds are depicted by the symbol of the cross and by the symbol of the swastika.
• The swastika as some misbelieve was not created by Hitler.
• It was instead borrowed from the Native American and occult beliefs of which Hitler had great interests.
• Hitler derived his "insanity" of power from his misdirected interpretation and use of metaphysical principles.
• He used knowledge that his human consciousness couldn't possibly understand and the use of this knowledge for personal gain is part of the imbalance that creates the chaos and karma.

Buddhism

• The Damba Tree of Life has four limbs and from its roots four sacred streams of Paradise that represent the the four boundless wishes of compassion, affection, love impartiality.
• It also represents the four directions of the heart as well.

Chinese Buddhism

• There are four celestial guardians of cardinal points are:
• Mo-li Ch'ing, the East, with the jade ring and spear; 
• Virupaksha, the West, the Far-gazer, with the four-stringed quitar;
• Virudhaka, the South, with the umbrella of chaos and darkness and earthquakes;
• Vaisravenna, the North, with the whips, leopard-skin bag, snake and pearl.

Chinese

• Four is the number of the Earth, symbolized by the square.
• There are four streams of immortality.
• Four is even an number.
• It is Yin in polarity.

Christian

• Four is the number representing the body, with three representing the soul.
• Again we see the theme of the four rivers in Paradise.
• There are four Gospels, Evangelists, chef arch-angels, chef-devils, four Fathers of the Church, Great Prophets.
• There are four cardinal virtues--prudence, fortitude, justice, temperance.
• The are four winds from which the One Spirit is said to come.
• There are four horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Revelation

• There four angels standing at the four corners of the Earth, holding back the four winds of the earth (Rev 7:1).
• The great multitude from every nation, tribe, people and language (four-fold description) - Rev 5:9 11:9 13:7 14:6 the four-fold description indicates that these people come from all over the earth.

Egyptian

• Four is the sacred number of Time, measurement of the sun.
• Four pillars support the vault of heaven.
• There are four canopic jars placed around the dead at the four corners guarded by the four sons of Horus who are associated with the cardinal points.
• In the Hermetic it is the divine quaternity.
• It represents God.

Gnostic

• Belief in Barbelo, the Four-ness of God.

Greek

• Four is the sacred number of Hermes.

Hebrew

• Four represents measuring; beneficence; intelligence.
• In the Kabbalah four is memory; four represents the four worlds of the Kabbalah.
• It also represents the four directions of space and the four levels of the hierarchical organism of the Torah.

Hindu

• Four is Totality; plenitude; perfection.
• Brahma, the Creator is four faced.
• The temple is based on the four sides of the square, symbolizing order and finality.
• There are four tattvas.
• The four bodies of human and kingdoms of nature which are:
• Animal, 
• Vegetable, 
• Mineral, 
• Mind.
• There are four yugas.
• Four is the winning throw of the dice.
• There are four castes and pairs of opposites.

Islamic

• Tradition the four terms of the quaternary are the Principle which is:
• Creator;
• Universal Spirit;
• Universal Soul;
• The primordial matter.
• These correspond to the four worlds of Kabbalism.
• There are four angelic beings and four houses of death.
• There are four levels to the Bardo.

Mayan

• Four giants support the celestial roof.
• Four is seen as the number of support.

Pythagorean

• Four is Perfection; harmonious proportion; justice; the
• earth.
• Four is the number of the Pythagorean oath.
• Four and ten are divinities. The Triangular 1+2+3+4=10.

Scandinavian

• There are four rivers of milk flowing in Asgard.

Sumero-Semitic

• Four astral gods are identified with the four cardinal points.

Teutonic

• Four dwarfs support the world.

Taoist

• There are four celestial guardians:
• Li, with the pagoda;
• Ma, with the sword;
• Cho with two swords;
• Wen with a spiked club.