starting-point is what is meant by the esoteric doctrine of the
Octave. The Octave is the starting-point of a new series
reduplicating the starting-point of the previous series at a
different level, just as does the octave note in music. We find
this principle constantly referred to in Scripture--the
completion of a prior series in the number Seven, and the
starting of a new series by the number Eight, which takes the
same place in the second series that the number One did in the
first. The second series comes out of the first by natural growth
and could not come into existence without it, hence the First or
Originating number of the second series is the Eighth if we
regard the second series as the prolongation of the first. Seven
is the numerical correspondence of complete manifestation because
it is the combination of three and four, which respectively
represent the complete working of the spiritual and material
factors--involution and evolution--and thus together constitute
the finished whole. Students of the Tarot will here realize the
process by which the Yod of Yod becomes the Yod of He. It is for
this reason that the primary or cosmic creation terminates in the
rest of the Seventh Day, for it can proceed no further until a
fresh starting-point is found; But when this fresh starting-point
is found in Man realizing his relation to the "Father," we start
a new series and strike the Creative Octave and therefore the
Resurrection takes place, not on the Sabbath or Seventh Day, but
on the Eighth day which then becomes the First day of the new
creak five week. The principle of the Resurrection is the
realization by man of his individualization of the Spirit and his
recognition of the fact that, since the Spirit is always the same
Spirit, it becomes the Alpha of a new creation from his own
centre of being.