Mari is associated with seven nether spirits of the ocean. The person who anoints Jesus' feet is a 'sinner' reminiscent of the'seven devils'of Magdalene associated the descent of Inanna: Also the Seven Bridal Orbits and the Seven deadly sins.

evens abound in the Bible and throughout Jewish life. The world was created in seven days, and marriage is a seven days a week act of creation. There are also seven wedding blessings. The seven wedding blessings or 'sheva b'rachot' mention the beginning of time in Eden, when life was wholeness, and the end of days when that wholeness will be restored. Since Eden the world has been in exile from the experience of unfragmented existence, an exile that extends from earth to heaven. The Garden was lost, the Temple destroyed, even God was not whole. Shekhinah, God's feminine self, wanders the earth, cut off, bereaved. God and Shekinah are reunited on Sabbath, the day that offers a taste of paradise, as bridegroom and bride. Both heaven and earth long for redemption from this exile, a restoration to Edenic harmony to the whole of creation. Since Judaism has no concept of individual redemption, the wedding provides the whole community with a glimpse into the blessing of the wholeness that was once and is to come again.

The ancients counted seven planets, thus arranged; the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. There were seven heavens and seven spheres of these planets; these corrospond to the seven lamps of the golden candelabrum in the temple. To return to its source in the Infinite, the human soul, the ancients held, had to ascend as it had descended, through the seven spheres. From Egypt and Persia the new Platonists borrowed the idea, and the Gnostics recieved it from them, that man, in his terrestrial career, is successively under the influence of the Moon, of Mercury, of Venus, of the Sun, of Mars, of Jupiter, and of Saturn, until he finally reaches the Elysian Feilds; an idea again symbolized in the Seven Seals. And circling is thought of as the way the bride enters the groom's s'ferot; the mystical spheres of his soul that correspond to the seven lower attributes of God. In the ancient world these orbits correspond to the seven spheres in the heavens and likewise are reflected in the seven nether spheres of the sea. The two most famous divisions of the Heavens, by seven, which is that of the planets, and bv twelve, which is that of the signs, are found on the religious monuments of all the people of the ancient world. There is no more striking proof of the universal adoration paid the stars and constellations,than the arrangement of the Hebrew camp in the Desert, and the allegory in regard to the twelve Tribes of Israel, Joseph in a dream associated twelve stars to the patriarchs; and the twelve tribes bore the twelve signs of the Hebrew zodiac on their standards. Heavenly Hosts" includes not only the counsellors and emissaries of Jehovah, but also the celestial. luminaries; and the stars. Seven Heavens, in the East to be animated intelligences, presiding over human weal and woe, were identified with the more distinctly impersonated messengers or angels, who execute the Divine Justice and in each of which were certain Powers that opposed the souls return to Heaven, and often drove them back to earth, when not sufficiently purified. ( Luke 11:26 ) The last of these Powers, nearest the luminous abode of souls, was a serpent or dragon.
 

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