Bill Schnoebelen's diagram of the compartmentalized control pyramid

When taking a closer look at “The Seven” shown in this diagram we discover interesting things:

• There are seven seals in Revelation
• There are seven Chakras
• There are seven colors in our visible spectrum
• There are seven Egyptian primal divine souls
• There are seven Indian primal divine souls
• There are seven black flickering tongues of Agni

According to Albert Churchward’s The Arcana of Freemasonry there are seven circles of Ursa Minor (The Little Bear, The Little Dipper).

The Little Dipper

Albert Churcward quotes Madam Helena Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine:

Listen ye Sons of the Earth to your instructors, the Sons of the Fire, learn there is neither First nor Last, for All is One Number issued from No Number. Learn what we, who descend from the Primordial Seven, we who are born of the Primordial Flame, have learned from our fathers. From the effulgency of light the ray of ever-darkness sprang in space the re-awakening energies. This one from the egg, the six and the five. Then the three, the one the four, the one the five, the twice seven, the sum total. And these are the Flames, the Essences, the Builders, the Force, the Divine Man

1+6+5+3+1+4+1+5+7+7 = 40

6+5+3+1+4+1+5+7+7 = 39

6+5+3+14+15+7+7 = 57

65+3+14+15+7+7 = 111

1+65+3+14+15+7+7 = 112

Seven Souls (Egyptian)

Albert Churchward further states:

In the Egyptian representation there are seven Souls of life-forces recognized in nature. Six of these were pre-human elemetary forces or powers born of the Primary Great Mother, when there was yet no human soul distinguished from the six that were souls, such as light or air, earth or water, and animal or vegetable life. The Seventh soul was human. This was the Soul of Blood, brought forth by a goddess in the human likeness. The Blood Mother was imaged by the Virgin Neith. These six were pre-anthropomorphic, the seventh was human, 6+1 = 7. They were the elementary children of the Great Mother, six Brothers and One the leader, or Great One of the company.

Seven Souls is a 1989 album by the New York based No Wave music group Material. Loaded with esoteric symbolism.

Seven Black Flickering Tongues of Agni

Agni the Hindu God of Fire

Are “The Seven” the tongues of Agni? Are the tongues of Agni symbolic of the seven souls? Is this all tied together as one long chain of symbolism pointing to the same thing? Agni is represented as red and two-faced, suggesting both his destructive and beneficent qualities, and with black eyes and hair, three legs and seven arms. He rides a ram, or a chariot pulled by goats or, more rarely, parrots. Seven rays of light emanate from his body. One of his names is Saptajihva, “having seven tongues”.

In ancient Greek mythology, Zeus takes the bull-form known as Taurus in order to win Europa. Taurus is also associated with Aphrodite and other goddesses, as well as with Pan and Dionysus. The face of Taurus “gleams with seven rays of fire.

In early Christian iconography, the dove of the Holy Ghost is often shown with an emanation of seven rays, as is the image of the Madonna, often in conjunction with a dove or doves.

The Visible Spectrum

Gerald Massey

Gerald Massey’s Ancient Egypt – The Light of the World says this about the seven souls:

In the Egyptian system of representation there are Seven Souls or life-forces recognized in nature. Six of these were pre-human, elemental powers, born of the primary Great Mother when there was as yet no human soul distinguished from the six that were the souls, such as light, or air, earth, or water, and animal or vegetable life. The seventh soul alone was human. This was the soul of blood brought forth by a Goddess in the human likeness. The earliest soul considered to be human, the soul that was made flesh in the Child-Horus, was born of the Mother-blood, the blood of Isis, and, as such, was distinguished from the earlier elemental powers, otherwise the six Totemic and pre-human souls. The Blood-Mother was imaged as the Virgin Neith who was represented in one phase by the vulture that was fabled, like the pelican, to pierce its thigh and give its offspring her own blood for nourishment. (Hor-Apollo, B. I, 11.) This was as the conceiver of a soul that was incarnated by the Blood-Mother. The blood that was considered to be the soul of life, in a series of seven souls, is the blood of the female—not the typical blood of the male; the blood of Isis, not the blood of Adam, Atum, or Belus; and it can be shown that the human race, distinguished from the preliminary people, originated in the Mother-blood. By this same means the Mother also attained her supremacy, the Matriarchate being based upon the Mother-blood that was to be so preciously preserved and memorized. According to the Egyptian wisdom, the salvation of the human race was effected by the blood of Isis. Salvation was perpetuation. Isis was the Virgin-Mother, and hers also was the Mother-blood. The blood of the Mother, who was primarily the Virgin, being the earliest recognized source of human life, thence came the doctrine of a Virgin-Mother and the saving blood in the Eschatology. This Mother-blood originated with the Virgin at the time of puberty. It passed into the racial Mother-blood in the phase of fulfilment with marriage. The Virgin, represented in the Egyptian Mystery, was the maiden who conceived; in her second character she was the bringer-forth. These Two Mothers were imaged by the double Uræus-crown of Maternity. The mythical Virgin-Mother had a very natural origin. She represents the pubescent female who was the fount and source in nature for the one original blood. The blood of Isis was the Virgin-blood. She was the Mother of Life in the mythical representation, and in the first of two characters she is the Virgin-Mother, when her sister Nephthys is the Bringer-forth or Nurse of the child. The sacredness of the Virgin-blood, the earliest Mother-blood, will help to account for the sanctity of the pre-pubescent virgins who were so carefully secluded from the outer world at the time of its primary manifestation. Among the Ot-Danons of Borneo the pre-pubescent girl is sometimes shut up during seven years awaiting her sign of the Virgin-Motherhood. This is born in blood, and she is consequently looked upon as one newly born into life. She is led forth to breathe the air, and is shown the sun, the water, and the trees. Then the event is celebrated by the sacrifice of a slave, and her body is painted with his blood. This was the Blood-Mother as a Virgin, in the first of the two characters assigned to the female. Thus, the Two Women in Totemic Sociology were the Virgin and the Mother. It is the same in the Mythology, and lastly in the Eschatology. The first of the Two was the pubescent Virgin who conceives: the second is she who brings forth. Hence the doctrine of a Double Motherhood. Ra is said to be united to his “Double Mother.” One of the Ptolemies claims to be the Beloved of the “Double Divine Mother.” The Double Mother was also the Double Sister in another relationship with Horus. “I am thy Double Sister,” says Isis to Osiris. (P. Pierret, Panthéon Eg., 28.) In this duality Isis is the Blood-Mother and Nephthys the Milch-Mother; hence she is called the Nurse. Isis is at once the Great Mother and also the Virgin-Mother who keeps the primary place in the Mythos because the Virgin preceded the bringer forth of the child as source itself. This double Motherhood is also assigned to Jesus in the Gospels with the Two Mothers as two sisters: the first being the Virgin Mary, the second, Mary the wife of Cleopas.