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==Meaning of 23==
==Meaning of 23==
In [[Aleister Crowley]]'s Cabalistic Dictionary, he defines the number 23 as the number of "parting, removal, separation, joy, a thread, and life..."
The twenty-third hexagram of the I-Ching is translated as Splitting Apart.
The second and third operations of Alchemy are Dissolution and Separation, respectively.


* In [[Aleister Crowley]]'s Cabalistic Dictionary, he defines the number 23 as the number of "parting, removal, separation, joy, a thread, and life..."
* The twenty-third hexagram of the I-Ching is translated as Splitting Apart.
* The second and third operations of Alchemy are Dissolution and Separation, respectively.
* Normal human sex cells have 23 chromosomes. Other human cells have 46 chromosomes, arranged in 23 pairs.
* Psalm 23, also known as the Shepherd Psalm, is possibly the most quoted and best known Psalm. Psalms is also the 23rd book in the Douay-Rheims Bible.


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