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DAYS, FIVE, SUPERADDED TO 360 DAYS

The five days are taken as signifying the five manifest planes of nature. When these five planes are emanated, they are, as it were, added to the 360 degrees (days) of the Zodiac, or potential cycle of life, making it the actual cycle (365 days) of the course of the sun (Higher Self).

"These several 70th parts of the moon's illuminations, making five new days, Thoth afterwards joined together and added to the 360 of which the year formerly consisted: which days called by the Egyptians the epact or superadded, and observed by them as the birthdays of the gods." — Plutarch, *Isis and Osiris*, §12.

Prior to the Earth cycle the Lunar cycle was established, which gives rise to the evolution of the human race. The higher mind (Thoth) becomes related to 72 conditions on the physical, astral, and mental planes, which serve to correlate the five planes upon which manifestation now proceeds, and within which related planes are chronically comprised the 360 degrees of the Zodiac (year)—symbol of the life‑cycle through which the development of the soul is accomplished. On the five planes of primordial nature, the Divine life (the gods) in five aspects takes birth.

See Also

AROUERIS
BIRTH OF OSIRIS
CREATION
DECANS
ELEMENTS (five)
FIVE (number)
GATHA DAYS
HORUS
LUNAR CYCLE
OSIRIS
PITRIYANA
PLANES (five)
RULERS (five)
THIEVES (five)
THOTH
WORLDS (five)
YEAR
ZODIAC