Meaning of dodecad | Babel Free

Definitions

A group or set of twelve.

Examples

“We have⟳ also examined some of the relations between the two dodecads of signs and houses.”

“Plato at any rate assumed that the number⟳ twelve befitted the disembodied gods as a perfect number⟳[...] This dodecad of the disembodied gods has been shown by us to proceed from on high triadically, but multiplied by four [...]”

“[...] the lowest pair of transcendent principles, all-begetter Savior and all-begettress Sophia, produced a dodecad of twelve equally paired powers, six male and six female.”

“Marcos, according to Irenaeus, also assumed a decad of ten heavenly circles and a dodecad of twelve zodiacal signs. The dodecad represents evil, earthly fate, but the decad is "soul-producing," [...]”

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