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    The Fifty Odes
    The Fifty Odes
    The Fifty Odes
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    The Fifty Odes

    By Alexander Goldstein

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    The reader of this book may ask: What was the reason to put the number 50 in the title of the book?
    The number 50 is an auspicious number with importance in both everyday life and higher mathematics. People celebrate milestone 50th birthdays and 50th anniversaries with more pomp than they do other year markers. Half of a century is 50 and is a denomination of coins and paper money in most of the countries. When people write best-of of worst-of lists, they often try to select an even 50 items. In many ways, the number 50 feels complete. Here are more curious and interesting facts about the special character of this number.
    The ultimate purpose of 50 is to promote fusion between body and soul, mind and spirit. Life is a continuing education how to reach perfect completeness of the number 50 within the framework of Heaven's circle (correlation of the number 3) and Earth's square (number 4), as this sort of self-sufficient energy is more than good enough to determine the real values of things relating to their qualities and appropriateness. On the other part, overmastering the inner feelings of all living beings is a good method of making them knowing themselves. A happy disposition of the determining number 50 attracts all worthy men to be your loyal servants and friends and, therefore, it brings you a good fortune. By virtue of this number you can know how to take advantage of all the blessings: mentally, physically and spiritually.
    The crucial part of 50 is to attain greater stability in the space between two entities, Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang, the good and evil, truth and falsehood. As long as it consists of two figures, 5 and 10, the law of the number 5 is achieving freedom through gaining the upper hand, and when becoming coupled with vibration of the number 10, which by definition is the repeated 5, the energy of its stabilization is amplified. The golden number 5 locates at the centre, occupying the place of a sovereign who keeps a situation under control (as long as it correlates with the stable position of Earth--a point in the very centre of the square), putting right all interactions and relations between the universal elements, numbers and phenomenal events.
    Thus, the balancing and refining of creation that occur within stability and ordering governed by the number 4, is made through the number 5. In the phenomenal world, this number introduces dynamic harmony between a part and a whole. The geometrical representation of the number 5 or the V-shaped figure (the repeated sign of which is the 10 or X-shaped graph, the picture of two superposed triangles, symbols of Heaven and Earth, facing each other at the crosspoint styled the Centre of the World, when two or five primal elements are in the originally balanced correlation) submits for consideration a perfect proportion known as the Golden Mean and the golden number 5. This is the central number, the main function of which is running the middle way or taking the most favourable disposition. Everything below the number 5 is associated with a shortage, but what is more than that--with overdoing. Therefore, the concept of doing no further ado is directly connected with this number. It can be considered as 'preciseness of active doing,' due to which there is nothing that left undone. In a sense, the Centre correlates with Creation and Man, the third power which takes its place between Heaven and Earth.
    As for the number 50, it is masculine, introvert and relates to the starry sign Leo. The related planet is Mercury and the Tarot Card representative of the 50 number's vibration is the hierophant, magician and diviner. Through manipulating with the divining number 50, an individual will have the opportunity to learn the true meaning of change in one's life. Life with the 50 number is filled with freedom, constant change, curiosity, adventure and independence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexander Goldstein
    Release dateDec 18, 2015
    ISBN9781310407185
    The Fifty Odes
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    Alexander Goldstein

    Alexander Goldstein, a graduate of the Far-Eastern University in Sinology, lived and worked in mainland China for a period as a translator/interpreter, a manager, and a martial arts' practitioner. A certified instructor of ‘Chang-quan’ (external-style boxing) and ‘Taiji-quan’ (internal-style boxing), he is a lecturer of Chinese culture and traditions at the Open University in Tel-Aviv. He also is the author of Lao-zi's "Dao-De Jing," Chan (Zen) masters' paradoxes, "The Illustrated Canon of Chen Family Taiji-quan," a Chinese novel and some other editions, which are available in print and electronic publishing at most online retailers published in English, Spanish and Russian. What makes his books so appealing is profound analysis and authority with which various strains of the vigorous Chinese culture are woven into a clear and useful piece of guidance for a business person who conducts the affairs with far-eastern counterparties and for a counsellor who develops strategies that enable leaders to position their organisations effectively.

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      The Fifty Odes - Alexander Goldstein

      The Fifty Odes

      Published by Alexander Goldstein

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 Alexander Goldstein

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      Contents

      Author’s Note

      The Secret Life of Celestial Beings

      Life Spent between Office and Club

      At Catching Forty Winks

      Guarding of Infinity

      I'd Want

      A Young Nun’s Confession

      A True Hebrew Man

      An Ideal Residence of Mine

      An Interview on Ancient Wisdom

      Faith in the Triad

      On Rainy Days

      Confession

      Perfection of Life

      The Essence of Uncanny

      Interference

      My Open-eyed Opponent

      Symphony of Heaven, Earth and Man

      Moods

      Great Price or the Atonement

      To My Chinese Friend (I)

      To My Chinese Friend (II)

      Relativity

      The Tortoise and Hare's Race

      A Literary Man

      A Fair Lady of My Dreams

      By Definition

      A Diet

      Good to Know

      A Swallow of Nature

      Few and Many

      Active Inactivity

      Enjoyment

      Good or Not Good

      Salami Tactics

      Galactic Goliath

      Equality

      The Superior Man

      Surprise Decision

      The Body

      Another Puzzle

      Talk Down

      That's Exactly the Point

      Pure Enumeration

      Patent

      On the Wind

      Futility of Matching

      Track-keeping

      A Weekly Cycle

      The Yearly Circle-Stances

      Living Schedule

      About the Author

      Endnote

      Author’s Note

      The reader of this book may ask: What was the reason to put the number 50 in the title of the book?

      The number 50 is an auspicious number with importance in both everyday life and higher mathematics. People celebrate milestone 50th birthdays and 50th anniversaries with more pomp than they do other year markers. Half of a century is 50 and is a denomination of coins and paper money in most of the countries. When people write best-of of worst-of lists, they often try to select an even 50 items. In many ways, the number 50 feels complete. Here are more curious and interesting facts about the special character of this number.

      The ultimate purpose of 50 is to promote fusion between body and soul, mind and spirit. Life is a continuing education how to reach perfect completeness of the number 50 within the framework of Heaven's circle (correlation of the number 3) and Earth's square (number 4), as this sort of self-sufficient energy is more than good enough to determine the real values of things relating to their qualities and appropriateness. On the other part, overmastering the inner feelings of all living beings is a good method of making them knowing themselves. A happy disposition of the determining number 50 attracts all worthy men to be your loyal servants and friends and, therefore, it brings you a good fortune. By virtue of this number you can know how to take advantage of all the blessings: mentally, physically and spiritually.

      The crucial part of 50 is to attain greater stability in the space between two entities, Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang, the good and evil, truth and falsehood. As long as it consists of two figures, 5 and 10, the law of the number 5 is achieving freedom through gaining the upper hand, and when becoming coupled with vibration of the number 10, which by definition is the repeated 5, the energy of its stabilization is amplified. The golden number 5 locates at the centre, occupying the place of a sovereign who keeps a situation under control (as long as it correlates with the stable position of Earth--a point in the very centre of the square), putting right all interactions and relations between the universal elements, numbers and phenomenal events.

      Thus, the balancing and refining of creation that occur within stability and ordering governed by the number 4, is made through the number 5. In the phenomenal world, this number introduces dynamic harmony between a part and a whole. The geometrical representation of the number 5 or the V-shaped figure (the repeated sign of which is the 10 or X-shaped graph, the picture of two superposed triangles, symbols of Heaven and Earth, facing each other at the crosspoint styled the Centre of the World, when two or five primal elements are in the originally balanced correlation) submits for consideration a perfect proportion known as the Golden Mean and the golden number 5. This is the central number, the main function of which is running the middle way or taking the most favourable disposition. Everything below the number 5 is associated with a shortage, but what is more than that--with overdoing. Therefore, the concept of doing no further ado is directly connected with this number. It can be considered as 'preciseness of active doing,' due to which there is nothing that left undone. In a sense, the Centre correlates with Creation and Man, the third power which takes its place between Heaven and Earth.

      As for the number 50, it is masculine, introvert and relates to the starry sign Leo. The related planet is Mercury and the Tarot Card representative of the 50 number's vibration is the hierophant, magician and diviner. Through manipulating with the divining number 50, an individual will have the opportunity to learn the true meaning of change in one's life. Life with the 50 number is filled with freedom, constant change, curiosity, adventure and independence. Such energy allows one to live more, see more and experience more than any other numbered vibration can provide.

      The number 50 symbolizes the principle of multiplicity, progression and passion; it signifies the need for change, variety and new growth, for without change there is stagnation. It is the broadcaster, disseminating information and asking questions. Its vibration loves natural pleasures and needs to watch over-indulgence and impulsiveness. The impulsive nature of this divining number allows us to enter a situation and then be able to discard it smoothly and without serious aftereffects. This number's energy does not hold onto anything that creates monotony in life. Its energy appears to be outgoing and extrovert (correlation of Heaven), but the naturally introverted energy (Earth) leads one to an interest

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