On the Number 50

1) The 25th even number = 50
2) Number of chapters in Genesis in the Old Testament = 50
3) 50th word of the King James Version of the Bible's Old Testament Genesis = light

1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Genesis I.1-3 (1611)

4) Product of the 1st even & 13th odd numbers = 2 x 25 = 50
5) Product of the 3rd odd & 5th even numbers = 5 x 10 = 50
6) Sum of the 3rd cube and 9th prime numbers 27 + 23 = 50
7) Sum of the 6th and 12th prime numbers 13 + 37 = 50
8) Sum of the 8th and 11th prime numbers 19 + 31 = 50
9) Sum of the 4th and 14th prime numbers 7 + 43 = 50
10) Sum of the 1st three abundant numbers 12 + 18 + 20 = 50
11) Half of the "perfect number" 100 = 100/2 = 50
12) One of the holiest numbers, being the sum of the squares
of the sacred Pythagorean 3-4-5 triangle = 9 + 16 + 25 = 50
13) The 31st & 32nd digits of pi = 50
14) The 214th & 215th digits of phi = 50
15) Atomic Number of Tin (Sn) = 50 (50 protons & 50 electrons)
Tin is one of the seven metals of the alchemists.
It is associated with the operation of Dissolution and the element Water.
16) The 50th day of the year = February 19
Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473.
17) The 50th hexagram of the I Ching: Ting / The Cauldron

Judgment: The Cauldron. Supreme good fortune. Success.
Image: Fire over wood: the image of the cauldron.
Thus the superior man consolidates his fate
By making his position correct.

18) Gold wedding anniversary celebrates 50 years of marriage.
19)
The U. S. flag has 50 stars representing the 50 states,
with Hawaii entering the union in 1960.
There are 9 rows of stars staggered horizontally
and 11 rows of stars staggered vertically.
Counting the stars diagonally:
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 9 + 7 + 5 + 3 + 1 = 50.
History of number of stars in the U.S. flag
20) Pentecost in Greek means "50th". Pentecost is a Jewish summer feast held on the 50th day after the Passover.
Pentecost is also called Whitsunday, a Christian feast, which commemorates the Descent of the Holy Ghost
upon the Apostles, 50 days after Easter (Resurrection of Christ). Whitsun Verse by Rudolf Steiner.
21) The Roman numeral for 50 is L.
22) Jason and 50 Argonauts sailed on the ship Argo on a quest for the Golden Fleece in Colchis (Black Sea).
Apollonius Rhodius (3rd Century B.C.), The Argonautica
23) There were 50 maidens working in the palace of Alcinous when Odysseus visited Schería
“Some grinding yellow grain on the millstone, others weaving cloth or twirling yarn on spindles”
Homer, The Odyssey, VII.110
24) Noah's Ark was 50 cubits in width. “The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits,
and the height of it 30 cubits.” (Genesis, VI.15)
25) The Master said,
"At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning.
At thirty, I stood firm.
At forty, I had no doubts.
At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth.
At seventy, I could follow what my heart desired, without transgressing what was right."
Confucius (551 BC-479 BC), Analects, II.4, (Chinese text & translation)
26)
Tineke Hybrid Tea Rose:
double 50 broad petals;
true white exhibition-form blooms;
high-centered buds open cupped;
long-stemmed cutflower;
strong; best in warm climates
27) Sonnet 50 in Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets (1960)
Cotapos says your laughter drops
like a hawk from a stony tower. It's true:
daughter of the sky, you slit the world
and its green leaves, with one bolt of your lightning:

it falls, it thunders: the tongues of the dew,
the waters of a diamond, the light with its bees
leap. And there where a long-bearded silence had lived,
little bombs of light explode, the sun and the stars,

down comes the sky, with its thick-shadowed night,
bells and carnations glow in the full moon,
the saddlemakers' horses gallop

Because you are small as you are, let it
rip: let the meteor of your laughter
fly: electrify the natural names of things!

Pablo Neruda
(1904-1973)
Love Sonnet L, 100 Love Sonnets: Cien Sonetos de Amor
Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires, 1960 (trans. Stephen Tapscott, 1986)
28) Numerology: words whose letters add up to 50

INFINITE: 9 + 5 + 6 + 9 + 5 + 9 + 2 + 5 = 50

SINCERITY: 1 + 9 + 5 + 3 + 5 + 9 + 9 + 2 + 7 = 50

PARMENIDES: 7 + 1 + 9 + 4 + 5 + 5 + 9 + 4 + 5 + 1 = 50

FIRE-ANGEL: (6 + 9 + 9 + 5) + (1 + 5 + 7 + 5 + 3) = 29 + 21 = 50

VENUS-NEPTUNE: (4 + 5 + 5 + 3 + 1) + (5 + 5 + 7 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 5) = 18 + 32 = 50

SOUND-SILENCE: (1 + 6 + 3 + 5 + 4) + (1 + 9 + 3 + 5 + 5 + 3 + 5) = 19 + 31 = 50

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