Properties of the number 5

Symbolism

• It is the number of the harmony and the balance. It is also the number of the divine grace.

• The number 5 is a characteristic of the man. First, according to the Cabal, it is the number of the perfect Man (got rid from his animal side). According to the Bible, it is the symbol of the Man-God by the five wounds of the Christ on cross (for this reason, it is also considered as the number of the grace). But it is also associated to the man in general (2 + 3) having an unstable character of duality, 2, in spite of his divinity, 3. The 5 is also found on the human body: the five fingers of the hand and feet, the five senses (touch, taste, sense of smell, hearing and the sight), the five members (two arms, two legs and the head, the bust being the center), the five bones forming the metacarpus, the metatarse and the brain-pan, etc.

• Considerated as the mediator between God and the universe, the five is regarded as a symbol of the universe.

• Symbol of the will's divine.

• Symbol of the perfection in the Mayas.

• Symbol of the incarnated conscience - 4, Matter, + 1, Spirit.

• Symbolize the force and the limits of the man in his control on the Universe.

• According to Thibaut Of Langres, the number 5 is attributed to the world for some reasons. First because the world is moved following a circular movement, just as the 5 when we multiply it by itself or by the other odd ones returns periodically. Also it is called in this sense "periodical". Five years make a lustre, from "lustrare" which means "to make the turn". On the other hand, 5 is attributed to the world due to the fact that it is composed of the first even and odd, 2 and 3. The world indeed, that is to say the whole of things, increases by the male and the female - even is female and odd male.

• In China, it is the number of the Center in addition to be considered as a male number amulet.

• Number of the life and the nature, according to Aeppli.

• Being the sum or rather the union of the first female number and the first male number, it is the symbol of creative life and erotic love according to Jung. But this one interprets also this number as that of the revolt.

• A nuptial number for the Etruscans and Romans because it is the first number resulting from the addition the first female number and the first male number. For the same reason, C. Agrippa calls it the number of the marriage.

• For H.- P. Blavatsky, "5 is the spirit of life and human love."

Bible

• The five wounds of Jesus on the cross.

• The five parts of the clothing remaining of Jesus during his crucifixion after the soldiers had made four parts of his dress, plus his tunic which they did not tear. (Jn 19,23)

• Saint Paul declares that by five times he received the 39 lashes from the Jews. (2 Co 11,24)

• The five mad and wise virgins of the parable of Jesus. (Mt 25,1)

• The five porticos of the pool of Bethesda. (Jn 5,2)

• The five pebbles which made it possible to small king David to kill the giant Goliath.

• The five kinds of animals that God asked Abraham to present to him to conclude with him an alliance: a heifer of three years old, a goat of three years old, a ram of three years old, a turtledove and a young dove. (Gn 12, 5-18)

• The five books of the Torah (the Law) according to the Judaism that corresponds to the number of the first books of the Bible. The book of the Lamentations of Jeremiah contains also five chapters.

General

• The five wounds of Egypt sent by God by the intermediary of Moses, according to the Koran: the flood, grasshoppers, lice, frogs and blood.

• The five paths leaving from the Calvary and directing to the whole world, according to visions' of Ann-Catherine Emmerick.

• In the visions of Maria Valtorta, Jesus classifies the kinds of love in five categories, each one of different power and which are in the order: the love of God, the paternal or maternal love, the conjugal love, the love of the neighbor, the love of the science and the work. The three firsts are of higher power, while the last three are of lower power. But these six divisions are reduced to five because the love of the neighbor and the conjugal love are of identical nature even if they have not the same force, the conjugal love being indeed only a particular case of the love of the neighbor.

• In the revelations received by Don Stefano Gobbi, of the Marian Movement of Priests, it is question of the five famous mountains climbed by Jesus: it is on the mountain that he promulgated the evangelical law of Beatitudes; it is on the Thabor mount that he lived the ecstasy of his transfiguration; it is to Jerusalem, city located on the mountain, that he gathered one's people for the Last Supper and that he passed painful hours of his internal agony; it is on the mountain of the Calvary that he consumed his sacrifice, on the mount of Olives that happened his definitive detachment of one's people by his glorious ascension to the heaven.

• A rosary of the Virgin Mary has five mysteries meditated.

• The practice of the five first Saturdays of the month, asked initially by the Virgin Mary to Lucy of Fatima on October 10, 1925.

• In Italy, in Lanciano, exists a reliquary, since the 13th century, where is found a miraculous devoted host. While celebrating the mass, a priest came to doubt the real presence of Jesus-Christ in the Eucharist; and, under his eyes, the devoted host becomes a slice of flesh, and the wine, blood which coagulated in five clots. The analyses, undertaken between November 18, 1970 and March 4, 1971, by professors Limoli and Bertelli, from the Faculty of Medicine of Siena, in Italy, concluded, after examination of the host and the blood preserved since the 13th century, that they had no modification! The flesh is a slice of human cardiac muscle, resulting from the myocardium. The blood corresponds to the blood of which it would have been taken out of a human being the same day of the examination. And the five clots of blood, of unequal size, weigh all the same weight each one separately; and all together, put in the same plate of the balance, the weight remains identical without variation.

• The five commandments of Buddha Gautama: You will not kill; You will not steal; You will not be impudic; You will not lie; You will not drink intoxicating liquors. Buddhism distinguishes also five great evils: the ignorance, the anger, the desire, the malevolence and the envy.

• In the mythology of "Dogons" we find some themes which seem to remind some beliefs of others religions. For example, the bad angel Ogo revolts over Lucifer after having killed his twin sister as Cain had killed his brother Abel. The good angel Nomo, twin brother of Ogo, is crucified to save men from sin, but he resuscitates five days later, period as sacred as the week of Easter for Christians, and became the week of five days which is still practiced nowadays by the "Dogons".

• The five couples of Adam and Eve that they would have had there simultaneously and this, in five different places on the planet, on the five continents, like prototypes of five different races, according to Edgar Cayce. However, according to the mythology of "Dogons", it is rather four amphibious couples men and women that the god Ama would have created and placed on Earth. Those first humans were immortal, but their descendants became mortals because of their sins.

• According to visions of Ann-Catherine Emmerich, the forbidden fruits of the Tree of the Knowledge of the good and the evil of the Garden in Eden hung by five bunches.

• In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus mentions that there are "five trees in the paradise that do not move neither Summer nor winter and their leaves do not fall. Those who will know them won't die." (log 19.7-11)

• The five fundamental virtues: wisdom, love, truth, goodness and justice.

• The five commandments of the Church: to sanctify the feastdays, to assist the mass on Sunday and the feastdays, to confess his sins at least once a year, to receive the communion at least during Easter, and to pay the tithe to the Church - instead of that, others versions speak about the respect of the obligatory fastdays. The Church recommends also five acts to believers before the Communion: the act of faith, love, humility, desire and hope.

• The visions of the saints are classified according to five categories: beatific or intuitive vision, "abstract" vision, intellectual vision, imaginary vision and the corporal vision.

• The trip of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, for the birth of Jesus, lasted five days. They arrived on a Saturday, around four o'clock in the evening, according to visions of Mary Agreda.

• The five pillars of the Islam: profession of faith, CHAHADA; ritual prayer, SALAT; legal alms, ZAKAT; fast of the Ramadan, SAWM; and the pilgrimage to Mecca, HADJDJ.

• The Greeks philosophers admitted five principles in the man: body, animal soul, psyche, intelligence and divine spirit.

• The five cycles of the Chinese lunar calendar of twelve lunar years each.

• The five elements of the Chinese theory: water, fire, wood, metal, ground.

• For the Tibetans, the five elements connected to five geometrical forms: the cube to the the ground, the sphere to the water, the cone to the fire, the half-circle to the air, and the flame to the ether.

• The five "takbirs" or formula of prayer, in the Islamic religion. The Moslems insist that the prayer is done five times every day. Let us mention that Mahomet was five years old when his Abdallah father died.

• The five suns or eras at the Aztecs.

• In Hebrew, the number 5 means "seizure, contraction like the five fingers". It is, told Fabre D'Oliver, the matter seized by the most material of the five senses.

• There is in Quebec 5 archbishoprics.

• The spacial representation of the number 5 is the pyramid (5 summits with 5 faces) and also the pentagram (5 sides) so the man would be included there.

• The five Zener cards used for some tests of parapsychology. The graphics of each cards corresponds to the first five numbers.

• The five lines of the stave in music.

• The five reigns: elemental, mineral, vegetable, animal and human.

• The five oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic) with the five parts of the geographical world: Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Oceania.

• In the continuation of fundamental numbers of 1 to 9, 5 is in the center, as it is in the center of the magic square using the first 9 numbers.

• Anniversary of marriage: wood's wedding.

Gematria

• Numerical value of the Hebrew letter He (the Not-Me) representing the passive principle by excellence. This letter represents, according to Charrot, "a solar ray pouring on the earth its beneficial rain of life" and it symbolizes the universal life, the breath of the man, the air, the spirit, the soul, all what is stimulating and vivifying. For the cabalist Eleazar of Worm, the letter "He" symbolizes "the breath" .

Occurrence

• The number 5 is used 253 times in the Bible.

• In the Bible, 12 numbers are used 5 times. There are the numbers 28, 35, 38, 41, 62, 90, 110, 148, 700, 800, 80000 and 185000.

• The number 5 is used three times in the Koran. (Koran XVIII, 21; LVIII,8 and LXXXI, 15)

• The words: pagan, Christian, Pentecost and the name of Eve are used 5 times in the Bible. By five times in NT we see Jesus pronouncing himself his own name (Jn 17,3; Act 9,5 and 22,8 and 26,15; Rv 22,16). Curiously the Antichrist is not written in the Revelation, where he plays nevertheless a so great role. This word appears in the Bible only 5 times in epistles of saint John.

• John-Mary Matthew, in his book "The Name of Glory", désIris, 1992, enumerates five personages of the Bible who have carried the name of Jesus: Jesus the Christ, Son of Mary; Joshua which entered in Canaan at the head of Hebrews. In the Hebraic language the name of Joshua, "Yehoshoua", is a derivative of "Yeshoua", that is to say Jesus (Nb 13,16; Act 7,45); Jesus, son of Eliezer, mentioned in the genealogy of the Gospel of Luke. This Jesus would be a descendant of the king David and related to the family of the Virgin Mary (Lk 3,29); Jesus, called Justus, was a Jewish converted to the Christ and collaborator of Paul of Tarse (Col 4,11); And finally, the brigand Jesus Barabbas, mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew. In some translation, we can read: "Pilate said them, 'Whom do you want me to release for you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?". (Mt 27,16-17)

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Roman Numeral V

by Cinco - 9/28/23 1:57 AM

5 V's placed with the tops of the V's touching each other arranged in a circle will give you a 5 pointed star. Five V's, V.V.V.V.V, shorthand for Vi veri vniversvm vivvs vici, since in the Latin alphabet, there is no distinction between U and V, translates roughly to By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe

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11 May 1989

by Johan Izlam - 3/27/23 11:17 AM

Hello from the Islamic Republic of the Koudeiland islands. Could you please mention Sufi Islam numbers in the Quran and their magick meanings? Thanks.

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Born On May 5 , 1955

by DJT - 4/23/11 6:07 PM

I too was born on 5-5-55, my first, middle, & last name add up to 15/3 = 5, my street address is 55 and my age right now is 55. "5 " has always been lucky for me. I wonder how many people were born that actual day. I have a friend that was born on the same day but across town in a different hospital on the same day. We are a unique group.

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RE: Born On May 5 , 1955

by High-Five! - 12/05/18 5:17 PM

My name is 5 letters long. I was born on 5-5-91 @ 5:11am. I was 6lbs 5oz. In every sport I played, I was either #5 or #15. I’m 5’5” and 125lbs (well, according my my license lol). There’s a “5” in my phone number, address, it’s the # of piercings in my ears, and even in my favorite color- Green. I’ve always loved the number 5 and thought it to be lucky! It’s very interesting to hear so many others feel the same!

RE:Born On May 5 , 1955

by Jeff from Buffalo - 12/12/18 11:25 PM

Born 5/5/55 Am 5’5.5” ideal weight is 155 Stumbled on these comments never thought so many would be here

RE:Born On May 5 , 1955

by Fatmata - 3/24/19 12:23 AM

I too was born on 5/5/55 in Sierra Leone. 5 is my lucky number.

RE:Born On May 5 , 1955

by Jakub - 5/20/19 6:51 PM

I was born 5/5/98 at 5:55 in Kraków. People say I’m lucky.

RE:Born On May 5 , 1955

by Shelbi Sikorski - 9/02/19 6:36 PM

I was born Thursday, August 5th 1999 at 5:55am and have always felt connected to spiritual life. Déjà vu constantly.

RE:Born On May 5 , 1955

by Mieka - 12/12/19 3:38 AM

Born 05/05/1955 at 4:50am, premature. Weighed 4 lbs 5oz. I’ve had many “lives” within this life of which many are jealous.

RE:Born On May 5 , 1955

by Joel - 5/06/20 1:39 PM

I was also Born on May 5, 1955. Not sure of the time, but I know it was early morning and the sun was coming up. I heard that from my Mother several times over the years. My dad use to joke and tell me if nothing else, I will always be a good poker hand.. LOL. May luck number is also 5.

RE: Born On May 5 , 1955

by Anonymous - 2/25/21 2:01 AM

5 means a new chapter/beginning or more like death...everything is inverted and upside down...

RE:Born On May 5 , 1955

by MJK - 3/07/21 3:19 PM

I was born 5/5/55
First time I went to the races I had £5 on the number 5 horse in the 5th race at 5/1
and guess what
It came Fifth

RE:Born On May 5 , 1955

by Anonymous - 5/05/21 5:01 AM

I was also born May 5, 1955. The numerical aspect became clear to me when a friend mentioned on August 8, 1988 " Do you realize that today you are 33 years, 3 months and three days old? Blew my mind.

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I was born in January 5 1985

by Goran - 1/02/19 9:02 AM

Is that meaning anything pls

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RE: I was born in January 5 1985

by E - 2/15/20 6:29 PM

Thank you

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5

by Beth - 8/20/19 5:20 AM

This number has been appearing

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Born 5-25-95 at 5:25 A.M.

by Inked - 7/04/19 4:25 AM

I was Born on May 25th in the year 1995 at 5:25 A.M. In the year of 2015 i turned 20 years old. On May 25 next year, in the year 2020 at the time of 5:25 A.M. i will be turning 25 years old; and in the year 2050, i will be 55 years old. just an odd coincidence. But still entertaining to think about, which led me here.

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Pentagon 10 12 88

by Stephanie tsai - 10/01/16 5:20 PM

Because the date and the time I was born, on the astronomy chart , my shape turns out to be a perfect pentagon. What does that mean? And I feel like im very special and I could reach to a different level of sub consious that would take people years to perfect or meditate but it just takes me 1 sec to go into a diffrent trance. And I sonetimez feel different spirits enters me

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RE: Pentagon 10 12 88

by Anonymous - 4/26/19 1:01 AM

Are you sure its not 6 point hexagram that would mean 2 grand trines looks like star of david i have 2 grand trines in my natal chart myself

The number 5

by The Inquiring one - 8/01/13 7:22 PM

When I was child and as adult I would write the number 5 on the palm of hand when I was worried or depressed about a situation. Just recently I decided to ask a friend of mine if they know why I still do that. My friend mention this website and it seems very interesting. Do you know of anyone that has had a similar experience and what this might behavior might define..I am a little embarassed writing this but I take this quite seriously..I hope you do too.

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RE:The number 5

by Anonymous - 12/04/16 7:10 PM

No I am not getting any messages sometimes I wish I would but for now the replies I got ref. my topic is appreciated. I do believe that this World is in for a rude awakening...just watch the news and peoples behavior It's just a matter of time. God Bless!

RE:The number 5

by The Inquiring One - 11/25/18 6:57 PM

A Pfeiffer... Thank you :)

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5 Announcers? 5 harbingers?

by Anonymous - 9/13/09 6:21 AM

Anyone know anywhere in mythology where there were 5 announcers? Or five of anything that preceded something significant. Especially in Egyptian/Pharaoh times or Astrology.

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RE: 5 Announcers? 5 harbingers?

by Kathy - 10/13/18 6:19 AM

I woke up a little after 5:00 AM drawing the number 5 repeatedly in my mind as if I was tracing it over and over, which is what woke me up. Its orientation was as if it was on it's side with the 'cup' of the 5 facing upwards. My birthday is the 14th, which adds up to 5, in two days. I often see 1's and 4's as repeating numbers (often together) with an occasional 7 showing up too.

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numerology the perfect movie

by monica - 4/04/18 3:36 AM

the movie The Number 2 3 was actually pretty good considering the actors.but they do touch on 2+3=5

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I think I might be cursed with this number

by SlipperySpapS - 3/29/18 11:05 AM

I’ve noticed something ever since i’ve started posting on 4chan
It started off with me getting something done around 5:55 PM
After that things started to get weirder and weirder until eventually
I had a family member pass away at the age of 55

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i saw number for a couple of times

by Carol14 - 1/08/18 3:14 AM

I saw number 5 just came out in a bowl of food unintentional when i took photo, the next day a bagger in a store gave me the number 5 which caught my attention then two days after i saw a 5 peso coin, i accidentally made a small tear in a 500 peso bill, last ending digit of the atm receipt queued before me, and mine then after a week i saw a 5 peso coin again, my smart number has 555 numbers and got two sim cards that has middle number of 725.What does these means?

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5-15-1995

by Khalila - 11/25/17 3:34 AM

I was born 5-15-1995 ! I see 5 around me all the time.

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RE: I TOO AM A 5/5/1955

by Alisa - 10/04/17 7:35 PM

I was born, May 5th, 1955, on Thursday, the fifth day of the week, and in the fifth hour, 5:07. My first name has 5 letters and my maiden birth name has 7. I don't believe in numbers, but I do believe that God brings us into the world according to His will, and takes us also at an apportioned time. But the odds for all of us is quite strange...but nevertheless it was God's desire to make it happen. I always wonder will my passing be on a five. Doesn't matter...it's all in His hands...God bless all of you and those in your heart!

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The reality of my life.

by Navjeet Sara Bhullar. - 4/13/14 4:36 AM

I'm a 27 years old female. My birthdate is January 6, 1987, 10:21 am, in Kaiser Permanente, Hayward, CA, Alameda County. My lifepath is 5. My height is 5"5. A psychic told me my destiny is being taken away. I got married in 2007 and my ex husband revealed to me that my biological mother, her siblings, other relatives, including my biological father are all involved in witchcraft and astrology. They all have been asking astrologers about my destiny, and future events to lie for themselves and used witchcraft on me everyday to prevent me from living my destiny and earning he karma I need. My ex husband revealed that my biological mother is trying to switch me with herself. He couldn't take the fact that the witchcraft was infecting him and we got a divorce in 2011. I didn't have money to get my own place. I fell in debt right after our divorce. He owed me $5000 which he never paid for. My health was getting critical. I could not move. I had a psychic remove any dark entities around me for $500 and she warned... more...

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RE:The reality of my life.

by Robert - 10/11/15 8:17 AM

Sarah, Jesus commands demons and they go at His command, Mark 5:1-13 ; Luke 8:29-35. What's coming at you Sarah are nothing but demons working thru humans , even some of the comments I've read are demons taking every available opportunity to destroy not only you Sarah but all of mankind. But because Jesus defeated satan(the demons) on the cross, thru "confession" (that is agreeing with God (the Father of Jesus) about who we are and what Jesus did on the cross in our behalf) Romans 10:9,10 we become God the Father's exclusive people. I don't no whether you have a personal relationship with Jesus or not but I heard you speak about Christianity and baptism, and as important as baptism is, it doesn't put us right with God the Father, only receiving His Son as our personal Lord and Saviour does. I've dispatched angels to encampment themselves all around you to keep you from harm. Sarah I'm asking you right now to take your faith and trust of what demons can do to you and put that same faith and trust on what God... more...

RE:The reality of my life.

by God - 10/11/15 7:01 PM

Only you can help yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RE: The reality of my life.

by Tony - 2/13/16 8:00 AM

Since my 30's I was never satisfied with life and always vexed. Always asking "Why". Why this, why that. I was homeless over 7 yrs. Every night when I laid my head down I talked to God. " God, please have mercy on my soul, I just want peace" I would repeat this with tears in my eyes repeating this til I drifted off to sleep. Every night for many years. Do this God will hear you keep on pleading. I still have bad days but the fog is lifted. Think good thoughts, eat fruits and vegetables drink much water, exercise, re-invent yourself. Think of the future and the things you want in life and set up a stragety to get there. Most all don't worry, God has you. Talk to him daily he hears the sincere cries of his creation. Furthermore, God is not "out there". God is inside of you.

RE: The reality of my life.

by Anonymous - 6/28/17 12:47 PM

You have to banish those evil spirits YOURSELF. What you think and feel YOU WILL BECOME. Stop blaming everyone else. Start looking within yourself, and start loving yourself again. Stand in love and light and truth at ALL TIMES. Show the beast LOVE and he will love you back. xo

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Kyu

by Angry Go player - 5/30/17 4:49 PM

Where is the part where the number 5 is go in japanese?

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Marriages

by Anonymous - 3/08/17 6:07 PM

I had mentioned my husband & I, met bout may 2010. It was a coincidence were both married

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Marriages

by Anonymous - 3/08/17 6:02 PM

What a coincidence, my husband & I met bout a week before mother's day 05/2012. And we had both been married 4 time's, & now both wit

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Significance of number 5

by Lydia - 1/05/17 4:12 AM

My dad passed on on the 5th December 2016, while my mother passed on on the 10th December 2015. There's a 5 days difference. What is the symbolism?

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5

by Pia - 12/31/16 3:34 AM

I also born on 5 DEC and I'm really glad after reading all these information thanks for this information.

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hi

by ali swaid - 11/28/08 11:46 AM

well i didnt thaught that no 5 means all this and im a man who loves no 5 too much thank u for this informations about 5

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RE: hi

by Anonymous - 11/19/16 9:29 AM

You, are also forgetting that as above so below. Jesus and Mary ring to a 5 some way some how,but like all things in life and in nature, everything has an oppsite. Samael and Lilith also ring to a 5 some way some how. For those that don't know Samael is one of the many names of the Devil or Lucifer. He is all the same, a big and I do mean big time LIAR. As for Lilith, what can I say, the actual first wife of Adam and cohort of the prince of darkness. So, to all that are praising the number 5 and its power, word of advice, with this number be extra special.

sience

by richlyn - 7/18/16 4:28 PM

what deos 5R's mean

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5:55am 8-5

by Shelbi - 6/09/16 4:52 PM

I was born at 5:55am on August 5th, nice to see others have these numbers as well =)

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5

by vnm - 4/21/16 10:31 AM

I have been depressed since the age of 5. this is symbolic for me.

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Phsycic opinion and spiritual sence of well being by a perfessional.

by nicole rigon - 7/24/15 7:38 AM

I woke up with the number 5 on my hand . I noticed it when I was using the bathroom and also showed my daughter. we thought it was weird I new it meant something... The number 5 was imprinted on my forehand right with an ink substance. I think the color ewas green or blue

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RE: Phsycic opinion and spiritual sence of well being by a perfessional.

by Paul - 4/10/16 7:11 AM

Perfessional huh?
I seriously doubt that since you can't even spell Professional!

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