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The Mystical Meaning of the Number Twelve!

By Dr Joshua David Stone

  • 12 manners of fruits on Tree of Life
  • 12 Sephiroth on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life
  • 12 Schools, Colleges, and Challenges of Life
  • 12 major nerve centers in the body/twelve cranial nerves
  • 12 souls of the oversoul
  • 12 oversouls of the monad
  • 12 Tribes of Judah
  • 12 sons of Jacob
  • 12 faculties of the mind
  • 12 loaves of hallowed bread in the tabernacle of the Israelites
  • 12 psalms of Asaph past life of Jesus
  • 12 signs of the Zodiac
  • 12 candidates to carry Christ Child
  • 12 disciples/apostles of Jesus
  • 12 hours in a day times two
  • 12 major bodily divisions
  • 12 major archetypes
  • 12 months
  • 12 stones Elijah took to repair broken altar and build a new one
  • 12 stones from River Jordan set up as circle at Gilgal in memorial to Israelite’s miraculous crossing of the river Jordan when entering Jericho
  • Jesus was born at midnight
  • Mother Mary in Revelations standing on the moon with 12 stars in her crown expecting
  • At age 12 Jesus was found preaching in a temple
  • Brazen sea in the court which was held up by 12 brazen oxen
  • 12 Powers in Man