The Number 48: Properties and Meanings
Prime Factors of
48=
2x
2x
2x
2x
3.
48 can be
Partitioned 25 times with each term no larger than
2.
48 can be
Partitioned 217 times with each term no larger than
3.
48 can be
Partitioned 1033 times with each term no larger than
4.
48 is an
Abundant Number.
48 is a
17-gonal Number.
48 is the smallest number with
10 divisors.
The Great Rhombicuboctahedron is an
Archimedean Solid with
48 Vertices.
The Small Rhombicuboctahedron is an
Archimedean Solid with
48 Edges.
The
Chemical Element Cadmium has an atomic number of
48.
In
Humans: the
48 sub-petals of each of the two petals of the Ajna Chakra located between the two eyebrows.
The Earth - and all what constitutes it - would be submitted to
48 laws, according to Ouspensky. The caucasian G. Gurdjieff claims the same thing by asserting that the Earth would be submitted to
48 forces by taking account of the Sun, the moon, the planets, all the worlds and the Absolute. In the same way, according to Samael Aun Weor, the terrestrial man lives in a world subjected to
48 laws. But "below us, under the surface of the Earth, exist worlds of
96 and
192 forces and several others, that are enormously more complicated and terribly materialistic, and where one does not remember even more than the Will of the Absolute exists." With the involution of the souls, their life becomes more complicated with an increasingly large number of laws. Conversely, through the "Revolution of the Conscience", the evolving souls are released themselves from the
48, the
24, the
12 and finally from the
6 laws to enter at the end in the Absolute.
The ancient peoples recognized
48 constellations, grouped in bands of
24 each one, in the two hemispheres.
The Torah is acquired through
forty-eight Virtues.
Film:
48 Hours.
The Year 48 AD
In the year
48 AD Chinese armies drove the Hsiung Nu back to their homeland in Mongolia.
In the year
48 AD fire ravaged the Library at Alexandria.