Nine Rings: Tolkien

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Rings_of_Power

From one to three...

One is the original number.
Zero is not a number.

Two is the schism within the one: polarity.

Three is the synthesis or harmony of one and two. From three comes "all things."

From the album sutras by Donovan:
I stay behind I walk ahead
Apart yet a part of ev'rything
Nothing done and all is well
Never used yet always full

Out of nothing comes the one
Out of one comes the two
Out of two comes three
Out of three comes all things

The more it moves the more it yields
The valley spirit never dies
The root of heaven and of earth
Empty now of ev'rything
From above it is not bright
From below it is not dark
You cannot see when it began
Follow it there is no end

It has no aim it is so small
It has no name it is so great
It is not seen it is not heard
Nothing done or left undone
The weak can overcome the strong
The supple overcomes the stiff
Ev'ryone knows this well
yet so few can practice it

Out of nothing comes the one
Out of one comes the two
Out of two comes three
Out of three comes all things

Al-Farabi Psychology

Note the subordinate intelligences from the celestial sphere are numbered 9.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/palf/palf08.htm

Nine Orders of Angels

http://www.angelfocus.com/dionysius%20hierarchy.htm

The Nine Ways of the Zhikr

Shelley's 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'

An excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's mystic poem:
"I vowed that I would dedicate my powers
To thee and thine—have I not kept the vow?
With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now
I call the phantoms of a thousand hours
Each from his voiceless grave: they have in visioned bowers
Of studious zeal or love’s delight
Outwatched with me the envious night—
They know that never joy illumed my brow
Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free
This world from its dark slavery,
That thou—O awful LOVELINESS,
Wouldst give whate’er these words cannot express. "
Enjoy this video dedicated to the verses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDhVIYfZHKk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdJgmD6AF2g&feature=related

Eighth Tractate, Fifth Ennead

Two translations follow:

1. Please scroll down to Book Eight:
http://oaks.nvg.org/ennj.html

2.O'Meara's Selections and Commentary:
https://books.google.com/books?id=QdzrNQG3D2YC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=plotinus+o%27meara&source=bl&ots=PozCa6y8q7&sig=C9tZeK4yG04NAW_Otlwo7blj7NI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo6qCFutLTAhUCSiYKHdhxB6MQ6AEITzAJ#v=onepage&q=plotinus%20o'meara&f=false