666 in the Bible

The Real Meaning of the Number of the Beast

This is a passage from mine and Nate’s upcoming book Anagogia: Four Modern Philosophers Read Through New Eyes. This section is from the second chapter on Zizek. While it still needs to be edited a bit, I wanted to share some exclusive content for the paid subscribers. Enjoy!

666 represents the false totality of man in rebellion against God, as it was on the sixth day that God created Adam. The seventh day in which God “rests” and gazes upon creation opens humanity and, by extension, all of creation to the transcendent. Only through exiting the finitude of the world through union with Christ can one rest in the seventh day alongside the Father, gazing upon creation from God’s transcendent perspective (this is the exit from the circle of immanence). The sixth day must pass into the seventh, but the sinner vainly repeats the sixth day (6,6,6) and attempts to constitute himself as the totality.