Numbers
umerology is defined as the study of the meanings of numbers. The word “occult” is usually connected with this study and others similar. The word “occult” means “of or relating to supernatural influences.” It also is considered beyond human comprehension and, in the case of studying numerology, crystals, the tarot, runes, or astrology, secret and sacred knowledge that is only available to the initiate who was admitted to an order through ceremony or ritual.
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Use of Numbers
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Numerology was practiced in many forms like the Kabbalah, the Chaldean and the Pythagorean methods. Modern Numerology is based on Pythagorean principles, Kabbalistic principles, or a combination of both. Western Numerology is based on Pythagorean Principles, using the numbers one through 9 and placing each letter of the alphabet under each number. The word “fox” is spelled out vertically under the number 6 if the letters were placed correctly.
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As with words that have become associated with meanings through time of use, so have numbers. People have assigned power or vibration to each from 1 through 9. Some methods do not use all of them. None of them use zero. They are symbols just as words are. Definitions were assigned to concepts. Vibrations were assigned to numbers.
Numerology holds that each number has a specific vibration that is associated with the heavenly bodies in space. The numbers, 1 through 9, have positive and negative qualities associated with them. Personalities in show business, politicians, writers, and others have been profiled through their documented lives and careers as having reflected the power of the number derived from their birth dates. Most numbers are single digits. The last number 9, is considered a high spiritual number. Double digit numbers 11, 22, and 33, are also considered high spiritual numbers. All other double digit numbers are reduced to single digits.
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Significant Numbers
Birthdays are obviously special. As a series of numbers, March 27, 1927 is 3271927. The digits are added together to form a double digit, or single digit number such as 9, and it holds energy for the bearer.
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Other significant dates like meetings, engagements, accomplishments, and weddings trigger positive feelings. Seeing a number of significance can invoke thoughts and feelings that are positive. Take those thoughts and feelings and transfer them to something that is desired repeatedly. This process can help you achieve your intentions.
Numbers can be designed to be displayed on your altar in several ways. You can obtain or create a sculptured number. Rather than the obvious, a number can be reflected in a quantity of like or similar objects like 3 geode stones of different or the same minerals in different colors or the same color.
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The Monad - 1
The number One or the Monad has been defined by the mathematician Theon of Smyrna as “the principal and element of numbers, which while multitude can be lessened by subtraction, is itself deprived of every number and remains stable and firm.”
Hence as a number, it is indivisible, it remains immutable, and even multiplied into itself remains itself only, since once one is still one, and the monad multiplied by the monad remains the immutable monad to infinity. It remains by itself among numbers, for no number can be taken from it, or separated from its unity. Proculs observed that “The first monad is the world itself; the second is the inerratic sphere; then, thirdly, succeed the spheres of the planets, each a unity; then lastly, are the spheres of the elements which are also Monads;” and these as they have a perpetual subsistence are called wholenesses---holotetes in Greek.
The Monad, Unity, or the number One received very numerous meanings. Photius tells us that the Pythagoreans gave it the following names:----
Meanings of the Monad, Number One
1. God, the First of all things; the maker of all things.
2. Intellect, the source of all ideas.
3. Male and Female---both together produce all things; from the odd proceed both odd and even.
4. Matter, the last development of universality.
5. Chaos, which resembles the infinite, in differentiation.
6. Confusion.
7. Commixion.
8. Obscurity, because in the Ineffable principle of things, of which it is the image, all is confused, vague and in darkness.
9. A Chasm, as a void.
10 . Tartarus, from its being at the lowest extremity, is dissimilarly similar to God, at the highest end of the series.
11. The Styx, from its immutable nature.
12. Horror, the ineffable, is perfectly unknown and is therefore terrible.
13. Void of Mixture, from the simplicity of the nature of the ineffable.
14. Lethe, oblivion, ignorance.
15. A Virgin, from the purity of its nature.
16. Atlas, it connects, supports and separates all things.
17. The Sun.
18. Apollo.
19. Pyralios, dweller in fire.
20. Morpho.
21. The Axis.
22. Vesta, or the fire in the center of the earth.
23. Spermatic Reason.
24. “The point within a circle,” “the Central Fire Deity.” The lingam, an upright pillar, was its Hindu symbol.
The Monad being esteemed the Father of Numbers is the reason for the universal prejudice in favor of Odd
Numbers over Even Numbers, which are but copies of the first even number, the Dyad, or universal Mother.
The father being more esteemed than the mother, for “ Might.”
Odd numbers were given to the greater Gods, and even ones to the inferior and terrestrial deities. The number one is represented in the Roman and Arabic systems, by an upright simple line, but in many old systems whose numerals were their letters, we find that almost universally the letter A, from being chosen to commence the set of letters, had the task of representing the Monad.
In numeration, note that the Romans began with lines, I, II, III, IIII, and then followed the Acute Angle V for 5, then for ten this was doubled X, for fifty the angle was laid down and became L, for a hundred, two fifties, one inverted became C, for five hundred C and L became D. Hermias, the Christian philosopher, author of “Ridicule of the Gentile Philosophers,” quotes from the Pythagoreans.
“ The Monad is the Beginning of all things”---“arche tonpanton he monas.”
Resources
1. Wescott, W., Numbers---Their Occult Power And Mystic Virtues, SUPREME MAGUS OF THE ROSICRUCIAN SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, London, Benares: Theosophical Pub. Society Third Edition 1911, p.34-35
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