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| Dr.Nikki's |
| History of Numerology |
| These pages provide information on Numerology. |
| We’ve all played games with numbers. I remember as a kid in junior high school we would use the girl’s name and the boy’s name who were “interested” in each other. Then you would cross through the letters the two had in common, letter for letter. Finally when only “solo” letters or numbers were left we would count out loud “love, hate, friendship, marriage” and the word given to the last letter or number was supposed to tell us all how that relationship was going to go. Funny thing is, we were most often right (although I think it has more to do with the “testing the waters” of emotional relationships as kids, *smile*). From childish games to superstitions, even purported to have been given in divine guidance, numbers have been related to them all. The numerology practiced today is still based in the ancient art of gematria, hence gematria although it has passed and mutated through the ages is still practiced today. Believed to have its roots in ancient Chaldea, the practice of numerology has been around for much longer than even most practitioners of the art realize. Notarikon is another ancient numerological system, but many of its forms and formulae have been lost to the eons of time. Many put all of modern numerology right at Pythagoras’s feet. Although Pythagoras did much to forward the science of mathematics, he built upon the knowledge that had been passed down through the ages. Each generation keeps building on the knowledge from the one before. It is to the Pythagorean School that we can trace the earliest evidence of use of predictive numerology. |
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Pythagoras and his followers created a philosophical school in which it was believed that all things are numbers. Mathematicians today are still trying to work out the intricacies of the Pythagorean belief system, |
| but the sacred teachings of the Pythagorean School were lost over the years. We have not been fortunate enough to find original writings from Pythagoras himself, but many others talk about his |
| methods and it is from their writings we have gleaned the few remnants of the teaching of the Pythagorean School. We do know that Pythagoras believed that everything could be reduced to a mathematical equation. Believing that numbers were the key to unlock the secrets of the psyche, Pythagoras and his students worked endlessly to find the key. Whether it was actually found or not is still open to debate, but search for it they did. A short time ago the world was all a-twitter about a book called The Davinci Code; pop icon Madonna was sporting red bracelets, and people were talking about the tree of life. Jewish Kabbalism (Cabbalism, Quaballa, etc.) is essentially the science of assigned values to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and then using the system to reinterpret the Old Testament. Cornelius Agrippa is recognized as the one who brought the Kabbala knowledge out of the darkness with his 1533 work, Occult Philosophy. However, later research has found that Agrippa’s work is primarily drawn on the work and hypotheses of good old Pythagoras. Numerology is one of the easiest of predictive arts. Numerology can also be deceptively easy. As with Astrology, runes, and tarot; the more subtle nuances of numerology are more difficult to understand and take deeper study and time. This is evidenced by some of the greatest mathematicians through the ages trying to unravel and find the pure perfection in numbers. Pythagoras and his followers thought that the soul and essence of a person could be represented in numbers. Although much of the information of his philosophical studies are lost to the ages because like most mystery schools of the time writings were not kept, there’s still some poor kid in a math class, banging their head against the desk because they forgot Pythagoras’ Theorem! We may not need to use his Theorem in our everyday life, but by using some of the theories he is purported to have espoused in regard to numbers, we can improve our everyday life! |
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