The Kabala of Numbers E-Book

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Beschreibung

The science of numbers is of remotest antiquity. Among the Aryans and Greeks, the Assyrians and Egyptians, we find indications of a development which gave to numbers their real significance and employed them in a system of symbolism which had respect to something more than mere enumeration. While it is true that a figure is a symbol denoting a quantity, it is also a fact that a quantity thus symbolised may denote much more than a mere number, as we may learn from chemical analysis, where two bodies consisting of an equal number of atoms of the same elements are of an entirely different chemical nature. This is the case as between phenylisocyanide and benzonitrile. But here we have a difference in the arrangement of the atoms, the single atom of nitrogen being active in the one and passive in the other molecule. The position serves, however, for a general thesis which regards all bodies as compounded of elements drawn from a single base, their specific differences being due to the domination of one over another element in them. The astrologers affirm that individual character answers to a similar analysis, for where as all men are constituted from the same cosmic forces, one has more of Saturn in him than others, being born under the dominance of that planet

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I THE POWER OF NUMBERS

CHAPTER II GEOMETRICAL RELATIONS OF THOUGHT

CHAPTER III NUMEROLOGY

CHAPTER IVVARIOUS METHODS OF KABALISM

CHAPTER V NUMBER, FORM, COLOUR, SOUND

CHAPTER VINAMES, NUMBERS, AND INCIDENTS

CHAPTER VIICHANCE EVENTS

CHAPTER VIII REDUCTION TO LAW

CHAPTER IX NUMBER AND AUTOMATISM

CHAPTER X THOUGHT-READING BY NUMBERS

CHAPTER XITHE SIGNIFICANCE OF NUMBERS

CHAPTER XII OF THINGS LOST

CHAPTER XIII THE KABALISM OF CYCLES

CHAPTER XIV SUCCESS AND FAILURE

CHAPTER XV THE LAW OF VALUES

CHAPTER XVI BRUNO’S SYMBOLISM

CHAPTER XVII COSMIC ANALOGIES

CHAPTER XVIII SOME RECONDITE PROBLEMS

CHAPTER XIX GOD GEOMETRISES

The Kabala of Numbers

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THE KABALA OF NUMBERS

INTRODUCTION

The science of numbers is of remotest antiquity. Among the Aryans and Greeks, the Assyrians and Egyptians, we find indications of a development which gave to numbers their real significance and employed them in a system of symbolism which had respect to something more than mere enumeration.

While it is true that a figure is a symbol denoting a quantity, it is also a fact that a quantity thus symbolised may denote much more than a mere number, as we may learn from chemical analysis, where two bodies consisting of an equal number of atoms of the same elements are of an entirely different chemical nature. This is the case as between phenylisocyanide and benzonitrile. But here we have a difference in the arrangement of the atoms, the single atom of nitrogen being active in the one and passive in the other molecule. The position serves, however, for a general thesis which

regards all bodies as compounded of elements drawn

from a single base, their specific differences being due to the domination of one over another element in them. The astrologers affirm that individual character answers to a similar analysis, for where as all men are constituted from the same cosmic forces, one has more of Saturn in him than others, being born under the dominance of that planet, while another has more of the nature of Mars, on account of its ascendancy or elevation at his birth, corresponding differences of character being observable in them, the one being ponderous, melancholic and tacturn, the other energetic, enterprising and demonstrative. Man, in fine, is a modification of cosmic elements, a composite of cosmic forces, like any other body. But also something more. Behind the coloured glass there is always the light. The intelligence striking through the composite of personal organisation reveals itself as character.

Similarly, behind the cosmos there is an Intelligence which manifests to us through cosmic elements as Nature. God geometrises, and in Nature we have the geometrical expression of the Divine Intelligence. Crystallisation takes place according to definite laws. All the superior metals crystallise at the angle or complemental angle of a regular polygon, which may be inscribed in a circle; and theses angles are those which are indicated by the astral science as operative. Water, which the ancients referred to in a mystical sense as the mother of all things, their material base, crystallises at an angle of 60 degrees. The universe is but the crystallised ideation of God; it is a divine thought- form. It is by the study of numbers, therefore, that we may learn the laws of divine expression, from the constitution of the universe down to the most trivial occurrence in its evolutional progress. What we call an event is but a displacement and rearrangement of the parts of our sphere of reality. Changes taking place in the cosmos are accompanied by changes in all its constituents, and these changes may converge to a cataclysm. They may also produce a shower of rain, an epidemic, or a rise of a penny per cental in the price of wheat. Admitting man’s relations to the cosmos, and it would be difficult to deny them, there is really no end to the concatenation of effects which may arise from any single cosmic disposition, as for instance, Sun oppose Mars, when our earth lies in the diameter of the Martian sphere of influence.

In the study of numbers, therefore, we are not concerned with figureology, or mere symbolism, but with quantities and geometrical relations. This study has its principles, its alphabet, its language and terminology, and its signification. In the course of these pages I shall endeavour to show that there is a signification attaching to numbers which for lack of a better term I must call occult; for although it would be a comparatively easy matter to trace a relationship existing between man and the universe, it would be by an arguement of a mystical nature only that any connection between numbers and events could be traced. Yet, if I show that this connection exists, there will be at least sufficient ground on which to establish such an argument, from which, possibly, might arise a deeper under- standing and wider appreciation of that ancient key to the mysteries of the universe which was rediscovered and partially formulated by Baron Swedenborg in the Doctrine of Correspondences. In this doctrine, Matter is the ultimate expression of Spirit, as Form is that of Force. Therefore, for every spiritual Force there is a corresponding material Form. The whole of Nature thus becomes an expression of the underlying spiritual world, and its physiognomy is to us the chiefest source of inspiration. The laws governing this expression are traceable only in terms of numbers, i.e. of geometrical ratios. The moral sense is only a subconscious recognition of the integrity and harmony of natural laws, a reflex of the greater environment. There is an analogy between the laws of Matter and those of Mind. They may arise from a common cause. The science of numbers is the key to both.

CHAPTER I THE POWER OF NUMBERS

Figures are the means employed by us to express definite quantities. They do not express anything of quality. Thus, if we say 2 eggs and 2 eggs make 4 eggs, we leave out of consideration the fact that one or more of them may be bad. From this we learn that 2, or any other number, is potentially good or evil, its quantity being unaffected.

Every number has a certain power which is not expressed by the figure or symbol employed to denote quantity only. This power rests in an occult connection existing between the relations of things and the principles in nature of which they are the expressions.

Revelation first took a demonstrable form when man evolved the numerical sequence 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, by whatever symbols it was expressed.

In this series 0 stands for infinity, the Infinite boundless Being, the fons et origo of all things, the Brahmanda or egg of the universe, the solar system in its entirety; hence universality, cosmopolitanism, circumambulation, voyaging. But also for negation, circumference, limitation, and privation. Thus it is the universal paradox, the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the circle of infinity and the point at the centre, the atom.

The following Minor Key to the interpretation of numbers may prove useful, being in many respects more

concise and easier of application than the foregoing:-

In this system –

Denotes individuality and possible egotism, selfreliance

, affirmation, distinction.

Relationship, psychic attraction, emotion, sympathy or antipathy, doubt, vacillation.

Expansion, increase, intellectual capacity, riches and success.

Realisation, property, possession, credit and position, materiality.

Reason, logic, ethics, travelling, commerce, utility.

Co-operation, marriage, reciprocity, sympathy, play, art, music, dancing.

Equilibrium, contracts, agreements, treaties, bargains, harmony or discord.

Reconstruction, death, negation, decay, loss, extinction, going out.

Penetration, strife, energy, enterprise, dividing, anger, keenness.

In this scheme the answering planets are respectively –

The Sun

6. Venus

The Moon (New)

7. The Moon (Full)

Jupiter

8. Saturn

The Earth or Sun

9. Mars 5. Mercury.

Although in the Hebraic system the number 12, as already stated, appears to have stood for perfection, the earliest enumeration would seem to have been made from Chaldean sources, which is distinctly decimal. Thus we have-

A stroke to the right above, raised the power of a

unit by 100; the one on the left,below, raised it by

1These are the seven principles of the human being, and represent the stages of his evolution from the animal to the divine.

The principles corresponding to them in the esoteric philosophy of the East are –

The Conqueror       

Atma

Intuitively Wise       

Buddhi

The Higher Mind

Buddhi-Manas

The Cross             

Antaskarana

The Lower Mind

Kama-Manas

Desire             

Kama

Serpent Coil       

Lingam

Sensuality       

Sthula

The use of glyphs in the form of literal numbers, for the purpose of veiling certain revelations or teachings not intended for general readers, is a feature peculiar to all Oriental systems. The Hindus have such glyphs, and they also make use of numbers to veil their knowledge. Thus, we have what are called Mantrams used as invocations in the ordinary way, but understood by the instructed to cover choice secrets of natural or spiritual knowledge. The Acharyavagabhedya mnemonic gives the number of days expired from the beginning of the Kali Yuga to the beginning of the reformation under Sri S’ankaracharya, namely, 1,434,160, which, being reduced to years, gives K.Y. 3927. But, as the Kali Yuga began in 3102 B.C. (February), we derive the year A.D. 825. The great philosopher was therefore twenty years of age, having been born on the 8th April (O.S.) 805 A.D. 2

The value of pi, which expresses the relations of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, was concealed in the great cycle known as the Age of Brahma, 311,040,000,000,000 years. This age is one hundred years of Brahma, and a Brahmic year is therefore 3,110,400,000,000 solar years. This number is again divided by 360, which gives the value of the Brahmanic Day or 8,640,000,000 years. Then, by adding together the value for the age, year, and day of Brahma, we have 314159, etc., which is the familiar value of pi or very nearly, 355 divided by 113.

Similarly, the Hebrews expressed this value in the name of the seven male-female creative powers, Elohim (trans. God), thus –

Value       14

These 14 correspond to the seven Prajapatis and their S’aktis, the positive and negative, active and passive, principles in the Oriental cosmogony.

These figures being disposed at the angles of a pentagram, the symbol of the Grand Man, the Adam Kadmon of the Kabalists, are found to read 31415.

and they express the following geometrical and cosmogonical concept:-

A kabala, as embodying any secret information, may assume a variety of forms – literal, numerical, or hieroglyphic; but as we are now concerned chiefly with the nature and power of numbers, it will be advisable to confine ourselves to these, their connection with the literal form, and the uses to which they may be applied. In this connection we shall have to make use of a symbolism which has relation to the planetary system. It will be well, therefore, in this place to give the planetary

numbers as revealed by John Haydon in his Holy Guide:-

The number of the Sun is       1 positive

The number of the Sun is       4 negative

The number of the Moon is       7 positive.

The number of the Moon is       2 negative.

That of Saturn is                   8 That of Jupiter is             3 That of Mars is                   9 That of Venus is                   6

That of Mercury is             5.

It will be seen that an extension of these numbers according to their cosmic order yields the glyph of the divine number 15, which, as expressing the name Jah, the Hebrews replace in their enumeration by i.e 9 and 6. Thus, we have the signs of the zodiac and the planets ruling them, with their numerical values –

It will be necessary for the reader to bear in mind the numerical values of the planets, and also the days of the week ruled by them:-

Sunday       

ruled by Sun.

Monday       

ruled by Moon.

Tuesday       

ruled by Mars.

Wednesday

ruled by Mercury.

Thursday       

ruled by Jupiter.

Friday       

ruled by Venus.

Saturday       

ruled by Saturn.

In the course of this study of the Kabala of Numbers we shall have frequent occasion to refer to these values.

The values given by Haydon appear to be without any or due foundation, and those who have used these planetary numbers have hitherto offered no reason for attaching particular values to the several planets.

In the course of the following exposition I have supplied this deficiency and have given the paradigm from which Haydon derived his values, which are traditional among the Kabalists.

It may be well to note that, among the various alphabetical systems of enumeration, the most common in use is the Hebraic; but that which is capable of the most universal application is the phonetic, which is related to the planetary values.

CHAPTER II GEOMETRICAL RELATIONS OF THOUGHT

Before we can begin to understand how numbers may have any symbolical meaning or any necessary significance in our daily life, we must consider the geometrical relations of our thought.