The Esoteric Secret Book of Numbers and Numerology E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Mike Thomas
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

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The Esoteric Secret Book of Numbers and Numerology

FOREWORD

It naturally follows that if a person should make a special study of any one subject, from long experience and studious research, he will in the end unravel, at least to some extent, the so-called mysteries of the subject on which he has so concentrated his attention.

To the student of Art, Art reveals her mysteries of color, form, design, pose, and a thousand and one subtleties that escape the ordinary observer. To the student of Biology every leaf tells its own story, every tree its age, every flower its own pedigree.

To the student of Science, what is magic to the uninitiated becomes a natural phenomenon with general laws, governed by rules or calculations that all who choose can learn and understand.

In presenting this book to the public I need then offer no other apology for so doing, than that of having been a student of this particular branch of thought for a very long period, and having proved so-called theories by countless experiments and experiences, I feel I am at last in a position to give to the world at large the result of such studies.

It is admitted by all that the occult side of things has been the one side of life the least explored or investigated. That there is an occult or hidden part in actual relation to human life is on every side a conceded fact, but before this mystery-the greatest of all-the majority of thinkers have held themselves aloof.

In our age the physical and mechanical sciences have called for the greatest attention, yet such things as wireless communication and radium, to-day household words, have been stumbled across by so-called chance.

Already wireless communication has saved hundreds of lives, radium has done likewise, the mysteries of yesterday have become the commonplaces of today, and so knowledge in the eternal fitness of things becomes the servant of those who serve.

In pursuit of the laws, which have controlled thought in recent centuries, man has, in earning his successes on the physical and mechanical plane, forgotten the loss he has sustained from the lack of study and observation on the occult or psychic side of humanity. He is more occupied to-day in building implements for the destruction of life than he is in the problems of life itself, or in the finding out of those laws which create, control, and sustain life.

When Newton discovered gravitation, it was not supposed for a moment that he had solved the problem of the spheres, and it is sometimes forgotten that when he came to realize that beyond our system of stars, sun, moon and planets there were again the "fixed stars" with their countless systems, in the magnitude of the problem, he could only decide that there was again some occult law behind all, greater than any known law that could even be imagined.

With these few words as a preface, I will endeavor to make my theory so clear that I hope anyone of ordinary intelligence may be able to follow and experiments with certain rules, which will be treated in the following chapters.

During my earlier years, when traveling in the East, it had been my good fortune to come in contact with a certain sect of Brahmins who had kept in their hands from almost prehistoric times studies and practices of an occult nature which they regarded as sacredly as they did their own religious teachings. Among other things, they permitted me to learn certain theories on the occult significance of numbers and their influence and relation to human life, which subsequent years and manifold experiences not only confirmed, but justified me in endeavoring to apply them in a practical sense so that others might also use this knowledge with, I hope, advantage to themselves and to those around them

The ancient Hindu searchers after Nature's laws, it must be remembered, were in former years masters of all such studies, but in transmitting their knowledge to their descendants; they so endeavored to hide their secrets from the common people that in most cases the key to the problem became lost, and the truth that had been discovered became buried in the dust of superstition and charlatanism, to be re-formed, let us hope, when some similar cycle of thought in its own appointed time will again claim attention to this side of nature

This ancient people, together with the Chaldeans and Egyptians, were the absolute masters of the occult or hidden meaning of numbers, in their application to time and in their relation to human life.

When examining such questions, we must not forget that it was the Hindus who discovered what is known as the precession of the Equinoxes, and in their calculation such an occurrence takes place every 25,827 years, our modern science after labor of hundreds of years has simply proved them to be correct.

How, or by what means they were able to arrive at such a calculation, has never been discovered-observations lasting over such a period of time are hardly admissible, and calculation without instruments is also scarcely conceivable, and so science has only been able, first to accept their statement, and later to acknowledge its accuracy.

Their judgment, together with that of the Chaldeans, as to the length of what is now known as the cycle of years of the planets, has been handed down to us from the most remote ages, and also by our modern appliances has been proved correct, so when one comes to a study such as this, as to the value of the numbers, 1 to 9, which, as the seven harmonies of music are the bases of all music that has ever been conceived, these above-stated numbers are the basis of all our numbers and calculations, it is then only logical to accept the decisions of those great students of long past ages and at least examine their deductions with a mind free from bias and prejudice.

It is impossible in a book of this size to give in detail all the reasoning and examples that exist for a belief in the occult side of numbers, but it may interest my readers if I give a few illustrations of why the number 7 has for ages been regarded as the number of mystery relating to the spiritual side of things, and why the number 9 has in its turn come to be regarded as the finality or end of the series on which all our materialistic calculations are built, but the most casual observer can only admit that beyond the number 9 all ordinary numbers become but a mere repetition of the first 9. A simple illustration of this will readily suffice. The number 10 as the zero is not a number, becomes a repetition of the number 1. The number 11 added together as the ancient occultists laid down in their law of natural addition, namely, adding together from left to right, repeats the numbers 2, 12 repeats 3, 13 repeats 4 and so on up to 19 which in its turn becomes 1 plus 9 equals 10, and so again the repetition of 1. 20 represents 2, and so on to infinity. The occult symbolism of what are called compound numbers, that is, those numbers from 10 onwards, I will explain later.

In this way it will be seen that in all our materialistic systems of numbers, the numbers 1 to 9 are the base on which we are compelled to build, just as in the same way the seven great or primary harmonies in music are the bases of all music, and again as the seven primary colours are the bases of all our combinations of colours. In passing, it may be remarked that all through the Bible and other sacred books, the "seven" whenever mentioned, always stands in relation to the spiritual or mysterious God force, and has a curious significance in this sense whenever employed.

For a few instances of this, take the seven days (or cycles) of the creation as referred to in Genesis:

The seven heavens, so often referred to.

The seven thrones.

The seven seals.

The seven churches.

The seven days march round the walls of Jericho, when, on "the seventh day", the walls fell, before that mysterious God force symbolised in the number of seven. It is also remarkable that there are exactly seven generations from David to the birth of Christ. In Revelation we read of the "seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." Ezekiel speaks of "The seven angels of the Lord that go to and fro through the whole earth," which is believed to be a reference to the magnetic influences of seven creative planets which radiate through the earth.

Again, we have the seven Spirits referred to in the Egyptian religion.

The seven Devas of the Hindus' Bible.

The seven Amschaspands of Persian faith.

The seven Angels of the Chaldeans.

The seven Sephiroth of the Hebrew Cabala.

The seven Archangels of revelation, etc. etc.

Let us now take another view of this strange number. If we were to examine every class of occult teaching from the Hindu, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, or modern school, whichever one may choose, in every case-and without a single exception-we shall find that the quality of the number 7 stands for the expression of that mysterious God force in Nature before referred to.

In the most ancient rules of occult philosophy we find the rule laid down that the number 7 is the only number capable of dividing "the number of Eternity", and continuing in itself as long as the number representing Eternity lasts, and yet, at every addition of itself producing the number 9, or in other words it produces the basic number on which all materialistic calculations are built and on which all human beings depend and the whole edifice of human thought finds expression.

EXAMPLE

The number 1 is the first number. It represents the First Cause, Creator, God or Spirit, call it as you like. A circle or the zero, "0," has always been taken as the symbol of endlessness otherwise Eternity. Place the 1 and the figure zero by its side, and you get the significant symbol of eternity such as 1 plus 0, the 10, and then, place as many of these emblems of eternity side by side as you like, and you get such a figure as 1,000,000. Divide by the mystic number 7 and you get the number 142857.

7)1,000,000

142857

Add as many zeros as you like, and keep on dividing by the 7, and you yourself may go on through all eternity and you can only get repetitions of the same 142857, which from time immemorial has been called the "sacred number". Now add this number wherever you find it by natural addition, it will give you the figure 27, and as you have seen by the rule of natural addition described on a preceding page, you keep adding till only one number remains, to arrive at what is known as "the root of the number". You add again 27 by natural addition, and 2 plus 7 equals 9, or in other words, you get the full range of the first series of numbers on which all materialistic or human calculations can be built.

Now, let us return to the symbolism of seven for a moment. You know, of course, that Buddha is always represented as sitting in the centre of a Lotus. Let us examine, then, the secret of such a selection. It is not perhaps generally known that the 7 is reproduced in many strange ways in Nature herself, and that flowers that have not been crossed by intermingling with other flowers have their outside petals in the number of seven, but as flowers are so easily crossed with other varieties, and it is so difficult to find a pure type, Buddha took the Lotus, which never becomes crossed or loses its individuality, as the emblem of the religion he taught, because, first, its seven foundation petals are always in evidence, and further, the religion he taught was that the creative Spirit was the foundation and origin of all things, and thus again bore silent but unmistakable testimony to the creative action of the seven planets from which all religions have had their origin.

Long before man made his creeds, or civilizations their laws, the influence of these seven planets had become known on the earth. Out of the dark night of antiquity their light became law, and as far as we can penetrate, even to the very confines of prehistoric days, in all races, in all countries, we find the influence of the seven planets through all and in all.

DAYS OF THE WEEK

The seven days of the week have been the outcome of the influence of the seven creative planets and gave the names of the days of the week, in every land or clime. Take any nation you may choose, this fat remains the same, and is so expressed in almost every language, Chinese, Assyrian, Hindu, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, German, or English. In modern languages Monday or Moonsday in English becomes Montage in German or Lundy (Lune) in French, Lunes in Spanish, and so on until one comes to Saturday or Saturn's day, the day on which God ordered the Hebrews that no work should be done, and in giving them this command He said, "It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel for ever."1 And strange as it may seem, Saturday, year by year, in our modern civilization is becoming more and more a day of rest.

[1 Wherever the Jews went they observed this command, even causing their Roman conquerors and other pagan nations to follow their example. Josephus wrote: "There is not a city of the Grecians, nor any of the barbarians, nor any nation whatsoever whither our custom of resting on the seventh day hath not come."

      The seventh day of the Jews is Saturday, called the Sabbath from the Hebrew word Sabbath – to rest. ]

In connection with this thought, it is worthy of remark that Saturn, the last planet in the series of the seven creative planets of our solar system, in all religions, Hebrew or otherwise, represents cessation, or rest from labor in another sense. In this strange example one can see the connection between the seven days of the week and the seven creative planets, and it throws a new light on the verse, "God made the sun, moon and stars and appointed them for signs and for seasons and for days and for years." Even Mr. Maunder, the eminent author of so many works on astronomy, calls attention to this strange division of the week into seven days when he says in his Astronomy of the Bible: "the period of seven days does not fit precisely into either months or seasons of the year. It is not a division of time that man would naturally adopt, it runs across all natural division of time," but this author, not seeing or perhaps knowing the great hidden truth contained in the number 7, worried only over the point, that it was not a division of time which man would naturally adopt. But as everything on the earth and above the earth has its meaning, and especially its secret or soul meaning, its place, position, and number, in the "order of things" which is the highest form of design, every day of the week, every hour of the day, and every minute of the hour, has both its meaning and number.

It is invariably conceded by every class of scientist that the regularity, order, and system of the wonderful machinery of the heavens is beyond all comparison.

We know to-day that the heavenly bodies move through their orbits with such precision that in millions of years they do not vary one minute of time. We know that they exercise an influence on this earth which is felt by the veriest atoms in the earth, though what this force is, or with what incredible speed it acts, may forever remain a mystery. It was in dealing with this mysterious law that the ancient philosophers by study, experiments, concentration of mind, and perhaps intuition, arrived at the fixation of certain laws governing life, which may be as accurate as their discovery that the" precession of the Equinoxes takes place once in every 25,827 years."

It is from these wonderful students of Nature that we have received the first idea as to the divisions of the Zodiac into twelve periods of 30 degrees, and further, that each period produces a definite and well-known influence on the earth and on human beings born in any of its twelve periods. They further subdivided these 30-degree periods into divisions of three periods of 10 degrees each, in which the planets are also found to have an influence, and they pursued their investigations until they worked out a system demonstrating that each day had its own particular meaning due to vibrations in the ether, which keeps the earth in instantaneous report with its entire solar system, and lastly, that as the sun enters a new degree of the Zodiac in midwinter at about the rate of every 21/2 to 3 minutes, and in summer at the rate of 3 to 43/4 minutes, that its magnetic influence varied the effect of the vibrations or ether waves of each enabled these students of Nature to carry their system in this way down to almost the smallest planet, and so fraction of time (This applies, of course to the motion of the sun through the symbolic or cabbalistic Zodiac used in the East.)

In examining this subject, let us take for an example any remarkable piece of mechanism we may have seen, such as a clock. We have noticed how wheel fits into wheel and how the entire mechanism is put into motion as the ray or tooth of the governing the tooth of the next, and so on. wheel presses against Keeping this illustration in your mind for a moment, let us regard the 360 degrees of the Zodiac into which the sun appears to pass, from degree to degree on an average

of every 4 minutes as the teeth of one of our wheels. This 360 degrees multiplied by the 4 minutes gives 1,440minutes, and this, divided by 60, to bring it to hours, gives us the 24hour day, which becomes in its turn another spoke in the great wheel of time, and consequently, by the advance of the sun, must bring us to the commencement of another day under new and distinct influences, and so on until the year itself is completed.

Now as science proves that it takes the sun 30 days to pass from one division of the Zodiac into another, again we have the illustration of another wheel, as it were, but a still slower one, being put into motion, and consequently with the change in the heavenly mechanism another set of influences are brought to bear upon the earth, and so on until the twelve months of the year have in their turn experienced the influence of the sun in the twelve divisions of the Zodiac.

Let us now return for a moment to the part played by the seven creative planets. No one today, I believe, can plead ignorance of the effect of one of these planets, namely the moon, on the earth itself and on the people who inhabit the earth. We all know, or at least have heard, about the effect of the moon on the brain of people mentally unbalanced. We know how it causes tides to rise and fall along our shores, but still perhaps we do not realise that even in the deepest ocean Its pull or attraction is so great that it causes hundreds of thousands of tons of dead weight of water to be drawn up by it to such a height as 70 feet in the Bay of Fundy and in the Bristol Channel. Scientists, like Darwin in England, Flammarion in France, and others in Germany, made the startling discovery that there are actually tides in the solid earth itself, which are affected by the attraction of the moon. What then of the effect of the moon on the brain itself, which contains the most subtle essence and is one of the greatest mysteries known in life?

Granted that this be admitted, what then of the part played on human nature by the rest of the planets, which are in each individual case far larger than the moon? The following table showing the dimensions of each of the planets will illustrate better than any words I may use this side of the argument.

Diameter of       Mercury       .       .       2,000       miles

,,       the

Moon                   2,100       ,,

,,       Venus                   7,510       ,,

,,       the

Earth                   7,913       ,,

,,       Mars                   4,920       ,,

,,       Jupiter                   88,390       ,,

,,       Saturn                   71,900       ,,

,,       Uranus                   33,000       ,,

,,       Neptune                   36,000       ,,

,,       the Sun                   860,000       ,,

I ask, is it logical, with such a demonstration before one, to admit the effect of the moon and to deny any effect to the other planets that are in fact so much larger than it?

Let us now return to the important side of the question as regards the rules set forth in this book. You will very naturally ask, how and when were such numbers arrived at that represent the mechanical action or influence of the celestial system on the people of this earth? I could write

an entire volume on this side of the question alone, but in the following necessarily condensed pages you will find the general law explained which may be sufficient to elucidate the system contained in the following chapters.

In the first place, the secret or occult significance of numbers was revealed to man so far back in the world's history that the exact place of their discovery has never been recorded, but it suffices to state that if one goes back in one's investigations to the most distant period in the history of any race who made themselves in any degree responsible for such studies, even there one would find that these numbers representing the qualities of the solar system and the basis of all our later forms of calculation existed.

In working out the idea contained in these pages, I have carefully investigated every important form of occultism bearing on this question, but whether it has been Hindu, Egyptian, Chaldean, or Greek, the symbols of these numbers have always appeared the same, and their relation to months, days, hours, and people representing certain numbers, has been more or less alike.

What is called "the secondary numbers" as illustrated on subsequent pages I myself have brought into a practical form, but they have in every case been built up from long investigation and experience extending over many years. Although we may never be able to find out the exact time in past ages when the influence of these numbers was discovered, that is no reason why we should not accept what has been given us by those ancient students. There are many other things we are forced to accept in life from being conscious of their truth, even when we are not able to get back to their birth or beginnings.

The origin of life we know not, but we are nonetheless conscious that life exists. The balance, poise, and hidden laws governing our own solar system have also never been explained, together with a thousand other things in our everyday life. The very origin of numbers is itself a mystery; yet we are forced to employ them, and as Balzac says, "without them, the whole edifice of our civilization would fall to pieces."

Perhaps it may have been that in some far-off time in the history of human life, secrets were revealed to man by his then more close connection with the "God force" that called life into being. The Bible itself tells us that in a certain age "God walked with man." Perhaps then "the Fall" may have a still greater meaning than that which has been usually ascribed to it.

In some of the most illumined of the Greek philosophers we find such an age described as when "the gods talked with man" and taught him the mysteries of his creation

This idea is borne out all through the teachings of the Bible. We read in its pages that Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and others, "talked with God." The words "The Lord spake unto Moses" occurs over thirty times in the Book of Leviticus alone. A forcible illustration may also be given from the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon, now included in the Apocrypha, where Solomon says:

For God Himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are, to know the constitution of the world, the beginnings and the end and middle of times, the alterations of the solstices, the changes of seasons and the positions of the planets, the nature of living creatures and the thoughts of men, all things that are either secret or manifest I learned, for He that is the artificer of all things taught me this wisdom.

I ask, could anything be more forcible or convincing than such a statement, particularly when it is remembered that the true Seal of Solomon was none other than the seven-pointed star which contained the nine numbers which constitute the base of all our calculations, and which is the root of the system of numbers as applied to human life?

Even in our chemistry we have given a number and symbol to all the elements.

Water is       . . . 1010 its symbol is H2O

Hydrogen       . . . 212       ,,       ,,       ,,       H

Oxygen       . . . 1030 ,,       ,,       ,,       O

Nitrogen       . . . 1969 ,,       ,,       ,,       N

Carbon       . . . 1050 ,,       ,,       ,,       C

and so on.

THE SEVEN-POINTED SEAL OF SOLOMON: EXPLANATION

All occult studies point to the fact that the ancient students had a foundation for ascribing to every human being his number in the universe, and if we admit, as we do, that there is a moment for birth and a moment for death, so also in the links of years, days and hours, that make up the chain of life, it is not illogical to assume that every link of life has also both its number and place. I claim that by such a study man may become more perfect by his fitting in with the laws, system, and order of things to which he owes his being.

In this study there is nothing antagonistic to Religion or to our present-day acceptance of the idea of God. On the contrary, man will but honor God the more by his more perfect obedience to Nature's laws. In no text or passage in Holy Writ are we told that God desires human beings to suffer except as the consequence of their own acts, on the contrary, we are everywhere shown that man brings suffering and punishment on himself by his disobedience of Nature's commands. As a logical sequence, it must follow then that if we move with the laws of life and are in harmony with them we must become more happy, healthy, and successful, and consequently nearer that state of perfection that is the ultimate object of divine design.

What would you think of a workman in a factory who, instead of moving with the wheels of, say, a weaving machine, attempted to force them in a contrary direction? Would not such a man be crushed, injured, or perhaps lose his life? You would call him a fool, and he would not even gain your sympathy, and if such a man brought such a fatality on himself by ignorance, your sentence on him would be perhaps even more severe. Yet you call Nature unjust, cruel, or any other name that may fit into the circumstances-you! who do not even take the trouble of seeing which way her irresistible forces are moving. You pray. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," but you have no more intention of even trying to find out what is the "will" which is obeyed in heaven, and broken by you every second, than if the sacred prayer had never been made.

Your cities are filled with broken lives, your workhouses and mistaken charities are hideous proofs of the failure of your system. Your churches are monuments to the unknown, while the known lives with you in every action of your daily life and suffers with you when in your blindness you bring about the evils you could so easily avoid. You have tried every creed, and they have failed to comfort you. You are told to cry that you are " miserable sinners" you are worse, for you are ignorant sinners, and it is your ignorance alone that keeps you miserable.

How, then, will you accept this thought of another way of looking at life that I bring you in these pages? It may give you a new interest in life. It may yet become a religion unto you, but if it does, it will only unfold the hidden truth of your other religions, the key of whose mysteries you entrusted to priests and prelates, who lost it in their cloisters or buried it in their ceremonies. To the Jew it will be as precious as to the Christian.

To the Jew it will be as precious as to the Christian.

His twelve tribes will live again in the twelve divisions of the Zodiac, in the twelve stones on the breast of the High Priest, and in the building of the Tabernacle. The words he has so often heard, "See that thou makest all things according to the pattern shown thee on the Mount,'' or in other words the pattern of the heavens carried out in the Temple of Solomon, will now have a true significance in his ears.

He will remember that when his race marched out in triumph from the bondage of Egypt, they did so in four divisions, each carrying a standard, which represented the four divisions of the Zodiac with each of the twelve tribes in their Zodiacal order

The Ten Commandments given to Moses on the Mount will no longer represent an unmeaning number, but, as explained by this study, the very number has been chosen to imply by the figure 1, the FIRST CAUSE or the Creator, and the "0"- the symbol of Eternity." The Ten Commandments were given by the Creator for all eternity. They represent the nine planets and the infinity of space beyond, which, like ten steps, leads upward to the farthest boundary of our solar system, beyond which, on the Throne of unimaginable Thought, the Creator of all creates.

Sceptics of Occultism often have the mistaken idea that the ancient astrologers, as they had no sufficiently powerful telescopes, must have been unaware of any planets in our solar system beyond Saturn; but I have shown earlier in these pages that, although they may not have had our wonderful instruments of to-day, yet by some other means they attained a knowledge which equaled, if not out-distanced, our instruments of precision, as, for example, in their discovery of the "precision of the Equinoxes," etc., and in the knowledge of other matters which may have been revealed to them in that age when "God talked with man."

There is evidence, however, that those ancient students were conversant with the fact that there were two more distant planets than Saturn in our solar system, for they assigned beyond "the seven creative planets" the orbits for two more heavenly bodies, and they described them as governing the thoughts on the mental side of Nature and not the physical, and their description of them is in exact accordance with our present-day knowledge of the effect of the recently discovered planets of Uranus and Neptune on human life.

To the Christian, be he Protestant, Catholic, or Non-conformist, the study, as indicated in these pages, can but increase his faith in the glory of his Creator, and explain much that has hitherto been unexplained and unanswered. He will see in a new light the meaning of the Book of Genesis. The six, days' labor, and the seventh-the day of rest-will now have an added interest in his eyes.