Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Throughout history, societies have had numbers they consider special. [1] [2] For example, in ancient Rome the number 7 was auspicious, [3] in Maya civilisation the number 13 was sacred, [4] in modern-day Japan people give three, five, or seven gifts for luck, and in China the number 8 is considered lucky and 4 is avoided whenever possible. [5]
Numerology (known before the 20th century as arithmancy) is the belief in an occult, divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events. It is also the study of the numerical value, via an alphanumeric system, of the letters in words and names. When numerology is applied to a person's name, it is a form of onomancy.
The number 17. Fear of the number 17 is known as heptadecaphobia and is prominent in Italian culture. [6] The number 39. Fear of the number 39 is known as the curse of 39, especially in Afghan culture. [7] The number 43. In Japanese culture, maternity wards numbered 43 are considered taboo, as the word for the number means "stillbirth". [8] The ...
Helyn Gerberding Hitchcock was a writer of books about numerology, including the belief that turning the letters of names into numbers can divine hidden information about those objects. [ 1 ] Her publications include Helping Yourself with Numerology (1972), The Magic of Psychograms (1975) and Your Number, Please (1945).
Sepharial: The New Manual of Astrology (in four books). Sepharial: Astrology Explained, republished by www.astrologyinaction.com in 2012. Sepharial: The Book of the Simple Way Pub 1904. (Translation of Lao Tzu's Chinese classic, the "Tao Te Ching"). Sepharial: The Kabala of Numbers Pub 1911. Modern edition: ISBN 1-59605-404-2. (on numerology).
The numbers can be calculated for anyone on/from Earth using only a birthdate. The system most commonly uses two numbers. First, the Honmei star (Japanese: 本命星 ; translation: "true feelings star", like Honmei choco ) is the principal, adulthood, or year number, describing one's most mature mind/heart, karma, or spirit type.
Table of correspondences from Carl Faulmann's Das Buch der Schrift (1880), showing glyph variants for Phoenician letters and numbers. In numerology, gematria (/ ɡ ə ˈ m eɪ t r i ə /; Hebrew: גמטריא or גימטריה, gimatria, plural גמטראות or גימטריות, gimatriot) [1] is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase by reading it as a number ...
It was written by Crowley and Allan Bennet (Frater I.A.) and is basically an index of numbers from 1–3321 listing their Hebrew word equivalents. This book is also useful for magical students as a reference for word-sympathy, from AB ("father") and BA ("to come") = 3 to ShDBRShHMOTh ShRThThN = 3321.