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The Jewish Pythagorean numerology developed by Philo held that God as the unique One was the creator of all numbers, of which seven was the most divine and ten the most perfect. The medieval edition of the Kabbalah focused largely on a cosmological scheme of creation, in reference to early Pythagorean philosophers Philolaus and Empedocles and ...
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.
Dante Alighieri was fascinated by Pythagorean numerology [306] and based his descriptions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven on Pythagorean numbers. [306] Dante wrote that Pythagoras saw Unity as Good and Plurality as Evil [ 307 ] and, in Paradiso XV, 56–57, he declares: "five and six, if understood, ray forth from unity". [ 308 ]
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, or sometimes by using an alphanumerical cipher.
The tetractys. The tetractys (Greek: τετρακτύς), or tetrad, [1] or the tetractys of the decad [2] is a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row, which is the geometrical representation of the fourth triangular number.
The Pythagorean tradition spoke also of so-called polygonal or figurate numbers. [15] While square numbers , cubic numbers , etc., are seen now as more natural than triangular numbers , pentagonal numbers , etc., the study of the sums of triangular and pentagonal numbers would prove fruitful in the early modern period (seventeenth to early ...
The field of arithmology may be understood as the intersection of traditional religious numerology and contemporary mathematics, drawing on ideas from Pythagoras, Gnosticism, and the Kabbala. The work discussed the significance of numbers in astrology, divination, magic formulas, amulets, seals and symbolic matrices.
In his books, he has tried his best to reconcile Pythagorean doctrine with Christian theology. [4] His major work, the Numerorum Mysteria was first published in 1591 and received an imprimatur from the Catholic Church. It explores the mystical significance of numbers, beginning with lengthy discourses on the numbers one, two and three, and ...