Sasha Fenton - In Focus Numerology

Pythagoras

The Hebrew Sefer Yetzirah (the Book of Creation) is an explanation of the spheres of the Tree of Life, which relates to the way God created the universe and everything in it. The Sefer Yetzirah is highly complex and extremely mysterious. Here are two of the more comprehensible examples of its many verses:

Verse two: there are thirty-two ways, ten double and twelve single, which are the twenty-two letters of the Torah.

Verse three: the ten double letters are ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. The twelve simple letters are twelve and not eleven, twelve and not thirteen.

Christianity had a new interest in numerology, and it was in the Hermetica, which is attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. The Hermetica are texts from ancient Greece and Egypt that were written in the first or second century CE. The texts are designed to teach, and they discuss philosophy and belief in the way the mind works, the natural world, the divine world, the cosmos, astronomy, astrology, and alchemy. These texts used number symbols, such as the trinity of God, the Cosmos, and Man. The crusades began at the beginning of the twelfth century, and they drifted on until the Reformation finally brought them to an end in the sixteenth century. They inadvertently connected the East to the West, bringing in many ideas from Greece, Turkey, and the East, including various forms of numerology.

In the seventeenth century, Dr. John Dee, the Astrologer Royal to Queen Elizabeth I, became obsessed by the Enoch system of numbers, which was supposed to lead to some kind of godly power. He went off to Prague to study this subject, because he found someone there who could show him how it worked. He was also keen to escape the religious fanaticism in England at that time, which considered the occult to be heretical.

During the eighteenth century, the rise of the Age of Reason meant that people turned their backs on anything that smacked of superstition, religion, mysticism, or witchcraft, so numerology went underground for a while in Europe. However, it flourished in other parts of the world, especially in India, and it was the connection between India and Britain during the nineteenth century and the rise of European empires that brought it back to the West.

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the continued interest in all things Indian, and the discoveries of ancient Egypt encouraged people to set up societies to look into these ideas. This is when the Theosophists and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn were founded in the UK.

The Enoch System of Numbers

In France, Napolon Bonaparte became fascinated by ancient Egypt and by Egyptian geomancy, which is a numerical fortune-telling system. However, in France, toward the end of the nineteenth century, the palmist Cheiro and others studied everything that was weird and wonderful.

The hippie era of the 1970s brought a massive upsurge of interest in Indian philosophies to the USA and Europe, and many of these ideas have now become an accepted part of the spiritual landscape. Nowadays, those who write books or magazine articles are spreading these ideas even furtherand that brings us up to date. However, today numerology is more popular in India than in the West.

Numerology Basics

Numerology is the easiest of the divinations to use because, unlike astrology, which requires the date, time, and place of birth, numerology requires only a name and a date of birth, or a name and a starting date for something. Also helpful is the fact that you dont need to memorize the rules of numerology, because you can refer to this book as you go along. However, the more you use the system, the more you will absorb, and you will soon find the character and energies that live within each number sticking in your mind.

The first part of the book shows you how to find the meanings behind the letters that make up a name, while the second part shows how the date of birth can affect a persons life. You might like to consider the day you moved into your current home or bought your car, or the day you started a new jobespecially one that didnt work out well. You will be amazed at the way the nature of each place, thing, or enterprise is shown by its birth number and by its name.

The last few chapters show you how to forecast events by numerology, even down to the hour in which something happens. This means that you can elect a specific time and date in which to do something important, but life being what it is, things dont always work out so easily. For instance, a friend of mine chose the perfect date and time for her forthcoming marriage, but circumstances made that date impossible. Fortunately for her, the day that the marriage took place was also good, numerologically speaking, and the marriage is a success.

Number Basics

You are an individual who is unlike everyone else on earth, and this is reflected in the various parts of your nature. Numerology tracks this individuality by describing the different parts of your character that make up the whole. Read on and you will see how this works, and you will also see which influence is the strongest in your case.