posted November 12, 2002 02:11 AM         

StarLover, I do agree about the energy, it’s just when you start adding the digits together that it falls apart for me. I’m not sure if you are familiar with the base of a number – that is, the number of elements in a unit. We are most familiar with a base of ten – we count from zero to nine, then add one in front to continue onto eleven, etc. If you use a base of, say, five, then you would count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, ...

Computers are based on Boolean Algebra, which, as the name implies, base a base of 2. So here, we count 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, ...

If you change the base and add the digits, you get a different result everytime, which would alter your final conclusions!

I did come up with one tentative explanation as to why numerologists would only use a base of 10. If this science is connected with the planetary movements (as it seems to be), and if we count the nine planets plus the sun as the ten fundamental units, then we have a fixed base. If the base is fixed, then the results of adding digits is not random.

That’s just my suggestion; any comments?

But even when the final result is predictive, getting it by simply adding digits together is something that I can’t really gel with - you are totally changing the meaning of the number.

If I can find some justification for that, then I’d have faith in numerology.

Otherwise, I am quite happy about the electromagnetic pull exerted by the planets on my astral body body, affecting my charkas, etc etc., so I think there is indeed something to astrology.

My apologies for dissecting this art; I am from a science background and it’s my nature to do that. At least I don’t just throw off things I don’t understand – I do an experiment, see if there’s a correlation between the variables, and then try to understand why that is so. And I do see correlations in astrology; have yet to try numerology.

posted November 12, 2002 02:24 AM         

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posted November 13, 2002 12:15 AM         

The underlying premise of Chaldean numerology is that every letter has a unique vibration. Numbers are assigned to letters based on the vibration value. In the Pythagorean System of numerology numbers are assigned by sequence.

The ancient Chaldeans believed that science and spirit were inter-related and that each vibrational frequency had a soul of it's own. Each spoken word would resonate to a vibrational frequency associated with numbers.

Here is a link to Leeya Brooke Thompson's article on Chaldean numerology.

http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1999/September/0999-04.htm

Do you remember Linda writing about the woman who made patterns with an eidophone using her voice? That is how I tie it all together with the numbers and the vibration.

posted November 13, 2002 07:51 AM         

Heheheheheh, that’s pretty original Proxieme!

Thanks Donna; this web-site has a really nice feel to it. Sure, I could possibly see a relation between numbers and letters. It’s just the maths behind the numbers that intrigues me. The varying base and adding up of digits – doesn’t it look like you should get something random? I don’t see the pattern. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one; if you look into chaos theory, you’ll find the most complex and beautiful patterns arising from some basic rules. Maybe I should try writing some programs to look for one. Or have people already tried that? Should have. So there’s something lacking in my understanding. I accept that if there’s so much interest in numerology, there must be something to; but I’m interested in the WHY of it. And just WHY am I interested in the WHY? Bcos, maybe Someone deliberately made those rules for us to find, and if we do, maybe we’ll be closer to that Someone; closer to remembering that we are that Someone.

posted July 15, 2005 03:30 AM         

I saw something in an old world book encyclopedia I used to study when i was still growing physically. When I read Linda's words I remembered the comparison between greek and english and wondering how and why the alphabet changed. Alpha bet there is a connection near here

first i imagined this

12345678
ABCDE--F
I-G-H---
JKLMN-OP
QRST-U-I
-----V--
-----W--
----X---
Y-----Z-

then this

--|12345678|--|
-1|ABCDE--F|23|
-2|I-G-H---|-9|
-3|JKLMN-OP|-3|
-4|QRST-U-I|16|
-5|-----V--|-6|
-6|-----W--|-6|
-7|----X---|-7|
-8|Y-----Z-|-8|