Numerology*
The Egyptians gave symbolic meaning to numbers.
The powers that numbers hold are eternal, though their significance is periodically lost. The observations below may be used as starting points:
0
Zero implies the pure potentiality of the divine and the point from which all other numbers spring forth. Even visually this number is symbolic of the egg that gives birth to the number sequence.
1
This number represents creation—genesis.
2
The first feminine number infers the twin serpents of duality—unmanifest and manifest, unconscious and conscious, yin and yang. It is also associated with the binary system, mitosis and the vesica pisces.
3
The first masculine number is symbolised by the triquetra (and the Reuleaux triangle within). It can also represent the Holy Trinity—the unity of brain, heart and gut. This is also the union of light, spirit and soul (the Mer-ka-ba).
4
This number represents stability, the base of a pyramid, ground or earth. It can also mean foundation and things related to order like points of the compass, the seasons and the elements: air, fire, water and earth.
5
This pentagonal number represents life, balance and harmony. It combines the female number two with the male number three. Five can also symbolise all biological phenomena. √5 = Φ + Φ-1 which is a reference to consciousness itself.
6
This is a perfect number. The hexagon has a side-length equal to the radius of the circle that it circumscribes. Vector equilibrium is exhibited in hexagons. This octahedral number has a connection to the Lotus of Life and the six directions. It is the number of points of a water molecule. Bees and the humming of creation are implied here.
7
This number is related to the measurement of time: when Sirius rises above the Sun at an altitude of seven degrees it can be seen. The seventh circle is also the centre of the Flower of Life, a place of no dimension. As God emerges from infinity, we have the seven days of creation. Seven is actually a feminine number associated with Seshat.
8
This number of Hermes represents power, abundance and balance. As the universal eighth chakra it indicates the twisted circle—a standing wave of energy. 8 governs the Soul Star chakra and is also a centered heptagonal number.
9
“Enlightened” nine is the last of the cardinal numbers and has the highest vibrational frequency of any integer not including the Master Numbers (11, 22 and 33). Nine is the tarot card called the Hermit. This number is the embodiment of the golden mean spiral and can be described as the number that always returns to itself. Multiples of this number like 81, 909 and 6,174 can have their digits summed to verify this reduction. The ninth gate opens the irregular pentagon.
10
Base 10 has been adopted by humanity as our counting cycle. With ten fingers and toes it is easy to see why. It represents completion or the number cycle restarting. Ten is related to Earth and all observable phenomena.
11
This auspicious master number is a confirmation prime. When you see it, the universe is replying YES to your intentions. As the number of truth, 11 is open to vast occult concepts. This number is intuitive to the point of being psychic, channeling its wisdom from Source. Also written as 101, 11 is also the number of the neophyte. Personified by “Neo” in The Matrix, it represents the beginning of a journey.
12
12 represents the dodecagram as a 12-pointed star. The 12/4 dodecagram is really like a rotating triangle. It indicates the complete energy system of the human body and the cosmos that we call LIFE. The dodecahedron is a Platonic solid with 12 pentagons as faces. It can help you to raise your frequency and to connect with higher dimensions. It’s the perfect tool for meditation.
13
This number signifies the Philosopher’s Stone that we call Metatron’s Cube. It also represents the chromatic scale, time and space. 13 also hints at the vector equilibrium, or the perfectly balanced state of consciousness that we call enlightenment. As part of the magic number sequence, 13 also appears in gold nanoclusters.
17
This is a sacred number referring to the Ankh and immortality. It is expressed in the overt and implied dimensions of the Sri Yantra. 17:12 is the circle/square harmonic that represents divine consciousness. 17 connects the enfolded and unfolded universes.
19
The Alpha and Omega—19 is made up of the first and last number and implies the life force commonly called magick. As the ninth prime, 19 is a centred triangular number, centred hexagonal number and octahedral number. 19 circles make up the Lotus of Life or the human biofield expressed in the Magickal Hexagon. As the letter S, 19 leads to sublimation. 19 in base-10 is 23 in base-8.
22
The master builder brings together the spiritual and the material. V is the 22nd letter of the alphabet. This pentagonal number implies the V tip of Excalibur, or the metaphysical sword penetrating into the stone of the physical world. This divine letter can be found in the V.I.T.R.I.O.L anagram and Crowley’s V.V.V.V.V initialism. The Universe is the 22nd card of the Major Arcana (including the Fool) and the last.
23
This number reminds us of the Royal Star of the Lion because on August 23 Regulus (as the High Heart of Leo) conjuncts the Sun. 23 is made up of three consecutive primes: 5, 7 and 11. This number also represents the union of the feminine (2) and masculine (3). Human sex cells have 23 chromosomes. In the octal system it is written as 238 which is a harmonic of the Alpha and Omega (1910).
33
This is the number of cubes in the Haüy construction of the rhombic dodecahedron and is therefore the number of transcendence. Named after the French priest and mineralogist René Just Haüy, 33 hints at the ultimate state.
37
This is the 13th prime number, a permutable prime with 73 (which is the 22nd prime number). 37 is the first irregular prime, the third unique prime and the third cuban prime of the form. It is also a centered hexagonal number, a star number and a centered dodecagonal number.
38
This number is the magickal constant and implies the union of psyche, spirit and soul—access to the heavenly realms.
42
This sphenic number represents the points on the surface of a cuboctahedron. This polyhedron is visually unusual because of the way it combines square and triangular symmetries. Like the hexagon, the cuboctahedron is radially equilateral. Among the Platonic and Archimedean solids, it is the only polyhedron with this characteristic. This indicates something deeper: the cuboctahedron is the dual of the rhombic dodecahedron. Implied therefore, is the universal soul. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything”.
51
The quintessential number! More than just a pentagonal number, a centred pentagonal number and a stella octangula number, meditating on 51 will take you all the way to salvation. 51 degrees is also the most common angle in the Sri Yantra and the pyramids. 51 is the product of the Fermat primes 3 and 17.
73
This is the 22nd prime number and remains a permutable prime with 37. It is a star number and the largest minimal primitive root in the first 100,000 primes. 73 is also an emirp, meaning that the reverse of 73 (37) is also a prime number. It is the smallest prime with a composite sum of digits in base 5 and a centered dodecagonal number.
88
This is the number of Thoth (Hermes). Mercury circles the Sun every 88 days. Because Mercury is closest to the solar disc, it has the smallest orbit of all the planets with an iron core and a rocky crust. As the closest deity to the Sun, Mercury is the divine herald that is associated with the throat chakra, the octahedron and the colour turquoise.
144
This Fibonacci number refers to the fundamental blueprint of the universe. The outer surface of the Isotropic Vector Matrix (IVM) is composed of 144 triangles. As the 3D Lotus of Life, it is the fundamental structure of the aether—the “ground state”. As a healing frequency, 144 Hz manifests the wholeness of the creator. 144 is a perfect square—the sum of its digits is a perfect square (9), the product of its digits is a perfect square (16) and its reverse is also a perfect square (441). The speed of light is 144,000 arc minutes per grid second, a harmonic of 144,000 cycles per second (144 Hz).
153
This narcissistic number sums to the cubes of its digits: 1³ + 5³ + 3³ = 153. As the 17th triangular number (sum of integers from 1 to 17) it appears in the Bible (John 21:11, the number of fish caught in a net), adding a religious mystique. In mathematics, it’s notable in the study of sums of digit powers and its self-referential nature gives it a quirky appeal.
231
This number signifies the triangle, octahedron and the heptadecagon. Not a prime, this number has eight factors: 1, 3, 7, 11, 21, 33, 77 and 231. It is a sphenic number, triangular number, doubly triangular number, rectangular number, hexagonal number, octahedral number, centered octahedral number and heptadecagonal number.
432
432 Hz remains a harmonic of the fundamental healing frequency (144 x 3). It is known as Verdi’s A—named after Giuseppe Verdi, the famous Italian composer. It makes sense that singing melodies at 432 Hz would make us feel more balanced because musically this frequency is easier to vocalise. Finally, the majority of instruments unearthed from ancient Egyptian and Greek sites were tuned to A at 432 Hz.
666
The Number of the Beast infers creation itself because carbon-12 has six protons, six neutrons and six elections. Carbon remains the common element to all known life and therefore represents manifestation or spirit taking flesh (original sin). 666 also infers the Tria Prima of the triple-alpha process where nuclear fusion creates carbon.
888
Classical scholars can’t agree if the Hebrew gematria was born from the Greek geōmetriā (geometry) or grammateia (grammar) but it’s likely that both had an influence. Either way, gematria assigned a numerical value to a word or phrase by reading it as a number or an alphanumerical cipher. Using the Ionic Numeral System, the number of IESOUS (Jesus) was 888. The name meant “healer” or “physician” or “saviour”. Geometrically, 888 referred to the transcendence of three nested octagrams.
5,040
This number is a factorial (7!) plus being a superior highly composite number, abundant number and a colossally abundant number. This “anti-prime” has 60 divisors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24, 28, 30, 35, 36, 40, 42, 45, 48, 56, 60, 63, 70, 72, 80, 84, 90, 105, 112, 120, 126, 140, 144, 168, 180, 210, 240, 252, 280, 315, 336, 360, 420, 504, 560, 630, 720, 840, 1008, 1260, 1680, 2520 and 5,040. Conversely, this number is also the sum of 42 consecutive primes: 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47 + 53 + 59 + 61 + 67 + 71 + 73 + 79 + 83 + 89 + 97 + 101 + 103 + 107 + 109 + 113 + 127 + 131 + 137 + 139 + 149 + 151 + 157 +163 + 167 + 173 + 179 + 181 + 191 + 193 + 197 + 199 + 211 + 223 + 227 + 229.
6,174
6,174 is known as Kaprekar’s constant after the Indian mathematician D. R. Kaprekar. Kaprekar’s algorithm will always reach its balance point, 6,174, in at most seven iterations. There are 9,990 four-digit numbers that are not repdigits—the location of Kaprekar’s constant among them is (6,174/9,990) or the reciprocal of the golden ratio.
Above: cuboctahedrons adorn the stairs at Nankunshen Temple
