The power of numbers
The belief in some form of the power of numbers or their ability to influence people and events is universally distributed in some form, and we find it present in every age.
It, generally called numerology, which can be translated as “science of numbers”, improperly as its basis has very little scientific , but it has many levels of expression, from the superstitious and superficial ones of the vulgar to the more occult ones of the esoteric branches of religions and of spiritual disciplines.
It is no coincidence that cabala and ghimatria are the basis of Judaism and Semitic religions in general, and that tantra is one of the foundations of Hinduism and dharmic religions. Often times divination practices of various kinds and even the same astrology and the use of tarot cards and runes are closely linked to numbers. Learn more about what is numerology.
From Pythagoras to Gematria
We could bother Pythagoras himself, who makes numbers the basis of reality, also attributing to them specific characters such as masculinity, femininity, union, perfection, etc.
“Numbers are the language offered by the gods to men to confirm the truth” is a maxim often referred to Pythagoras. In all ancient cultures, numerology has an alphanumeric value , from the Chaldean to the Chinese, passing through the Arab abjad. Get your numerology report.
Let's take the cabal for example. There are many types, but the two main branches are the Jewish, the Christian and the Hermetic. All three are based on ghematria , an alphanumeric system with which it is possible to attribute a value to each word and from these to trace a specific influence, as numbers are ultimately translated as vibrations .
Therefore, through ghematria, the interpretation of texts and names is no longer referred to their literal meaning but to their vibrational value.
From tantrism to grimace
Tantrism is also based on numerology Indian , not unlike the Semitic gematria of Chaldean origin.
Each letter corresponds to precise numbers and precise colors, because vibrations , when manifested as electromagnetic waves , are not only sounds but also colors.
This leads us very far, to a lost or buried knowledge that the ancients seem to have had and through which they not only interpreted the facts of the cosmos through the numbers they expressed, but came to have an influence on them. The so-called magic.
Above this ancient layer of occult knowledge have deposited those of popular beliefs , of the search for fortune through numbers hunting for numbers in dreams to play then the lotto and attention to the “signs” that the universe sends us daily that can be translated into numbers, often in order to play them or use them to accommodate practical matters.
