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:

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.

One represents creation—genesis.

The first feminine number represents 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.

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).

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.

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^-1which is a reference to consciousness itself.

This is the perfect number. Six implies the hexagon, whose side length is equal to the radius of the circle that it circumscribes. The hexagon represents creation or the archetype of the Soul of the World. Once spelled SEX, this octahedral number has a connection to the Flower 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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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 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.

This number signifies death and rebirth—transformation. 13 is a symbol of change, and can represent a move into a more balanced state of consciousness. Isis, Seshat and Heket are associated with this number. 13 is a Fibonacci number and a prime.

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.

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 Flower 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.

V is the 22^nd letter of the alphabet. This pentagonal number implies the word “veracity” or the truth of Ma’at. The V shape is the tip of Excalibur, or the spiritual sword penetrating into the stone of the material 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 22^ndcard of the Major Arcana (including the Fool) and the last.

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—a reference to the Tria Prima within the human body and the cosmos. 23 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 23₈which is a harmonic of the Alpha and Omega (19₁₀).

There are 26 faces of the rhombicuboctahedron. Hidden within are nested octagrams. It is also the atomic number of iron and the number of spacetime dimensions in bosonic string theory. Here we are reminded of Giza, which is the stereographic projection of a rhombicuboctahedron. 26 is a repdigit in base three (222₃) and in base 12 (22₁₂).

This is the number of cubes in the Haüy construction of the rhombic dodecahedron and is therefore the number of illumination. Named after the French priest and mineralogist René Just Haüy, 33 hints at the penultimate state.

This is the 13^th prime number, a permutable prime with 73 (which is the 22^nd 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.

This number is the magickal constant and implies the union of psyche, spirit and soul—access to the heavenly realms.

This pronic number implies the rectangle within the vesica pisces—enlightenment. This acceptance of heaven is a cosmic rebirth. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is given as

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.

This is the 22^nd 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.

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 means “God as man” or “man as God”. As a healing frequency, 144 Hz manifests the wholeness of the creator in all aspects of our being. 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 square symbol represents structure, balance and logic—the laws of nature that exist in the physical realm and how they give us a sense of predictability and security. The speed of light is 144,000 arc minutes per grid second, a harmonic of 144,000 cycles per second (144 Hz).

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”. 888 also refers to illumination which features 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 golden ratio.