Playing with Numerology
In the Gibson's Complete Illustrated Book of the Psychic Sciences, there is a very fun chapter on numerology. It talks about how the names of things indicate their essential "vibration," and how that energetic effect is brought to bear on the nature of the named thing. I was playing with this today and found it pretty successful at describing what I tested. (Which is pretty weird.)
Here's one example. A bit over a decade ago, I started a small tech startup. It took a lot of hard work, but eventually we were quite successful, and I managed to sell the company last year just before the COVID panic broke the economy. In numerology, there are two important numbers associated with a thing: the date at which it was born, and the name by which it is known. I'll describe both of my company's numbers, below. (Apologies for omitting specifics, but I'd prefer to remain anonymous until my obligations to the acquiring company are complete.)
The date on which we first became known to the world reduces to the number 4. According to Gibson, "As a birth number, 4 stands for a steady, plodding nature, which always favors caution rather than risk. [...] Honesty and reliability are normal attributes with this birth number, but they hinge upon the satisfaction or security that the individual may gain from patience and perseverance." Our company's reputation was founded upon being easy-to-work-with, "low drama," and reliable. Indeed, we were the only company in our industry with these attributes—as it turns out, each of our major competitors had the cloak-and-dagger birth number of 7—and this was the driver of our success.
The name by which we were known reduces to the number 8. According to Gibson, "As a name number, 8 spells Success with dollar signs ($UCCE$$). People expect big results from a person whose name is tuned to this powerful vibration. [...] The weakness with this name number lies in [...] wasted efforts and indulgence in small things when large opportunities are available." As it happens, this was true on both sides: the company was notorious for failing to ship product, and yet we were financially successful despite ourselves. It is very likely we could have been two or three times as successful, had we not squandered so much effort!
I find these associations pretty interesting, and I wish I knew about them when I started the business: I might have picked numbers that were less serious and more fun! Still, I suppose exploring the occult aspects of it after-the-fact helps to make up for that, and I plan to play with numerology more as time goes on.
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You know, I'm really curious about the planetary associations of the numbers. Gibson assigns them as follows:
These seemed a little suspect to me. "Steadiness" and "Endurance" are not things I'd typically associate with Mercury!
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One mapping of the sefirot and planets:
1 and 2 are left out--I tend to associate them with the Demiurge and the Nous and/or Logos, but that's me.
3. Saturn: This could potentially gibe with the above, if we attribute to Saturnus the "expression" of spacetime.
4. Jupiter
5. Mars: Advantage...?
6. Sol: Harmony could conceivably be construed as dependability (?)
7. Venus: I could see an argument for the connection to "mystery"
8. Mercury: the association with wealth and success has potential here
9. Luna
10 does not fit into the pattern, but would fall to Terra--conceivably could make sense if we think in a cyclical manner, with one being a kind of reflection or refraction of 10. Reading his above associations, I could imagine an argument that those aspects fit, but...
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Walter Gibson, oddly enough, happens to be the creator the The Shadow. He also wrote widely on occult topics. (Actually, he wrote widely on lots of things. The man just couldn't stop writing.) I found a used copy of The Complete Illustrated Book of the Psychic Sciences and remembered that JMG had written about it, and figured I'd give it a go.
I am intensely curious where these associations came from. I have noticed that Manly P. Hall mentions the system in The Secret Teachings of All Ages:
He then goes on to describe the same method of numerological calculation that Gibson uses. So this system was in use at least a generation before Gibson wrote about it, but beyond that I have no ideas. It might be a worthy Magic Monday question.
In any case, it's a quiet Friday night, so let me take a few minutes paraphrase Gibson's description of the numbers and take a stab at the associations:
Still, this is just a guess based off of the things that Gibson says. I'd really love to trace this back to its roots to get a better sense of why the numbers are given the meanings they are...
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(He goes on with a few numbers above 10, but it's pretty clear that 1-10 are considered primary.)
It's clear that this is the source of at least some of these associations. It is interesting that Agrippa only explicitly assigns planets to 1 (Sol) and 5 (Mercury).
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