Agrippa also emphasized the powers inherent in numbers and even prescribed certain numbers as tools in banishing evil, promoting healing, and summoning benign spirits. In addition to the teachings of Pythagoras, Cornelius Agrippa's (1486 –1535) work Occult Philosophy (1533) quite likely furnished the basis for much of the belief in numerology practiced in the Western world. For example, five stood for fire six, earth eight, air twelve, water. Pythagoreans also used numbers to represent various planets and elements. Four, symbolizing balance, was considered by Pythagoreans as their most holy and sacred number, and their most solemn oaths were sworn on four. Two represented the duality of good and evil and stood for the devil. For those who followed the teachings of Pythagoras, the number one symbolized unity and therefore the Creator-God. According to his doctrines, numbers contained within them the essence of all that is in the natural and the spiritual worlds. 500 b.c.e.), the great Greek mathematician and mystic, proclaimed that the very world is built upon the magical power of numbers.
On the contrary, numerology is among the oldest of the psychic sciences, and numerological divination and number charms are found in India, Greece, Egypt, China, and Europe. This essence then vibrates through the single digit.īecause numerology became popular among New Age diviners in the 1970s, many people who have been introduced to the technique for the first time believe that it is of recent origin. These single numbers are derived from the simplification of all combinations of numbers to their basic essence. All that humans are capable of experiencing can be reduced to the digits one through nine. According to numerologists, each number possesses a certain power that exists in the occult connection between the relations of things and the principles in nature which they express.
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