...sign of our times...
Upon being handed a journal as a gift, a nine year-old asks his mom what it was. The mom says that it was a notebook to record his thoughts and feelings, every day. The kid replies, "You mean, it is a blog...on paper." Reader's Digest, Oct 2008 issueNumerology - Edgar Cayce Reading
I came across this subject that has me a little miffed. But, read what Cayce had to say about it.
TEXT OF READING 5751-1
This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 27th day of March, 1931, in accordance with request made by Edgar Cayce himself.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce (EC); Gertrude Cayce (GC), Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:55 A. M. Eastern Standard Time.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of Edgar Cayce, present in this room, and the body’s desire to give information concerning Numerology to those who have been attending his talks from time to time. You will please outline such a talk.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, Edgar Cayce – this we have had before.
3. Now, as concerning an outline for information concerning or regarding numerology – many have approached the subject from various angles, and since there have been regular radio programs concerning same a great deal of speculation has been brought in the minds of many.
4. To approach the subject from the viewpoint as to make same worth while in the lives of individuals is the PURPOSE of this discourse.
5. Then, as there is the necessity then of looking at the matter from more of a statistical or scientific standpoint, then let each apply same according to the dictates of their individual conscience or developments.
6. As may be surmised from the fact that the ancients in all lands have and did place the interest in numbers, these indicate that individuals under different circumstances gave to numbers certain valuations, principally according to the INFLUENCES same were SUPPOSED to have upon the ritual or the form of individual worship in some manner or another. Hence we see that under varying circumstances there were attributed certain powers to certain numbers, according to the form or ritual of that individual group. As to whether these actually exist or not depended much upon the confidence or faith of the subjects in that ritual, that rite, that belief; yet when one looks about them they may see that in a scientific manner there are numbers that break or form combinations in nature itself, or that in man’s response to the conditions IN nature there are the recurrent conditions or circumstances in certain numbers. As we find in music, that the scale itself is composed of so many tones, tone values, and that those numbers that are half pitch or half tones are those that in most of the formulas given are the breaking points or divisions in numbers. The same may be seen in color combination, that when certain tones or the valuation of tone in color, that in the combination of certain numbers these begin to alter or change much in the same manner or way as they do in tones in music. The same may also be illustrated in the elements themselves, when there is the division of those elements these same numbers, same conditions, are seen in the elements in their variations themselves. Then, is it any WONDER that the ancients – or even the students of the mystic, or the mental or occult forces of today give credence or valuation to numerology, or numbers?
7. Then, what form, what force, has given the most perfect illustration of HOW numbers – either in individual life or individuals’ experiences in life – affect individuals; or the numbers themselves, and as individuals, or 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, OR what not – how do the NUMBERS THEMSELVES value? Possibly the best authority on such is that of the Talismanic, or that obtained from the Talmud – which is a combination of the ancient Persian or Chaldean, Egyptian, Indian, Indo-China, and such.
8. ONE is the beginning, to be sure. Before ONE is nothing. After ONE is nothing, if all be IN ONE – as ONE God, ONE Son, ONE Spirit. This, then, the ESSENCE of ALL force, ALL manners of energies. All activities EMANATE from the ONE.
9. TWO – the COMBINATION, and begins a division of the whole, or the One. While TWO makes for strength, it ALSO makes for weakness. This is ILLUSTRATED in that of your music, of your paintings, of your metals, of WHATEVER element we may consider!
10. THREE – again a combination of One and Two; this making for strength, making for – in division – that ability of Two AGAINST One, or One against Two. In THIS strength is seen, as in the Godhead, and is as a greater strength in the whole of combinations.
11. Again, in FOUR, we find that of a division – and while a beauty in strength, in the divisions also makes for the greater weakness – as may be illustrated as in the combinations seen in metal, or numbers, or music, or color.
12. FIVE – as seen, a change – as may be seen in a comparison of any of the forces outlined.
13. SIX – again makes for the BEAUTY and the symmetrical forces of ALL NUMBERS, making for strength;
14. As does SEVEN signify the SPIRITUAL forces, as are seen in all the ritualistic orders of any nature; as seen in the dividing up of conditions, whether they be of the forces in nature or those that react to the sensual forces of man in any character.
15. EIGHT – again showing that combination in strength, also a combination in weakness;
16. NINE making for the COMPLETENESS in numbers; yet showing not the strength as of Ten, nor yet the weakness as of Eight, yet making for that termination in the FORCES in natural ORDER of things that come as a change imminent in the life.
17. In TEN we have those of the completeness as of numbers, and a strength as is found in FEW; yet these are as a combination in the forces as are manifest.
18. In ELEVEN is again seen those of the BEAUTY of numbers, yet that weakness as was signified by those of the betrayal in the numbers.
19. TWELVE as a FINISHED product, as is given in all forces in nature; as was given in all forces as combined to those of the ritualistic forms, those of the mystic forces, those of the numbers as related to those of a combination; for as of the voices of TWELVE requiring Twenty to even drown same, or to overcome same. The same as may be seen in all of the forces in nature. TWELVE combined forces brought those strengths into the world as of [were] necessary for a replenishing of same.
20. Now, how may we apply same to our daily lives? How – or what is MY number? How do numbers affect me?
21. Numerology, or numbers, may be termed as one of the NON-essentials to those who feel or know that same cannot affect them, unless they allow same to affect them. Just so with any other force as in nature, will there be set within self that which is as to be combative against every other force THAT force may affect little or none at all, dependent upon the activities of that being guarded against or guarded with. So, in approaching or reaching the effect of numbers:
22. The period of the year – dependent, of course, upon that point reasoned from. The numbers, or the name – these give the significance to the numbers of the individual. These may be reached either by adding the numbers of the letters as signify the name, or the numbers as applied TO each individual letter IN the name. These will give the sum total of that which applies to the individual.
23. How do they affect the individual? It will be found that one, then, that is of a given number – from the name given – is under those influences that have been indicated by the influences of numbers in the forces, or among the forces, in nature itself. These may be reached by the various forces or various manners in which individuals have CLASSIFIED same.
24. In applying same, use them for the BENEFITS – and not for the destructive forces! We are through.