Number

Number, Symbols and Sacred Geometry

Geometry IS Sound IS Number.

Words carry sound. Sound has inherent geometry. Geometry relates to number. Hence the ancient art of numerology.

What we say, that is, the sounds that we utter, have an inherent geometry which has effect upon the world we live in.

What we say has a vibrational frequency.

What we think has a vibrational frequency.

What we say and what we think have impact upon what becomes real in the world, especially if many people say and think the same things!

Hans Jenny experimented with sound played into white sand on a black surface and discovered that the vibration of the sound caused the sand to take up geometric patterning. The image on the right is of the sound of the vowel A. Images courtesy of www.mysticalsun.com Note the six sided form.

Number is Symbolic!

To understand number, we need to move out of our comfort zone that takes number for granted and ask, "How or why does number exist at all?" Number arises simply because time and space exist.

Space is measurable only because there is solid matter.

Imagine absolutely nothing in existence at all, just emptiness. What reason would there be to count?

But when there is solid matter occupying space, we can say that if the distance from one particular spot to another is counted as one, then from one particular spot to another which is double that distance, will be able to be counted as two and so on.

In the bigger picture, the movement of the solid bodies of sun and earth and moon, in relation to each other, is what we understand as time, and it is counted as whole cycles or parts of whole cycles, years, seasons, months, weeks, days.

If we look at number through the eyes of our ancient Earth ancestors, and their sacred symbols, number can be seen to have a developmental cycle from 0 to 9

If we accept that there is a progressive cycle from 0 to 9 existing in the Universe as a natural process, we are able to see that there are clues in the symbols and their relationship to number that tell us about how the process of Creation happens.

To do this, we must be able to release the conditioning and thinking of our current science that tells us that a Big Bang means that because there has been a physical `beginning' to our Universe, that there was a point when time as we experience it, began. Our Universe is giving birth to new bodies every Earth day. And it is taking bodies out of existence every Earth day.

Can we think big enough to think beyond our apparent Universe?

What if Creation operates through continuous cycles of Big Bangs and Black Holes? (Active and receptive forces, Creator at play, breathing energy/matter out and breathing it in eternally).

What if Creation always exists, and is an infinite pulsing body, and if Big Bang is its regular heartbeat?

To think in terms of cycles, we also must be able to release the mindset that has persisted from Darwinian theory that everything evolves in a linear fashion from something inferior to something superior.

Rather, we might consider that everything in Creation simply operates in cycles of experience. Evolution may be only an apparent effect at a certain stage of a cycle.

Degeneration and the fall of civilisations is an undeniable fact in our recorded history. The obvious pattern is that everything cycles, beginning with some new lifeform or idea, lives for a period of time experiencing that form or idea, and then gradually degenerates, passing away to allow some new lifeform or experience to emerge.

The cycle from 0 to 9 is a process that can be understood at the level of the macrocosm as the cycle of Creation that occurs in a continuously manifesting Universe. In the microcosm, it may be understood in one form as the cycle that occurs in human relationships with resultant learning and development of conscious awareness.

Inspired by the possibility that the geometric symbols of the pentagram and hexagram offered a representation of the process of Creation and that these forms in turn were symbolised by the numbers 5 and 6, I went looking for the ancient geometric symbols that might equate symbolically with the numbers for the complete cycle of integers (single numerical digits), from 0 to 9. I was also looking for confirmation of the concepts that I had been developing based on the four prime forces and the simple understanding of active and receptive forces.

I didn't have to look far. I found them in the ancient astrological symbols, in the symbols of indigenous peoples, in religious symbols from diverse cultures. I found symbols repeated from culture to culture, from Christian to Muslim to Mayan. I found that the quadrated circle and the symbol of concentric circles, or circle with a dot in the center seemed to be archetypal to the human experience. I even found a fairly similar process of thinking about number, symbols and geometry in Sufi religious philosophy to the cycle that I was proposing.

Of course it's all been done before. I was looking for a repetitive pattern that would reveal itself in cyclical processes here on Earth, or as the saying goes, "as above, so below", or in mathematical terms, a fractal pattern. The following is the Creation cycle that emerged from my thinking.

The Esoteric Meaning of Number

Number and symbols with their inherent geometry may be understood in the following way:

0. Zero. Symbol for nothing. The Nothing from which everything comes. The Void. The Dreaming Mind. All Power. Om-ni-potence ( infinite in power and possibility ). Om-niscience (all Knowing).

The potential for something new to emerge.

The quiet space in life where nothing much is happening.

1. One. Symbol for the Sun. The All that IS. Everything in existence. Everything is One.

The initiation of something new in reality. A beginning. An expansion. Leadership.

Something or someone new comes into your life. The seed of something new emerges in the conscious mind, seeking development.

2. Two. Chinese yin-yang symbol of complementary energies. The active and receptive forces. The breathing out into existence and the withdrawal from existence, eternally.

One-to-one relationship. Complementing or conflicting. Fragmentation. Differentiation. Potential for union, or re-union. Attraction. Repulsion. Polarity. Apparent duality. Anima and animus.

You have experiences of difference, perhaps even conflict with another or inside yourself, confusion. You may be presented with seemingly different options or situations of contrasting experiences.

3. Three. Symbol for the Holy Trinity, in Eastern religion. The Trinity of the Dreaming Mind, the Feminine Principle and the Masculine Principle, eternally bonded by Love.

Relating to groups as a whole. Social bonding. Belonging.

You reach out for a broader understanding of your situation or experience by seeking the knowledge or help of others. If there is conflict, it may affect others. Maybe people take sides.

4. Four. Major traditional symbol for religions all over the Earth throughout human history. Symbol for Earth. Origin of the Crucifix symbol in Western culture. Basic from of many existing religious symbols e.g. the Celtic Cross. The Four Prime Forces: receptive and active of the Feminine Principle and active and receptive of the Masculine Principle.

The belief system of a culture. The foundation upon which something is built. The framework of thinking.

You weigh up what you know in your own experience and that of others. You might listen to other people who argue about the issues and put forward their opinions.

5. Five. Symbol for magical or Divine manifestation, particularly in Western theosophy. The Dreaming. Creator at play. The Superior Imagination. The Dreaming Mind of the Creator acting in, through and with The Four Prime Forces as the embodiment of the Creator at play.

Creativity. Change. Chance. Chaos. Ideas. Inspiration. Opportunity to make a change in the belief system.

You have an inspiration or a creative resolution. Maybe someone suggests a different way of thinking about the issue, with a bright idea that allows you to think bigger, go beyond yourself.

6. Six. Symbol of the Jewish religion. The manifestation. The Universe. The solid reality. The body of the Dreaming Mind.

Stability. Stasis. Order. Harmony. Balance. Conservation. Integration of the change in the belief system.

You try out the new idea and experience a different response.

7. Seven. Ancient Flower of Life symbol, known to the ancients, possibly pre-Egyptian. Rest and Reflection. Know Thyself!

Personal evaluation. Reflection. Wisdom. Stillness. Peace.

You reflect upon and see the benefit that comes from the change.

8. Eight. Symbol of the Caduceus, symbol of healing in traditional Western medicine. Symbol of the Kundalini energy in Eastern religion. Power within the manifestation.

Personal effectiveness. Influence. Ability to manifest change, make change really happen.

Change continues to happen in your life because you hold a different view. You may no longer be limited in doing something meaningful.

9. Nine. Symbol of resurrection on Pyramid tomb wall in Egypt. Completion.

Completion of a cycle. Rounding off. Opportunity to change direction. Possibility of lift in consciousness (turn ninety degrees, Love with a big L). Or repeat learning cycle (go back to 0) if unable to accept the change that offered itself in the five.

Life settles down with a feeling of something being completed.

If you haven't been able to go with the flow of change, it's most likely the same lesson will be repeated, either with the same people, or with different people, but same thing happening. (Oh no! Not again!).

10. Ten. (One and zero). The ten-pointed star of Sufi religion. The mirrored pentagram. The All and the Nothing.

At one with the flow of life. Accepting life as it is and people as they are. Surrender to the Dreaming of the Divine Mind.

At a certain stage of development of spiritual consciousness on the human journey, the cycles of growth move into the ten after a life lesson that has been absorbed and fully developed. You find yourself more accepting of the ebb and flow of life, and more tolerant of others.

11. Eleven. (One and one). The letter M in the Western alphabet. Temple entrance in Eastern and Western religions.Pillars of the Temple. The re-union of the Feminine and Masculine Principle as Love. Divine Marriage. Holy Grail. Rapture / Esctacy / Bliss / Love / Kundalini / Spiritual Emergence / Soul Integration

Integration of seeming opposites within a larger whole. Alchemy. Harmony between anima and animus within (feminine and masculine aspects of self).

Self realisation.

This stage follows the ten, and is what has been understood as alchemy or the `Holy Grail' of human development. It is a stage where a fully developed aspect of the anima or feminine aspect of self integrates with a fully developed animus or masculine aspect of self. It is a state of harmonious integration within the psyche.

Numerology

The above interpretation of number may be applied in the art of numerology. Number values are as follows:

1	a	j	s
2	b	k	t
3	c	l	u
4	d	m	v
5	e	n	w
6	f	o	x
7	g	p	y
8	h	q	z
9	i	r

The letters a, j, and s all have the numerical value of 1. The letters b, k and t all have the numerical value of 2. And so on. Geometry is inherent within sound. Words bear numerical values. The letter values are added and reduced to a single digit, through a process of addition. For example:-

5 6 4 1 5

w o m a n

5+6+4+1+5 = 21 (add the digits 2 + 1) = 3 The numerical value for `woman' is 3. When we look at the interpretation of the esoteric meaning of three, we see that it equates with the wider group, the social bonding and belonging.

The numerical value for `man' is 4+1+5 = 10 = 1. The esoteric interpretation of one is initiation, leadership and outward extension.

Now have a look at the name of the place where you are living and understand something of its archetypal energy and how this might be influencing your life.

For example:

N o r t h c o t e in the city of M e l b o u r n e

5 6 9 2 8 3 6 2 5 4 5 3 2 6 3 9 5 5

46 / 10 / 1 42 / 6

The suburb Northcote is a One in the city of Melbourne which is a Six. You would expect to see new and innovative ideas in Northcote, in a city environment of conservatism and stability.

This is certainly the case.

Take a look at the letters of your name. And also reduce your birthdate to a single digit and use the above esoteric reading to reflect upon the moment of destiny chosen for your entry to the Earth experience.

For example the birthdate 4th March, 1970 is 04 / 03/ 1970 which reduces to 24, which reduces to 6, an experience of relating to maintaining things in their current form of balance, or seeking to create balanced stability. It can also move into stasis, even stagnation.

Sound has Meaning! Every word that we utter reverberates with meaning upon the chi of Universal energy!

From the text of "The Bud of Compassion: The Story of Love and Hope":

"The point of this whole collective journey of humanity seems to be to discover how it all works, put this together with why it works this way, and then flow with it, to not play God and try to control or manipulate it, or mis-use it, or have power over it, but to let God play us!"

The text of "The Bud of Compassion: The Story of Love and Hope" looks deeper into the cycle of numbers as they reveal the process of Sacred Geometry in Creation, and how this is reflected in the cycles of learning that happen in human relationships in our everyday lives. Visit Shop Shelf and Services for information about this text on CD-ROM.

Here's a great riddle for those who really love to play with puzzles! Does Creation move from the pentagram to the hexagram in the process of manifesting solid matter, and if so how and why?

To explore another website that looks at number, you might like to try the following site:

www.astramate.com/insights.htm A beautiful site that explores the relationship between numbers, vibrational frequency and form. Check out the Lord's Prayer translation from the Aramaic while you are there! Words mean so much!