Birthday number
12
Reduced form: 3
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
One and two make 3 on the 12th. Abraham Lincoln, born on the 12th of February 1809, is Clement's example, and the book reads his 3 as social, talkative and fond of humanity, a 3 of the second degree. A reader might fairly suspect that the portrait of Lincoln came first and the number second.
Westcott gives twelve a long section of its own, tied to the zodiac and to a circle cut into twelve parts of thirty degrees. He also classes it as superabundant, because its divisors add to more than itself. Sepharial's list has the curious entry of a fortunate writing, a town or city, and Clement's musical table has F major.
Where this text comes from
Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here and are paraphrased unless quoted. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.
- Luo Clement, The Ancient Science of Numbers: The Practical Application of Its Principles in the Attainment of Health, Success, and Happiness (1908)
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- W. Wynn Westcott, Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues (3rd ed., 1911; first published 1890)
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- Sepharial, The Kabala of Numbers: A Handbook of Interpretation (1911)
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