Birthday number
22
Reduced form: 22
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
The calculator holds 22 whole, as Balliett told her readers to do in 1905 and as Taylor did in 1926. Clement wrote 22, or 4, for George Washington, born on the 22nd of February 1732, and filed the day with the Fours: firm in opinion, steady in friendship, square in dealing. Coffman in 1927 reduced it for ordinary purposes and saved the full 22 for spiritual study.
The meanings disagree as well. Taylor called it the highest vibration, on the reasoning that the Trinity, seven planets and twelve signs add up to 22. Balliett said it was like 11 but better fitted to the world. Sepharial's list has chastisement, penalty and hurt, and Westcott simply counts the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the 22 trumps of the Tarot.
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.
- Mrs. L. Dow Balliett, How to Attain Success Through the Strength of Vibration: A System of Numbers as Taught by Pythagoras (1905)
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- Ariel Yvon Taylor, Numerology Made Plain: The Science of Names and Numbers and the Law of Vibration (1926)
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- 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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- C. J. Coffman, Manual of the Enumeration: A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration (Book One) (1927)
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- Sepharial, The Kabala of Numbers: A Handbook of Interpretation (1911)
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- W. Wynn Westcott, Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues (3rd ed., 1911; first published 1890)
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