Expression number
11Master number
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
Anna Rossi reaches 11 because the sum is allowed to stop there: Anna adds to 12 and reduces to 3, Rossi adds to 26 and reduces to 8, and 3 plus 8 makes 11. The calculator leaves that whole. Cheasley in 1916 and Walton in 1914 would reduce it to 2, and Coffman in 1927 keeps it only when the subject is plainly spiritual.
Taylor in 1926 is the firmest believer here, calling 11 in a name the sign of an old soul and naming lecturers, writers and teachers as its natural work. Balliett in 1905 says a person with this key-note can never be properly labeled and stays a little apart even in company. Taylor also describes a negative form, impractical and short on self-esteem.
Sepharial's 1911 list gives discord, offense and deceit for the same figure, and Westcott in 1911 records a bad reputation for eleven across many peoples. Modern popular books pick up only the high reading. An Expression of 11, as they present it, means a talent for inspiring others, and the older dispute rarely gets a mention.
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.
- Clifford W. Cheasley, What's in Your Name? (1916)
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- Dr. Roy Page Walton, Names, Dates, and Numbers: What They Mean to You (1914)
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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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- Ariel Yvon Taylor, Numerology Made Plain: The Science of Names and Numbers and the Law of Vibration (1926)
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- 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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- 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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