Expression number
22Master number
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
Dana Ames adds to 11 and 11, and the two parts make 22. In a name of two parts, the part-by-part method reaches 22 only when each part is 11. The all-at-once route needs a letter total of exactly 22, which is one reason the calculator shows both.
Taylor in 1926 counts 22 as the highest vibration and arrives at it by adding the Trinity, the seven planets and the twelve signs of the zodiac. The book reads it as inspiration made practical. Balliett in 1905 calls it 11 better adapted to the world and says its people are the greatest philanthropists of all the numbers.
Coffman in 1927 reduces it to 4 for ordinary purposes and keeps 22 only for deep spiritual subjects, and Sepharial's 1911 list assigns it chastisement and penalty. Cheasley in 1916 reduces every total to a single digit. Modern popular books read this Expression as a talent for large practical undertakings, which sits closest to Taylor.
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.
- 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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- 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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- Clifford W. Cheasley, What's in Your Name? (1916)
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