33Master number

No book in this collection from before 1931 treats 33 as a master number. Balliett's 1917 master numbers are 8, 9, 22 and 11, Taylor's 1926 pair is 11 and 22, and the nearest remark is Clement's in 1908, who says of a name totaling 33 that a 6 reached this way has a very high rate of vibration. Clement still calls it a 6.

Sepharial's 1911 list for name totals does have an entry for 33, in a table numbered singly up to 50 and by larger steps after that, and his three words are kind ones. Every compound number in that table simply gets its own line, so the idea of a master never comes up. As for the sum, September 22, 1991 reaches 33 both ways, through 9 + 22 + 2 and through adding each digit. Single digits can total only 27, so the reduce-first route needs a kept 11 or 22 along the way and the result is uncommon.

Popular books written since then describe 33 as a teacher and caregiver and often rank it highest among the master numbers, while some numerologists decline to count it and reduce it to 6. Those claims have no witness in the old texts. Readers who land here may want the 6 page as well, because that number has a documented past.