6

Six is the first perfect number in arithmetic: 1, 2 and 3 divide it and also add up to it. Whether Sepharial had that in mind for his 1911 list of name totals he does not say. Balliett in 1905 reads the idea through labor, giving 6 to people busily finishing a job and arranging a temple for others to use, and she insists they do it cheerfully.

Walton in 1914 sets 6 beside 2, both peaceable and kind, and gives 6 the wider range of art, philanthropy and intuition. Cheasley's 1916 list under Cosmic Adjustment is domestic, with home, friendship and hospitality, and he adds that this vibration will take up the care of pets when it has no people to look after. Westcott's Greek sources reach for grander language and call the number the form of form.

Modern popular numerology makes this the caretaker's number, concerned with family, community and a well-kept home. The same books caution against meddling and against care nobody requested. Cheasley's pets are a useful corrective, since his 6 seems to need only something to look after.