Soul Urge number
22Master number
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
Leo Foster has 11 in each name, E and O in Leo and O and E in Foster, and the two make 22. A name has to be fairly rich in the heavier vowels for the sum to stop here.
Taylor in 1926 reads 22 as a link between the spiritual and the material, and names reversion to 4 as the way it falls short, a lazy and selfish turn by that account. Balliett in 1905 calls it the number that clothes the truths of 11 in more acceptable language.
Coffman in 1927 notes that Lord, Master and Mind each add to 22, and he reduces the number to 4 for everyday subjects. Sepharial's 1911 list gives it penalty and hurt. Modern popular books read a Soul Urge of 22 as a private wish to build something lasting for many people, a reading that goes beyond Taylor's remarks on large enterprises.
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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