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9 x 6 = 54

" There exist not one, but three universal languages. The first of them can be spoken and written while remaining within the limits of ones' own language. The only difference is that when people speak in their ordinary language they do not understand one another but in this other language they do understand. In the second language, written language is the same for all peoples, like say figures or mathematical formulae; but people still speak their own language yet each of them understands the other even though the other speaks in an unknown language. The third language is the same for all both the written and the spoken. The difference of language disappears altogether on this level."

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"In western systems of occultism there is a method known by the name of 'theosophical addition', that is, the definition of numbers consisting of two or more digits by the sum of those digits. To people who do not understand the symbolism of numbers this method of synthesizing numbers seems to be absolutely arbitrary and to lead nowhere. But for a man who understands the unity of everything existing and who has the key to this unity the method of theosophical addition has a profound meaning, for it resolves all diversity into the fundamental laws which govern it and which are expressed in the numbers 1 to 10. As was mentioned earlier in symbology, as represented , numbers are connected with definate geometrical figures and are mutually complimentary one to another. In the Cabala a symbology of letters is also used and in combination with the symbology of letters a symbology of words.A combination of the four methods of symbolism by numbers, geometrical figures, letters and words, give a complicated but more perfect method."

Introduction.

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"Nunerology is the name given to an ancient method of study-ing numbers that has been in use for thousands of years."

"…The most popular form of numerology in use today is based on the work of Py-thagoras, the famous Greek mathematician and philosopher who lived during the sixth century bc."

"…It was Pythagoras belief that numbers were the first of all things in nature. It was his belief that numbers were the basis of everything, in the natural, spiritual and scientific world. He believed that everything could be reduced to mathematical terms and that everything had a numerical value. Through studying the world in numerical form, he sought to achieve greater understanding of the world he lived in. Pythagoras, who believed that numbers created order and beauty, founded a school for students to follow his philosophy, and this was known as the Italic or Pythagorean School."

Page 6 "…Pythagoras formulated the concept called the Music of the Spheres', based on the idea that all the planets in the universe formed a harmonious whole consisting of a mu-sical chorus. He discovered that there was a relationship between sound and numbers, and developed this discov-ery to form his metaphysical concept. He suggested that every planet was a certain distance from a central point in the universe and that if an invisible string connected each planet to the central point, when plucked the string would emit a certain tone or vibration. Each sound or vibration could be associated with a particular number. He also be-lieved that the sound or vibration of the universe dictated by the planets would have a strong influ-ence on the character of an individual born at that particu-lar time.

Numerologists believe that the numbers one to nine have specific characteristics , and these characteristics are the basis for the methods of analysis described in this book. The numbers one to nine are the only numbers that are / Page 7 / believed to be significant to numerology. All numbers greater than nine can be reduced to a single digit by the process of fadic addition, for example:

12 is reduced to 3 by adding 1 and 2; 49 is reduced to 4 by adding 4 and 9 which equals 13 and subsequently adding 1 and 3 to make 4."

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 The square of - three is a very potent male number, which plays an important part in the Yi-jing (the 'Book of Changes'). Thus, regarding the first hexagram: 'When only nines appear, this means: a troop of head-less - dragons appear. . . the whole sign qian (= the creative) is set in motion and turns into the sign kun (= the receptive)' (tr. Richard Wilhelm).

The ancient 'Book of Rites' (Li- ji) enumerates nine rites: 'Initiation ceremony of a male child, marriage, audience, embassies, burial, sacrifice, hospitality, ceremonial drinking, military traditions. In addition, we are told that these nine symbolise the five permutations of matter (- elements).

Expounding the principles of things, the earliest Chinese encyclo-paedia, the 'Spring and Autumn of Lii Bu-wei', says: '- Heaven has nine fields, - earth has nine regions, the country has nine - mountains, the mountains have nine passes, in the sea there are nine islands.' The mythical - Emperor Yu is said to have subdued the nine big rivers in the form of the nine-headed - dragon: he travelled over the nine provinces and measured them, i.e. he divided the earth into nine - square fields each of which he then further subdivided into nine smaller fields.

On the lines of the nine provinces, there arose in Han times the concept of the 'Nine Wells' (jiu quan) as a term denoting the realm of the dead (- hell). On the 9th day of the 9th month the feast of the 'double yang' was observed: men went up into the mountains and drank wine from - chrysanthemum flowers. Old Peking, which was built in keeping with astrological advice, has a holy of holies in the centre, and eight access avenues - i.e. nine parts.

Nine sheep (or goats) under the sign of the triple yang

This completed reference contains the words 'nine' x 17 . . . 'nines x 1' . . . '9' x 2 . . . 'eight' x 1. . . 'five' x 1 and three x 1