( September 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Throughout its pages, the author attempts to demonstrate that the number five and the related quincunx pattern can be found throughout the arts, in design, and in nature – particularly botany. Numerology is prominent in Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 literary Discourse The Garden of Cyrus. 806−816) framed his experiments in an elaborate numerology based on the names of substances in the Arabic language. For example, Persian-Arab alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan (died c. Some alchemical theories were closely related to numerology. The 6th century philosopher and mystic Pythagoras believed that numbers carried sacred codes and were divinely inspired and created. Numerology, referred to as isopsephy, remained in use in conservative Greek Orthodox circles. In 325 AD, following the First Council of Nicaea, departures from the beliefs of the state church were classified as civil violations within the Roman Empire. declares "the king built the wall of Khorsabad 16,283 cubits long to correspond with the numerical value of his name." Rabbinic literature used gematria to interpret passages in the Hebrew Bible. An Assyrian inscription from the 8th century BC, commissioned by Sargon II. The practice of gematria, assigning numerical values to words and names and imputing those values with religious meaning, dates back to antiquity. For example, in his 1997 book Numerology: Or What Pythagoras Wrought ( Dudley 1997), mathematician Underwood Dudley uses the term to discuss practitioners of the Elliott wave principle of stock market analysis. The term numerologist can be used for those who place faith in numerical patterns and draw inferences from them, even if those people do not practice traditional numerology. It is often associated with the paranormal, alongside astrology and similar to divinatory arts.ĭespite the long history of numerological ideas, the word "numerology" is not recorded in English before c. When numerology is applied to a person's name, it is a form of onomancy. It is also the study of the numerical value, via an alphanumeric system, of the letters in words and names. Numerology (also known as arithmancy) is the belief in an occult, divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events. Numerorum mysteria (1591), a treatise on numerology by Pietro Bongo and his most influential work in Europe.
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