Numerology is prominent throughout Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 literary Discourse The Garden of Cyrus.

Numerology is a popular plot device in fiction.

Numerology is given great credence by many of the characters, with the Law of Fives in particular being frequently mentioned.

Numerology, as it relates to luck, is closer to an art than to a science, yet numerologists, astrologists or psychics may disagree.

Numerology is folkloric by nature and started when humans first learned to count.

The expression " the map is not the territory " first appeared in print in a paper that Alfred Korzybski gave at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1931: In Science and Sanity, Korzybski acknowledges his debt to mathematician Eric Temple Bell, whose epigram " the map is not the thing mapped " was published in Numerology.

Numerology heavily influenced Imperial Architecture, hence the use of nine in much of construction ( nine being the greatest single digit number ) and the reason why the Forbidden City in Beijing is said to have 9, 999. 9 rooms-just short of the mythical 10, 000 rooms in heaven.

Numerology had not found favor with the Christian authority of the day and was assigned to the field of unapproved beliefs along with astrology and other forms of divination and " magic ".

Numerology: The number game

* In Gematriya, the system of Hebrew Numerology, the number 28 corresponds to the word koakh, meaning " power ", " energy ".

# Numerology cannot be applied to numbers in the Bible when following the Biblical rules — some individuals have attempted to apply the concept to Camping's research.

Numerology and numerological divination by systems such as isopsephy were popular among early mathematicians, such as Pythagoras, but are no longer considered part of mathematics and are regarded as pseudomathematics or pseudoscience by modern scientists.

For example, in his 1997 book Numerology: Or What Pythagoras Wrought, mathematician Underwood Dudley uses the term to discuss practitioners of the Elliott wave principle of stock market analysis.

See Numerology and the Church Fathers for early Christian views.

Ruth A. Drayer's book, Numerology, The Power in Numbers ( Square One Publishers ) says that around the turn of the century ( from 1800 to 1900 A. D .) Mrs. L. Dow Balliett combined Pythagoras ' work with Biblical reference.

Then on Oct 23, 1972, Balliett's student, Dr. Juno Jordan, changed Numerology further and helped it to become the system known today under the title " Pythagorean ", although Pythagoras himself had nothing to do with the system.

The Unveiled Numerology – vol.

Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought.

* Drayer, R. A. ( 2002 ) Numerology, The Power in Numbers, A Right & Left Brain Approach.

* Numerology: by numbers.

* Kuei Ku-tzu, Inaugurator of Numerology and Geomancer.

More recently, the mathematician Underwood Dudley has written a series of books on mathematical cranks, including The Trisectors, Mathematical Cranks, and Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought.

That, at any rate, is what happens at the Khaju bridge.

The sequence of movements in a Cunningham dance is unlike any sequence to be seen in life.

The sequence is determined by chance, and Mr. Cunningham makes use of any one of several chance devices.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

it is a spectacle absolutely painful, an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by spirit, untouched by any spirit other than abasement and humiliation.

Piepsam is not, certainly, religious in any conventional sense.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

In this respect experience is broader and full of a richer variety of potential meanings than the mind of man or any of his arts or culture are capable of making clear and distinct.

It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.

The monitoring is the highest and most restrictive of any organization in existence.

That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

Hence, the only defensible procedure is to repress any and every notion, unless it gives evidence that it is perfectly safe.

Assuredly in our political campaigns there is freedom to think, to examine any and all issues, and to speak without restraint.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;