Numerology
Numerology (known before the 20th century as arithmancy) is the belief in an occult, divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events. The term numerologist can be used for those who place faith in numerical patterns and draw inferences from them.
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Quotes
[edit]- Three is the number of those who do holy work;
Two is the number of those who do lover's work;
One is the number of those who do perfect evil
Or perfect good.- Notes of an unknown monk of the fictional Order of St. Oco, in Abarat by Clive Barker
- Sol Robeson: This is insanity, Max.
Max Cohen: Or maybe it's genius! I have to get that number.
Sol Robeson: Hold on! You have to slow down. You're losing it. You have to take a breath. Listen to yourself. You're connecting a computer bug I had with a computer bug you might have had and some religious hogwash. If you want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere: 216 steps from your street corner to your front door, 216 seconds you spend riding in the elevator. When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere: 320, 450, 22, whatever. You've chosen 216, and you will find it everywhere in nature. But Max, as soon as you discard scientific rigor, you are no longer a mathematician—you're a numerologist.
- Let's take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 × 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all subsequent numbers progressively and then inversely.
- Michael Ben Zehabe: The Meaning of Hebrew Letters. CreateSpace (2011). ISBN 1-4635-9348-1.
