The philosophy of numbers; their tone and colors

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Index

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Your First Birth 9

Eventful Births 15

If We Have Individual Colors, When and How Did We

First Receive .Them ? 21

The Use of Birth Vibrations 25

The Meaning of Colors as Disclosed Through Vibration

of Numbers as Taught by Pythagoras 28

Exercises to Develop Your Own Vibration or Birth

Digit — The First Trinity 32

Exercises — Continued 37

Exercises — Continued — Free Numbers 42

Your Name — Its Color and Sound 46

Reading Individual Name Vibrations — The First

Trinity 49

What Have I Been Doing in the Past? 79

How Does the Balliett System of Numbers Adjust

Itself to Other Languages? 81

The Music of the Trees 82

Of What Practical Use Are Colors and Notes? 85

The Spiritual Birthday 89

Colors and Their Individual Meaning 95

To Find the Controlling Color in Your Number 96

John Wanamakers Color Scheme 99

How to Find Your Life Song 100

Complete Life Song With Esoteric Key-note 102

The Esoteric Value Qf Numbers 104

Money — Its Vibration 106

The Esoteric Value of Gems 107

Furnishing Rooms in Their Own Colors 110

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INDEX VU

PAGE The Colors and the Possibilities of the States and the

Character of the People They Attract 113

States That Vibrate 1 — Idaho, Michigan, Rhode Island, Connecticut, District of Columbia, North Dakota,

Indian Territory 115 to 118

The State That Vibrates 2 — Nevada 119

States That Vibrate 3 — Iowa, New York, South Carolina, West Virginia, New Mexico, Arizona. .120 to 123 States That Vibrate 4 — Alabama, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Washington, Oklahoma 124 to 126

The 5 Vibration — Utah 127

States That Vibrate 6 — Delaware, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, Texas, Maine 128 to 130

States That Vibrate 7 — California, Dakota, Maryland,

New Jersey, Tennessee, Wyoming 131 to 135

States That Vibrate 8 — Georgia, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Ve-mont, Virginia, Wisconsin ..136 to 139

States That Vibrate 9 — Alaska, Illinois 140 to 141

States That Vibrate 11 — Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, Colorado...

Our Island Possessions 149

To Find the Character of Different Parts of Cities or

States 152

Preface

This book has been written in response to the requests of those who are interested in the study of Number Vibration. They came from all parts of the world asking for more of the simplified knowledge founded upon the one principle of Unity — that all things have but one source — and express in different forms the unity of the whole. The hidden strength or weakness of names, states, etc., as shown by the vowels, have been evolved through the philosophy of numbers. From this source many unwritten laws can be made plain.

With greetings,

THE AUTHOR.

CHAPTER I Your First Birth

WHOEVER realizes himself as an individual part of this great universe, moved from cradle to grave by seen and unseen forces, no doubt has pondered upon at least two vital questions, — Why am I here? Why must I fill a place in life which appears so crowded with mistakes?

You know there must be a first cause for the individuality you are expressing. You know you are a soul in a body walking the earth and holding communication with like beings of limited memories.

The Bible teaches us that at the end of the seventh period Creation ceased. If this be true, where have you been during this long dim past between Creation's dawn and the present time? The place is of minor importance in comparison with what you have been doing since God sent out your soul as a ray of the Divine, holding within its vibration the ideal of becoming a perfect character.

In the course of ages Christ came to show us what a perfect character should be, and every conscious atom holds in latency the desire to become perio the: philosophy of numbers

feet. To reach this state of perfection it is necessary to battle sturdily with the earth currents and to go through experiences of all kinds, until the man becomes a perfectly rounded and developed individual.

It is of little importance what kind of bodies your soul formed for itself when crossing the different spans of life, for its de:ire was always to grow into a perfect whole; which means a perfect embodiment, a perfect soul, and when perfect, the Spirit acknowledges it as being one with God.

Earth life may be likened to a child who is sent to a store for a loaf of bread, sugar and flour. He comes back bringing the bread but having forgotten the flour and sugar. He must return again and again to some state until he completes his whole errand successfully.

Some souls are laggards and are slow in doing the work their higher part chose for them, when they were freed from earth's dust. At this time they knew with the sure knowledge of the Spirit. As the ideal within the soul is always to grow into a perfect character, the place was chosen on the physical plane best suited to advance the soul in the lessons most needed.

When the individual, after coming to earth, yields to the lower earth currents and is not living at his highest, a constant and pervading feeling of unrest is ever present with him, until at last turning within, he ' finds in his higher self the true source of peace and

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happiness. When the higher £e'f is recognized all the harmonies emerge. This self holds all the secrets of the past, the present and the future. When we live as we will some time live, when we know the physical and the spiritual law as one, then will we cease to grope blindly, for our path will be illumined from the light within.

When the conscious soul decides upon an earth life, with the eye of the Spirit it chooses that vibration in which to cross the span of life which holds the experiences it wishes to meet and overcome. The Divine stores the strength of its victories in its soul forces, and these we term strength of character or soul growth. Only those acts which have in some way benefitted humanity will find a place in the vibration of the soul, for it will accept only the good and true. Thus a human life may appear to be a failure and yet the soul will crown it for the growth it has made.

When a soul decides again to enter upon another work day of life in which to amend some weakness of character, it takes upon itself a mystical substance called the tody with which to struggle with earth's vibrations. If in any incarnation the individual refuses to let the soul guide him, he makes but little progress, and like the child who did not do his errand well, he returns to his home having gained but little of that which he came to seek; not having made strong vibrations nor gained strength of character.

Unlike the body the soul will not masquerade and will express only the truth, so that when coming to this world it will be known by its own vibration which represents the moral strength it has earned in the past. It seeks parents and is born under natural law, holding positions in life from which it wishes to learn some needed lesson. Upon some one point the parent and child must vibrate together. This must be true or there would be no point of attraction between them. The child's soul seeks the soul love of the parent, the soul of the parent seeks the soul love of the child. There may be an antagonism upon the physical plane, but the higher self has called them together.

The most important point for the child is the time it comes to earth. As it comes of its own accord it chooses the place it needs either to gratify its ambition or to work in a limited sphere.

Your soul or higher self chose the position in life you are filling or should fill, and there is no vibration or number a soul can choose that is not sufficient for true happiness. Each vibration must be filled acceptably or you will return until you have successfully done your errand.

You selected your time of birth when certain constellations or planets were sending forth their own colors, so you selected your own colors through which to make the journey of life and were born in month, day and year in which the color you desired was in

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the atmosphere. The first objective breath you drew was filled with your own color and their force, and this color should surround you through life. When all its secrets have been revealed to you it will express itself in vibration of name, thus telling of a journey made in the past — a cycle earned. The child holds within its soul the knowledge of its past experiences and when a babe it has almost the same strength of soul as a grown man.

Not until the Trinity of Body, Soul and Spirit are attuned to earth life can the being fully realize what life holds. The more perfectly an embodiment is adjusted to the earth vibration, the more successfully can it do the work of its higher self.

When a name is to be given to a child it must vibrate to the exact soul growth attained. The soul will not masquerade. The intellect may desire to advance itself, but not until a growth is gained will the soul allow the statement to be made. Thousands of names bear almost the same vibration as a whole, yet have different forms such as John and Sarah, both of which vibrate to 2, yet one denotes a man and the other a woman, and the vowels are different. So a child's soul arises at the approach of baptism and silently influences its parents and guardians to a name expressing the vibration of the growth of its higher self. This accounts for the many changes of name even at the altar rail. The name shows the past

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growth of the individual and by carefully studying the number vibration you can catch glimpses of the struggles and victories of the past ages. By studying the birth number vibration of present life you can see what the individual wishes to gain in this incarnation. When he succeeds either consciously or unconsciously he will change his name in some way to show the strength of character gained in this life. Some have come to work to win ; others to repair weak points, to do over work improperly done in the past.

If we believed the soul had its beginning in this present body we would have to believe in its end. We are one with the Divine, have lived always and will live forever. This theory explains many things otherwise inexplicable. One man rides in a rubber-tired coach with footmen sitting behind with folded arms, showing submission to his fellow man; another with black skin bears the burden of his race, while beside him walks one with the bearing and power of a king. All these are but souls seeking growth in every phase of life, through every aspect of experience.

CHAPTER II Eventful Births

WHEN the individual has successfully passed the limited vibrations — those under 8 — and has entered the free vibrations (8, 9, 22, 11), his journeys through the events of earth are nearing an end. After this he usually comes as a helper to those who are bearing strong numbers. These people are far stronger than they appear. They are probably using only a part of their force, that part which i« missionary. When we go to the South we take with ur only light clothing. So men generally, as they walk rl:e earth, appear very different from what they really ar^. Bodies are prone to masquerade, so we must look deep!; into the soul to find of what the individual is capable and what he can overcome. By our own intellectual power we understand things in this world as great or small, but in the Spirit world there is no great neither is there small. So when men see great souls doing trifling work they sigh in pity and say, "A wasted life." The pity is that they cannot understand. These great souls may be doing the necessary work to perfect the harmony of their vibral6 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS

tion. You will find many advanced souls working in a limited vibration shown in their birth number ; some make many mistakes, but try again and again to do that which is needed.

People who come to work and win usually have higher vibration of birth number than name number. This shows weakness in past growth, but the present active race, if won by the highest the individual knows, will gain for him strong free vibrations which will express themselves in name number.

In incarnating, a soul may seek a vibration that will draw to itself wealth ; if this vibration is successfully met, in another life he may seek poverty, for in this way the soul learns its lessons. If in that environment of wealth it found the treasure it sought in a life of luxury, the memory of wealth clings to the soul ; but if it was blinded by earth currents and was not a good guardian, it will always feel the pangs of poverty until it is strong enough to win that in which it failed in the past. After it has once succeeded, the fear of poverty is evermore removed; money and its rewards come in unexpected ways. Every victory won is stored up as character and shows in a strong vibration that is expressed to the world as a name When a man shows a lack of strength, it does not mean the bearer cannot win. This present life may be the starting point for a great victory. One may live at the highest of a weak vibration and win all it

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holds, and will contain enough to satisfy any one who does his best. Before this life is finished, his acts will make strong vibrations that will show in a changed name. No one will change or rearrange his name who has not earned a higher new vibration. He will have no desire to do so. The soul is honest and will not deceive. The intellect may spasmodically try to do so, but the world will not recognize it, and the individual self will not hold it. But when it is once earned it will be recognized by the world and the individual holds to it as his own. We sometimes wonder why a man in bank and elsewhere signs his name John W. Smith when formerly he was known as J. Walker Smith. This man had outgrown his old environment and his higher self caused some circumstance to so affect him that he showed the strength of character he had gained by a changed name.

Pythagoras said the Heavens and Earth vibrate to the single numbers or digits of numbers. Each single number from I to 9 are digits.

To find your own numbers divide the alphabet into nine parts, thus : —

123456789 abed e fghi j k 1 m n o p q r s tuvwxyz l8 THE PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS

Take for example the name of Henry Elder. H is found to vibrate to 8

-rt (t it (< a it -

■vr tt tt tt tt tt ^

■p tt tt tt tt tt f>.

■\r it a it te tt ^

34 Add these numbers to find the digit of Henry, 3

7 is the digit of Henry.

E vibrates to 5

26 Add these numbers to find the digit, 2 of Elder, which is 8.

The digit of Henry is 7 The digit of Elder is 8

15 Add to find the digit of full name 1 + 5 = 6.

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6 is the name vibration of Henry Elder. 'He was born January 17, 1872.

January is month 1.

Day 17; digit of day is 8.

Add together month, day and year to find birth number and we have 1 + 8 + 9= 18 = 9.

We find the name vibration of Henry Elder is 6 and his keynote or birth vibration is 9. By the foregoing table of values taken from Balliett's "Success Through Vibration" we find his birth vibration is higher than his name vibration, which shows he came to earth this time to work and win in the higher walks of life. His life may be full of failures, but he may be gaining strength through these very failures. From this same key in the same manner as you found the name and birth vibrations of Henry Elder, find everything in the seen and unseen world.

The numbers vibrate in value as follows :

1 22 9

2 8

3 7

4 6

The first three numbers 1, 2, 3, compose the

sacred cycle of creation, assimilation and expression.

They also denote the action of the mind found in impression, re-impression and expression. When this trinity of numbers is found in digit or single name or birth vibration it shows the power of harmonious expression.

The cube is formed of the numbers 4, 5, 6, 7. These are the vibrations that seem limited in action, and yet each contains enough success for the happiness of any one bearing it if he seeks the highest of his vibrations.

The unlimited numbers of freedom are 8, 9, II | to these is added 22, which is closely related to 11.

Pythagoras considers 1 and 22 as numbers possessing a mystical character, as they are the beginning and the end of the Hebrew alphabet. 11 being the highest point of its vibration, 22 possesses the character of 2 with added strength and freedom.

Find musical key by birth vibration.

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8 9 22 expresses the full octave of d 11 expresses the full octave of c

Chapter III

If We Have Individual Colors, When and How- Did We First Receive Them ?

WE all feel that certain colors exert more influence over us than others. For days and weeks we may hold to one color and then suddenly tire of it. Sometimes we do not seem to seek another — it seeks us. There is a cause for this as there is for a piece of furniture appearing harmonious in one room and inharmonious in another. A rug and a wall paper have different characters in •different rooms.

A fruit may be greatly appreciated one season and the following year we may be indifferent to it, only after other seasons have come and gone to find our former taste restored. Friends often share the same fate; not that love is dead, because it will be again renewed.

To get a scientific cause for these expressions of life, to understand what has been taught us by Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and Socrates, we must realize that these philosophers were mystics. A mystic at that time, as at the present, believed in the Oneness of All; that everything came from one source; that every separate thing was entirely dependent upon every other separate thing, and yet all the separate things were joined in the Great Universal Chain of Infinite Lives.

We have had many beautiful theories of colors and of the auros which surround us, called also astral colors which are controlled by our birth, but no one has yet been able to tell us how these months came by their colors. I have explained my theory before many scientific men and women and asked them to correct any statement I made which was not true. I now ask you to do the same, as I am ready to accept a better theory should one offer.

This is the way in which I believe we receive our colors. Mineralogists teach that storms are caused by different planets which approach each other in high heaven. Some are classed as friendly, others as malevolent, and still others as neutral. Each planet is loaded with its own kind of minerals and is revolving at its own rate of vibration. Nature in all parts shows a three-fold motion — the trinity of three parts made one is expressed in every seed, in every bud and in man. So each mineral in a planet has its coarse, fine and finer part. For instance take copper. Its finer part is verdigris, which forms upon the surface when exposed to the air. This makes the astral color of the mineral copper and is called the mystical part. But it is not mystical, it is real.

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Iron throws out the red found in iron rust. In coal we find the irridescent colors of the prism. These colors belong to these especial minerals, each mineral having its own color. When a planet approaches another the mineral that predominates in that world is sending out its colors filling full the surrounding atmosphere with its tint.

If the planet it has approached has harmonious coloring it is considered a friendly planet. When they are not harmonious, the storms that are caused mean no more than do the stinging words between people who love each other. They are simply a conflict of cosmic color.

The first breath the child breathes into its little body in the objective world is the breath that is rilled with the color of the atmosphere; it absorbs its rays and breathes from center to circumference, from circumference to center. The thousands of individual cells in its body take up this breath and claim it as its own. The purity of the color depends upon the spiritual development of the individual. One artist will reach heights of color another beside him will never realize. So in men and women, it is not so much the color as the power back of the color.

When a soul is born into the world it has almost the strength of the grown man or woman, but it is badly equipped to express itself in earth life. It must conform to nature's laws and develop a fit body to do its work in an active world. The helplessness of the child's weak body is a type of our own relation to our higher selves.

The strength of the parent no doubt has some effect on the child's desire to be born at a certain time. But we must not forget that the child is often stronger than its parents.

A man can run an engine when it is properly adjusted, with fire and coal and water, but it is necessary to have power back of the engine to make it move. The spirit force started the lungs before they could begin to act. So two persons may be born at the same instant and each will select or attract of the colors about him the tones he finds himself attuned to. He may select the lifeless tones in any color and live in the vibration to which they respond, or he may seek a low vibration and exalt it until it expresses a great work done in a lonely place.

CHAPTER IV The: Use otf Birth Vibrations

AS colors have different rates of vibration the color or colors of the birth vibration is the most important as it colors all the environment through which you must make the journey of life. When the journey shall be finished all the victories won will be tinged with this color and when the soul comes back for other w T ork the victories gained in the last life will be stored as character and will then be expressed in a name number which vibrates to this color or colors. Individual bodies have certain predominating minerals. A No. 2 has lived or is living in the gold color, as 2 vibrates to gold. An 1 1 and the other free numbers attract all the colors of the other free numbers. An 8 may not have gained all the vibrations belonging to 9, 11, 22, but it may return to repair weak points of character or as a messenger;

When persons meet as individuals they often clash, as do planets, from the inharmony of their colors. These things are no more than expressions of harmony or inharmony on the physical plane. Developed souls by love become one with all things. Every person, no matter what his condition, vibrates at least one color that is in harmony with every other person and for strength of body and soul that vibration should be recognized.

The fullness of life is measured by the number of vibrations one gives and receives. (Keep the palette clean with love and no impure color will remain upon it.

The name is the force and color of the aura of the individual ; the birth vibration is the color through which you chose to pass this incarnation. When the colors about you seem dark and unwholesome, go to the centre of light within — ask reverently that the purest color of your birth vibration may flow out through every cell of your body and watch it go happily forth changing gloom to joy.

If you live at your highest all things are friends, no matter how they appear. Nothing good or evil can approach you or enter into your body or environment that has not been attracted by yourself, by some thought or deed of the past. Everything in the Universe is trying to adjust itself to the highest good. Every act of faith and thought of kindness helps in the cosmic adjustment of the race. The highest ideal for man is the Christ. The man who strives to lead the Christ life approaches the ideal man. People may try to crucify him, but if he holds to the Christ the use: of vibration 27

who overcame death, the cross and the turmoil will dissolve in peace. The aura of the force of his nature, which expresses itself in the color of his name, can be made so strong and pure no harm can penetrate it from without. Nothing but a vibration from within the man's own mind can harm him.

The color of the birth vibration must ever be kept before the mind and eye, as these colors grow dull and impure when the thoughts are impure, but down to their deepest shades become bright and radiant as the result of true thinking.

CHAPTER V The Meaning of Colors as Disclosed Through

Vibrations of Numbers as Taught

by Pythagoras

PYTHAGORAS taught that the world and the Heavens and all therein vibrate to the digits, which means any number from i to 9.

If we have colors we must have rates of vibration, and if we vibrate we must vibrate at our own rate and consequently each must also have its own sound. The law of Rhythm is founded upon Nature's scientific laws and all things are vibrating in rhythm. And so the month and its day, and the year of your birth give the colors and note, called the key-note you are expressing in life. The key-note of life allows the soul to make the body an open door for the Triune God to use. No vibration should be closed that leads to anything in Earth, Air, Fire and Water. We should eat and drink the same food our fellow men use — this is one way to comprehend Divine and Human fellowship leading to a knowledge of the Universal Brotherhood.

Christ gave us a glimpse of what the body should 128)

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be when he dropped the coarser particles and appeared in one so fine it was no longer in bondage to physical laws. If you spell out the vibration of Christ it is 5. 5 is also pink, the color of the white light with a touch of the flesh.

Christians say Jesus was born December 25. The digit of the 12th month is 3, of the 25th day is 7. 7 and 3 make 10 or 1. Flame is the color of 1.

1 is a principle and belongs to all persons. Any one who has come to a consciousness of the Divine and Human Oneness has been born with the flames of the Christ principle and is a light bearer.

1 vibrates flame, 2 gold, 3 should express 1 and 2, making a gold flame.

B vibrates to 2

4 is the vibration of Blue.

G vibrates to 7

31 =4 4 is the vibration of Green.

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P vibrates to 7

I

"9

N

" S

K

" 2

23 = 5

5 is the vibration of Pink.

O vibrates to 6

R

"9

A

" 1

N

"5

G

"7

E

" 5

33 = 6

6 is the vibration of Orange, also of Scarlet and Heliotrope found in the same way-

S vibrates to 1

16 = 7

7 is the vibration of Steel, Purple, also of Brick and Magenta found in the same way.

C vibrates to 3 •

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R vibrates to 9

26 = 8

8 is the vibration of Canary.

R vibrates to 9

18 = 9

9 is the vibration of Red.

C vibrates to 3

22 22 is the vibration of Cream.

29 = 11

II is the vibration of White, Black, Yellow and Violet.

All the other colors can be found in the same manner.

This table is more fully found in Balliett's "Success through strength of vibration."

Chapter VI

Exercises to Develop Your Own Vibration or Birth Digit — The First Trinity

IF your name number or birth digit as a whole is I, place one foot directly in front of the other at a distance of 12 inches — raise right arm perfectly straight in front of ear, the first finger pointing upward, left arm straight at side with finger pointing downward. Think of yourself as a line of strength and truth made by the creator when the world was formed. This line stands to-day as the principle of life and expresses the Unity of all things. You should be able to help those who wish to understand this unity. If you do not understand this principle and break or disrupt it in your own mind your weakness lies right here. Your force is broken. To understand it, stand as this line shows, with one hand pointing to the highest, the other in the earth vibrations. Breathe slowly as though bringing the force from the depths of earth, bringing it through feet, legs, and up through the body following the line through bowels, stomach and vocal organs through the face to the top of the head. Expel slowly, sending the current down back i