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Cheasley's
Numerology At A Glance
by Clifford W. Cheasley PHILOSOPHER
(First Published:
1934)
Numerology A Science - A
Philosophy
- A Psychology
In the swiftly moving
age in which we live and in past ages not so dizzy,
governments change, economic depressions come and go, but
human nature flows on much about the same.
People are still people
and so it is reasonable to suppose that knowing people is an
accomplishment which can always be used for entertainment and
for progress in social, economic and professional life. The
universal interest in all phases of psychology, in character
analysis and vocational guidance points clearly to the fact
that such knowledge of man, his character and environment is
recognized as fundamental.
Numerology is a system
of numbers for measuring the vibration of the letters of the
alphabet, so that human personality, desire, thought, action
and experience may be easily understood in accurate
mathematical values.
Numerology is not new,
except as a new phase is always added to any subject by its
revival from the past and its adaptation to modern needs. The
philosophy of numbers condenses the wisdom and knowledge of
seven thousand years, for in ancient times the same numerical
values which we are using today were associated with the
languages long since discarded.
As human intelligence
expands and comprehends larger possibilities for the present
and future, it gropes for and adopts new words through which
to make its comprehension apparent. While dictionaries become
larger, alphabets remain much the same and the exact values of
the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are not at all affected
from generation to generation. Any alphabet is just a scale of
letters capable of being collected and arranged into many
different combinations, just as the keys of a musical scale
can be adapted to express varying moods in composition; the
letters and keys themselves however remain the same.
Letters considered apart
from words describing a thought or from a name attached to an
animate or inanimate object, are found to be sounds of a
definite vibratory frequency which can be measured by number.
Anything then that has a name has a number and this number
found by the addition of the numerical value of the letters
which are used to construct the word, is an exact key to the
character of the thing named. By this same number can be found
the proper relationship to all other words, all other names,
all other personalities.
Numerology is so
immediately useful as well as a fascinating pastime, that it
has fallen into disrepute as merely a fad for choosing lucky
numbers and changing names. There is much more than these
elementary uses, in fact if the subject is seriously studied
and applied it will be found a livable, workable science
psychology and philosophy of life.
Every form of modern
engineering is a method for analyzing, reconstructing,
building, transmuting or reclaiming material and for
accomplishing this according to some system of calculation,
measurement or deduction erected from a mathematical premise.
Numerology in its true sense is also an extension of
mathematical principles, erected for the purpose of Human
Engineering whereby human material may be analyzed, reclaimed,
improved, character built and human experience understood.
Physical engineers work
to reduce various kinds of resistance between surfaces,
substances and forces; the human engineer works to reduce the
resistance, the wear and tear, the lost motion which is
created between individual experience and the effort of the
individual mind to live it and still survive with a belief in
and enjoyment of, health, wealth, love and work.
The student of
Numerology is provided with a sane, practical, logical, and
therefore not always complimentary, viewpoint of the truth in
the problems of his own life. The road to health, wealth, love
and work, the only four possibilities of human life, is not
presented as a broad general highway which all may travel
together, but as a straight individual pathway. This makes for
concentration of energy, self confidence and individual
success, the knowledge of what to take and what to leave
alone. It proves that the sure way to benefit humanity as a
whole is to put the individual upon the right track.
The attempt to be
successful should, like charity, begin at home, for life is an
individual problem even though living is a cooperative
experience. The more we watch the other fellow with a view to
understanding and helping ourselves, the farther we get from
the solution of our troubles.
Being true to ourselves
is a sure way to avoid being false to others, but this does
not mean doing what we want to do, or even following our
hunches all of the time. It means a study of the way our
personalities are put together, physically, nervously,
mentally and emotionally, so that in our daily life we may
learn about the self we are to be true to, and be just as
conscious of what we are not doing as of what we are doing,
and why.
A careful
perusal of this book is a personal investment of time and
thought, a sort of psychological accident insurance, so that
in social, business and family life, accidents in thinking and
acting which bring loss and unhappiness, may be the more
easily avoided.
In its human and social
techniques, Numerology is dedicated to an entirely opposite
purpose than the mediocrity which is the natural result of
world collectivism and modern mass culture.
Its philosophy upholds
the importance of the individual above that of the mass, and
seeks to accomplish the democratic ideal of people living
together in harmony, by recognizing, measuring and promoting
the potentials that lie hidden in the differences between
personalities and personal experiences. In practice it
demonstrates, in social relationship, that these differences
respected and understood by human science can make for true
tolerance, and individual peace of mind.
Such a social science
has no need to assume that the quickest way to a freer, better
society is the encouragement of common standards which if
accepted and lived by for personal, social, or economic
reasons will frustrate everything in human nature but the
animal, the natural, the acquisitive.
There are
secrets in the constitution of human nature, its collective
and individual reactions, which will never be known to
sociologists who are without the foundations of natural
science extended to the field of human science. The
natural and physical sciences have taught us more about animal
man, have produced an actual living filled with the miracles
of physical convenience and beauty. Natural psychologies have
studied, recorded and checked patterns of human-animal
behaviorism.
There is another link of
inestimable value in extending these necessary and basic
studies of natural man into the field of his mental and
emotional potentials. The scientist of the future will
recognize the need of such a human extension of universal
principle, so that generations unborn for the next hundred
years, may build a society which will know how to civilize the
basic value of technology, extend science toward a benefit in
the thought and feeling of the human race.
This approach, in its
elementary stages, is possible now to the philosophy,
psychology, and science of NUMBER. In the daily action,
thought and feeling of thousands of individuals who constitute
an intelligent but publicly silent minority, self-knowledge,
knowledge of other people, knowledge of life's opportunities
is a common basic of daily living.
It is natural that many
men and women are troubled because important personal and
emotional problems seem to arise from the differences between
themselves and others; differences which generally accepted
psychology, sources of social education, and modern
superficiality are asking them to ignore.
It is common to meet
some types of persons, a kind of experience that we know for a
fact has never been met by any close friend or relative. Even
when one has more than the average self-knowledge, it is still
not possible to know enough about the true meaning of the
things that happen, the difficulties which suddenly appear and
about which there is little choice.
Human Engineering meets
the problem thus. If the pressure of experience is too great
for individual strength; decrease the pressure; or, so deal
with the individual that the pressure can be ignored by
improvement to the physical, mental, moral fiber of the person
who can then deal adequately with the challenge.
The political theory of
the Four Freedoms so freely promoted in the past two decades,
as a comprehensive requisite to a "brave free world" is a
clever device unfortunately aimed at reducing the pressure of
environment and neglecting any strengthening of the character
of individuals. The doctrine of predestination; some of the
earlier social codes, taught the reverse; viz, to place the
blame upon the sinful individual, the experience itself upon
the wisdom of Providence.
The social
philosophy of Numerology sees the moral and spiritual
limitations of both these approaches to the problems of human
living. Life must be understood in its character and living
relationship to the individual, and each life-time must be
seen as containing experiences not necessarily common to all
other humans.
Philosophers and poets
have often written that "God has a plan for every man". They
have been able to visualize the wonderful Universe with its
true beauty that stems from order. Life is too perfect to
permit of accident, of effects without causes.
Without adding to their
vision and emotion the eternal verities of NUMBER, they have
dreamed their dreams, inspired many, and passed on, without
knowing how to teach their generations to discover the Plan,
to suggest its reduction to an exact, repeatable and impartial
formula, which alone exists in Number.
The eternal WHY? has
consequently brought forth the answers of superstition,
theology, philosophy, logic, rationalization and more recently
of natural science. All these have had measures of truth
joined to their many inconsistencies, without the
impersonality to subject mortal and emotional ideas to
constants that are neither emotional nor mortal.
Many pupils and friends
since 1914; the teachers and students in the growing field of
the Science and Philosophy of Numbers, will recognize that
this is not a text book. It endeavors to present to the
inquiring lay mind the subject of Numerology, its practical
application to life, as I teach it, write it and apply it to
the hundreds of people who come to me yearly for an accurate
psychological viewpoint of their problems.
The angles dealt with
are treated in the most condensed form possible, whereas each
one of them could itself be made the subject of a book.
The special numbers of
11 and 22, first presented by the late Mrs. L. Dow Balliett,
are omitted, because I have found them very confusing to the
beginner, but for the more advanced student I consider them
essential.
Other phases of analysis
which I have created or adapted for use in my consistent
method but which are omitted in detail are "Pinnacles", for
which credit is due to Juno Kayy Walton; "Immediate Period
Table", "Subconscious Table", "Karmic Lessons": The
application of the laws of comparison to birth dates.
In the structure of the
present-day Numerology credit is due to Mrs. L. Dow Balliett
for the calculation of the vowels in names; to Dr. Julia Seton
for the calculation of the consonants, and the laws of
"Similars", "Complementaries", "Opposites"; to Artie Mae
Blackburn and Valyre Judy for the value of the vowels in first
names.
Certain phases of these
discoveries which I use more completely in regular practice
are included in this present work; the remainder of the
writing is the Cheasley consistent method in simple form for
the ease of the casual reader.
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