-umerology is an intensely practical system designed to provide a unique insight into human personality and its potential, but it is much more than that. It is a valuable means whereby our intuition and extrasensory perception (ESP) can develop and, in turn, improve all-around psychic
awareness. Such awareness extends beyond physical limitations.
Everyone has the paraphysical senses of ESP and intuition. However, not everyone is aware of these. Preoccupation with the physical tends to hamper the awakening of such consciousness.
Gradually, through repeated flashes of insight, we become aware that it is possible to attain
knowledge of an event before it actually happens. This is an intuitive skill. On other occasions, we become conscious of other people's thoughts, or of conflicts in their emotional make-up. These we detect through our extrasensory perception.
Intuition is a very comprehensive sense. In popular usage, it is a word employed to cover any sense of feeling beyond the ordinary that might be interpreted as a personal guide. This is rather
inaccurate because it tends to confuse intuition and ESP. Though these two senses are closely related, they have very definite fields of application. Intuition comes before thought. It manifests itself in momentary flashes only because thought takes over. Thought then either accepts and develops the intuitive impulse, or else rationalises and rejects it. The selection is determined by our conditioning.
On the other hand, ESP depends on the user being in a state of relaxation. This allows the mind to be extended and projected to other sources of vibration, particularly human, though it also
encompasses spiritual, animal, mineral and plant energy fields. (A source of vibration creates around itself an energy field that reveals the essence and quality condition of that source.) Having met with a particular energy field, the mind transmits the impressions back to the brain; the brain translates these into comprehensible terms.
In practice, we find that the general term of intuition covers such faculties as first impressions, foreknowledge, premonitions and preconceptions. These invariably must be accepted on faith, for they can rarely be rationalised. Extending into a further dimension, ESP depends on the mind's engagement of the brain to interpret the impressions. ESP includes clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychometry and mental telepathy.
The most important aspects of ESP insofar as numerology is concerned, is its value in detecting powerful prevailing vibrations. Extrasensory perception is both a guide and a protector. With its ability to perceive strong sources of energy, it acts as a alarm bell, warning of harmful emotional turbulence created by such reactions as anger, hatred and lust. This indicates to the experienced numerologist critical problem areas for correction. Through its telepathic faculties, ESP also provides a means of mental contact with the subject being analysed, a contact that is crystallised when the person's numerological pattern is established through their Birth Chart.
In our pristine state, metaphysical senses were our means of being alerted to anything that might endanger our safety; they also provided us with constructive guidance. With the later development of our mental faculties, we tended to disparage these senses as we became more and more
enchanted with the physical world.
By relying exclusively on our physical senses and reasoning faculties, our senses of higher perception atrophied from neglect. Recognising this, New Age people are taking measures to
achieve a balance between the sensory and rational faculties. Strong forces are leading us to restore equilibrium because of our innate yearning for paradise.
Intuition and ESP are regarded as metaphysical senses, as they both function at higher frequency levels and are of a much finer nature than the five physical senses. They require more alertness and finer attunement. Intuition is really our sixth sense because, to a greater or lesser degree, it is common to everyone. ESP should be regarded as the seventh sense, for it comes with greater sensitivity and awareness. As we engage in regular practice with numerology, our precognitive senses of intuition and ESP are being subtly but regularly employed. With every analysis, we grow a little more aware of the vast creative plan of life as it is expressed through each individual.
Gradually, numerology becomes a means of comprehending the limitlessness of creation, exemplified through human expression and awareness.
To the intelligent person, nothing is more exhilarating than to engage in something that expands consciousness. Applied numerology is so satisfying in this regard that there is an early tendency
toward over-enthusiasm. That early excitement, arising from the discovery of insights into the inner self, must be contained to avoid the errors of judgement that inevitably accompany immaturity in any field. Especially with a psychic science, we must exercise great restraint to avoid the temptation of jumping to hasty conclusions. Any early errors will, of course, rapidly teach the thinking person to be more discreet and to embrace greater diplomacy in revealing the results of our analyses. Such slips should not be regarded as mistakes or failures (either of the person or the system), but rather as lessons intended to develop our understanding.
The blossoming of our greater awareness brings with it a progressively more uncanny accuracy in our assessment of the person being analysed. Our metaphysical senses are now enjoying greater spontaneous use, with a noticeable sharpening of intuition and our ability to link up with the subject (extrasensory contact).
Every successful numerologist has achieved proficiency through the ability to see beyond the form of numbers - into their essence, as it were. Relying solely on the information conveyed by the actual numbers of the charts will, of itself, provide valuable guidance. But to delve beyond this information uncovers important insights not otherwise obtainable.
It is true that not everyone can develop intuitiveness and ESP to the same penetrating degree. The vital factors determining the successful unfolding of these senses are related to a person's own level of spiritual attunement. This is fundamentally determined by the amount of spiritual strength
available to them as indicated by the Soul Plane of their Birth Chart, their Ruling Number and, to a lesser extent, by the spiritual factors in their name. People with two 2's on their Birth Chart have a higher chance of achieving success in the development of their psychic senses, doing so with less effort than those not so favourably endowed. However, it is very often more a matter of what you do with your talents than what you have been given.
Of this every reader may be sure: if you did not have the potential for advanced psychic awareness, you would have lost interest in the subject of numerology long before now. You would certainly not have read this far into the book.
We must always realise that our emerging psychic awareness can only blossom when our values are altruistic. If personal gain, unfair advantage, or other unworldly motives underlie our purpose in learning or applying numerology, our successes would be hampered by a unique aspect of spiritual law that seems to stand guardian over life's esoteric knowledge: the more we learn, the greater our responsibility for that knowledge. Our life, therefore, must itself be an example of truth and wisdom in action. For if our metaphysical senses are to develop to a point of reliable guidance, our emotions
must always be under control, our mental processes always clear and unpolluted. Pure guidance has never been known to come through confused, cluttered or corrupt pathways.
CHAPTER 16
`reincarnation - Do `We Have a Choice?
ery few concepts in life appear to polarise individual opinion as much as the question of reincarnation. On the one hand, those who accept it as a fact of life are at peace with the principles, finding them rational and workable. On the other hand, those who believe in the concept of only one human life have their religious or agnostic faith on which to rely in place of answers to so many metaphysical questions.
The first group embraces the Eastern religious systems and some of those now developing in the West. The second group is largely based on what we now call Christianity, a collection of some 1,200 religions originating with Roman Catholicism, itself a mixture of ancient Judaism and Roman Imperialism, formed some three centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus. With respect to both groups, I do not wish to argue or to detract from the scientific validity of numerology, for it does not depend on a belief for or against reincarnation. However, for those who do accept and seek to know more about reincarnation as the progressive embodiment of the soul in successive human forms,
numerology can throw a strong light.
History records that Pythagoras taught reincarnation (not transmigration as some writers
erroneously suggest), inculcating it in his philosophy as vital to the moral code of human behaviour.
For he realised that whatever we do carries with it an eternal responsibility, one that does not disappear when the body disintegrates. (If only modern decision-makers were so aware, this planet would not be in its current ecological mess!) Pythagoras also held respect for those who found it difficult or undesirable to accept reincarnation, saying that, in time, all would become aware of the truth, even if it meant dying first.
For those to whom reincarnation is a valid part of eternal life, it provides reasons for relationships, experiences and situations that would otherwise defy conventional logic. Everything on Earth is an aspect of cyclic change, enabling the analytical human mind to chart predictions. But we get to a