Numerology

Number symbolism has been employed in magic and religion, in literature and the arts, and in philosophy. Numbers may represent objects, natural or supernational beings, states or conditions, ideas, relationships, ontological dimensions, etc. It is also possible to correlate things characterized by the same number, for example, the five-year revolutionary period of Venus with the five-petal pattern of a rose, with the human five senses and thus with man represented by a pentagram. Many human artifacts have been constructed on numerological principals, for example, the classic alphabets, the ten-based number system, the calendar, the collected treatises of the Bible, the hierarchies of priesthood, Gothic cathedral architecture, playing and Tarot cards, the game of chess, military and royal ranks, the philosophy of Plato, the Divine Comedy of Dante, Hesiod's Theogony, the dialectics of Hegel and Marx, the psychology of Jung, the combinatorial art of Lull, the mediaeval Kabbalah, Tantra, and the Book of Revelations.