The Kabbala of Numbers by Sepharial
Publication: 1911 William Rider and Son Ltd. First Edition
Very scarce First Edition First Printing the book explores the geometry of nature through Kabalistic numerology, and its effect on our every day lives.
Chapters include:
The Power of Numbers- Geometrical Relations of Thought- Numerology - Various Methods of Kabalism - Numbers of Automatism - Number,Form,Color,Thought - Names, Numbers, and Incidents - Chance Events- Reduction to Law- Thought Reading by Numbers - The Significance of Numbers - Of Things Lost - The Kabalism of Cycles - Success and Failure - The Law of Values - Gods Geometrises
Condition: Original blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board decorated with Eliphas Levi'sTetragrammaton pentagram, pages are evenly foxed throughout and are clean of any markings, the back board is slightly dented, gutter of page 1 slightly stained, end of the book contains bound in 16-page advertisement by Rider & Son of which the last page seems to have been professionally repaired, but overall a bright hard to find copy, especially in this condition. Very Good
About the Author:
Walter Gorn Old, a well-known astrologer under his pseudonym Sepharial, was born March 20, 1864, in Handsworth,Warwick, England. He attended King Edward’s School at Birmingham. He studied astrology and the Kabbalah (whichcontains ancient esoteric Jewish teachings) from an early age, and for some years studied medicine and psychology alongwith occultism. He later studied Oriental languages, including Coptic, Assyrian, Sanskrit, and Chinese.
Sepharial moved to London in 1889. Soon thereafter he was admitted into Madame Helen Blavatsky’s “inner group.”Sepharial introduced Alan Leo to Theosophy, and Leo remained within the Theosophical fold for the balance of his life.Sepharial, on the other hand, left formal Theosophy at some point between Blavatsky’s passing in 1891 and Annie Besant’sascension to presidency of the society in 1907. In contrast with Leo, Sepharial was interested in astrology as a practicalscience rather than as some esoteric art produced by marrying it to theosophy.
Sepharial retained a strong interest in Kabbalah and numerology along with his astrological interests. He was a significant,widely influential astrologer. His reflections on prenatal astrology inspired E. H. Bailey’s theorizing on the prenatal epoch. Hedied on December 23, 1919, in Hove, East Sussex.