Last Updated on June 3, 2017
Is it a submission to determinism, or is there some hint of validity other than a self-fulfilling prophesy? Can names, dates and events be translated into a numerical construct such that predictability of one’s future can be ascertained?
The differences between the two are apparently substantive; the algorithms and numbered “personalities” are altered when the spectrum of equations (1 through 8 under the Chaldean system, and the addition of the next number in sequence under the Pythagorean methodology); and under the Pythagorean Numerology, the system pays greater attention to the full name at birth rather than to the nickname daily used by an individual, where weighted significance is granted upon an emphasis of letters included.
Historically, the Chaldean system has remained staid since the times of Babylon, whereas the Pythagorean Numerology has evolved into modernity, with minor changes and methodological alterations utilized to adapt to modern day applicability. Both are forms of ancient Astrology and Palmistry, where the interaction between the novice who approaches for foretelling encounters a “system” utilizing numerical alignment, predestined aura and the wisdom of the one who is schooled in the ancient cosmos of rational defiance.
Is it all puff and nonsense? Perhaps; but of what percentage of our own beliefs constitute a similar system of mystical ambivalence? Do we read the horoscope? Are some days more hapless than others? Do dogs bay at the full moon, and do wolves and horses run wild in their full light of darkness? Or, when Mars is aligned with the satellites unseen, when the reflection of a full moon’s embrace upon a pond’s quietude in twilight’s shadow, are there greater crimes of the soul committed? Why are streets filled with rows upon rows of Palmists where long lines of anticipatory trembling and drops of sweat tickle down the side of the armpit while awaiting the foretelling of our soul’s destination?
Yes, for some, it is mere fun after a night of drinking to dare one another to have the inner essence searched and revealed; and yet we live still within the confines of our own mystical abandonments, do we not? Do we curse the universe for the bad day we experience, or buy a lottery ticket despite the numerical odds of wasting that dollar? Is science the pinnacle of human achievement that squeezes out the possibility of gnomes, hobbits and angels who fly in the midst of foggy mornings to garner the sins of fallen souls?
Yes, Chaldean and Pythagorean numerology are systems largely outdated and unmasked as unscientific, largely because we have replaced them with paradigms that are acceptable to modernity. But mysteries still abound.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who are considering filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits because of a medical condition which impacts or otherwise prevents the Federal or Postal employee from continuing in one’s chosen career, the question with the background of Chaldean and Pythagorean Numerology is the following: What methodology are you going to adopt and apply in preparing, formulating and filing for Federal disability Retirement benefits? Is it thoughtful, methodological, sequential? Is it based upon current legal precedents? Do you understand the pitfalls and the underlying import by the cunning questions asked on Standard Form 3112A? Or, is it tantamount to Palmistry and a reliance upon an outmoded mystical aura of Chaldean or Pythagorean Numerology?
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire