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Number Symbolism is a 1970 book by English academic Christopher Butler. The book documents the occult tradition of numerology and how its use in Ancient Greek philosophy and Judeo-Christian beliefs influenced Western culture.Heninger 1972, p. 353: "Mr. Butler begins properly by distinguishing three main strands subsumed in Renaissance number symbolism: (i) the Greek tradition for a cosmogony presented as a series of ongoing mathematical relationships; (2) the Judeo-Christian tradition for Biblical exegesis based upon the premise that numbers have ulterior meanings; and (3) the extensive lore that had gradually accrued to numbers in the occult (though not irrational) sciences." Number Symbolism provided context to the work of scholars who were promoting numerological analysis in the decade prior to the book's publication.Heninger 1972, p. 352-353
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