Numerology and the English Cabalah: Translating Numbers into Words and Words into Numbers

The English language comes alive in the hands and under the pen of Shirley Blackwell Lawrence. Here, she shares the personal tools and notes of her private workbooks, so that others may share in the process of revelation that comes with the disciplined study of the mysterious relationship between numbers and words. In contemporary numerology the birth date, which is pure numbers, is given great priority-second only to that of the birth name. Lawrence's first book, Behind Numerology, dealt with these aspects of numerology. In Numerology and the English Cabalah, Lawrence shows new ways of looking at the birth date and widens the range of expression discernible in the birth name by introducing a means of diagraming for character analysis, which she coins Math-anatomy. In a process that should excite everyone from the numerologist to the therapist, Lawrence discusses the Planes of Expression which enable the participant to isolate the four levels of consciousness-the physical, mental, emotional, and intuitive. To broaden the character profile, she has integrated the full 78-card Tarot deck into these Planes of Expression. But the heart of this book lies in the examination of the workings of the English Cabalah, where the reader is taken into the inner chambers for a close look at the words of the English language-words on their own, words at work in names, and words in phrases and full text, particularly spiritual texts. This method of working with the Cabalah is sometimes described as T.H.E. Cabalistic Numerology, the initials standing for the Tarot, Hebrew, and English from which it derives its meaning.