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Listeners are encouraged to seek their own understanding.

We all have our favorite numbers that we consider to be lucky.

There are numbers that some steer clear of because of superstitious beliefs or bad experiences.

Numbers mark important dates and can be symbolic.

Nearly everything is based on mathematics, whether it's engineering a bridge, building a house,

counting items, creating a computer program, and so much more.

Numbers are important to humans.

They are clearly very important to the spiritual world as well, based on the Bible.

Welcome to the Ghost and You podcast, a podcast about the weird, the wonderful, and the terrifying in the Bible.

I'm Diane Student, your guide and host on this strange journey through the Bible.

Episode 20, Numerology.

Music numerology is a pagan or occultic practice.

Astrologers and other pagan practitioners guide people into figuring out their life numbers and such

so that they can intuitively figure out how to deal with issues in their lives.

But numerology is an ancient art that goes all the way to the beginning of humankind and even before.

Numbers are clearly important to Yahweh, because many of them are used symbolically

throughout the Bible, particularly in Revelation. And one of the things that the fallen angels

were credited with teaching humans was using numbers in casting spells and divination.

Numerology at its core is a belief that numbers have a mystical or divine meaning.

St. Augustine of Hippo wrote reams about numerical truths and divine truths, which scholars

sometimes refer to as arithmetic. Augustine writes, in the Trinity, and now a word about the reasons

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