Because numerology is the science of vibration ("It's all in your numbers", Kathleen Roquemore p.229), it is closely tied to colors and to musical notes. We are aware that music is vibration, but most people do not know that color is sound at a different rate of vibration. Number, sound, and color are the three types of vibration that are the easiest to identify and work with. Each number, or vibration, that we use in numerology has its own color and musical note. Each vibration is also governed by a planet and has a Gem or gems that relate to it.
...Colors, Gems, and musical notes can be very beneficial in a variety of ways. ...It is my (K.R.) belief ("It's all in your numbers: The Secrets of Numerology" Kathleen Roquemore." pp.229-234) that if music were composed that primarily made use of the major and secondary vibrations in a person's chart, it would be extremely beneficial to him or her. My (K.R.) research into the use of colors and gems has shown that they bring certain influences to bear in a person's life. (K.R.)

(Editors Note: Insha-llah, I would like to make note here that, the purpose of this work is definitely not to influence or to suggest to the reader to begin to study or practice Astrology, Numerology, Gemology, or Music. The point here is that Allah (subhanahu wa ta`ala) has created and set in motion the vibrations of all these things, which in their turn influence our lives. We know that in Islam the number three (3) is an important number of times to do a thing. The colors white and green are important to wear at certain times, and the colors red and golden yellow are important not to wear, all because of their vibrations upon our character; and we know that silver metal is good to wear and gold is not (especially for men). My understanding is that we should be able to look at a thing and know what attribute of Allah it relates to, and that some knowledge of this kind may help us to understand the relative points in our Deen or worldly life.)

If a person is working on a particular Karmic (Kareem, Karamah, etc.) Lesson, help can be gained by wearing the color or gem of that vibration...

1. The use of a particular color or gem adds the influence of that vibration and because like attracts like, it helps us develop the corresponding qualities and abilities. In this regard it appears that gems are stronger than colors.
2. The subconscious is well aware of the characteristics of each vibration and by using one of their influences it knows to work at attracting situations that help develop these characteristics in us. It works on the principle of Psycocybernetics, or setting a goal for the subconscious to reach.

For example, if one of the Karmic lessons is 7, we then know that wearing the color or the gem of the 7 will aid in developing the inner resources and faith necessary to learn the lesson. (The Day of the Week relating to 7 would also be important.)

From an Islamic point of view (Ikhwaan al Safaa), "Creation is the `dynamic' and `feminine' aspect of the Divine." The First Thing the Creator produced and called into existence is a spiritual and perfect being in which is contained the spirit Forms of all things that are to be. This being is called the Universal Intellect. From the Universal Intellect issued a being called the Universal Soul.
The Universal Intellect is passive and feminine in respect to the Creator and the Universal Soul is passive and feminine with respect to the Intellect.
The principle of duality first appears in the creation, as the Intellect and Soul, which contain in themselves the active and passive principles by which the life and activity of the Universe can more readily be understood. In a sense, the Universal Soul is the spirit of the World. It is to the Universe what the Human Soul is to the Human Body. The Soul receives from the Intellect and transmits to the whole Universe.
From the Universal Soul emanates a Spiritual Form called Original Matter, and also a faculty or spiritual Force called Nature.
The Supreme Being created the first four Universal Beings in a series of effusions instantaneously. The other beings in the universe, on the other hand, have been brought into existence directly by the Universal Soul "acting with the permission of Allah Most High." The Universe is all of the spiritual and material beings which inhabit the vast and immense skies, who make up the duality of the dominion of Allah which contains the spheres (heavens), stars, the four (4) elements and all of their products, to man.
The Soul has various aspects or faculties, some of which are angels or forces. All change is directed by the Soul and all bodies are tools of the Soul. Nature is the faculty of the Soul that is the source of all activity in the Universe; "Spiritual Matter" receives dimensions or quantity to become "Body" which then receives quality or "Form", and providing the base for this activity. In this respect, Nature is the "active" and "masculine" aspect and a Matter is the "passive" and "feminine" aspect.
Nature acts on "Natural Matter" (Body + Form) to produce fire, earth, air and water; and their products animals, plants, and minerals. Nature apparently operates on all bodies below the sphere of the Moon, but it is also said that this Force is also the "particular soul" of each of the stars and planets and guides them in their actions, and influences throughout the universe.
Since the Intellect is the Highest Being in the Universe, it symbolizes the whole of creation with respect to the Supreme Being and is "Passive". The Supreme Being is the first Beloved. The Whole of creation seeks Him and loves Him. Everything which is not Him proceeds in some way from Him and aspires to return to Him.

...The creation of the Universe, beginning with the Creator, descending through the multiple states of Being, and ending with the terrestrial creatures whose final link is man, is outlined in the following manner (by the Ikhwaan al-Safaa):
1. Creator - who is one, simple, eternal, permanent.
2. Intellect (`aql) - which is of two kinds: innate and acquired.
3. Soul (nafs) - which has three species: vegetative, animal, and rational.
4. Matter (hayuulaa') - which is of four kinds: matter of artifacts, physical matter, universal matter, and original matter.
5. Nature (tabiy`ah) - which is of five kinds: celestial nature and the four elemental natures.
6. Body (jism) - which has six directions: above, below, front, back, left, and right.
7. The Sphere - which has its seven planets.
8. The Elements - which have eight qualities, these being in reality the four qualities combined two by two:

 
                   Earth  - cold and dry 

                   Water  - cold and wet 

                   Air  - warm and wet 

                   Fire  - warm and dry 

...The first four numbers are simple, universal beings - the numbers 1 to 4 already containing in themselves all numbers, since 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 - while the other beings are compound.
The Ikhwaan (Ikhwaan al-Safaa) describe the production of the "great chain of being" in the following manner: The first thing which the Creator produced and called into existence is a simple, spiritual, extremely perfect and excellent substance in which the form of all things is contained. This substance is called the Intellect. From this sub-stance there proceeds a second one, which in hierarchy is below the first and which is called Universal Soul (al- nafs al-kulliyyah) . From the Universal Soul proceeds another substance which is below the Soul and which is called Original Matter. The latter is transformed into the Absolute Body, that is, into Secondary Matter, which has length, width, and depth.

***The science of number (`ilm al-`adad) is considered by the Ikhwaan as the way leading to the grasp of Unity [Jaami`ah, I, 173], as a science which stands above Nature and is the Principle of beings and the root of the other sciences, the first elixer and the most exalted alchemy. It is, moreover, the first effusion (fayd) of the Intellect imprinted upon the Soul and the "tongue which speaks of Unity and transcendence." No wonder, then, that the Rasaa'il always compare the relation of God to the world - or, metaphysically speaking, of Being to existence - as that of One to the other numbers. In the more esoteric Risaalat al-jaami`ah, it is implied in one place that Being (al-wujuud) corresponds to One, and the Infinite, or the Divine Essence, to Zero. Zero, therefore, symbolizes the Divine Ipseity, which is above all determinations including Being.

*** As macrocosmic manifestations of the Intellect, the planets must of necessity have a bearing upon all terrestrial beings which, like everything else in the cosmos, owe their existence to the Universal Intellect which in Islam is identified with the "Light or Reality of Muhammad," an-Nur al-Muhammadi or al-Haqeeqat al-Muhammadiyyah. (Al Biruni) .

*** The Science of the numerical symbolism of letters, (`Ilm al-Jafar),... is said by masters of the science in Islam to have come down from `Ali ibn Abi Taalib. It plays a very important role in tasawwuf and among many Shi`ite schools and is basic for the symbolic interpretation (Ta'wil) of certain Qur`anic texts.

Original Matter, Primary Matter, the Primative Foundation, possessing only Existence, receives Quantity and becomes...
Universal Matter, Secondary Matter, Absolute Body, possessing Quantity and the three dimensions. receives Quality becomes... Determined Body, Matter of natural objects, the Absolute Body plus a particular form., fire, air, water, earth, animals, plants, minerals. Their creator is nature, one of the forces of the Universal Soul.
The Universal Soul receives from the Intellect all the virtues, forms, and positive qualities, and transmits them to the whole of the Universe. The Universal Soul is to the Universe what the human soul is to the human body, and it has, therefore, for its field of action - in the geocentric cosmos where the Earth lies stationary at the center with nine (or more) concentric spheres around it - the whole of the Universe from the outermost sphere which is the Muhiyt, to the center of the earth. ...It is also the Prime-Mover of the fixed stars... All bodies in the Universe are like tools in the hand of the Universal Soul, which performs all actions through them in the same way as a carpenter uses his tools for various ends. All change in the Universe, therefore, is directed by the Soul.
...According to them (The Ikhwaan al-Safaa), God (Allah) has created the first four universal beings in the series of effusions (fayd) instantaneously. The other beings in the Universe, on the other hand, have been brought into existence directly by the Universal Soul "acting with the permission of Allah Most High."
... The Universe is "all the spiritual and material beings who populate the immensity of the skies, who constitute (make up) the reign (rule) of multiplicity (only Allah is One) which extends to the spheres, the stars, the elements, their products and to Man." This Universe, which they sometimes call a city or an animal, but always something distinct from the Divine Unity, is related to God by its existence (wujuud), its persistence in being (baqaa), its completeness (tamaam), and its perfection (kamal). The Universal Intellect, which is at the same time a great veil hiding God as well as the great gate to His Unity, inherits the four above-mentioned virtues from God and transmits them to the Universal Soul, which remains passive and feminine with respect to the Intellect.

While the Soul is descending through the Heavens to its home on Earth- the Body - it passes through the influences of these Seven Heavens (planets):
7. Saturn - Reason, and Intellect

6. Jupiter - Power of Acting

5. Mars - Fiery Ardor (eagerness) of Spirit

4. Sun - The Nature for Feeling, and Opinion

3. Venus - The Motion of Desire

2. Mercury - Speaking out, and Interpreting what it (soul) Feels

1. Moon - Corporeal (physical body) Begetting, and Growing

The soul may also draw the opposite, negative, or evil attributes of these Heavens or Planets:

7. Saturn - Sluggishness

6. Jupiter - Desire for Power

5. Mars - Anger

4. Sun - Gluttony

3. Venus - Lust, and Laviciousness

2. Mercury - Desire of Wealth

1. Moon - Envy

As the Soul leaves these regions and descends through the Malaayik or Angelic world it may draw atoms from it. As it descends lower through the Jinn world it may draw atoms from it so that a person's overall makeup on earth may be a composite of the angelic plane of existence, the jinn plane of existence, and the earthly or human plane of existence.
Some souls do not make it all the way to earth and stop their descending in the angelic world or the jinn world, either because they lack the strength, or they fall in love with another soul there or some aspect of that world. (Some of this is explained by Hazrat Inayyat Khan in his treatise on the Phenomenon of the Soul)

Sun - (fire ?), life creation. The hub around which all revolves, it is the beginning and is full of energy.
Moon - Vacillating, adaptable. It is quiet power that influences in subtle ways, as in its effect on the tides, crops, and the moods of man.
Venus - Love in its artistic expression, which creates and appreciates the many aspects of beauty.
Saturn - The planet of "The Watcher," who insures that all lessons are learned. It is discipline and systematic construction on all levels.
Mars - Power that can create or destroy. It is change, activity, and expansion, and its influence is seeking and restless.
Jupiter - Earth and air mixed, it is protective, possessive, and the devotion of the deeper aspects of love.
Mercury - Intellectual, mental, and curious. It can be insecure and fearful if the explosive aspect is attuned to. On the positive side, it is knowledge, wisdom, reflection, poise, and refinement.
Neptune - Impractical, forceful, mysterious, inspired and inspiring, and visionary. Its influence is apt to be other-worldly.
Uranus - Massive power that may tear down to recreate in better form, it is strength, energy, and activity. It is extremely electrical and forceful and destroys the useless to make a place for the useful.
Pluto - Apart and yet part of, its influence is quiet, strong, sure, penetrating, and often unrealized. If its effects are felt, they are not always understood. As the opposite pole of the sun, it is the same energy manifesting itself in another form. It pulls energy to and through the other planets and is thereby giving.

- Planets -
Sun - purpose
Moon - feelings
Mercury - mentality
Venus - acquisitiveness
Mars - initiative
Jupiter - enthusiasm
Saturn - sensitiveness
Uranus - independence
Neptune - obligation
Pluto - obsessions

Sign_     Month&Dates_           Ruling Planet_Nature_ &Number_  Element_  Net Phrase  


 Aries    (March 21 - April 19)_ Mars_         positive_ 9(pos) _ fire_   I am 


 Taurus   (April 20 - May 20)_   Venus_        positive_ 6 (pos)_ earth_  I have 


 Gemini   (May 21  - June 20)_   Mercury_      positive_ 5 (pos)_ air_    I think 


 Cancer   (June 21 - July 22)_   Moon_         negative_ 2_       water_  I feel 


 Leo      (July 23 - Aug 22),    Sun_           positive_1_       fire_   I will 


 Virgo    (Aug 23 - Sept 22),    Mercury_     negative_ 5 (neg)_    earth_  I analyze 
  

 Libra    (Sept 23 - Oct 22),    Venus_        negative_ 6 (neg)_   air_  I balance 


 Scorpio  (Oct 23 - Nov 21),     Pluto/Mars_  negative_ 9 / 8 (neg)_ water_ I desire 


 Sagittarius  (Nov 22 - Dec 21), Jupiter_         positive_ 3 (pos)_  fire_   I see 
  

 Capricorn  (Dec 22 - Jan 19),   Saturn_         positive_ 8 (pos)_  earth_ I use 


 Aquarius  (Jan 20 -Feb 18),     Uranus/Saturn neg_ 4 / 8 (neg)_    air_  I know 
   
 Pisces  (Feb 19 - Mar 20),      Neptune/Jupiter neg_ 7 / 3 (neg)_  water_ I believe 

Number 1. the Sun - metal is pure Gold
Number 2. the Moon - metal is pure Silver
Number 3. Jupiter - metal is pure Tin
Number 4. Uranus - (Uranium)
Number 5. Mercury - metal is an alloy of mercury, silver and tin
Number 6. Venus - metal is pure Copper
Number 7. Neptune - (Neptunium)
Number 8. Saturn - metal is pure Lead, +(Pluto,Plutonium ?)
Number 9. Mars - metal is pure Iron, + (Pluto,Plutonium ?)

Day-Number-Planet
Sunday - day of works of light;-1 & 4; -Sun & Uranus
Monday - day of works of divination and mystery; 2 & 7; Moon & Neptune
Tuesday - day of works of wrath; 9; Mars (Pluto ?)
Wednesday - day of works of science; 5; Mercury
Thursday - day of works of politics or religion; 3; Jupiter
Friday - day of works of love; 6; Venus
Saturday - day of works of mourning; 8; Saturn ( and Pluto ?)

The Sun is linked with Uranus, so Sunday has number 1 & 4, the Moon is linked with Neptune, and so Monday has number 2 & 7. (Pluto has been linked with Mars [negative] and Scorpio, and also with the farseeing and regenerative aspects of Saturn.)

1. Red is strong, progressive, vibrant, creative, and aggressive. It is bold and full of life and is the starter.
2. Orange is a mixture of red and yellow - the middle ground between the two - and is balance and harmony.
3. Yellow is bright, cheerful, full of sunshine and light and gives forth beauty, sympathy and happiness. It is full of warmth and feeling.
4. Green is growth, construction, productivity, healing and soothing. It is the balance between the brightness of yellow and the cool calm of blue.
5. Turquoise combines the healing of green with the peace of blue. It is changeable, adaptable, seeking, refreshing, restless, and full of activity. It can calm or stimulate through its duality.
6. Royal Blue is deep, rich, and vital. It is solid, stable, sure, strong, and powerful in a quiet way.
7. Violet, the last color of the spectrum, bridges the physical and spiritual realms and therefore is reverent, mysterious, fearless, quiet yet alive, deep, reflective, and royal. It is the color of meditation and can be used to increase its depth and achievements.
8. Pink is red in its higher form; the physical joined with the spiritual, and so is full of love, warmth, and generosity.
9. Yellow-Gold, the halo that rises from the other colors, is the aura of them all and shines with the light of the sun, combining something of all the colors into a harmonious blend. It is strong, warm, and gives life to all.
11. Silver is pure and shining, giving light and reflecting light. It is bright, rich, eye-catching, and magnetic. Not always practical, never conservative, but always attracting; it can blind with its brilliance.
22. Red-Gold is the sun and earth, using the energy of the former to create for the latter. It is strong, vital, powerful, active, warm, intense, and commands attention.
33. Sky-Blue is the color we see as we look into the heavens above. It is the color of prayer and so is full of spirit, harmony, quietness, and serenity. It is restful and calming.

There are various schools of numerological (numero - logical) thought. It is up to the individual student to decide which method he/she prefers when dealing with numbers of colors, numbers of gems, and numbers of planets, etc. Personally, we have been studying the numbers used by Pythagoras and the methods of applying them to colors, gems, and planets favored by Cheiro.

Once again, the study of this information, which is at hand, is an attempt to understand the relative uses of number, color, etc. in the faith & practices of Islamic society and tariqahs. These notes are not absolute and are from the personal study of the Editor. If they contain any errors, we would welcome any responses by e-mail.

Number 1. primary colors; all shades of yellow and bronze right through to golden brown with the inclusion of orange and gold.
secondary colors; cream and white, purples, blues and deep pinks. colors to avoid; green, black, and grey.
Number 2. primary colors; white, cream and all shades of green. secondary colors; pale pink and pale blue. colors to avoid; maroon, deep red, purple and black.
Number 3. primary colors; all shades of mauve and violet through to the palest purples and lilacs.
secondary colors; blue, rose pink and yellow. colors to avoid; greens, black and grey, also dark browns.
Number 4. primary colors; half-tones and `electric' colors such as blues and greys. (tan, camel, color ?)
secondary colors; fawn, pale green and pale yellow. colors to avoid; all bright, strong colors of any sort.
Number 5. primary colors; very light shades of any color, particularly grey.
secondary colors; white or anything which is shiny or sparkles. - colors to avoid; any very dark or very bright colors.
Number 6. primary colors; all shades of blue except the `electric' or `petrol' hues.
secondary colors; all shades of pink and rosy reds. colors to avoid; black and dark purple.
Number 7. primary colors; all shades of green and yellow, also gold.
secondary colors; all shades of very pale or pastel colors. colors to avoid; any really deep or dark colors.
Number 8. primary colors; dark grey, dark blue, purple and black.
secondary colors; all brown and russet shades. colors to avoid; all pale colors, bright reds, greens or yellows.
Number 9. primary colors; pink, rose, crimson, red and reddish- purple -- the darker and richer the shade the better.
secondary colors; all shades of blue. colors to avoid; green, yellows, browns and black.

As Schuon has stated so accurately concerning the traditional notion of numbers:
This is numbers in the Pythagorean sense, of which the universal (qualitative) rather than quantitative import is already to be divined in geometrical figure; the triangle and the square are "personalities" and not quantities, they are essentials and not accidentals. Whilst one obtains ordinary (quantitative) numbers by addition, qualitative number results, on the contrary, from an internal or intrinsic differentiation of principal unity; it is not added to anything and does not depart from unity. Geometrical figures are so many images of unity; they exclude one another or rather, they denote different principial quantities; the triangle is harmony, the square is stability; these are "concentric," not "serial," numbers.

*** Jaami`ah, II, 23. "Pythagoras was the first who spoke of the nature of numbers. He taught that the nature of numbers is in relation with that of Nature. Whoever knows the nature of numbers, their species and genus and their properties, can know the quantity of species of beings and their genus."... The Ikhwaan believed themselves to be disciples of Pythagoras and of such followers as Nicomachus, especially in considering numbers as the cause of all things and the key to the understanding of the harmony pervading the Universe.

The Pythagorean numbers, being a qualitative rather than just a quantitative entity, cannot be identified simply with division and multiplicity as can modern numbers. They are not identical with quantity, that is, their nature is not exhausted by their quantitative aspect alone. On the contrary, because they are a "projection of unity" which is never totally separated from its source, the Pythagorean numbers, when identified with a certain existing entity in the world of multiplicity, integrate that entity into Unity, or Pure Being, which is the source of all existence. To identify a being with a certain number is to relate it to its Source by means of the inner bond which relates all numbers to Unity.
... And since numbers are the projection of the number one, the Rasaa'il do not consider one(1) itself to be the beginning of numbers. They believe two (2) to be the first number and unity itself the origin and principle of all numbers...
... In a further study of numbers which involves their odd-even, rational-irrational, and similar properties, the Ikhwaan divide numbers into four groups: unities, dozens, hundreds, and thousands (much like the Chinese) and relate this fourfold division to the fourfold division which they see everywhere in Nature. (i.e.)
4 physical natures; hot, cold, dry, moist
4 elements; fire, air, water, earth
4 humours; blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
4 seasons; spring, summer, fall, winter
4 directions; east, north, west, south
4 winds; ( same ?)
4 directions; above, below, right, left (from the stars)
4 products; metals, plants, animals, men
also; God, Universal Intellect, Universal Soul, Nature.

If numbers are so closely bound to the "book of Nature," they are also intimately connected with the "book of Revelation" - that is, the letters of the Arabic alphabet, Arabic being the language of the Islamic Revelation.
... The Ikhwaan write at times that God is above Being, while in other instances they imply that Being is divided into God and the Universe...

American English letter vibrations:   

1   2   3  4  5  6  7  8  9   

A   B   C  D  E  F  G  H  I  

J   K   L  M  N  O  P  Q  R 

S   T   U  V  W  X  Y  Z      

[to be continued, insha-llah.]

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