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 Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:07 am
Slytherin. 1st year.
Dorian turned around to wave and greet the newcomers as he continued to gaze into the crystal ball before him that now glowed a deep ocean blue
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 10:14 am
Aludra Yvette... "Dont worry, I'm not too great on the subject either. I tend to go more for logic." Aludra tapped at the desk as she stared an empty stare at the front of the class. The class didnt seem to be doing anything... maybe she could skip out and go work on her holiday list. "Well, if we dont start something soon, I think I'll go grab a bite to eat in the Great Hall. ...6th Year Slytherin
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:58 pm
 Havyn Beaumont - 4th Year
Havyn nodded and said, "If that's the case, I might join you if you don't mind."
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:00 pm
 Liviana's head snapped up, surprised she was being talked to. She realized it was the new student who had spoke to her.
"Oh, hello. It's Christopher, isn't it?" she asked, unsure.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:07 pm
Liviana714 Liviana's head snapped up, surprised she was being talked to. She realized it was the new student who had spoke to her.
"Oh, hello. It's Christopher, isn't it?" she asked, unsure.
Yes. It's Christopher.
Do you mind if i sit next to you?
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:29 pm
Aludra Yvette... "Oh I dont mind at all." she smiled. "My name is Aludra by the way." She leaned back in her chair and looked around the classroom for any sign of a new assignment but didnt see anything. A few more minutes and if there wasnt anything going on she would go. ...6th Year Slytherin
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 7:26 pm
Christopher Lestrange Liviana714 Liviana's head snapped up, surprised she was being talked to. She realized it was the new student who had spoke to her.
"Oh, hello. It's Christopher, isn't it?" she asked, unsure.
Yes. It's Christopher.
Do you mind if i sit next to you?
"Oh, I don't mind at all, Christopher." She paused. "I think we have a few classes together, don't we?" she asked, hesitantly.
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:02 am
Havyn Beaumont - 4th Year Ravenclaw
"Oh, right," she said. "I'm Havyn in case you didn't catch it when I walked in."
It doesn't seem like there are many people in here. Maybe they're just skipping. I guess it's possible that only a few are assigned to this class, Havyn thought to herself. She wondered if that would make it more noticeable if she left the class, but she decided that she didn't really care.
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:59 am
Text walked into Divination- her favorite class- and took her seat, pulling out her last few pieces of parchment and her favorite quill. She made a note to visit Hogsmeade and get some paper soon.
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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:35 pm
 Professor Kain
((I feel so bad for being behind. I've been rather sick lately and there was a few days when the internet went out))
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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:42 pm
Professor Kain
"With Christmas coming up and people getting sick left and right, especially me....I tend to get sick often when it's cold..let's try to take it easy.
I'll get to this week's lesson and everyone's essays tomorrow."
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:27 am
Little Fuzzy Bunneh Professor Kain
((I feel so bad for being behind. I've been rather sick lately and there was a few days when the internet went out))
((Thats ok smile Just get better and have happy holidays. We miss ya Professor))
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:11 pm
Professor Kain
"The new lesson we shall learn is Numerology. I've heard of this form but never looked into it.
Numerology is any of many systems, traditions or beliefs in a mystical or esoteric relationship between numbers and physical objects or living things.
Numerology and numerological divination by systems such as isopsephy were popular among early mathematicians, such as Pythagoras, but are no longer considered part of mathematics and are regarded as pseudomathematics by modern scientists. This is similar to the historical relationships between astrology and astronomy, and between alchemy and chemistry.
Today, numerology is often associated with the occult, alongside astrology and similar divinatory arts.
The term can also be used for those who place excess faith in numerical patterns, even if those people don't practice traditional numerology. For example, in his 1997 book Numerology: Or What Pythagoras Wrought, mathematician Underwood Dudley uses the term to discuss practitioners of the Elliott wave principle of stock market analysis."
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:13 pm
Professor Kain
"Modern numerology often contains aspects of a variety of ancient cultures and teachers, including Babylonia, Pythagoras and his followers (Greece, 6th century B.C.), astrological philosophy from Hellenistic Alexandria, early Christian mysticism, early Gnostics, the Hebrew system of the Kabbalah, The Indian Vedas, the Chinese "Circle of the Dead", Egyptian "Book of the Masters of the Secret House" (Ritual of the Dead) and of course Islam's Rashad Khalifa and his Quran Code 19 for the Quran.
Pythagoras and other philosophers of the time believed that because mathematical concepts were more "practical" (easier to regulate and classify) than physical ones, they had greater actuality.
St. Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354–430) wrote "Numbers are the Universal language offered by the deity to humans as confirmation of the truth." Similar to Pythagoras, he too believed that everything had numerical relationships and it was up to the mind to seek and investigate the secrets of these relationships or have them revealed by divine grace. See Numerology and the Church Fathers for early Christian views. However, that does not mean that Pythagoras had coined himself the system one calls numerology. Pythagoras had only paved the way to the observation of numbers as archetypes rather than mere numerals.
In 325 A.D., following the First Council of Nicaea, departures from the beliefs of the state Church were classified as civil violations within the Roman Empire. Numerology had not found favor with the Christian authority of the day and was assigned to the field of unapproved beliefs along with astrology and other forms of divination and "magic". Despite this religious purging, the spiritual significance assigned to the heretofore "sacred" numbers had not disappeared; several numbers, such as the "Jesus number" have been commented and analyzed by Dorotheus of Gaza and numerology still is used at least in conservative Greek Orthodox circles as well as other.
Numerology is prominent throughout Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 literary Discourse The Garden of Cyrus. Throughout its pages the author indulges in so-called "Pythagorean" numerology to demonstrate that the number five and the related Quincunx pattern can be found throughout the arts, in design, and in nature - particularly botany.
Modern numerology has various antecedents. Ruth A. Drayer's book, Numerology, The Power in Numbers (Square One Publishers) says that around the turn of the century (from 1800 to 1900 A.D.) Mrs. L. Dow Balliett combined Pythagoras' work with Biblical reference. Then on Oct 23, 1972, Balliett's student, Dr. Juno Jordan, changed Numerology further and helped it to become the system known today under the title "Pythagorean", although Pythagoras himself had nothing to do with the system known as numerology, which consists in several calculations based on one's name and date of birth after turning the latter os of the whole name into numbers according to the correspondence originally used in Gematria, which is a Cabbalistic tradition of interpreting the numbers related to each name or word—considering that in the Hebrew alphabet numbers and letters a represented by the same symbols. Since Pythagoras had never coined the calculations and had never worked with the Hebrew alphabet, there could actually not possibly be any so-called "Pythagorean" numerology."
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:15 pm
Professor Kain
"Here are some methods:
*Number definitions - There are no set definitions for the meaning of specific digits. Common examples include:
1. Individual. Aggressor. Yang.
2. Balance. Union. Receptive. Yin.
3. Communication/interaction. Neutrality.
4. Creation.
5. Action. Restlessness.
6. Reaction/flux. Responsibility.
7. Thought/consciousness.
8. Power/sacrifice.
9. Highest level of change.
*Alphabetic systems - There are many numerology systems which assign numerical value to the letters of an alphabet. Examples include the Abjad numerals in Arabic, the Hebrew numerals, Armenian numerals, and Greek numerals. The practice within Jewish tradition of assigning mystical meaning to words based on their numerical values, and on connections between words of equal value, is known as gematria.
1= a, j, s; 2= b, k, t; 3= c, l, u; 4= d, m, v; 5= e, n, w; 6= f, o, x; 7= g, p, y; 8= h, q, z; 9= i, r
...and are then summed.
Examples:
* 3,489 → 3 + 4 + 8 + 9 = 24 → 2 + 4 = 6
* Hello → 8 + 5 + 3 + 3 + 6 = 25 → 2 + 5 = 7
A quicker way to arrive at a single-digit summation (the digital root) is simply to take the value modulo 9, substituting a 0 result with 9 itself.
Different methods of calculation exist, including Chaldean, Pythagorean, Hebraic, Helyn Hitchcock's method, Phonetic, Japanese, Arabic and Indian.
The examples above are calculated using decimal (base 10) arithmetic. Other number systems exist, such as binary, octal, hexadecimal and vigesimal; summing digits in these bases yields different results. The first example, shown above, appears thus when rendered in octal (base 8 ) :
* 3,48910 = 66418 → 6 + 6 + 4 + 1 = 218 → 2 + 1 = 38 = 310
*Pythagorean system - Pythagoras was never involved in the numerology systems known nowadays. He was actually a philosopher who contributed with the concept of numbers as symbols rather than mere numerals, but numerology as we know it is a system based on Gematria, which is one of the Cabbalistic disciplines. Through Gematria one can get the number of each word or name, since the Hebrew alphabet has the same symbols for both letters and numbers. Western numerology is but a way to adapt the principles of Gematria into the Latin alphabet so as to get the numbers of words and names as well."
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