Motives — Appearance — Methods

There are three important phases of your personality. 1st, the inner nature, with its likes and dislikes, viewpoints, inten­tions, ideals and standards. With this basis you consciously or unconsciously judge everyone and everything you meet. 2nd. Your general appearance, or physical type through which you impress strangers in ways favorable or unfavorable to your success. 3rd. Your general temperament, through which you outwardly respond to the people and things around you. This phase is used as a vehicle for your ideas and to show your nat­ural abilities. These three phases may be different from each other, which is why you are not always satisfied with the way you express, or find it easy to impress other people in the way you had hoped to do.

These three phases of the personality are revealed by the letters and numbers of your name as it was given to you com­pletely at the time of your birth. If other names are now used, or if additional names were added by adoption, confirmation or marriage, disregard these and write only the complete origi­nal name as it was first given to you.

Select the vowels or the letters a, e, i, o, u in this name and place over the top of them the numbers corresponding in the table of the alphabet which follows.

Add these numbers of the vowel letters together and re­duce the total to a single digit. This is your "Ideality" number, your inner nature, what you would like to do and be, what you appreciate in other people and in surroundings, the number that determines the motive behind what you do.

To find the number of your general physical appearance or "Impression" put the proper numbers under every letter of the name except the vowel letters of a, e, i, o, u which you have already numbered. Add these numbers to a total also and re­duce to a single digit.

To find the number of your general temperament, the "Expression", place the proper numbers under every letter of the name; add to a total and reduce this total to a single digit. This will reveal the methods you are likely to take to express your ideas, how you are in the habit of talking and acting, how you usually handle your opportunities.

Practice with the following example.

Table of Letters and Numbers

Birth Name

Vowels 6 + 6 + 5 =17=1+7=8 "Ideality"

JOHN BOLES

Consonants 1   +  8+5 +   2   +   3   +  1=20=2+0=2 "Impression" All letters   1+6+8+5 +     2+6+3+5+1=37=3+7=1 "Expression"

When you have found the numbers of the three phases of your personality, Motive, Appearance and Method, turn to them in the indexed portion of this book and read their mean­ing as applied to yourself. In practicing this method, study first your own numbers, try to relate them with what you know of yourself and then try calculating the names of the most inti­mate associates in your life. Do not be impatient or make the mistake of at first attempting to reconcile all individual action, impulse and appearance with the numbers. Remember! people do the best they know of; many do not realize their true possi­bilities as clearly as Numerology can, and so they cannot be expected to live to these.

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