Eirst Line Shows Numerals in Their Present-Day Form. Second Shows Ancient Symbols from Which Mme. Br;dlova Believes They Were Derived. Third Depicts Secret Meaning of SyMbols. 2 35 4 5 6 {( 8 9 N Jp ] | win, ror Stars--from an Vegetable Life, Sym- Animal Life, Symbo- The Soul, Symbolized Woman, Symbolizing Man, Symbolizing the Moon-Goddess, Sym. bolized by a Tree. lized by a Lion. riling ™ Si Symbolized The Sun-God, Symbol The Path of the Sun The Mocn and Its In- The rd a Perfect Circle. . of Masculine Deity. Through the Zodiac. fiuence on the Tides. Old Tarot Card. AWoman Scientist's St New Theory About Nu Declares Our Every-day Numerals Are Secret Symbols Which Explain Mystery of Life the Female Element. Masculine Element. bol of Feminine Deity. by a Pair of Wings. 4 4 AVE you ever stopped to wonder where numbers came from-- the familiar yet queerly shaped curly-cues you use 50 many times a day when you want to write a date, or a telephone num- Ber, or do a sum? They didn't always exist. Man first counted with his fingers. Then be used straight lines. One line meant one, two lines meant two, and so on. Then he used the alphabet--the Roman system--which you still se: on clocks and the cornerstones of buildings. Finally the world adopted the familiar figures you now employ. They are called Arabic numerals, but were known to many ancient races. Science has generally believed they were simply convenient signs, meaning nothing but what they were obviously intended to mean. Now a woman scientist, Bozena Mary Brydlova, declares she has discovered that these numerals have an additional, secret symbolic meaning which she is the first to proclaim to modern times. Her own fascinating explanation of her theory is here presented. By Bozena Mary Brydlova. HE true origin of numberforms is a T subject which, up to the present time, has baffled research and inves- tigation. The record leads so far into the remot< past that it has discouraged hope light on the subject. I realize that they are revolutionary, but I am confident that they will eventually be accepted as con- vincing. In so brief an article I can only pregent the simple outline of my theory. It is known that geometrical figures and - Dra N Born Baby, Showing Navel as Exact Center a wing a New- to the Circle's All Life Forms, Acc Interpreted by Means of the Circle and of over obtaining complete and satisfac ledge. 'symbols have been used to mysteries of nature from times, It is also certain that whatever constituted the welgmal suabervoruns, 3 BCR RR lh Be According to Mme. Brydlova, shapes must University of Chicago Press, Ancient Stone of the Sun and ~ -Venus--Sometimes Called the Aztec Calendar. The Eight Points, Which Have Remained a Mystery to Archaeologists, Are Explained Bozena Mary Budlovs, Startling New oh f th Symbolism of heory of th . Creating World-wide ry cal parent form--probably ther the square or the circle, since thesa are the two principal standard shapes in gdometry. My theory presents the circle, the circle with its eight 45-degree angles (as in an eight-spoked wheel) as the parent of the original number forms. And this circle, I believe, {s nothing less than the eight-spoked solar wheel itself, the "Sun Circle," which has existed throughout all antiquity as a central and all-embracing nature-symbol. To our skeptical minds, the mysteries of life and of the universe have assumed gigantic and unsolvable proportions, while all along dear Mother Nature has beem patiently and sweetly holding out her open book to us. This book is not a heavy, ponderous one that only the few can understand. It is #50 a child's primer, a First Reader, and its A B C consists of the simple figures that comprise our ten numerals. These figures form, represent and in- clude all that there is in nature. them, Nature herself has constructed every form, every color, every sound, every bird, by Mme. Brydlova,, the number series, hold all the others dn their embrace, -and all the other figures are made by combinations of the straight line angles taken from these circles, The worship of the sun and moon were inherent in all ancient religions. Ra, the most powerful of all Egyptian gods, was a sun-god, and Isis, the chief Egyptian female deity, was a moon-god- dess. The Persian fire worshippers, followers of ZoFoaster, were in reality sun worshippers. Their fires were only symbols of the great globe of fire that Sted the heavens and warmed and fructified the earth with its rays. The wor- ship of the sun meant symbolically the worship of life and the life principle itself, Sir Gilbert Frazer, author of "The Golden Bough," the most exhaustive his- tory of natural religions ever ie even dares go so far as to say that all religions which contain a "dying god" ritual--not even excepting Christianity--are partially based on.the symbolism of the worship of the sun, which sinks lower and lower in the heavens with the dying year and tri- umphantly rises again and renews its glowing heat at the end of Winter. Among all the races of antiquity these two numeral figures have represented the sun and moon, which they worshipped as gods. NUMBER 2, in fits simpler primitive form as illustrated at the top of this page, represents the pathway of the sun across the face of the zodiac. Antique symbology is replete with carvings and drawings of sun-god bearing the figure "2" or "2" upon his person. This figure has never before been adequately explained, and has always been a puzzle to symbologists and . archaeologists alike. NUMBER 3, as originally written, repre- sents the influence of the moon upon the tides. In the picture-writing of the Egyp- tians the word for water was represented by the original number 3. An interesting scientific sidelight is that snow-erystals, which are crystalized water, always as- semble into shapes composed of the orl- The Oriental Picture of the Sufie God Whose Eight Arms, According to the Brydlovan Theory, Repre- sent the Eight Divisions of a Circle. Among the most familiar flowers we find many of the five-petaled variety, such as the petunia, phlox, morning glory, jasmine, trumpet vine, begonia, pansy, cherry blos- som, wild rose, marsh marigold, buttercup, forget-me-not and nasturtium. NUMBER 6 represents the beginning of animal creation. The flattened body of the animal shows six points, a head, four legs and a tail. The numeralogical se- quence of the appearance of animals on earth, is parallel both with the Biblical story of creation and with modern sch entific knowledge, placing the création of animal life after the creation of vegetation. NUMBER 7 has always stood for the soul in ancient symbology. And the Nume bon 7, in its original shape, is the "soul" of all the numeral forms, for, as you will see by looking at the top of the page, it is the perfect fortyfivedegree which appears in variations in the numbers. NUMBER 8 represents woman, or the feminine sex principle In nature. Micro scopic biological female organisms are like it in shape. NUMBER 9 is man, or the male principle in nature. The male life cell, seen in a biological laboratory, is al -4dentical in shape with the number whick symbolizes ft. NUMBER 10, I have already explained as the symbol of the moon and the moon- goddess. It is, my belief, after years of research and stady, that these symbo| interpretations of the hidden meanings of numbers are not accidental, I believe that the symbolical meanings were consciously and intentionally used in antique ounl$ § and that the analogies are based