One of the pessimum lies perpetrated by New Age gurus is that Pythagoras is responsible for what we phone up 'Numerology'. Nothing could be added from the fact and, no event how frequent books stipulate on the contrary, here simply is no real verification to flying buttress the assert. The prevalence of this possibility genuinely highlights the utter deficit of real, pedantic research and the friendliness spirit of texts published for the 'metaphysical' activity. At best, this go to cooperation the chamber of Numerology to an past origin is a despairing grip at belief. At worst, it's downright dogma.
I have locomote intersectant a figure of sources who reprobate popular saintly belief, markedly the Judeo-Christian net. These authors, so called, habitually spine to a putative dearth of historical proof to long pillow their claims. As if historical verification genuinely had whatsoever pose upon a event of faith! Yet, here is, more recurrently than not, a shortage of humanistic discipline corroboration in good opinion to their own situation. I even cognise of a Numerologist who claims to have publication everything Pythagoras has in writing. The fact that nix written by Pythagoras, if there ever was anything holographic by Pythagoras, survives seems not to worry the writer. The main foundation for specified second-rate award is a famine of existent research. Most 'new age' writers simply citation separate in demand renditions of their branch of learning and continue the legends they include. A ordinal pretext may be that quite a few inhabitants cognizance that Numerology lacks authority without an ancient and perplexing history.
However, the genuine yesteryear of Numerology begins in the 20th period of time. Most notoriously next to L. Dow Balliett. In her religious writing she does say that she was encouraged by Pythagoras, or rather by what we know of his dogma. But this is a far cry from the claims man ready-made nowadays. Other writers repeated the tendency of imaginary creature analysis through with number such as as Julia Seton, Florence Campbell, Juno Jordan, Matthew Goodwin, and numerous others. This tradition continues nowadays.