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The Gannstudygroup Presents THE ASO-NEITH CRYPTOGRAM Revised Edition (This corrected edition supplies text that was missing in one of the articles.) This E-Book is not to be sold. It is a free educational service in the public interest published by Gann Study Group 2 THE ASO-NEITH TABLE OF CONTENTS THE NUMBER THEORY OF ASO-NEITH Numbers Rule Your Fate 5 Names, Numbers and Fate 9 Fate, Numbers and Vibration 16 What the Mystic Numbers Foretell for Alice's Future 21 Name Values 23 The Newest Way of Marrying Happily 25 New Cult Solves Secrets of Universe 30 Unhappy? Your Number is Wrong 35 Naming Babies an Exact Science 36 CRYTOGRAM 3 THE LIFE AND DRAMA OF ASO-NEITH Mrs. A. N. Cochran 38 Everything's in a Name 42 Finds Reason for John D's Success 44 Priestess Will Change Society Girls' Names to Suit Conditions 46 (Untitled article on baldness) 47 Magic Amid the Cocoanuts 47 Marital Warfare of the Millers Ended 50 Gets $500,000 to Stop Divorce Suit 50 "Aso Neith" Cult Explained 51 Noted Cartoonist Dies in New York 52 Traded on Her Belief in Magical Numbers 53 Magic Numbers in Business 55 C. M. Pond Sued by Wife 56 Name out of Tune, Wife Quit 57 Discordant Name Disrupts Home 58 Detectives Seek Mystic Teacher Following Raid 59 Police Still Hunt 'Omnipotent Oom' 60 Fortune Teller Fined 62 $50,000 Willed to Cultist 63 $50,000 Fund Left to Fortune Teller 63 4 THE ASO-NEITH THE NUMBER THEORY OF ASO-NEITH CRYTOGRAM 5 The [NY] Sun, Sunday, March 29, 1903 NUMBERS RULE YOUR FATE. THAT IS THE THEORY WORKED OUT BY A MUSIC TEACHER. She Has Applied Mathematics to Divination and Says Every One Can Succeed Merely by Keeping His Enterprises in Accord With His Numbers. One of the latest additions to modern augury is mathematical divination, or rather, like most other systems of fortune telling, it is an old theory revived. The attention of the writer was first called to it in the office of a Wall Street broker. It was when copper was beginning to advance and a customer was leaving an order. "Did I understand you," said the broker, "that if I don't buy to-day at 63, you put in a buy order to-morrow at 65, that you don't want to buy at 64, and if I don't get it to-day or to-morrow at 63 or 65, to stop the order until the twenty-sixth or twenty-seventh of the month?" "Yes, that's right. I don't want you to buy except on the days and at the figures I have named," replied the customer. "What! Not if there should be a reaction?" The broker glanced at the calendar. "To-day is the seventeenth. I may not be able to execute your order to-day or tomorrow. The market is very irregular just now and in a week there are likely to be a good many changes. If copper should sell off, shall I buy at a lower figure than 62?" "Not unless you can get it at 56, and it isn't likely to react that much. Anyway, if it should, the day of the month would not be right. No; if you don't buy to-day or to-morrow, stop the order until the twenty-sixth or the twenty-seventh and, let me see, the twenty-ninth would be all right if you should not get it before." The broker wrote the order and glanced somewhat anxiously at his customer as he said: "Now let us see if I have this right," and he read what he had written. "Yes, that's all right," said the customer, smiling a little as he noted the broker's puzzled expression. "Do you think I'm a trifle off my bearings?" he continued. "It's not strange if you do, but you see it's like this: These numbers are according to a system I've been looking into lately. It's a little like the old Jewish cabala and the thing works; it's great. 6 THE ASO-NEITH "The woman who discovered it worked out my numbers, and when I stick to them everything goes my way, and when I don't they mostly go the other way. I heard of her through Charley Thompson. He, Richards and I were boys together. "One night they were taking dinner with me, and Richards, who is usually more than good company, was glum. At last I asked him what was the matter, and he told us he had been having a hard time of it, ever since he moved into his new offices down here on Broadway. Said he had not made his office rent since he had been there. Half a dozen times big deals had fallen through when he supposed they were as good as made, and he was getting pretty thoroughly discouraged. "Thompson suggested that perhaps he was under the wrong numbers. We did not know what that meant and wanted him to explain, and he told us about the system. He heard of it through one of his pupils. Being, in a way, in his line, he was interested and looked into it. "You see, it is like this: Each person has certain numbers that belong to him, out of which a concord can be made, and if he works under this harmony, success is the result, and if he doesn't, he is likely to get a discord. "Well, Richards went to the woman who got up this system, and she told him he would never be successful at the number where he was located and he must move. He had a long lease, and there were other reasons why it was impossible for him to do so. "He asked her if there was not some way out of it, and she suggested that if he had a partner whose numbers were in accord with the number of his offices to take charge of a part of the business which she indicated, the difficulty would be, in part at least, overcome. "He and Carter had been talking of a partnership. The woman worked out Carter's numbers, found they were all right, the partnership was formed and business has been going all right ever since." "Queer," said the broker, "and not easy to _______" he hesitated and then added, "understand." "You were going to say 'believe,'" said his customer, "and I admit it does seem an improbable thing, but no more so than sending a wireless did ten years ago, or that one kind of light ray will heal and another burn, as Finsen has demonstrated." Just then the notes of old Trinity's chimes fell in a shower of silvery melody among the big buildings and the throng of people hurrying up and down Wall street. You see," he continued, "the year, month and day of the month of one's birth, CRYTOGRAM 7 together with one's name, give each person certain numbers, and just as those chimes form a overtone these numbers form a concord. We don't hear each note the bells strike, what we hear is the overtone, and what counts in this system is the concord, or overtone, for the whole thing is founded on the principles that are the basis of music, and nonsense, or not, the thing has, so far, worked as uniformly as the law of gravity, with me and I propose to let it keep working." And he went out leaving the broker wondering. It was found on investigation that the person with whom this system originated is not a professional prophet, but a teacher of music, who makes a specialty of teaching musical compositions. In studying vibrations and harmony somewhat beyond the point that has as yet been set down in books, she thinks she has found that each digit and each letter has a uniform vibration. She says, as a matter of fact, that there is no such thing as chance, that everything is relevant and signifies; and that a rose by any other name, however sweet it might be, would not be a rose, since a name is of importance. The alphabet, digit, and the law of vibration are the foundation of the system. It is declared that the alphabet of every language is of deep import, and is not only in itself prophetic but interprets prophecy, as it relates to people who use it. The system divides the alphabet into three divisions, or degrees. The first nine letters constitute the first degree; the next nine the second degree, and the last eight the third degree. Each letter is represented by a digit number, as follows: A, J and S are represented by one in each of the three degrees; B, K and T, by two; C, L and U, by three; D, M and V, by four; E, N and W, by five; F, O and X, by six; Y, P and G, by seven; H, Q and Z, by eight, and I, and R, by nine there being no ninth letter in the third degree. The significance of each number and letter of the first degree are as follows: one is the beginning, the father; two the mother or moulder; three, the created; four, the matter, the physical; five, the duality of man; six, the pattern of all building; seven, the completed temple; eight, the manifestation of God; nine, revelation. The other two degrees, with some slight differences, are simply an intensification of the first. As an illustration, take the name and birth dates of Pope Leo XIII. The letters of his first name, Joachim, are represented by the following numbers: 1, 6, 1, 3, 8, 9, 4. Add these, and the sum is 32. Add again, as all numbers are reduced to a digit, and the sum is 5. In the last name, Pecci, the letters represent 7, 5, 3, 3, 9. The sum of these numbers is 27. Adding again to get the digit, and we have 9. March is the third month, and the Pope was born the second day of that month, 1810. Adding the numbers of the year, and we have 10. This makes the numbers from which the 8 THE ASO-NEITH concord is determined, 5 and 9, which represent the name, and 3, 2, 10 the birth. Ten, being one intensified, the numbers of the Pope's birth represent the first three great principles. Ten is said to represent a person who is sufficient unto himself and this is especially true if a factor of ten is found in the name as the 5 in this case. According to this system, these numbers form a combination which indicates, in part at least, the strong and remarkable character of the man. In addition to being represented by a number, each letter is said to have a color vibration which is also significant. Once thoroughly understood, the author says that by this system one can determine almost anything in connection with his life, for example, the years which will bring exceptional business prosperity, and also those which will not be likely to be successful, so that one may prepare himself, as did Pharaoh of old, in times of plenty for periods when leanness may be expected. Again, that it enables one to determine what persons will prove profitable business associates and faithful friends, and also in what avenue of effort one will be most likely to be successful. In teaching her pupils the author of this system uses it to determine in what department of music he or she will be most successful. An instance of this was a young woman who came rather less than a year ago for instruction and had for some time been studying instrumental music and composition. On applying this system, it was determined that she would be much more successful as a vocalist. As was the case with Melba, who had completed her education in instrumental music before she discovered she had a remarkable voice, this young woman had not supposed she had a voice worth cultivating, but in less than six months she made a successful debut in concert as a vocalist. Another incident is related of the successful working of this sort of divination is of a man who had been, for a long time, struggling with an invention which he was unable to complete. A friend induced him to try putting himself in accord with the vibrations of his numbers. In a few months had his invention perfected and on the market, and is now a multimillionaire. The author of the system holds that his success was due to the concord of his numbers and, to the doubting says that if they will look over their lives they will see that their periods of success have included, in each instance, the same numbers, unless it be that they have outlived the numbers under which they were born, and there is a way to determine that. In support of her theory, the author calls attention to the old Jewish cabala, which she asserts this system makes plain, though she had never examined it until her own had for some time been completed. She also cites the fact that people find certain numbers lucky while others are the reverse, and says that invariably the CRYTOGRAM 9 lucky numbers will be found to be those which make up the person's concord. * * * * * * * The [New York] Sun, Sunday, January 17, 1904 Names, Numbers and Fate More About the System that Enables EveryOne to Be His Own Prophet ... Here is something more about the system of divination based upon the supposed relation between one's fate and certain numbers indicated by the letters of one's name. The system is the invention or discovery of a New York woman, and an article printed in The Sun about it some months ago attracted widespread attention and interest. First, as to some results or alleged results: A man well known in Wall Street was discussing investments in the office of the president of a trust company the other day. When they had looked up various securities, the president of the company asked: "Do you want the matter arranged to-day?" "Let's see, what day of the month is it? The 5th, isn't it? No, I will wait until Wednesday. That will be the 8th. My number is 8, at least that is one of my numbers and the one that belongs to me specially. I will come in Wednesday. Then I'll decide just what I want and we will close the thing up." "What, has it come to that? Are you growing superstitious?" asked the president. "Not a bit of it," was the reply. "This thing of numbers is a science. It's part of the great law of vibration that makes things go and keeps them going." "What is it? What is it called? Where did you get hold of it?" "It's a system that shows a man what his vibrations are and how to do things without being undone by them half the time, or more. I got hold of it through an old acquaintance who had been down on his luck for more than a year, but pulled out in good shape when he got himself straight with his numbers." "How is it done? Who got the thing up?" "It wasn't got up; it was discovered by a woman, a musician — not a player of music, but a born musician. As to the way the thing is done, that's a long story, and 10 THE ASO-NEITH one I can't tell, for I'm not letter perfect myself yet." "How about your acquaintance who was in hard luck? Who told him about these numbers that turned the tide of his affairs into the current of prosperity?" "An old college chum, who is connected with Columbia University. I'm not sure just what he teaches there, but for a number of years he has been interested in the old Jewish cabala, and other things in that line. He heard of this woman and her discovery and went to see her. He studied the thing and found it worked. "When he saw Nichols, he told him that he believed the trouble he was having was that he was under the wrong numbers. At first Nichols wouldn't listen to him — said it was all bosh; but as he kept losing right along, and things were getting to a tough pass with him, like a drowning man, he was ready to catch at a straw, and he went to see the woman who made this discovery. "When she had studied his name and birth dates, she asked him where he was doing business. He told her at 71 Broadway, and gave the number of his office. "'You might as well,' said she, 'expect to send a message across the Atlantic by tapping the Morse alphabet on a table as to hope to make a success of anything you undertake there. "'Your leading number is 7, the others are 10, 5 and 3. Now, you are under 8, which has no relation to any of them, for none of them is even a factor of it. "'Broadway is 8 and the street number and your office number, when added to get the digit, each make 9. This gives you constant, unrelieved opposition, which you cannot overcome. "'Again, this year is not favorable.' It was last year, 1903. You see, when the numbers of this year are added and reduced to a digit we have 4, which has no place among your numbers. Next year you will be better, for 1904, reduced by addition to a digit is 5, which corresponds to your 5 and is a factor of your 10.' "Though he did not put much confidence in the thing, Nichols still wanted to know what he was to do, according to her calculations, to be saved from the numbers that were working him woe. She told him to get an office at 52, or some other number which added would make 7, or, at least, one of his numbers, or some number in harmony with them. "If he could not do this he was to get a man to work with him some of whose numbers accorded with his own. He did the latter, as he had a lease he could not get rid of. "Later he moved to a building where the street number makes 7, and his office