In February of 1894, Dr. Daniel Garrison Brinton, a Civil War Union Army surgeon, delivered a short paper to the Oriental Club of Philadelphia titled THE ORIGIN OF SACRED NUMBERS. Therein he professed, stating:
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”An investigation into the origin of sacred or holy numbers should exclude the consideration of numbers used in merely classificatory and conventional relations, as those which naturally flow from the quinary, decimal, duodecimal, and vigesimal systems of numeration; and also the cabalistic, occult or mystic employment of numbers, so common in the secret philosophies, as these were conscious fabrications or adaptations, in a social condition far removed from that of primitive thought.
Confining the study to holy or sacred numbers as observed in the early civilizations and among tribes living in what we call primitive conditions, where the culture status still bears a distinct ethnic character because largely indigenous and spontaneous, I have reached certain conclusions which, so far as I know, have not heretofore been stated, at least neither so fully nor so definitely, by any of the numerous writers on this subject….”
Considering Dr. Brinton’s attempt at sanctified numerical methodology, what, in your estimation are the Ancient’s Sacred Numbers, and why?
Dr. Troglodyte