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Asenath Williams Woodcock Cochran (1851-1931)

The School of Universal Vibration: 
Aso-Neith Cochran and the Musical Origins of American Numerology
​By M. Marble

While the symbolic interpretation of numbers is an ancient and well-documented tradition, the origins of popular American numerology remain somewhat hazy and misunderstood. By numerology I mean the symbolic interpretation of numbers corresponding to names and dates as applied to personal spiritual development. Numerologists and historians generally attribute the origins of the American tradition to New Jersey Christian mystic Sarah Joanna Balliett and her Neopythagorean “number vibration,” whose sounds, colors, and calculations entered popular awareness around 1904. But there was someone who appears to have preceded her in advocating a similar “number science.” And, like the musical origins of American numerology, she has remained almost completely forgotten. Her cryptically derived name is Aso-Neith Cochran (1851-1931).
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