Frederick Soddy
English radiochemist (1877–1956)
The numbers
3 + 4 = 7
Lo Shu grid
Missing: 5, 6. Present digits repeat to show how many times they occur.
Life path 7 — The Seeker
Seven is the analyst and the mystic at once — the tradition assigns it both, and does not treat that as a contradiction. It is read as the number of depth, solitude and the refusal to accept a surface explanation. Its difficulty is distance: the withdrawal that makes the thinking possible is read as coldness by everyone outside it, and 7 is described as being misunderstood more often than it is disliked.
Complete lines
Line of Reason
A complete line in the grid.
Line of Expression
A complete line in the grid.
Line of Ambition
The 7-8-9 column complete. Read as drive that has both the wish and the machinery — the traditional marker of someone who converts intention into position.
Cooperation
A complete line in the grid.
Organisation
A complete line in the grid.
Repeated numbers
7 appears 3 times
Concentrated inwardness. Read as a mind that prefers its own company and pays a social price for it.
What is missing
Missing 5
The centre of the grid, so its absence is weighted heavily. Read as difficulty adapting mid-course — a preference for the plan already chosen over the plan now indicated.
Missing 6
Read as a complicated relationship with obligation — either avoiding it or over-shouldering it, rarely a settled middle.
Vedic — Ank Jyotish
Moolank 2 comes from the day of the month alone; Bhagyank 7 from the whole date. They differ, which is the ordinary case — the two numbers answer different questions.
Chandra
The Moon. Mind, mood, reflection. Read as receptivity and changeability.
Bhagyank uses the same arithmetic as the Western life path, so the two will always agree. That is not two traditions confirming each other — it is one calculation under two names.
In their words
As scientific men we have all, no doubt, felt that our work has been put often to base uses, which must lead to disaster. But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime.
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared.
Science has wrecked beyond repair certain dogmas and beliefs... current prior to... the doctrine of evolution... That doctrine has... reversed the traditional outlook of men and turned their highest interest from the contemplation of the past to the problems of the future. But physical science... contemporaneously... has contributed in its doctrine of energy an advance of... possibly... greater fundamental importance... It, therefore, is almost a duty of the scientific man... to attempt to rebuild.., destroy, and to state... his view of the matters in which hitherto the priest and the philosopher have, with insufficient knowledge of external nature, been left to themselves.
Amid a world of appearance and change, science seeks the fundamental and abiding realities, and... applies... the test of "conservation." Whatever is conserved unchanged during all possible changes is regarded as real.
I make no pretence... whether the personality, conscience and soul... is... capable of being regarded as... development of the simple consciousness, or awareness, of its existence... possessed by the lowly . I accept the... complete break of continuity between the animate and inanimate worlds, as being all that is really demanded... If I am told that unless I make another such break between man and... animals, I weaken the argument I have suggested accounting for the origin of the belief in... immortality... by including therein all living creatures, it is only necessary to say that the general doctrine of evolution of man from the lower animals seems to point unmistakably in this direction.
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