

The freemasonry movement developed from elite groups of contracted builders who wished to keep the technological methods and sacred significance of cathedral building a secret. 306 divided by 2 is 153 which is the number of the fish making an allusion to the fish caught by Simon Peter. 306 was the number of a leading dimension of its design in Roman feet. The adopted motto, "assumptio virginis beats mariae" holds the gematriac number 306. The Chartres Cathedral was built with numerological influences as well. Camel 7 in times to search for a certain cloud and on the 8th time he found it. Another example would be when Elijah commanded his servant Ahab to return to Mt. One example of this would be when Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses for marrying an Ethiopian woman, Miriam was required to go in the wilderness alone for 7 days and on the 8th day to rejoin Exodus. 7 is the length of famine and other God-imposed events and is sometimes followed by the number 8 as a symbol of change. Jesus asked God 3 times if he could avoid crucifixion and was crucified at 3 in the afternoon. For example, the numbers 3 and 7 hold strong spiritual meaning in the bible. However, despite the church's resistance to numerology, there have been arguments made for the presence of numerology in the bible and religious architecture. Despite this religious purging, the spiritual significance assigned to the heretofore "sacred" numbers had not disappeared several numbers, such as the " Jesus number" have been commented and analyzed by Dorotheus of Gaza and numerology still is used at least in conservative Greek Orthodox circles. Numerology had not found favor with the Christian authority of the day and was assigned to the field of unapproved beliefs along with astrology and other forms of divination and "magic". In 325 AD, following the First Council of Nicaea, departures from the beliefs of the state church were classified as civil violations within the Roman Empire. See Numerology and the Church Fathers for early Christian beliefs on the subject. 354–430) wrote "Numbers are the Universal language offered by the deity to humans as confirmation of the truth." Similar to Pythagoras, he too believed that everything had numerical relationships and it was up to the mind to seek and investigate the secrets of these relationships or have them revealed by divine grace.

Pythagoras and other philosophers of the time believed that because mathematical concepts were more "practical" (easier to regulate and classify) than physical ones, they had greater actuality. 6.2 Attempts by gamblers to see patterns in random chance.6.1 To describe questionable concepts based on possibly coincidental numerical patterns.
