Book excerpt: Mrs. L. Dow Balliett was a very influential speaker in the New Age Thought Movement, took on Pythagoras' theories and is credited with bringing Numerology to the Western world. She is best-known to modern numerologists as the originator and popularizer of the Master Number system, whereby the numbers 11 and 22 are not reduced. In addition to Numerology, she is responsible for the concept of "numerical vibration" being attached to the study of numbers.