Why do Numerologists follow the numerical values assigned to English Alphabets?
Numerology, whatever form it had originally, transmigrated to Chaldean, Egypt, Greece and the land of Herbrews who all had a share in nourishing and developing it. The world always needed is simple, easy and quick ways of understanding and solving the day-to-day problems. Unlike the Eastern scripts, the Phoenician, Greek or Roman scripts provided the solution. The Egyptian numerals were easy to handle and universally accepted; so were the 26 alphabets.