Show Sacred an and Lucky u C Numbers Superstitious Notions Connected With Almost Every EveryOne Ever EverOne EveryOne One of the Digits Six Sh Is Held Highly Potent in Mystical l Properties Very many superstitious and curt curl Otis ous Ideas have ha been and are still connected with numbers Great hopes have been founded upon certain com of numbers In lotteries In horoscopes or In predictions regard regarding regardIng In ing Important events Important un on have awaited favor favorable able dates for tor their Inception and the lives of more than one leader of men have ha been more or less influenced by a regard for certain nu no combinations supposed to have a dominating power In shaping a successful career writes a con contrIbutor contributor contributor In the Eng Ens Weekly Post There have been superstitious no- no no no- notions notions dons connected with nearly every everyone everyone everyone one of the nine dl digital numbers The number 1 was held to be sa ea creel cred because It represented the unity of the Godhead This number 13 esteemed as very ver lucky luchy by the Ja Jail anese anest who ho allot but ut one day to each of the several e era 1 operations of husban husbandry husbandry husbandry dry leaving that thit portion of the tho crop that could not be gathered In one day TIle The second digit acquired an espe cape especially especially dally evil reputation among the early Christians because the second day hell was created along with Ith heaven and cirth The Cabalists said It typified union onion of Christ It seems to hive have been a number unlucky In English d di II was wag slain In battle William II and Ed Edward Edward d dward ward II were ere murdered Ethelred II Richard II and James II were forced to abdicate and Henry II Charles II and George II were unfortunate In many wais a s The number seems to have been nn an unlucky one to the sovereigns of other European coun coup u p of Navarre of Spain of ot Anjou of Savoy passed or Ir reigns unhappily The number S 3 has as an abundance of superstitions connected with It it It wa wasp was die the perfect number of the who said It represent etT ed the beginning middle and end endA endA endA A greater Importance was given to Use the number because It represented time the Trinity not only In the time Christ ChristInn ChristIan Inn Ian religion but In many others There was but little mystery at attached to the numbers 4 and D 6 In folk folI lore the four leaved clover Is especIally lucky luchy The four of ot clubs Is an nn unlucky card and It Is named the devil s four post bed The Cabalists asserted that the number G 6 was potent In ill my properties The world was created In six days the Jewish servant served six years Job endured sIx trIbulations tribulations and hence the time figure typIfied labor and suffering The rabbis asserted that tho the letter vau which represented six was stamped I on the manna to remind the Jews It fell on six days only I IThe i The number C G was an unlucky one oneat oneat at Rome nome Sextus was a brutal tyrant and the church was dl vided under Urban the Sixth I The number 7 has been Invested with more mystery than nil an the oth other other er em- digits together and to It were ascribed magic and mystical QuaIl tIes possessed by no other numbers Several learned treatises have been written on this number and sep sep- combinations ha have base e been sought soucht everywhere In an old writer of two centuries ago ngo we may rend read why In his opinion the number Is excellent First he says It Is neither begotten nor begets secondly It Is a num ber and contains all the harmonics harmonies thirdly It Is 1 a theological number of perfection fourthly It It Is composed of perfect numbers and participates of their virtues Ue may find better reason reasons for tor the importance attached to this number Much Moch of It Is 18 doubtless duo to its Ita prominence In the Bible The seven days of creation led to a divIsion of time to all ages Several of the Jewish feasts lasted seven even days Ellsha sent to wash In the Jordan Jordin seven time times times and sent his servant from Mount Carmel seven times to look for rain For seven days seven priests with seven trumpets In Invested ested Jericho and on the seventh day they encompassed It seven times There were seven seen viz tues toes and seven mortal sins The e ancients not only noted the tho th Importance of seven roven na as a an astro astro- astronomical period but also connected wIth the seven planets the seven t metals then known The soul BOut of man was wal anciently supposed to be controlled by this double combustion It was also an ancient belle belief that a change In the tho body of otman f man occurs every seventh se yearn year Says an old writer Augustus Caesar as vas ras glad and anI hoped that he was to Uvo livo long be- be because be because cause he had passed his sixty three thrle years For oldo men seldom beldom passed I that year eor but hut they thoy r are arc In tu danger u of otheir their lives Two years the seventh and ninth commonly bring great changes to a mans man's life and great I dangers therefore 63 that contain eth elli eth both these nu numbers number rs multiplied to- to together together to together gether unknown dan dan- dan ge |