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Show 8eveh a Mystlo Number. In the Old Testament seven possessed pos-sessed mystic significance. For seven days seven priests with seven trumpets trum-pets Invested Jericho, and on the seventh sev-enth day encompassed It seven times. Ellsha sent Naaman to wash In tho Jordan seven times. Ten times seven Israelites went to Egypt, nnd the exile lasted seven years. According to very ancient teachings, the soul of man and his body are composed of seven proper-tics, proper-tics, which were under the Influence of seven plufiets. Fire gave tho M-nse of feeling. Water gave the sense of speech. Air gnve the sense of taste. Mist gave tho sense of sight. Flowers gave the sense of hearing South wind gave the sense of smelling. Clouds gavo the sense of movement. |