Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-19

Washington, Nov. 16.-This is about
numbers-but most of the numbers
will be small, and nobody viii be ask
ed to do any figuring.
In the high and far off times. as
kipling would say. dignified men IN
turbans and robes took a figure such
as seven or nine and regarded it as
mystic and tried to understand the
meanings it might have in relation to
life.
Today men in tweed suits are still
bordering on the anne subject. They
point out that through the centuries,
through widely separate civilizations, a
symbolism of numbers has persisted.
They also talk ~learnedly of number
vibrations, harmonies, the signs OF the
zodiac, of living up to the plane of q
number. and of the science Of num-
bers. This is a field for the erudite.
but some of the simpler facts are in
teresting whether you regard a num-
Der as purely meaningless in itself, as
q sign 10 c~onjure with, or as a clue to
the understanding of the universe.
According to Matthew Dawson, one
of the modern students of numbers.
there is practically always al ancient
precedent for our current ollustions TO
numbers.
When % was popular slang q few
years ago how many Americans real
lied that they were barking back TO
old Egypt and the mysteries of the
priests3 Yet Mr.. Dawson explains
that the origin of the expression can
be found there. 1t Gems that the
Egyptian priesthood used n pack of
IS cards known as tarots for divina-
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ners of our modern playing card pack.
Some of their symbolism can still be
found on playing cards. But the tarots
! They were like a book of occult phil
osophy, with each card Il page of sym
bols aud principles.
The public OF Egypt was interested
in the lore of the tarots no less than
/ the priests. But. said the priests, If
the laity can study all our sources Of
knowledge they may divine events as
well as we. So. to protect their secrets,
twenty-five of the highest cards were
withheld from the sight of the public.
The fifty-six less important cards. be
ginning with the twenty-third card of
the deck were available for anyone's
use.
From this situation in Egypt, Mr.
Dawson says. twenty-three came tC
suggest something outside of the
sacred mystery. and hence not of any
importance, or readily dispensed with
Origin of Thirteen Superstition
Egypt may or may not be originally
responsible for the idea Of thirteen be.
ing unlucky. But on the thirteenth
tarot of the pack was the picture Of
a skeleton with the number thirteen
below it. This was the number OF
death. regeneration. and change, Later
thirteen was associated with the tragic
story of the Last Supper. where Chris
and the twelve disciples sat down to.
gether.
Mr.. Dawson. who believes that in.
dividuals vibrate to numbers. says thai
thirteen is not unlucky il you can live
tup to its high plane. but that It il
difficult to vibrate to thirteen Thi:
may lift a weight from some of thu
thirteen as inevitably fatal.
Four has always been taken 10 sug
gest the material. while three is th,
number of divinity. according to mum
her lore. Some of the best examples
OF this symbolism are found in tht
Book of Revelation i'll the Bible. Al
through this book numbers are uset
in code fashion. -Four corners of th'
earth take il everything in the ma
terial world The four living creature:
around the throne represent the entire
world Of living things. Three suggest;
the Trinity and when three and fou1
are multiplied you have twelve.
Speaking of the number twelve II
his study Of the Book Of Revelation
n. w. Wilson says: Here You arrive
at the idea of a creation into whict
God has entered. You have some
thing that has been secular but mas
become spiritual, Thus you have l.
! tribes of a chosen Israel. the l. chos-
en- apostles. the l. stars around fas
head of the eternal woman, the L
rates of the city. which being holy is
10 non f~urlongs every way, and II by
II cubits high. while the number OF