The devil's dozen, or the number 13, has been considered unlucky since ancient times. And there are certain grounds for such a belief. At least, there are many known cases when the number 13 became fatal. The most famous is the Last Supper, during which thirteen people were at the table with Jesus Christ. What happened next is probably well known to most readers: Jesus Christ was captured that evening and then executed at Calvary.
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The mystics believe that the number 13 contains two forces that are opposite in their effect on a person: one is good, the other is evil. And this is due to the fact that the number 13 consists of two digits: tens and three. The number 10 means strength and action, and 3, on the contrary, carries a certain limitation. Together, these numbers lead to the fact that many beginnings fail.
But collapse is not only a defeat, but also the beginning of a new cycle after the completion of the previous one. Therefore, the number 13 not only symbolizes destruction and death, but also the birth of a new one, which replaces the old.
Another mystical number is the number 7. Thus, in Christianity, the "seven" is considered a divine number and occupies an important place in the ritual symbolism of this religion. Here are just a few of them: the seven sacraments, the seven gifts of the holy spirit, the seven ecumenical councils, the seven candles in the altar lamp, the seven deadly sins, etc.
And most likely, it is not in vain that the week is divided into seven days, and the rainbow consists of seven colors, and even, perhaps, there is some hidden meaning in the fact that the musical scale is represented by seven notes, and there are seven “holes” for the senses in the head.
It is important to note that the number 7 has a religious meaning not only in Christianity. Thus, every devout Muslim must at least once in his life visit the holy places of Islam - Mecca and Medina. At the same time, he is obliged to walk 7 times around the sacred stone of the Kaaba and 7 times to run between the hills of al-Safa and al-Marwa.
It is also known from history that the destinies of the Sumerians were ruled by seven gods and goddesses. And when the Sumerian died, he went to the underworld through one of the seven gates, where one of the seven judges was waiting for him.
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But, perhaps, the most mysterious number is the number 666, which is referred to in the Revelation of John the Theologian. It is called "the number of the beast" in this book.
“Everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slaves, will have a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and that no one will be allowed to buy or sell, except for the one who has this mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. He who has intelligence, count the number of the beast, for it is a human number; his number is six hundred and sixty-six”(Rev. 13: 16-18).
John tells us that under this number the name of a certain person is hidden. But what kind of personality is hidden behind this figure, it is invited to find out the reader himself. But only one who has the appropriate "wisdom" can do this.
For this reason, over many centuries of interpretation of the Apocalypse, many interpretations of the number 666 have appeared. It was assigned to the Roman emperors Nero, Domitian, Caligula, Trajan, Hadrian. And also to the Pope, Peter I, Napoleon, Stalin.
In the Middle Ages in Catholicism, it was believed that the number 666 symbolizes the threefold proclamation of creation without the Sabbath and the world without the Creator, which means the triple and final renunciation of God.
An interesting version regarding the number 666 was suggested by the professor of the Moscow Theological Academy A. I. Osipov. He connects the origin of this figure with the era of Solomon. The fact is that annually 666 talents (Jewish talent weighed 44.8 kilograms) of gold were delivered to the treasuries of this king, that is, more than 32 tons. And since the first Christian texts were most often written by Jews, they understood this allegory literally, that is, as a sign of wealth, power and other earthly goods. Thus, A. I. Osipov, "this figure is, in essence, the biblical symbol of mammon - the kingdom of earthly abundance, glory, power", as a consequence "this absolute materialism will become the name of the Antichrist as his greatest ideologist." At the same time, the professor warns that "outside of this sense, the fear of sixes is a sign of Christian superstition."
At the end of the twentieth century, a letter decoding of the abbreviation 666 appeared. Its essence boiled down to the fact that 666 is nothing more than www, or the World Wide Web, that is, the Internet. In other words, it is the World Wide Web that should be identified with the Antichrist.
It turns out that for the Chinese and Japanese, as well as for people from these countries, the mystical and at the same time dangerous number is 4. This was proved by American sociologists.
The fact is that when scientists conducted statistical studies on mortality over 25 years among 200 thousand American Chinese and Japanese, as well as - for comparison - among 47 thousand Americans of European descent, they received shocking results. On average, among the Chinese and Japanese, the mortality rate increased by 7% on the fourth day, and among chronic heart patients - by 13%. That is, the patients were afraid and at the same time expected death on the fourth day!
Stress is most likely the cause of this phenomenon. And it is provoked by the word "four", which in Japanese, as well as in a number of Chinese dialects, such as Cantonese and Mandarin, sounds exactly the same as the word "death". Some Chinese and Japanese hospitals, therefore, do not even have wards number four and do not have a fourth floor - from the third you go directly to the fifth.
Bernatsky Anatoly