THE DREAD OF THE NUMBER “13� UNFOUNDED

THE DREAD OF THE NUMBER “13� UNFOUNDED

To find the true interpretation of this weird picture one must go back to the meaning attached to the single number of 4, of which the 13 makes a second 4 in its compound number.
The single 4, as you have read earlier in these pages, is a strange number in itself. Persons dominated by it are usually misunderstood and lonely in their lives; people who bring about opposition with secret enemies constantly at work against them; they reverse the order of things in communities and governments; they are attracted to social questions and reforms of all kinds; they rebel against authority and set up new dynasties or republics.The 13 has all these qualities in its higher scale, but even more accentuated. It cuts down all before it, reversing the order of things shown by the hands and feet springing up in the grass and the crowned head falling before the scythe. The female head in the background denotes social reform, the new order of things and the uplifting of women, and so forth.
It was perhaps this picture of a skeleton with a scythe in its bony fingers, calling up the idea of Death in the minds of those who could not understand the inner meaning of the symbolism that caused the number 13 to be so dread.