ILLUSTRATIONS OF NAME AND NUMBERS

ILLUSTRATIONS OF NAME AND NUMBERS

The word “Leinster” gives the compound number of 28, “a number full of contradictions”, which also indicates “loss through trust in others”. This boat was carrying a large number of soldiers as well as passengers, who certainly trusted their lives to others, in the belief that the boat would be accompanied by some of the destroyers from Kingstown Harbour. For some unexplained reason the order to the destroyers never came — the Lienster sailed alone and in less than an hour met her fate and the loss of several hundred lives.
I know two men who at the last moment avoided going on that boat on that particular night by noticing that the compound numbers of their names made 28, the same number as the Leinster and as they had read that in this system of symbolism it is not a fortunate number and being struck by the coincidence of the name of the boat making the same number, both men took their luggage off at the last moment and so escaped.
It is quite natural that under the tension of wax people are more inclined to watch for the slightest clue that might give a warning of danger. I know of many instances where men actually saved their lives by following the clue given by this system of numbers. In one case a man resting by the side of his battery was amusing himself asking the birth dates of the men around him. He was startled to find that they were all born under the number 8, he himself being born on the 26th January, a number 8 man in the “period of the 8″. It had just dawned on him that the day of the month also happened to be an 8, namely the 17th February and looking up he counted the -number of the battery: if was also an 8. Just then a German gun opened fire. He counted the shells as they dropped, each one coming nearer and nearer. As the seventh fell he could not resist the dread that overcame him—he rushed out into the open, and as he did so, the eighth shell struck his battery—he was the only one who escaped.