33

When I turned 33, not so long ago, this Jack Johnson song popped up in my head. "3 is a magic number... lalala". And I realized (not only because of the song) that 3 is a very special number. Now, recently I read/listened to The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. 33 is a returning number in the book. There's something very special indeed about this number. ...and about being 33 years of age. I can't really put my finger on what it means for me, but I believe it's a sign of some sort. But anyway here's some cool stuff from the book:

In the days of Pythagoras, six centuries before Christ, the tradition of numerology hailed the number 33 as the highest of all the Master Numbers. It was the most sacred figure, symbolizing Divine Truth. The tradition lived on within the Masons . . . and elsewhere. It was no coincidence that Christians were taught that Jesus was crucified at age thirty-three, despite no real historical evidence to that effect. Nor was it coincidence that Joseph was said to have been thirty-three when he married the Virgin Mary, or that Jesus accomplished thirty-three miracles, or that God’s name was mentioned thirty-three times in Genesis, or that, in Islam, all the dwellers of heaven were permanently thirty-three years old.

On the Newton Scale, the temperature of boiling water is thirty-three degrees. I remember asking my brother once why Newton chose that number. I mean, it seemed so random. Boiling water is the most fundamental alchemical process, and he chose thirty-three? Why not a hundred? Why not something more elegant? Peter explained that, to a mystic like Isaac Newton, there was no number more elegant than thirty-three.

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