THE SCIENCE OF NUMBERS
birth, like that of a name, should exert so material an effect upon the life of the person bearing it, but, when the character of these laws of vibrations is understood, as it will be by those who faithfully study the following pages, the mystery will not be so difficult of comprehension.
It ls true that the name of the child is the act of man—the act of the parents, for which the child is not directly responsible. To hold him responsible, in fact, would be unreasonable, if not unjust, and it is in precisely this respect that the Science of Numbers appears as the great adjustor of human blunders. Thus, the child who could not prevent his parents from giving him an inharmonious name, can change that name to bring it into more perfect concord with harmonious vibrations.
It is sometimes difficult to fathom the apparent mystery that is so often manifested in the operations of divine law, but of one fact we may be certain. God
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