33 Mysteries Facts - Literature
Thirty-three is a number with special significance. On this page, you will find some information that is tied together with,
or that bears some relationship to, the number "33."
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LITERATURE:
Virginia Woolf did not publish her first novel, "The Voyage Out", until she was 33 years old.
There are 33 sections in Wallace Stevens' poem, "The Man with the Blue Guitar."
In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Caesar was stabbed 33 times
by the conspirators that killed him.
The controversial 1993 book, Crypt 33, (by Adela Gregory, Milo A Speriglio) alleges that Marilyn Monroe was murdered by the mob because of her involvement with the Kennedys. The title refers to where she was held at the morgue.
Dante's Divine Comedy is composed in 3 parts (Hell, Purgatory, Heaven), and each part is composed of 33 cantos. The lines total 14,233.
Mircea Eliade declared that there are 33 religions in the world today, in his book: The Major Religions of the World.
Books written and/or published in 1933 include: The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells, Woman In The Dark by Dashiell Hammett; The Humanist Manifesto I by Raymond B. Bragg.
In Hesse's, Demien, an eagle appears at a subway exit at "33rd." Sir Francis Bacon wrote with ciphers employing the number "33." "...In the first part of King Henry the Fourth, the word 'Francis' appears 33 times on one page." (Secret Teachings of All Ages, Manley P. Hall., pg.CLXVI)
A 1979 book about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi by Helena Olson is entitled, Maharishi at 433 (referring to the address where he lived in Los Angeles after coming to the US for the first time).
In Barbara Marciniak's book, Bringers of the Dawn, we find a suggestion for a practice of spinning: "We recommend that you spin thirty-three times at least once a day. You may build up to the thirty-three spins very slowly. If you are able to work up to thirty-three spins, three times a day, so that you are spinning ninety-nine times, well, we will see how long you stay on the planet-or at least in this dimension."
There are 33 lines of text on page 33 of Paramahansa Yogananda's landmark book, Autobiography of a Yogi. Return to "33 Mysteries" Facts Page 1 The contents of this page are subject to copyright law. No portion of this page may be published elsewhere without express permission from the author.
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