All I can add is that 3, 7 and especially nine are important numbers in traditional magic. Even in cartomancy (tarot cards and the like) these three numbers are very significant, and once again nine is the most prominent (along with the Ace...)
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"The other [theme] had now achieved a unity of its own; but it was loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated; and it had little harmony...and it essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its voice, but it seemed that its most triumphant notes were taken by the other and woven into its own solemn pattern..."
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