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 and, in such cases, the latter color is known as the “Name Color.” As the name color is of the least value, however, and would naturally tend to make the reading of the numbers more difficult for the beginner, it has been deemed inadvisable to introduce such a complicating element at this time.

A Cycle, in the application of the Science of Numbers, is a period of nine years, and the effect of the Cycle upon the life of the individual is to make the characteristics of each letter of the name assert the greatest degree of influence during the period of nine years in which it is in force. If, for example, we take the name “John,” we find the characteristics of the letter “J” asserting themselves from the first to the close of the ninth year in “John’s” life. At the expiration of that period, the vibrations of the life will change, and this individual named “John” will come under the