Imagine being in the center of one of these sevens. That will help illustrate the point presented in this excerpt.

from The Mystic Test Book

by Olney H. Richmond 1896

Excerpt:

The seven is a trouble, from one way only. Approach it from another direction and trouble disappears.

By these few illustrations, which should be carefully studied by the student of card delineation, we have shown that the geometrical forms have a meaning of their own.

Some of our students have been at a loss to understand how it could be, that seven, a sacred number representing spirit, should indicate trouble. The explanation is this: The spiritual and material are, as one might say, antipodes of each other. Sevens do not indicate spiritual trouble, but material. Some of the most advanced persons, in a spiritual way, have the most trouble from material surroundings and environments, being antagonistic to their natures. This is a natural law, and I can advise all, from my own experience, that, if they wish to become rich in this world’s goods, they had better let their spiritual nature remain undeveloped and dwarfed. A “mystic” lays up his treasure in heaven and not upon earth.

He deals in coin that can be taken out with him into the grander life beyond the grave, and he knows full well that “shrouds have no pockets.”