Robert Louis Stevenson – Born 11/13/1850
Photograph of author Robert Louis Stevenson
Maybe when you were a child, your mother read you some lines of poetry from Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses or perhaps as a young adult you read his adventure novels Treasure Island and Kidnapped. If reading was not your thing when you were growing up, you still might have seen a film or TV adaptation of these classic tales. Robert Louis Stevenson’s birth name was Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, a name that adds up to 3, the number most commonly associated with both writing and childen.
5 is the number of adventure and also the number of Stevenson’s ruling passion number. Not only did he write An Island Village, Traveling with a Donkey and four other travelogues, but he also published a collection of non-fiction articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific. As he once said, “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson was born on 11/13/1850. People born on the 13th often have a liking for mysteries, suspense, the
paranormal, and the macabre. This was certainly true of Robert Louis Stevenson, whose novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde contains all the aforementioned qualites. As a horror tale, this story reflects the themes of 13, Stevenson’s birthday number, but as the story of the divided self, a man conflicted with the good and evil sides of his nature, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reflects the themes of Stevenson’s 11/2 life path number, for 2 is the number of duality. Significantly, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Hyde was first published on January 5, 1886, a day that adds up to 2. Since that date in 1886, there have been over 123 film adaptations of this book. To this day The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ranks as one of the most popular tales of horror ever written
Is The Plague-Seller a story written by Edgar Allan Poe? No, it is not. Is The Body Snatcher the title of an upcoming slasher film? No it is not. And finally, is The Suicide Club a sequel to the cult classic The Fight Club? No it is not. Though these titles seem like they were written today, they are actually titles of short stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson at the end of the 19th century. Stevenson wrote several of what he termed “dark adventures” and all these stories are of the horror genre. He even wrote a story called Olalla, which is about vampirism. The only point I wish to make here that there are other stories, besides The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. written by Stevenson that reflect the gothic themes of his 13 birthdate.
Stevenson often signed letters and other documents with his initials. “R.L.S.” R=9 + L = 3 + S = 1 ..total 13. This is another indicator that Stevenson (who had no knowledge of numerology) thought of himself as a 13.
Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from a tubercular-like condition both in childhood and adulthood. These were the days before modern medicine, a time when a tubercular condition could mean death, as in the case of the poet John Keats.
Yet Stevenson wrote during sickness and health. Still the shadow of death often hovered over him and consequently, he treasured every smell of a flower, every dawn, every sunset. He lived life for the moment, for who knows if tomorrow would ever come. Perhaps, what I just said, explains why in childhood Stevenson was a frequent visitor to a nearby graveyard. In his book of essays, Memories and Portraits (1887), published when Stevenson was age 37, he recalls the days when he would hang out at a graveyard ( hang out is the wrong word, for Stevenson was a solitary visitor). The title of Chapter 3 ” Old Mortality” refers to the dead people buried in the graveyard. In the beginning, Stevenson enjoyed reading the epitaphs on tombstones (one day he would write his own epitaph, but more about that later). With the short attention span of a young person, he got bored doing that and turned his attention to watching and talking to gravediggers as well as those who visit cemeteries to pay homage to their deceased brethren.
Stevenson is in top form in this book. the writing is excellent. Besides what I have told you so far, there are recollections of people he knew at different stages in their lives,ie. what they were like in full health and what they were like near the time of their death. These are observations made by a 37 year old man, albeit a talented writer.
At age 28, Stevenson wrote a magazine article with the title Aes Triplex, which was subsequently published in book form in 1881, when Stevenson was only 31 years old. Rather then give you a detailed explanation of what the Latin words “aes triplex” means, I’ll give you a quicky definition…aes triuplex means “triple bronze” (a reference to armor). which in short stands for “courage in the face of battle”. Battle as interpreted by Stevenson means courage in the face of death. From the perspective of reincarnation theory, 13 is considered to be a karmic number. People with this number have the karma to teach us something about overcoming our fear of death and that is exactly what Stevenson does in this essay. Here Stevenson meets death head on.
The essay is too good and too long to paraphrase here. It must be read in its entirety. If you could consider me your teacher in this blog, then I would assign all students who have the number 13 somewhere in their numerology to read this essay in full as their home work. Yes,it is that good..it will give you an understanding of 13 that can’t be found elsewhere ( and certainly not in a numerology book). I will give you the opening lines here with a link where you can read the full essay.
Opening lines:
Even now, I am tempted to paraphrase, to give you the essence of Stevenson’s message, but I am not as a good a writer as he was,and anything I might say now would do him an injustice. You’ll just have to read the whole essay… it’s really not that long, but too long to include in a blog.
Stevenson’s message about how to overcome our fear of death applies to everyone, and especially to people who have 13 as a significant number in their names/birth dates. But how did Stevenson face the prospect of his own death?
In 1879 Stevenson was seriously ill. He thought he was going to die, and so he wrote his “Requiem”. Stevenson managed to cheat death another fifteen years, but his “Requiem” shall live after him for evermore, as it is one of the most popular poems every written by anyone who has ever lived on this earth.
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
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