You have asked about the number 3 which was appearing a lot in your life and now about the number 347. Perfectly understandable questions as I do believe that nothing happens purely by chance. For this reason, I am not surprised that number symbolism constitutes a universal cultural phenomenon and people thinking and writing about it has gone on from time immemorial.

According to Swedenborg who wrote in the eighteenth century, numbers in much of the Bible have a spiritual significance because everything in sacred scripture is a divine revelation of what is universally true. They each express a particular psycho-spiritual state like a virtue or a vice. The number three is said to be generally about a complete state of what is true in a person or in its opposite sense of what is false.

The idea here is that what any number denotes depends on the context. Thus for example the divine command to ‘keep a feast unto the Lord three times a year” (Ex 23:14-17) signifies fullness and perpetuity of the worship of God from a grateful heart.

He also maintains that compound numbers which are multiples of a simple number signify similar things to the simple number but one that is more complex and extensive.

“It is bound to seem strange and very far-fetched to everybody that these details have this meaning. (However) people who possess the internal sense, as good spirits and angels do, are beyond anything earthly, bodily, or purely worldly, and so beyond anything involving numbers and measurements. Yet the Lord enables them to perceive the Word fully, and to do so quite independently from such concepts. This being so, it becomes quite clear that numbers and measurements embody celestial and spiritual things. The latter however are so remote from the sense of the letter that such things cannot possibly be seen.” (Heavenly Secrets section 647)

In addition to archetypes there is personal psychology to consider. Despite what I suggesting about universal meaning, the fact is it is you who is noticing the co-incidence of a specific number appearing in your life. I guess what this might signify may well have a unique meaning for yourself that unfortunately can only be better seen through you talking with someone who is able to draw out from you through association what is personally going on.

Hope things get clearer.

Sorry I can’t be of more help.

Cheers Stephen

However I assume you are wondering about precognition. Swedenborg kept a diary of his dreams and two of these appear to have been predictive. About one he wrote “That which had been represented to me in a dream some days before happened to me; for in one day I was exposed to two deadly perils; this indeed happened to me…” The clinical psychologist Wilson Van Dusen wrote about this saying Swedenborg “unfortunately gives no other details. We would like to know what was shown in the dream and what the real life events were, and how closely they matched….Shortly thereafter he describes … how he saw the church of the Moravian Brethren in a dream three months before and recognized it when he came upon it in real life.”

In Van Dusen’s book The Presence of Other Worlds all the known examples of Swedenborg’s later precognitive powers are detailed.

These days the veil between spirit and material reality is thinning out. The Consciousness link on the main menu across the page under the picture lists a few articles about such psychic signs.

Spiritual awakening can mean being aware of the divine flow in life. Part of this is noticing fortunate co-incidences. So how does one go with the flow? Part of the trick is getting absorbed in the ‘here and now’. This is similar to what they say in Buddhist circles about mindfulness. More information