08 September 2018

On Numbers: The Power of Numbers I

"The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth." (Plato)

"Wherever there is number, there is beauty." (Diadochus Proclus)

"All was numbers." (Pythagoras)

"Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons." (Pythagoras)

"Number was the substance of all things." (Pythagoras)

"Number rules the universe." (Pythagoras)

"Take from all things their number and all shall perish." (Saint Isidore of Seville)

"The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal." (Carl Gustav Jacobi)

"All mathematical forms have a primary subsistence in the soul so that prior to the sensible she contains self-motive numbers." (Thomas Taylor)

"Numbers are the sources of form and energy in the world. They are dynamic and active even among themselves […] almost human in their capacity for mutual influence." (Theon of Symyma)

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