Sunday, December 11, 2005
O N E
Monad. The perfect circle, the perfect cycle. The point, the line and the circumfrence. The end is the beginning is the end. On a blank sheet of paper, struck on pure potentiality, space. I wheel the compass around and about, forgetting where I started, not noticing where I ended. Surrounded by infinite space, enclosing finite space, the curved line a barrier between the mortal and the divine. Monolith. Quiet. Complete. First finger, first count. When twinned at the quadrant, the vesica pisces is made. Birth portal. Womb. Initiator of manifold geometry. You birth the line, the triangle, the square, the pentagram, the hexagram, the heptagram, the octagram, the nonagram and finally the decagram.
T W O
Line. Opposition. Diversity. Zero width with infinite length. Abstract with zero angle. Infinite amount of points in a finite amount of space. Straight as an arrow. Skating on thin ice.
T H R E E
Triangle. Spirituality. Two dimensional. A three cord rope is not soon broken.
F O U R
Square. Earth. Three dimensional. Foundation. Solid.
F I V E
Pentagram. The Golden Ratio. Balanced. The Pythagorean Symbol. Natural. Common.
S I X
Hexagram. Structure. Function. Order. Crystalline. Pristine. Ideal.
S E V E N
Heptagram. Additive of T H R E E and F O U R. The spirtiual ruling over the earthly. House. Very common.
E I G H T
Octagon. Sturdy. Earthly.
N I N E
Nonagon. Approaching the transcendence of T E N. Spiritual, the product of T H R E E times T H R E E. Enneagram.
T E N
Decagram. Transcendence. The additive of O N E plus T W O plus T H R E E plus F O U R. Complete again. Tetraktys.
These are some of the characteristics numbers had in the days of Pythagoras. In those times, numbers carried personality, significance and obvious spiritual implications. Besides what characteristics I have listed here, O N E was considered to be both odd and even. The rest of the odd numbers were considered male, the even, female.
The pythagoreans believed numbers were essential, as if they were taken away, an object would cease to exist. Try taking away the number of your chromosomes, for example and still exist!
Numbers were believed to be perfect in the abstract, and imperfect in the real. I describe this by saying 'show me one and show me two'. It can't be done, as the numerals are just signs of their respective abstractions.
Monad. The perfect circle, the perfect cycle. The point, the line and the circumfrence. The end is the beginning is the end. On a blank sheet of paper, struck on pure potentiality, space. I wheel the compass around and about, forgetting where I started, not noticing where I ended. Surrounded by infinite space, enclosing finite space, the curved line a barrier between the mortal and the divine. Monolith. Quiet. Complete. First finger, first count. When twinned at the quadrant, the vesica pisces is made. Birth portal. Womb. Initiator of manifold geometry. You birth the line, the triangle, the square, the pentagram, the hexagram, the heptagram, the octagram, the nonagram and finally the decagram.
T W O
Line. Opposition. Diversity. Zero width with infinite length. Abstract with zero angle. Infinite amount of points in a finite amount of space. Straight as an arrow. Skating on thin ice.
T H R E E
Triangle. Spirituality. Two dimensional. A three cord rope is not soon broken.
F O U R
Square. Earth. Three dimensional. Foundation. Solid.
F I V E
Pentagram. The Golden Ratio. Balanced. The Pythagorean Symbol. Natural. Common.
S I X
Hexagram. Structure. Function. Order. Crystalline. Pristine. Ideal.
S E V E N
Heptagram. Additive of T H R E E and F O U R. The spirtiual ruling over the earthly. House. Very common.
E I G H T
Octagon. Sturdy. Earthly.
N I N E
Nonagon. Approaching the transcendence of T E N. Spiritual, the product of T H R E E times T H R E E. Enneagram.
T E N
Decagram. Transcendence. The additive of O N E plus T W O plus T H R E E plus F O U R. Complete again. Tetraktys.
These are some of the characteristics numbers had in the days of Pythagoras. In those times, numbers carried personality, significance and obvious spiritual implications. Besides what characteristics I have listed here, O N E was considered to be both odd and even. The rest of the odd numbers were considered male, the even, female.
The pythagoreans believed numbers were essential, as if they were taken away, an object would cease to exist. Try taking away the number of your chromosomes, for example and still exist!
Numbers were believed to be perfect in the abstract, and imperfect in the real. I describe this by saying 'show me one and show me two'. It can't be done, as the numerals are just signs of their respective abstractions.
