Bless us, divine number, thou who generated gods and men! O holy, holy Tetractys, thou that containest the root and source of the eternally flowing creation! For the divine number begins with the profound, pure unity until it comes to the holy four; then it begets the mother of all, the all-comprising, all-bounding, the first-born, the never-swerving, the never-tiring holy ten, the keyholder of all.

Mystic Tetrad

The Pythagoreans—for whom all things were numbers, saw in nature a fidelity to a higher order. For them numbers, far from signifying phenomena, were themselves significant: The monad constituting the punctum—that accident that pricks and spurs creation. The dyad, the antithesis of the One, constituting twoness or otherness, from whence proceeds heaven and earth. The triad, the synthesis of the One and the Two, constituting the expansion of the lineal order through difference and repetition. The tetrad, the apotheosis of the root cycle, constituting crystallization of the image. The tetractys rendering by the sum of the parts the dekad—a microcosm from whence one may relate the totality of the kosmos.

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	Chapter 3, In the Beginning: Whereas observation indicates that one is ever moving further away, this expansion, as already laid down in the principle of creation (2—200—1), has in it the reversal which takes place right from the beginning: ‘in the beginning’. Hence the diagram in which the path is represented as a circle, a path which in reality has existed from the initial word in the Bible, but which man, still caught in the 2—200 phase, cannot visualize, a path running counter to his observation and the ratiocination built up thereon.