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its sublime form, might it not, then, arise the whole spirit of number59 and astrology, of music and geometry, deiform sparks and holograms of the splendid beauties of fifty-five? Wonderful theosophies from whose lofty abode the 55 spheres of Aristotle’s classic universe likely arose.60
The Goodly Spellbook.57
Might this form be the Tetraktys-Decad from whose lofty Monad, the wonderful beauties of the number 55 came into being?58 Each five digit in 515,
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appearing as antecedent and consequent from the One, beholds in each other the harmony and geometry of the divine macrocosm and microcosm in equipoise with the deiform One and Ten, God and Christ. And might not they unfold 3⁄4 in virtue of the One and the Many 3⁄4 the
469 scales of justice of five and of pentad-light made? And from
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As 55 arises from the Decad, so is 385 an addition of the squared Decad: for if the successive numbers from the Monad to the Decad are squared and then added up, it will generate 385 3⁄4 or 7 x 55.61 It was equally baffling and ineffable to the Pythagoreans to discover that the square of the Hexad always generated 36 and that its seven factors added to 55.62 No less miraculous and wondrous was to
57Obtained from http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit6/unit6.html on September 2, 2009.
58 If you add the double sequence of the left (1+2+4+8=15) to the triple sequence of the right, (1+3+9+27=40) it totals 55 (15+40=55). From Anatolius on the beauties of the number 55. See Theology of Arithmetic. 115. The three apexes and three means of triangle each add to 36. The diagram also contains all the factors of 36 adding up to 55. See Iamblicus. Theology of Arithmetic. 29.
59 Aristotle. Metaphysics I.5 968a.8. Aristotle. The Basic Works of Aristotle. Metaphysics. Ed. Richard McKeon. New York: The Modern Library, 2001.
60 Iamblicus. Theology of Arithmetic.
61 Iamblicus. Theology of Arithmetic. 114-115. This theory is from Anatolius.
62 These are generated as follows: 18 taken twice, 12 taken three times, 9 taken four times, 6 taken six times, 3 taken 12 times, and 2 taken eighteen times. These seven factors, and the number itself, make 55. Iamblicus. Theology of Arithmetic. 114-115. This theory is from Anatolius.
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