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pentad, its matrix and its whole.77 Hence, Megillus,78 too, exalts the pentad in his On Numbers, and says:
“The pentad is alteration, light, lack of strife: alteration because it changes three-dimensionality into the sameness of the sphere, by moving cyclically and engendering light 3⁄4 hence, it is light too; and it is lack of strife because it combines everything which was formerly discordant and brings together and reconciles the two types of number.”79
Just as the Pentad is three dimensional, Dante’s three-dimensional world vanishes as he ascends to the realm of pure being, the effulgent fiery spheres of Paradiso to see Beatrice’s eyes fixed on the eternal, sempiternal wheel.80 In virtue of these qualities, Paradiso’s ten spheres become a symbolic pentad having the progressive qualities of sameness, light and peace manifested in their full form in the stillness of the Empyrean. As sameness, it reflects the Empyrean’s atemporal, aspatial stillness beyond differentiation. As light, it reflects the pure light of Dante’s Heavens and the Empyrean, the actuality of finite being,81 and the universal loving light of Christ of Matthew 5:15.82 As divine justice, Dante sees Beatrice eagle-like, diving like a falcon, that is, having the five figurative points of the M of justice of the Heaven of Mars, suggesting the 2nd Coming of Christ and the salvation of righteous. Is Beatrice not only Dante’s Lady Philosophy but also his Lady of Divine Justice? Only from the Lady of Justice may a prophetic, theosophic and philosophic number be delivered for only justice may deliver justice. Only from Beatrice’s divine breath and logos, and not any other, 500 10 5 comes into being. Why? It is a mystic suspiration, a susurr of divine essence
77Iamblichus. Theology of Arithmetic. Postulated by Nichomacheus. 68
78 From testimony appearing in Iamblichus. Theology of Arithmetic.
79 The pentad moves cyclically because its square, cube and so on all terminate in five (see Glossary under Circular [a square number whose last digit is the same as the last digit of the side number (root); so a circular number is bound to end in 1, 5 or 6. Examples: 25 (5 sq.2); 1296 36 sq.2], Spherical, a cube number whose last digit is the same as the last digit of the side number. Also called ‘recurrent’. So a spherical number is bound to end in 1, 5 or 6. Examples: 216 (6 sq 3), 1331 (11 3); this cyclical movement is above all the property of the light-bearing spheres of the heavens. From testimony on Nichomacheus’ work. Iamblichus. Theology of Number. 68
80 Par I.
81 Moev. The Metaphysics of Dante. 80.
82 Matt. 5:15 “Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.”
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