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THE MANY IN THE ONE, THE RESURRECTED CHRIST
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CORDIALIS AND DIVINE JUSTICE
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3⁄4 Each and every one a universal code, a cross, for Christ the Lord 3⁄4
Cross as symbol of the One and Ten, centre and extension of the X of DXV thus One and Ten139 becoming X of DXV anagram. It is a dominant cabalistic idea, directly Pythagorean in origin that unity expands to trinity, which is always completed by the quaternary, which ideally returns to the Decad or unity again. “Ten and One are mystically the same, as are also 100 and 1000, the ‘boundaries’140 of number. In the Decad, multiplicity returns again to unity. Ten are the categories141 for Ten completes all things, embracing the entire world.142 It is the most perfect of all perfect numbers and is called by Porphyry ‘comprehension’ as ‘comprehending all differences of numbers, reasons, species and proportions.”143 Ten, too, is seemingly symbolic of the 10th foldness of the journey within the Christian realm, beyond the 9 folds of paganism144 and of the Vita Nuova.145 Ten once multiplied by 5 totals 50: fifty of the 50th day of advent of the resurrected spirit of Christ.146 Fifty times ten results in 500: the five hundred years of a jubilee.
139 The image of the Decad runs through the entire cabalistic theology. It is repeated in the 10 divine names, the 10 archangels, the 10 orders of angels, the 10 divisions of the material world, 10 orders of demons and 10 arch devils. For no numerical distinction is made between angels and devils, and the divine trinity is matched by an infernal trinity composed of Samael (Satan), the Harlot, and the Beast
140 There are four boundaries of number, Philo adds, the unit, decad, century and thousand all measured by the tetraktys. For just as 1+2+3+4 = 10 so 10+20+30+40 = 100, and 100+200+300+400 = 1000. Philo. On the Ten Commandments. 7.
141 Aristotle. Metaphysics. A, 5
142 Aristotle. Metaphysics. A,5
143 Porphyry. Biography of Pythagoras. 52.
144 The number nine in classicism was used extensively in measures of the universe and of man. 145 There are many references to nine throughout the Vita Nuova.
146 Foster Hopper. Medieval Symbolism. 80-81
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