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Tag: Iamblichus

  • The Triad

    When one refers to the Triad, one must remember that: The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, because it is the very first to make actual the potentialities of the Monad – oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit. We recall that the Dyad is a second Monad, which begins the process of…

  • The Dyad

    The Dyad

    Numbers inculcate the appreciation of metaphysical truths, such as the interplay between Microcosm and Macrocosm: the Moon or the Queen can become or stand in place of the Original Unity, precisely because of the primal unity of the One.

  • The Meaning of Numbers

    The Meaning of Numbers

    the number Five represents Life, specifically vegetative Life, Six represents animal Life, and Seven, the living Soul of man.

  • Logos Tomeus

    In Robin Waterfield’s translation of Iamblichus, the Theology of Arithmetic, we are treated to an entire section on the spiritual dimensions of the number 2. Two is a feminine number, the Dyad, a departure from the stability and comprehensiveness and self-sufficiency of the One. As such, it represents Diversity and the possibility of something “Other”…