Dec. 10^th ‘24: Traditional Numerology

The proceeding of Spirit consists in an expression of the divine “soul” through a real “body”—that is, the developing and unfolding of God’s punctual, monadic Thought, into a manifold of concrete and peculiar details. This “translation” of divine essence—this “self-description” of God’s nature—constitutes two “stages”, between which Thought develops: those are, Minority & Majority (smallness & greatness); or, in metaphysical terms, passion & action; or—in phenomenal terms—implication & explication; inhibition & exhibition; and, in “biological” terms, insemination & generation; or, in geometric terms, intension & extension; closure & project.

From a Biblical “numerological” perspective, we understand this proceeding—in which the immaterial Thought becomes felt—as an expansion of the constricted “monad”, through-out the three dimensions of a matured corpus. Clement of Alexandria wrote (see Stromata XIV), that the intelligible, unextended world is typified by the Monad, all the while the sensible, extended world is typified by the number Six, the Hexad. He depicts this number as the “number of fruition” (γόνι μος ἀριθμός), following the Pythagoreans.

The number Six, in Mosaic tradition, is understood to typify the principle of bodily extension: in Hebrew grammatology, it is signified by the Third Letter of the Tetragrammaton—Waw. All the while, the Monad is typified by the First Letter—Jod, which is, indeed, shaped like a unique, seminal Point (י), while the Waw is shaped like an extended Line (ו). These are the two “masculine” letters within the Tetragrammaton, and they accordingly represent the developing & embodying of God’s creative Thought, through the “whole” of existence.

Along the three dimensions of the divine Body, there extends the fundamental structure of the “three-dimensioned Cross”, that is, the Six Cardinal Lines constituting and measuring, out-mapping the ultimate, most-explicit Form of the divine Thought, the product of God’s infinite Mind.