Pythagorean Number Attributes
- Monad. Point. One is the source of all numbers. It is good, desirable, essential, and indivisible. It is good, desirable, essential, and indivisible.
- Dyad. Line. Two represents diversity, duality, a loss of unity, the number of excess and defect. It is the first female number.
- Triad. Plane. By virtue of the triad, unity and diversity of which it is composed are restored to harmony. Three is the first odd, masculine number.
- Tetrad. Solid. This is the first feminine square. It represents justice, and it is steadfast and square. Four is the number of the square, the elements, the seasons, ages of man, lunar phases, and virtues.
- Pentad. This is the masculine marriage number, uniting the first female number and the first male number by addition. It is the number of fingers or toes on each limb and the number of regular solids or polyhedra. It is considered incorruptible because multiples of 5 end in 5.
- Hexad. The first feminine marriage number, uniting 2 and 3 by multiplication. It is the area of a 3-4-5 triangle. It is the first perfect number, a number equal to the sum of its exact divisors or factors, except itself. Therefore, 1 + 2 + 3 = 6.
- Heptad. Seven is referred to as the virgin number, because 7 alone has no factors, and 7 is not a factor of any number within the Decad. Also, a circle cannot be divided into seven parts by an known construction,
- Ogdoad. The first cube.
- Ennead. The first masculine square. Nine is corruptible, because when it is multiplied by any number it "reproduces" itself. For example, 9 x 6 = 54 and 5 + 4 = 9. Try this again by multiplying 9 by any number, however large.
- Decad. Ten is the number of fingers or toes on a human. It contains all of the numbers, after 10, the numbers merely repeat themselves. It is the sum of the archetypal numbers numbers (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10).
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