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Symbolism of NUMBERS
et of geometrical FORMS (2)

Numbers and geometrical figures

The number ONE

It is the first of the numbers. Before him: nothing. After him: all the series of the numbers. It is the origin, the creator: any number results from the precedent by adding 1.
Is the beginning, the single one, the undifferentiated one, the symbol of God of the religions monotheists, the root of all things, the Big-bang.
ONE is in ALL and all is in ONE

The circle which has neither beginning nor end is the figure symbolic system of the ONE. The circle and its center, a point, the ' center of the world', the place of focusing which unifies all the parts and makes them levelling, since which globality is perceived. The round, the sphere, the seed, the nest symbolize the unit, eternity.
' Without the One the ground would not have its tranquility
nor sky its serenity.' (Lao Tseu)



The number TWO

The ONE is static, motionless. The unfolding of the ONE, its duplication, it and its image create TWO, the duality, differentiation.
Thus the light is separated from darkness, Water of in Top from Water of in Bottom, Yin from Yang, the two poles between which will run out creative energy, dynamism of the multiplication.

The alchemists represented this passage of the ONE to TWO by the double square, the rectangle on sides 1:2," silvered large square" or rectangle of the genesis. .


The number THREE

The number THREE (3=2+1), symbolized by the equilateral triangle, first figure to be fitted in a circle, is the conscience of the duality, symbol of time and space. It carries out the unit of the trinity which one finds in the Father, Son and Spirit or in Brahma, Vishnou, Shiva.
First of the odd numbers (One is single, outwards), it is necessary to creation.
Three dimensions create space, and with this number the series of the zomes starts.




The number FOUR



With the FOUR creation appeared in the matter. FOUR is the symbol of stable, of the ground in many civilizations. The square in the plan (4 sides, 4 nodes) or the tetrahedron in space (4 nodes, 4 triangular faces) represent this number well.



Or the four directions to which the human being locates itself easily, FOUR like mental structure (the 4 winds,...).




The number FIVE

The inert matter, the mineral world organizes of crystal structures with symmetries and rhythms where numbers 3, 4 or 6 are recognized but never 5. On the contrary this number appears in abundance in the organic life, since the first marine organizations until in the fingers of our hands. And in the vegetable world where many are the families of plants with flowers presenting their 5 petals and their cheesecloths radiating in a regular figure.
The number FIVE is thus associated to biological phenomena.
Significant in Occident from the school of Pythagoras, FIVE is a fundamental number in civilizations as various as Chinese, Islamic or Maya for which, with the representation of an opened hand, it is the symbol of the god CORN, the base of the feeding, of the life.
The star with five branches is the symbolic figure which represents best the this number. Very widespread like symbol, it is found on the flags of multiple nations.
' The psychoanalysis and the Maya tradition meet here, as well as the Eastern traditions, to make of Five the sign of the expressed life. Being an odd number, it expresses not a state but an act. The quinary one is the number of the creature and the individuality.' (Dr. R. Allendy: The symbolism of the numbers)

Le PYTHAGORAS TRIANGLE


The triangle of Pythagoras, associating the number successive THREE, FOUR and FIVE is in charge of a fundamental symbolic system.
And it is the only right-angled triangle where the sides are expressed by integers. It is probable that the former Egyptians used the cord with 13 nodes and thus this triangle before Pythagore which it first in established the demonstration. And this discovery appeared so significant that 100 oxen were sacrificed to this occasion.



Le The GOLDEN SECTION

One can associate the golden section at number 5, as well in his algebraical expression as in his geometrical reality: it appears in the figures of order 5, the pentagons and decagons convex and spangled.
often indicated like core of the golden section, is a number irrational, incommensurable, and more than one number: a function. Like diagonal of the rectangle 1:2, it is at the base of the traditional construction of the golden section (the Divine Proportion thus named by FRA Luca Paccioli).
Number with single mathematical properties (for example it multiplies by itself when 1 is added to him, and it is reversed him even when 1 is removed to him), a number of harmony, aesthetic and pleasant proportion to the eye, one finds it in the rates of growth of the alive beings, the organization of the branches around a trunk, the distribution of the sheets on a branch, etc... The pyramid of Keops, the only one still visible of the 7 wonders of the ancient world, is an imposing matérialisation of the golden section.
Number of growing and of economy, it is a fundamental cosmic frequency on which the life is granted

Other NUMBERS

Here is a base which one could continue, to speak about the number SEVEN numbers mystical who gave the days of the week, of the number EIGHT, universal symbol of regeneration (a star with 8 branches guided the Magi, the 8th note of the range carries out the octave and starts a higher range), so significant number TEN or of the TWELVE, at the same time multiple of the THREE and the FOUR, union of time and space, cutting of year in 4 seasons with 3 months each. There were 12 apostles whose one traitor, 12 imams whose one hidden, and 12 tribes of Israel whose one lost and the cosmic realization will occur when all are joined together.
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