See John Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad, Theorems XVI, XVII, and XX. This illustrates how the two primary aspects of Unity, necessitate the mainfestation of the third, then the fourth. This corresponds to the scheme shown in the Pythagorean tetractys.

Numerologically, 1+2+3+4=10=1+0=1, the Sephiroth, the enneagram, the tetractys, the Decad, also the Papal cross. (side note, the 1 2 3 4 numerological pattern shows up in ANY number base, as Buckminster Fuller showed.

2. Can I have some of what you’re smoking? That thing about zero is off-the-chart.

3. I have wondered for a while about the link between the symbolism of the cross and the four Elements of antiquity (which do correspond exactly with the four States of modern science). The symbol of the Mandala (equi-axed cross in a circle), which represents peace, wisdom etc., seems a bridge between the two.

Do you see the comma, then, a kind of fifth element? (traditionally identified as the Philosopher’s Stone, the Grail etc.)

Note that the contemporary Christian cross has a long tail. And what about the Egyptian ankh, where one tail is as if split into two? And early Celtic crosses were always placed in a circle. (The British Museum had a big pile of them a while back, but I wasn’t brave enough to ask the curators /why/. And /when/ they stopped doing it.)

My own view (hunch, intuition, whatever) is that one of the tails of the cross is indeed twin, making five, but it is largely beyond our ken to see it. It’s like the way we each have five fingers, but only (so I am told) four control circuits, which leads to the fourth finger being ‘lazy’. (Unless you hurt your hand, when the bizarrest thing will happen and your hurt finger will go ‘lazy’ while the others take up the work.)

He is the comma itself. And the comma has no numerical value within the graphing process. It is overlooked by the empire as unimportant and meaningless, a separator between two things that have real measurable quantifiable value. Meanwhile the comma floats across the entire coordinate system of the graph. It cannot be pinned down. It is everywhere and nowhere. The Holy Spirit.

Wow. nice.