Part II.

THE SCALE OF THE NUMBER THREE.
In the Original World,
The Father,
Adai, The Son,
The Holy Gholt;
The Name of God with three Letters.
In the Intellectual World,
Supreme
Innocents,
Middle
Martyrs,
Lowell
of all ConfelTors ;
Three hierarchies of Angels. Three degrees of the Blelfed.
In the Celellial World,
Moveable, Corners, Of the Day,
Fixed,
Succeeding,
Nodturnal,
Common; Falling ; Partaking;
Three quaternions of Signs. Three quaternions of houfes. Three Lords of triplicities.
In the Elementary World,
Simple,
Compounded,
Thrice compounded ;
Three degree of elements.
In the Lefler World,
Thehead, in which the intellect grows, anfwering to the intellectual world,
The breaft, where is the heart, the feat of life, anfwering to the celeftial world,
The belly, where the faculty of generation is, and the genital members, anfwering the elemental world;
Three parts, anfwering to the threefold world.
In the Infernal World,
Ale&o,
Minos,
Wicked,
Megera,
Acacus,
Apoftates,
Ctefiphone ; Rhadamantus; Infidels;
Three infernal Furies. Three infernal Judges. Three degrees of the damned.
CHAP. XIX.
OF THE NUMBER FOUR, AND SCALE.
THE Pythagorians call the number Four, Te£tra6Iis, and prefer it before all the virtues of numbers, becaufe it is the foundation and root of all other numbers ; whence, alfo, all foundations, as well in artificial things, as natural and divine, are four fquare, as we fhall fhew afterwards ; and it fignifies folidity, which alfo is demonftrated by a four-fquare figure *, for the number four, is the firft
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four-fquare plane, which con lifts of two proportions, whereof the firft is of one to two, the latter of two to four ; and it proceeds by a double proceftion and proportion, viz. of one to one, and of two to two — 'beginning' at a unity, and ending at a quaternity : which proportions differ in this, that, according to Arithmetic, they are unequal to one another ; but, according to Geometry, are equal. Therefore a four-fquare is afcribed to God the Father ; and alfo con- tains the myftery of the whole Trinity : for by its Angle proportion, viz,, by the firft of one to one, the unity of the paternal fubftance is fignified, from which proceeds one Son, equal to Him 5 — by the next proceftion, alfo ftmple, viz,, of two to two, is fignified (by the fecond proceftion) the Holy Ghoft ; from both — that the Son be equal to the Father, by the firft proceftion ; and the Holy Ghoft be equal to both, by the fecond proceftion. Hence that fuper- excellent and great name of the Divine Trinity in God is written with four letters, viz. Jod , He, and Van. He, where it is the afpiration He, fignifies the proceeding of the Spirit from both ; for He, being duplicated, terminates both fyllables, and the whole name, but is pronounced Jova, as fome will, whence that Jove of the heathen, which the antients did picture with four ears \ whence the number four, is the fountain and head of the whole Divinity. And the Pythagorians call it the perpetual fountain of Nature : for there are four degrees in the fcale of Nature, viz. to be , to live, to be fen- Jible, to underjland. There are four motions in Nature, viz. afcendant, de- fendant, going forward, circular. There are four corners in Heaven, viz. rifing, falling, the middle of the Heaven, the bottom of it. There are four elements under Heaven, viz. fire, air, water, and earth ; according to thefe there are four triplicities in Heaven. There are four firft qualities under Hea- ven, viz. cold, heat, drynefs, and moifture ; from thefe are the four hu- mours— blood, phlegm, choler, melancholy. Alfo, the year is divided into four parts, which are the fpring, furnmer, autumn, and winter : — alfo the wind is divided into eaftern, weftern, northern, and fouthern. There are, alfo, four rivers in Paradife ; and fo many infernal. Alfo, the number four makes
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