THE GENERATION OF EVERYTHING REGULATED BY NUMBER.
The first and veritable Number is therefore the source and principle[21] of hypostatic existence for beings. That is the reason that even here below, the classified both discrete and continuous quantity[38] and, with a different number, it is some other thing that is begotten, or nothing more can be begotten. Such are the primary Numbers, so far as they can be numbered. The numbers that subsist in other things play two parts. So far as they proceed from the First, they can be numbered; so far as they are below them, they measure other things, they serve to enumerate both numbers and things which can be enumerated. How indeed could you even say "ten" without the aid of numbers within yourself?