Numbers

#math/numbers

In order to measure, we start recording from the first data point, which we call the first, breishit, “in the beginning”. Any event can only begin with the existence of something – at minimum one, or the first.

The paradoxical nature of this statement is that actually, in order for the narrative to begin, we need two – the binary, the duality, this and that. One is insufficient as there is nothing to know of the existence of the singularity if that is all that there is. It is then not, nor ever can be, an anomaly. Thus in order for anything to “exist”, there needs to be two – itself and the other, the observer and the observed. We need the “other” that can relate or receive the narrative, the one we call the “witness”.

The Wisdom of the Ages is that everything arose from this One, and everything is reducible to the One, which is, was and always will be the Source of Everything. Thus we have One that we refer to as God.

It was our brothers from the Ancient East who alerted us to the existence of a state before the One. A state from which the ‘I’ had emerged. They called it naught, Ø, the empty set – the reality of the existence of the One.

Two

#numbers/2
2 – is from the Id.
If 1 = 1, 1 = 1 is the splitting, the identification, the recognition. I am now no longer alone. Eve has emerged from Adam Kadmon, the first man.

Eve emerges from Adam’s penchant for separation. This is an expression of the man’s living in duality and opposites. Now Eve, having emerged from Adam seeks union, back to the source. She is not seeking to remove herself even more.

The 2 signifies the duality, the one and the other, this and that, the binary world we encounter.

I propose this defined the order. It is the structure upon which creation turns. It defines the core energy of Creation, for it is the always balanced expression of the manifest world. It is the bridge. That is why all relationships show you your shadow.

More broadly, it is ~a (not-a) that defines who ‘a’ is.

Who u are defines u just as much as who u are not defines u.

From this we derive the law of opposites. This is the order, first the one, the One God. We splinter to become two, birthed from our one. That is what our worldview is based — a binary world, a world of opposites, of judgement. The world of singularity would be heaven. The place of knowingness, of union of ‘a’ & ~a, the one-ness.

That is where the axiom of choice comes in. You need to chose which direction to go to find the center – through 1 or through -1. This is basically the theme of ACIM, A Course In Miracles, which proposes that there are two basic impulses in our lives, that of love or that of fear.

When in the world of one you are spiritually aware, believing or knowing it is all one, all the same, coming from a single source, you long for the zero point, the annihilation, the emptiness of the infinite, if masculine. The feminine, however, seeks the fullness of the infinite, that is why it is the expression of form, where the masculine is the expression of the emptiness.

Now 2 is in constant flux, and it creates the first wheel from the dynamic between $1_i$ and $1_k$. Even though we write 1 + 1 = 2, the 1st 1 and the second 1 cannot be the same ones in any manifest universe, though in the mathematical realm, two equal numbers are identical.

If a + b = 2, then there is only one solution where a = b = 1, for which this equation holds. But there are an infinite amount of solutions where a $\equiv$ b. This holds when you are not perfectly balanced, and do not have a clear picture of yourself, in that a $<>$ b, if ‘a’ understands itself clearly, then it would reflect itself the other perfectly, and a $\equiv$ b.

Now, let’s look into the more complex world of Yetzirah יצירה! The next ספירה (sphere of existence) up.

In other words, by its very nature, b defines an interaction between ‘a’ & the place her shadow -a exists. Thus -a must then be an element of ~a.

[!question] Is -a $\in$ ~a?

Masc -> separation, Fem -> Union.

This is the movement of the 1 -> 2, and the 2 -> 1, forming the circle. As the masculine extends himself from 1 → 2 → 3 …, so the feminine seeks to return to the union, the 3 → 2 → 1. Thus we call the feminine negative, for it is through division (or subtraction) we reduce our number back to the 1. As we know, all division will end at 1: $m/n → 1 \text{ as } n → m$. Once we have the emergence of 2, the addition of 1 + 1, we have knowledge of Good and Evil, of the opposites, the annihilation and creation, life and death, for 1 – 1 = 0, an eye for a eye, a life for a life. But also 1 + 1 = 2…, which is the ultimate union in Malchut.

We continue further into the axiom of aloneness, of perfection, where 1 * 1 = 1 which represents balance, yet is static, a continuation of the same. It is also a form of narcissism, whereby $1^2 = 1$, that all that is being produced is another version of the same thing.

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Three

#numbers/3
Three is the formed world, the trinity, the trigram. It emerges from love. Do something for love and something else will grow out of it, the product of the love. It is a vessel with the light (love) pouring in, being filled.

The breath moves from the contraction, Tzimtzum, to the exhalation, where the pain of constriction is realised, pouring out is love. Three is the result of coordinated movement (union) between the two.

3 dimensional

#dimensions/3d
We start with three physical dimensions and time. We meditate on the here and now, as timeless. Being totally in the present, we are fully in the trinity of the present three-dimensional reality.

Three dimensions are expressed in the fuzziness between the right and the wrong, their harmonics we might call it. It is the curved lines between any two points, that needs to be reduced to a straight line in order for us to do anything with it. So, we enter the world of sacred three-dimensional geometry. This collapses into a two-dimensional reality, one that our minds can cope with, that of right and wrong.

Now we are in the manifest universe, with duality, with opposites. With the wheel (sphere) of existence.

Now if two $a$’s are identical, in other words, $a_j = a_k$. If they are equal, there is no movement. This is the Level I, the doppelgänger.

Number 4

#numbers/4
Four is the completion of the first cycle. That is why it signifies death in the Chinese numerology. It also signifies stability. The circle is complete. How does five emerge from here?

It is also $2^2$.

The square

The square, with its 2 elements doubled, is the first emergence into stable form. It occurs in the doubling of the duality. This is the place of intersection. The doubling of the doubles, embedding themselves in this world — the essential bifurcation.

Note: 2 is the only double whose 2 + 2 = 2 * 2.

Playing with the square, we get $a * a = a^2$, as a form of narcissism, a doubling of your persona. In this case, the result is positive, and the person could be a great leader. However, $-a * -a = a^2$ as well, then there is evil afoot.

Number 5

#numbers/5
Five is a difficult number. It is unstable. It is the beginning of another cycle of life. It is expaning into the world.

5 is Tiferet.

The Einsteinan revolution is the belief in a two-way relationship. That the energy flows both ways. What I do matters. It matters to G-d who wishes to have a loving relationship with us.