《Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtue》數字的神秘象徵 (Occult Power of Numbers)William Wynn Westcott (1890)
Hermias, the Christian philosopher, author of " Ridicule of the Gentile Philosophers," quotes f.-om the Pythagoreans. " The ]\Ionad is the Beginning of ali things " — " arche ton panton he vionas!'' The figure of one signifies, identity, equality, existence, and preserva- tion, it signifies " living man " alone among animals "erect " ; on adding a head we make of it P, the sign of creative Power, (paternity, Phallus, Pan, Priapus, all commencing with the Vocable P).
段落 westcott-15public-domain (1890)
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