《Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtue》數字的神秘象徵 (Occult Power of Numbers)William Wynn Westcott (1890)
The Gnostics said that all their edifice rested on a 4 pillared Basis ; Truth, Intelligence, Silence, Bathos. Note the Earth was formed on the 4th day, according to the allegory found in the Jewish "Genesis." The figure of 4> '^^ Ragon remarks, is the upright man, carr}'ing the triangle or Divinity, a type of the Trinity of Godhead.
段落 westcott-88public-domain (1890)
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