Taylor - Theoretic Arithmetic.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

the duad was called indefinite and infinite, because in its first
subsistence it is infinity, and therefore has no appropriate
bound. And as we have shown that it was called equal, it is
not wonderful that it was denominated the cause of the even,
and consequently as the cause of it, was said to be neither
evenly-even, nor unevenly-even, nor evenly-odd.
Again, it was called the fountain of all symphony, because
the symphony diapason, which is most harmonic, is formed
from a duple ratio. But is was denominated Erato, "because,
says the anonymous author, it attracts to itself through love
the accession of the monad, as of form, and thus generates the
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epora exto?copev?, ra hotza czxo~ohccspara yevvu. As the fountain
of all symphony, it is evident why it was called harmony. But
it was denominated patience, because, says the anonymous
writer, it is the first multitude that sustains or endures separation,
viz. a separation from the adytum of the monad. It is also
a root, though not in a certain respect in energy, because it is
the mother of number with which it is parturient, but is not
number in perfect energy. It was likewise denominated power,
because the first infinity is the first power. But it is the feet of
Ida abounding with fountains, because it is the root of the
region of ideas, or an intelligible essence. For the foot of a
mountain is the same as the root of it; and mount Ida, as
Proclus observes in his Apology for Homer, signifies the region
of ideas. It is also called Phanes, or intelligible intellect, as
being the occult power of it. But it may be said generally,
that it is Justice, Isis, Nature, Rhea, &c. because, as being of
a feminine nature, it is the fountain of all the divinities that
are of a female characteristic. It likewise appears that it was
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