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Number

Groups

There is a difference between 1 (one) and the Monad. The 1 is applied
to each of the essential parts in any group, so the 1 is simpler than the
Monad, which is the part considered as a unit.

Pythagoras did not even see 1 as a number. To him it was the Monad,
the Father, and the symbol of wisdom; the principle underlying all num-
bers and from which all numbers come forth.

This is easier to understand if we see it as he did—a circle with a dot
in the center. It was one in the midst of all. Ain Soph Aur. Infinite. So the
Monad was considered as a unit just as a man, like the Universe, is a unit
composed of many individual parts. According to Cato:

God makes himself known to all the world; He fills up the

whole circle of the universe, but makes His particular abode

in the center, which is the soul of the just (The Pythagorean

Triangle, 51).

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he name for each number group is derived from the Greek word
for that number: Monad, Duad, Triad, Tetrad, Pentad, Hexad,
Heptad, Ogdoad, Ennead, and Decad. Each group held the under-
lying deeper meanings of the number to the Kabbalists.

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