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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
70
Then
she
inquired,
Whether
there
was
no
mystery
in
Numbers?
No
other
mystery,
answered
the
Spirits,
but
reckoning
or
counting;
for
Numbers
are
onely
marks
of
remembrance.
But
what
do
you
think
of
the
Number
of
Four,
said
she,
which
Cabbalists
make
such
ado
withal,
and
of
the
Number
of
Ten,
when
they
say
that
Ten
is
all,
and
that
all
Numbers
are
virtually
comprehended
in
Four?
We
think,
answered
they,
that
Cabbalists
have
nothing
else
to
do
but
to
trouble
their
heads
with
such
useless
Fancies;
for
naturally
there
is
no
such
thing
as
prime
or
all
in
Numbers;
nor
is
there
any
other
mystery
in
Numbers,
but
what
Man's
fancy
makes;
but
what
Men
call
Prime,
or
All,
we
do
not
know,
because
they
do
not
agree
in
the
number
of
their
opinion.
Then
the
Empress
asked,
Whether
the
number
of
six
was
a
symbole
of
Matrimony,
as
being
made
up
of
Male
and
Femal,
for
two
into
three
is
six.
If
any
number
can
be
a
symbole
of
Matrimony,
answered
the
Spirits,
it
is
not
Six,
but
Two;
if
two
may
be
allowed
to
be
a
Number:
for
the
act
of
Matrimony
is
made
up
of
two
joined
in
one.
she
asked
again,
What
they
said
to
the
number
of
Seven?
whether
it
was
not
an
Embleme
of
God,
because
Cabbalists
say,
That
it
is
neither
begotten,
nor
begets
any
other
Number?
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