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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
71
There
can
be
no
Embleme
of
God,
answered
the
Spirits;
for
if
we
do
not
know
what
God
is,
how
can
we
make
an
Embleme
of
him?
Nor
is
there
any
Number
in
God,
for
God
is
the
perfection
Himself;
but
Numbers
are
imperfect;
and
as
for
the
begetting
of
numbers,
it
is
done
by
Multiplication
and
Addition;
but
Substraction
is
as
a
kind
of
death
to
Numbers.
If
there
be
no
mystery
in
Numbers,
replied
the
Empress
then
it
is
in
vain
to
refer
to
the
Creation
of
the
World
to
certain
Numbers,
as
Cabbalists
do.
The
onely
mystery
of
Numbers,
answered
they,
concerning
the
Creation
of
the
World,
is,
that
as
Numbers
do
multiply,
so
does
the
World.
The
Empress
asked,
how
far
Numbers
did
multiply?
The
Spirits
answered,
to
Infinite.
Why,
said
she,
Infinite
cannot
be
reckoned,
nor
numbred.
No
more,
answered
they,
can
the
parts
of
the
Universe;
for
God's
Creation,
being
an
Infinite
action,
as
proceeding
from
an
Infinite
Power,
could
not
rest
upon
a
finite
Number
of
Creatures,
were
it
never
so
great.
But
leaving
the
mystery
of
Numbers,
proceeded
the
Empress,
Let
me
now
desire
you
to
inform
me,
Whether
the
Suns
and
Planets
were
generated
by
the
Heavens,
or
Æthereal
Matter?
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