"To the trained thinker, mathematics is obviously limited to the realm of form, or to those departments of manifestation where numbers as diversified elements exist suspended from common Unity, which is their monad and which was termed by the Pythagoreans 'Number.' As all individual minds are suspended from the principle of Mind, so all numbers are suspended from the principle of Number. Number is consequently divine and founded in the archetypal sphere, from whence its radiations (or principles) descend into the sensible world, there to manifest as the exactitudes of mathematical procedure. By some, Number was considered synonymous with God in that the first motion of Deity establishes Number, which becomes the mode whereby the magnitude and duration of that motion are rendered conceivable. Hence, motion does not exist unless the cause either is aware of its own extension or induces awareness in the substance through which extension is taking place. Motion and Number, therefore, are of kindred nature and form the monad from which is suspended all diversified activity-- which is Number in motion, or the numbers. "
~ Manly P. Hall, "Mathematics the Master Science' (excerpt from 'Lectures on Ancient Philosophy', 1929)
