Such are the meditations which I have with great difficulty cast in a form adapted to our understanding.  There are some others which Pauline remembered more exactly, wherefore I know not, and which I wrote from her dictation; but they drive the mind to despair when, knowing in what an intellect they originated, we strive to understand them.  I will quote a few of them to complete my study of this figure; partly, too, perhaps, because, in these last aphorisms, Lambert’s formulas seem to include a larger universe than the former set, which would apply only to zoological evolution.  Still, there is a relation between the two fragments, evident to those persons—­though they be but few —­who love to dive into such intellectual deeps.

I

Everything on earth exists solely by motion and number.

II

Motion is, so to speak, number in action.

III

Motion is the product of a force generated by the Word and by Resistance, which is Matter.  But for Resistance, Motion would have had no results; its action would have been infinite.  Newton’s gravitation is not a law, but an effect of the general law of universal motion.

IV

Motion, acting in proportion to Resistance, produces a result
which is Life.  As soon as one or the other is the stronger, Life
ceases.

V

No portion of Motion is wasted; it always produces number; still,
it can be neutralized by disproportionate resistance, as in
minerals.

VI

Number, which produces variety of all kinds, also gives rise to
Harmony, which, in the highest meaning of the word, is the
relation of parts to the whole.

VII

But for Motion, everything would be one and the same.  Its
products, identical in their essence, differ only by Number, which
gives rise to faculties.

VIII

Man looks to faculties; angels look to the Essence.

IX

By giving his body up to elemental action, man can achieve an
inner union with the Light.

X

Number is intellectual evidence belonging to man alone; by it he
acquires knowledge of the Word.

XI

There is a Number beyond which the impure cannot pass:  the Number
which is the limit of creation.

XII

The Unit was the starting-point of every product:  compounds are derived from it, but the end must be identical with the beginning.  Hence this Spiritual formula:  the compound Unit, the variable Unit, the fixed Unit.

XIII

The Universe is the Unit in variety.  Motion is the means; Number
is the result.  The end is the return of all things to the Unit,
which is God.

XIV

Three and Seven are the two chief Spiritual numbers.

XV