The Sale of Lives (4)

In addition to these, counting.

I can count now.

How do you do it?

One, two, three, four.

Look, now; what you deem four is really ten, and a perfect triangle, and what we swear by.

Hear me swear a mighty oath: by Four, I never heard diviner or more holy words.

And after that, stranger, you will have knowledge concerning earth and air and water and fire-the mass of each, and what form it has, and what motion by consequence.

Then has fire form, or air, or water?

Very clear forms, for the formless and shapeless is immovable; and besides these things you will know that God is number and mind and harmony.

This is startling!