From The Theology of Arithmetic by Iamblichus (4th century A.D.)
The triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the monad—oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.
The triad is called ‘prudence’ and ‘wisdom’—that is, when people act correctly as regards the present, look ahead to the future, and gain experience from what has already happened in the past: so wisdom surveys the three parts of time, and consequently knowledge falls under the triad.
- Gregory Wilbur
- Franklin, Tennessee
- Chief Musician at Parish Presbyterian Church, Senior Fellow & Dean of the Chapel at New College Franklin and Director of King's Meadow Study Center with a deep interest in how symbolism reveals the nature and character of God.
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