| IN Nature there are two forces producing equilibrium, | | | | Two affirmations make two corresponding denials |
| and these three constitutea single law. Here, then, is | | | | either possible or necessary. |
| the triad resumed in unity, and by adding the | | | | The fact of being is affirmed, and that of nothingness |
| conceptionof unity to that of the triad we are bought | | | | is denied. Affirmation as |
| to the tetrad, the first squareand perfect number, the | | | | Word produces affirmation as realization or incarnation |
| source of all numerical combinations and the principle | | | | of the Word, and each ofthese affirmations |
| ofall forms. Affirmation, negation, discussion, solution: | | | | corresponds to the denial of its opposite. Thus, in the |
| such are the four philosophicaloperations of the human | | | | opinionof the Kabalists, the name of the demon or of |
| mind. Discussion conciliates negation with affirmationby | | | | evil is composed of the same lettersas the Name of |
| rendering them necessary to each other. In the same | | | | God or goodness, but spelt backwards. This evil is the |
| way, the philosophicaltriad, emanating from the | | | | lost reflectionor imperfect mirage of light in shadow. |
| antagonism of the duad, is completed by the tetrad, | | | | But all which exists, whether of goodor evil, of light or |
| thefour-square basis of all truth. According to | | | | darkness, exists and manifests by the tetrad. The |
| consecrated dogma, there are Three | | | | affirmation ofunity supposes the number four, unless it |
| Persons in God, and these Three constitute one only | | | | turns in unity itself as in a vicious circle. |
| Deity. Three and one providethe conception of four, | | | | So also the triad, as we have observed already, is |
| because unity is required to explain the three. Hence, | | | | explained by the duad andresolved by the tetrad, |
| inalmost all languages, the name of God consists of | | | | which is the squared unity of even numbers and the |
| four letters, and in Hebrewthese four are really three, | | | | quadrangularbase of the cube, regarded as unity of |
| one of them being repeated twice, that which | | | | construction, solidity and measure. |
| expressesthe Word and the creation of the Word. | | | | |