Hippolytus On Pythagoras

Pythagoras’ System of Numbers Pythagoras, then, declared the originating principle of the universe to be the unbegotten monad, and the generated duad, and the rest of the numbers. And he says that the monad is the father of the duad, and the duad the mother of all things that are being begotten—the begotten one (being mother) of the things that are begotten. And from the duad, again, as Pythagoras states, […]

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