La Comedie Humaine of Honore de Balzac (Volume 38) (Paperback)

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1904 edition. Extrait: ...a combination which is life; so soon as the one or the other becomes the stronger, life ceases. V. Nowhere is motion sterile; eve-where it engenders Number; but it may be neutralized by a superior resistance, as in minerals. VI. Number, which produces all varieties, at the same time generates Harmony, which, in its highest acceptation, is the relation between Parts and Unity. VII. Without Motion all would be one and the same substance. Its products, identical in their essence, are differentiated only by the Number which determines faculties. VIII. Man is related to faculties; the angel is related to essence. IX. By uniting his body to elementary action, man may succeed in joining himself to the light by his Interior. X. Number is an intellectual witness which belongs only to man, and by which he may arrive at the knowledge of the Word. XI. There is a number which Impurity cannot transcend; the Number wherein creation is finished. XII. Unity has been the point of departure for everything which has been produced; thence have resulted Composites; but the end must be identical with the beginning. Hence the spiritual formula: Composite Unitj-, variable Unity, fixed Unity. XIII. The Universe is, then, variety in Unity. Motion is the means, Number is the result. The eud is the return of all things to Unity, which is God. XIV. Three and Seven are the two great spiritual numbers. XV. Three is the formula of the created worlds. It is the spiritual symbol of creation, as it is the material symbol of circumference. In effect, God proceeded only by circular lines. The straight line is an attribute of Infinity; therefore man, who adumbrates the Infinite, employs it in his works. Two is the Number of..."