Introduction to Primitive Cabalistic Science

all diversities and progressive modifications, and thus also derived the most correct harmony of the sequences. *) 3. E. The abbreviation "3. E." likely stands for "Dreieinigkeit" (Trinity or Threefold Unity), reflecting the author’s attempt to link Christian theology with mathematical philosophy.

In the System of Creation.

In Nature.

In the Political Sphere.

*) The great Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), a brilliant German philosopher and mathematician who co-invented calculus and dreamt of a universal symbolic language., convinced of the possibility of tracing all objects back to a unity and producing from it the greatest and most consistent diversity of sequences, said in his Miscellanea: "He would act excellently who could devise a method for changing a given sign—for example, the sign of Unity—for any given number in such a way that the sign would be exactly characteristic of the number, so that in the sign one might clearly perceive the ratio that the number has to Unity, which would happen if the sign were changed into another in the same way that Unity was changed into the number. Thus, no lack of signs for indicating numbers would be feared, and any operations could be performed without the slightest danger of error." original: "Praeclare ageret, qui methodum excogitaret datam e. g. Unitatis notam pro dato quolibet numero ita commutandi, ut nota talis respectu numeri esset exacte caracteristica, adeoque ut in nota quasi distincte intueri liceret numeri rationem, quam ipse habet ad unitatem, quod tum fieret, quando eodem modo nota commutaretur in aliam, quo in numerum Unitas mutata fuit. Ita notarum pro significandis numeris defectus non esset metuendus, et ita sine tantillo errandi periculo peragi possent Operationes quaecunque."