Promantic Proof from the Number Four

For Aristotle posits four kinds of causes. From which, through which, by which, and for the sake of which all things are done, so that nothing contained within the ambit of the whole Universe is considered to have been made by itself alone, or without another, or in vain. And all these things constitute the FOUR members of causality, as the primary insignia of Nature, and as the necessary rudders for every mutation and motion. To these FOUR causalities are attached the FOUR-TIMES-THREE or THREE-TIMES-FOUR signs of the Zodiac. These accommodate their influence to all bodies composed of the FOUR Elements and through the FOUR causalities, and provide their effects. The FOUR mutations of the Moon, which twice increases and twice decreases; the FOUR primary qualities: heat, humidity, dryness, cold. The FOUR vicissitudes of the year: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter; these all contribute to this. The FOUR Winds concur in this: Boreas, Eurus, Auster, Zephyrus. The FOUR quarters of the world: East, West, South, North. The FOUR intervals of time and motion: time impending, present, past, and future. The FOUR-TIMES-THREE or THREE-TIMES-FOUR months, the FOUR weeks of each month, eight times three or six times FOUR hours of the day. And all these things vivify, foster, direct, and sustain all FOUR substances of created things through the fiery ardor of the QUATERNARY of Divine power, and in turn, they bring all sublunary things to an end and to non-being, according to that [passage] of

No shape remains to anything; and nature, the renovator of things,

Repairs one figure from another.

In Man, whom philosophers call a Microcosm because he has a dissected particle from all FOUR [elements], the FOURTH Number dominates not only the aforementioned [things]; but also, beyond these, GOD, the artificer of nature, has given him FOUR [things] in which he may improve or fail.