Promantic Proof from the Number Four

prefixing the ages: Childhood, Adolescence, Youth, and Old Age. He bestowed upon him FOUR humors and FOUR temperaments. The exterior senses—Sight, Hearing, Touch, and Smell—[though some reject Taste as more common to animals] He attributed FOUR to Man. He implanted in Man the FOUR faculties of the soul: Reason, Intellect, Will, and Memory. He limited the duration of the entire human race and the whole globe of the earth after the flood to FOUR ages. The first from Noah to Abraham, the second from Abraham to David, the third from David to Christ, and the FOURTH from Christ to the consummation of the World, the final day of the universal Judgment. The World distinguished the supreme Power of things into FOUR monarchies: the Assyrian, the Median or Persian, the Greek, and the Roman. To these monarchs themselves, He assigned four Insignia: the crown, the Scepter, the Orb, and the Sword. The whole World itself is distributed into FOUR most spacious parts: Europe, Africa, Asia, and America. Finally, all investigators of natural things maintain that all things that are FOUR, all things that are SQUARE and QUADRANGULAR, and all bodies affected by the FOURTH Number are most perfect, because they refer all Beings to one supreme point, and are guarded on all sides by the Seal of the Trinity. Book 10 For the FOURFOLD point original: "QVATERNARIVS enim cuſpis", as Ioannes Goropius Beccanus says in his Hermathena a work on the etymology and symbolic meaning of language, is most powerful for penetrating all things, representing a triangle on all sides. And this FOURFOLD nature is the Source of Divine Goodness, Excellence, and Charity, from which the Image of the eternally blessed Trinity shines forth most clearly. But why, you will ask, MOST SERENE KING, this copious allusion to the fountain of the FOURFOLD and the connection of the Third number with the FOURTH? I will consequently unfold the most divine Mystery of these most sacred Numbers. It alludes to the Three most wise, most August, and most Glorious Ferdinands, the Caesars, and it aims at Your Most Serene Majesty, MOST SERENE KING FERDINAND THE FOURTH.