Promantic Proof from the Number Four

And in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the QUATERNARY the number four has proven itself. For Cech, or in German, Bohemian, offered the Tetragrammaton the four-letter name of God to FERDINAND THE FOURTH by both natural and literal law, and did so most promptly. What remains, except that the Roman Empire should offer itself of its own accord to FERDINAND THE FOURTH, just as it is owed to him not only by human and natural laws, but also by the divine secret of these numbers, words, and letters? And indeed, if the etymology of the Roman Empire is considered, that Tetragrammaton derived from ROMA Rome will fight on behalf of FERDINAND THE FOURTH.

If it pleases one to philosophize further on the order and number of the State of the Roman Empire, the entire august mass and majesty of the Empire will be found to subsist in a QUATERNION a set of four. For in its very beginnings, FOUR principal magistracies ruled and augmented it: Dictators, Consuls, Tribunes, and Praetors. And FOUR principal garrisons protected it, located at the FOUR corners of the World: namely, Byzantium, which is called Constantinople today, to repress the Parthians; Gades, which is now Cadiz, to restrain the Lusitanians; near the bank of the Rhone, which is now called the Rhine, against the incursions of the Germans; and at the Colossenses, which is now called Rhodes, to subjugate the Barbarians. It is judged that the entire Roman state depended on the FOUR limits of the Roman Empire and these FOURFOLD garrisons, provided that the strongest of the Romans were in charge of these borders. Specifically, Pompey the Great at Byzantium; Scipio Felix at Rhodes original: "Colossensi"; the courageous Julius Caesar at Gades; and the glorious Marius at the Rhone.

And finally, it is established that for several ages past, the division of the entire Empire into a QUATERNARY has flourished greatly; namely, FOUR men were chosen from each of the Orders that the Empire comprises, those who, standing out in authority and power above the others of their Order, would support the majesty of such a great Empire as if by columns. Goldastus (Constit. Imper. p. 34.) enumerates their order and sequence thus: