- The number of the cosmos---the paradigm of creation.
- The decad contains all numbers and therefore all things and possibilities.
It is the radix or turning point of all counting. 10 is all-inclusive representing:
10 is seen as the perfect--the return to unity. When based on the digits of the two hands, it is completeness and the foundation of all counting.
- Law
- Order
- Dominion
The tetraktys 1+2+3+4= 10 symbolizes divinity:
- One - represents a point
- Two - length
- Three - a plane or surface (as a triangle)
- Four - solidity or space
Its highest ranges of completeness, 100 and 1000, are the basis of all Hindu cosmology. In China the Ten Thousand Things:
- The uncountable
- Symbolize the whole of manifestation
- The number of completion of journeys and returns to origins:
- Odysseus wandered for 9 years and returned on the 1
0th. - Troy was besieged for 9 years and fell on the 1
0th. - The sum of the number 9 of the circumference with the 1 of the center---being perfection.
We see 10 also being symbolized in rituals like the ritual of the Maypole - the one of the axis with the circle danced around.
- Symbolized by ISIS and OSIRIS and is the symbol of Love and Light and also the God number (like 55} 5+5 & 26 in SG} GOD #).
- Formed of the pillar and the circle.
- Both masculine and feminine, or Father/Mother principles.
- The number from which all things come, and all must return.
- The symbol of ‘wholeness’ - humanity, number 1 and number
0- the gift of power and protection.
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