The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . VI THE ARITHMETIC OF BEAUTY 79 eye by the swift glancing balls of a juggler,the evolutions of drilling troops, or theintricate figures of a dance, for these thingsare number concrete and animate in timeand space. The truths of number are of all truthsthe most interior, abstract, and difficult ofapprehension, and since knowledge becomesclear and definite to the extent that it canbe made to enter the mind through thechannels of physical sense, it is well toaccustom oneself to conceiving of numbergraphically, by means of geomet
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . VI THE ARITHMETIC OF BEAUTY 79 eye by the swift glancing balls of a juggler,the evolutions of drilling troops, or theintricate figures of a dance, for these thingsare number concrete and animate in timeand space. The truths of number are of all truthsthe most interior, abstract, and difficult ofapprehension, and since knowledge becomesclear and definite to the extent that it canbe made to enter the mind through thechannels of physical sense, it is well toaccustom oneself to conceiving of numbergraphically, by means of geometrical sym-bols (Illustration 72), rather than in termsof the familiar Arabic notation which,though admirable for purposes of com-putation, is of too condensed and arbitrary. THE. EANQUEriNG
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