Prayer to the Tetractys

“Bless us, divine number, thou who generatest gods and men! O holy, holy tetraktys, though that containest the root and the source of the eternally flowing creation! For the divine number begins with the profound, pure unity until it comes to the holy four; then it begets the mother of all, the all-compromising, the all-bounding, the first-born, the never-swerving, the nevertiring holy ten, the keyholder of all.”

Tobias Dantzig, Joseph Mazur, Barry Mazur, Number: The Language of Science, Pi Press (2005) (p. 42)