All number arises from possibilities of one. The inherent or “being” possibilities of one are that it can be many. For example, one can be thought of as having 886 parts, that is, it is 886/886—but the number 886 can be seen by itself.

If a person uses the numbers 4; 124; 643, he is really saying the 4; 124; and 643 aspect of one. The number is an adjective.

Number is likewise based on existence as including and included. Reality is that which, while itself, is also always larger and always smaller than itself. Number is based on infinity as a fact. Number, like space or matter, is endlessly large or endlessly small. If we took the largest number we had the physical energy to put down, reaching in digits from here, say, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and we called it the largest number physically available—if we put that number under a line, with the number 1 over it, and called the largest number physically available by an abbreviation, we would have 1/l.n.p.a. As soon as this was done, we would have the smallest number physically available. If the number were written as a whole, we would still have to go to Harrisburg.

In looking at the number as a fraction, that is, as a division of one, we would see that the large number was a multiplication of one. But both numbers are aspects of one.

Numbers imply motion. One, as such, implies a change of zero—and in this change can be seen motion. The number three implies a regular motion of one. The number 3½ is a more complex motion: one is gone into when the ½ is stated. Numbers can be seen as motion accomplished: motion thought of as form and pause.

All things have to do with number. That is why the tendency is to bring measurement or statistics to all thought.