198 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XII. 



3 + 4, and 4 -|- 4*; 9, from its completing the 

 series, being a single and perfect number, '* cir- 

 culating," as the Pythagoreans say, "all numbers 

 within itself," and 10 commencing a new series, 

 and " becoming again the monad." 



The hieroglyphic numbers t are different, being 

 arranged in units, tens, hundreds, and thousands; 

 and the ordinary hieratic are partly formed from 

 the hieroglyphic units, the 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, being 

 ciphers, as is also one form of the 4. For an illus- 

 tration of which and the former statement, I refer 

 the reader to the accompanying Plate, t 



The speculations of later times have ascribed the 

 same and some other significations to the numbers, 

 as to 



"1- — Unity. Divine thought. Wisdom. 

 Divinity. The universal principle, 

 and centre of all. 

 2. — Will. Water. The two natures of man. 

 Perversity. 

 c" 3. — Action. Matter. Temporal immaterial 

 agents who do not think. 



^4. — Intellect. Intellectual man. Wisdom. 

 All that is active. Religion. Imma- 

 terial agents who think. 



5. — The evil being. Idolatry. Self suffi- 



ciency. 3 + 2. 



6. — Formation of the world. Radius, and 



* Vide Plate 19. Part I. 



f VuleThte 19. Part 2. 



j For further accounts of the Egyptian numbers, see the Grammar 

 of Champollion (vol. i.), by whom the numerical system commenced 

 by Dr. Young was very fully demonstrated and carried out. 



