If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it.
Iamblichus'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives.
IamblichusAll things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.
IamblichusThe Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.
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