Without it, all would be one and the same substance; for Number alone differentiates and qualifies substance.
Number is to your Spirit what it is to Matter, an incomprehensible agent.

Will you make a Deity of it?
Is it a being?
Is it a breath emanating from God to organize the material universe where nothing obtains form except by the Divinity which is an effect of Number?
The least as well as the greatest of creations are distinguishable from each other by quantities, qualities, dimensions, forces,--all attributes created by Number.

The infinitude of Numbers is a fact proved to your soul, but of which no material proof can be given.

The mathematician himself tells you that the infinite of numbers exists, but cannot be proved.
"God, dear pastor, is a Number endowed with motion,--felt, but not seen, the Believer will tell you.

Like the Unit, He begins Number, with which He has nothing in common.