The existence of Number depends on the Unit, which without being a number engenders Number.

God, dear pastor is a glorious Unit who has nothing in common with His creations but who, nevertheless, engenders them.

Will you not therefore agree with me that you are just as ignorant of where Number begins and ends as you are of where created Eternity begins and ends?
"Why, then, if you believe in Number, do you deny God?
Is not Creation interposed between the Infinite of unorganized substances and the Infinite of the divine spheres, just as the Unit stands between the Cipher of the fractions you have lately named Decimals, and the Infinite of Numbers which you call Wholes?
Man alone on earth comprehends Number, that first step of the peristyle which leads to God, and yet his reason stumbles on it! What! you can neither measure nor grasp the first abstraction which God delivers to you, and yet you try to subject His ends to your own tape-line! Suppose that I plunge you into the abyss of Motion, the force that organizes Number.

If I tell you that the Universe is naught else than Number and Motion, you would see at once that we speak two different languages.

I understand them both; you understand neither.
"Suppose I add that Motion and Number are engendered by the Word, namely the supreme Reason of Seers and Prophets who in the olden time heard the Breath of God beneath which Saul fell to the earth.