In Plato's Timeus the Demiurg's means of creation are musical and geometric proportions:" And he proceeded to divide after this manner:-First of all, he took away one part of the whole [1],and then he separated a second part which was double the first [2],and then he took away a third part which was half as much again as the second and three times as much as the first [3],and then he took a fourth part which was twice as much as the second [4],and a fifth part which was three times the third [9],and a sixth part which was eight times the first [8],and a seventh part which was twenty-seven times the first [27]."
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