divisiblest

Updated: May 5, 2025

This world is the multiplex "Image of his own Dream." Who knows to what unnamable subtleties of spiritual law all these Pagan Fables owe their shape! The number Twelve, divisiblest of all, which could be halved, quartered, parted into three, into six, the most remarkable number, this was enough to determine the Signs of the Zodiac, the number of Odin's Sons, and innumerable other Twelves.

Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History