Number 10
Our universe represents it: matter is the 0, and the spirit is the 1
February 13th 2026
In order to understand the wealth of meaning contained in the number 10, we must study both the 1 and the 0 of which it is composed. This study reveals that each digit has its own nature, its own function, and that they have work to do together. To understand this work, we have to realize that they are not simply placed side by side, but that the 1 penetrates the 0 in order to animate it and set it in motion. This notion is also expressed by the symbol I.
Genesis begins with these words: ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void; and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.’ The Spirit of God is the masculine principle, which hovers over matter―symbolized by the waters―in order to fertilize it. Water is the circle, the O, and the Spirit of God is the dot, the 1. Unless it is animated by the Spirit, matter remains ‘tohu va-bohu’: formless and void. But when matter is touched and fashioned by the spirit, all the potential it contains begins to manifest, and it becomes a universe, with suns, constellations and nebulae. Our universe therefore represents the 10, that is to say, matter, 0, which has already been fashioned, animated and organized by the Spirit, 1.
Genesis begins with these words: ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void; and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.’ The Spirit of God is the masculine principle, which hovers over matter―symbolized by the waters―in order to fertilize it. Water is the circle, the O, and the Spirit of God is the dot, the 1. Unless it is animated by the Spirit, matter remains ‘tohu va-bohu’: formless and void. But when matter is touched and fashioned by the spirit, all the potential it contains begins to manifest, and it becomes a universe, with suns, constellations and nebulae. Our universe therefore represents the 10, that is to say, matter, 0, which has already been fashioned, animated and organized by the Spirit, 1.
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