3 you may notice that three is something of an anomaly. cultures the world over see 3 as sacred, divine, lucky. the more you look for 3, the more you notice it. the more you notice it, the more you look for it. All good things come in threes. all bad things come in three. third time’s the charm. three is company. many christians beieve in a triune god or trinity. celtic gods and goddesses all had triplicate aspects, representing various cycles. zoroastrians believe in three divine beings: Ahura Mazda, Spenta Mainyu and Spenta Angryu. the rule of three is ubiquitous in the human experience. this is not inherent, rather it is a construct of order we impose on the chaotic universe. three is a triangle, and a triangle is balnaced and beautiful, and so we look for three in places where we expect this seemingly perfect balance. three really is sacred, divine, and lucky... because we made three sacred, divine, and lucky. this is the true law of three.
4 likewise has an interesting place in human society. four is lawful, orderly. there are studies suggesting 4 is the fundamental grouping of the mind. we map our reality with a grid system as devised by rene descartes.
similarly, there is a law of fives. five is half of ten. five is a star, the pentagram or pentaking. five is easy to count by multiplicatives. we see five everywhere we look for it. five is pleasant, orderly. 5. and clean, and so we divide the world into groups of five. this is also an illusion born of our pattern-seeking and meaning-making behVIORS. WE SEE INCREMENTS OF FIVE BEACUASE WE WANT TO. AND THUS, 5 IS A SACRED NUMBER AS WELL. WE HAve consecrated it, sanctified it. five
six is perhaps the most interesting. six, the hexagon, is a uniquely sturdy pattern that we see repeated in the natural world. despite that, it feels incomplete, imperfect. 6 is imbalanced, disorderly. thus, it could be said 6
is the most sacred and most profane.