The Connection Between Humans and the Spiritual World
And another interesting connection is that humans also take as many breaths in a day as the number of days they live and as the sun travels through the entire zodiac in years. You see, the world is truly organized according to measure and number in the deepest sense. And one would think that this fine classification of humans in the world, this correspondence of harmonies, would lead the crude materialists of our time beyond their worldview, which sees nothing in the universe but a mechanism. Admittedly, it is a strange mechanism that structures its individual beings in such a way that they stand in wonderful, numerically harmonious relationships to the whole.
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