In Plato’s Timaeus, we find that God created the Cosmic Soul using two mathematical strips of 1, 2, 4, 8 and 1, 3, 9, 27. These two strips have the shape of an inverted “V” or the Platonic Lambda since it resembles the shape of the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. Calcidius was a 4th-century philosopher (and possibly a Christian) who translated the first part (to 53c) of Plato’s Timaeus from Greek into Latin around the year 321 and provided with it an extensive commentary and drawings.
