In previous blog entries I have mentioned the fundamental importance of mathematical notions esp. with respect to number and the operations of addition (and subtraction) and multiplication (and division). These serve as the essential interface as between the (spiritual) world of emptiness and the (material) world of form, thereby in a crucial sense embodying both aspects, though not being capable of direct identification with either aspect separately. An equivalent way of expressing this point is that such mathematical notions represent the original archetypes from which all phenomenal reality is necessarily derived. So I have already referred to the somewhat paradoxical conundrum that whereas neither emptiness nor form can be directly identified with mathematical notions in their separate analytic and holistic aspects yet, what we identify as phenomenal creation (which represents the interpenetration of emptiness and form) simply results from the dynamic interaction of both th