The Unnumbered Oracles

“Of course all oracles are numbered. But the numbers of these oracles, rather than being readily evident, have been hidden. The reader may guess them, or sense them, but should know that their numbers may be many, greater, in fact, than the numbers of oracles themselves.

In this way numbers have proliferated, as they so often do, for in all numbers are seeds of other numbers, which may be known if one makes a garden for them, and feeds them the proper soils and weather.” — John Sandbach