The ancient Greeks had a concept of the logos (or divine reason) that we simply do not share. In his book, "Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato," the second century mathematician Theon of Smyrna wrote: "

"One represents the principle of Unity from which all things arise. Two, the Dyad, represents Duality. This is the beginning of multiplicity and of strife, but is also the possibility of logos, denoting the relation of one thing to another""

For the Jewish author, Philo of Alexandria, the logos was part a universal tripartite soul, the origin of the Holy Trinity.

For the...