And as every present state of a simple substance is naturally a consequence of its preceding state, so its present is pregnant with its future. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful resource of the divine intellect, almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

But in the treasures of divine wisdom, that is, in the hidden God and (which comes to the same) in the universal harmony of the world, a profundity (bathos) is latent, which contains the reasons why the actual series of the universe, comprehending the events we admire and the judgements we worship, has been chosen by God as the best and as preferable to all others.

Music is a calculation which the soul makes unconsciously in secret.