Emanation, Indefinite Dyad, Ordinality

The neo-Platonist concept of Emanation has two main principles, each Numerological--The One, signifying the origin of Emanation, and the Indefinite Dyad, signifying the ensuing unlimited manifold.  The pair are thus a variation on the Pythagorean pair of the One and the Two, the latter of which is sometimes termed Dyad, though, because it signifies a determinate multiplicity, is more accurately a Definite Dyad.  But despite the variation, the acceptance of the One by Emanationists expresses an acceptance of Cardinal Numerology, with the structural incoherence of an implied lacuna between the origin and the subsequent manifold, incoherent because the concept of Emanation connotes continuity from the outset.  In contrast, conceiving the Indefinite Dyad as Ordinal preserves that continuity, i. e. from First to Second, etc.  Furthermore, that the One can be derived from the First, i. e. by abstracting it from the inherent Ordinal sequence, shows that the One is not necessarily a principle that is independent of the Indefinite Dyad, nor one that precedes it in any respect.  So, Emanationism is one system that implicitly elevates the Indefinite Dyad from Philosophical marginality, and Ordinal Numerology from Mathematical marginality.