The winterburds are sweeping in and donning their snow kissed crowns...
They flow in an endless stream. But counting these beings is a difficult task. If one tries to count them as one would cherries or eggs, one soon notices that they cannot be counted that way. When one has reached say three, then there are suddenly a lot more. So counting them is no use; nor is any other form of calculation, for they immediately play tricks on you. Suppose you put two on one side and two on the other in order to say twice makes four. One would be wrong, for through their super-cunning they would appear as seven or eight, making out that two times two makes eight, or something like that. Thus these beings defy being counted. It must be acknowledged that the intellect developed by man in recent times is very impressive. But these super-intelligent beings show a mastery over the intellect even where it is merely a question of numbers.
~Rudolf Steiner, The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind, May 1922
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