Pythagoras describes Letter Symbolism, 6th BCEPythagoras was the first recorded figure in history to elevate numbers into the sphere of philosophy and religion.Pythagoras developed the idea that numbers were the key to the nature of the universe.His method called Isopsephy analyzed each letter of a name or word in a search for hidden meaning.“The number one was identified with the creator, and so represented male and strength; two represented the female and weakness; three was the number of the whole (beginning, middle, and end), four portrayed righteousness and stability; five was marriage as the combination of odd and even, male and female; six represented wholeness, peace, and sacrifice; seven was identified with joy, love, and opportunity; eight indicated steadfastness and balance; while nine signified completion. The Pythagoreans regarded the number ten as especially sacred, and the decad was pictorially represented in the form of a four-tiered triangular pattern of ten dots known as the tetraktys” (ref: Kieren Barry, Greek Qabalah)