ABSTRACT
Jung raises the question of the relationship between number, as an archetypal ordering principle, and the “assemblage of gods” in astrology. Jung sets forth a view of number as an a priori factor and therefore discovered rather than invented by human beings. As the archetype of order, extending beyond the psyche into the material realm, Jung sees number as inherent in the nature of things, a kind of transcendent ordering principle underlying the phenomenal world – a view that draws him close to a Pythagorean position.
