"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."

"It seems to me that it is not at all the number of the human, the imperfect, as is often said, but the number of that which accumulates imperfections, and which by that way attempts to finally reach seven, by multiplying the sixes, that is, attempts to reach perfection; in other words, have itself taken for God."