Dear Sir,

I have been reading your latest reflections on “magic numbers” and those ever-expanding squares that seem to spiral into the infinite.
To be honest, I do not fully understand all the curves of your reasoning — but you seem to be enjoying yourself immensely,
and in that, I salute you.

I confess I have never read the Book of Numbers in detail.
At that time, HaShem was indeed the God of Israel —
and perhaps He would still wish to be,
if only we did not soil so easily what once was called frankness.

There are, as you know, subterranean mathematics within Creation itself —
harmonies written in silence before the first atom began to sing.
Among these hidden constants, one stands out to me:
π / √17 — the ratio of mercy to structure, of motion to restraint.
A number not to be calculated, but to be contemplated.

As for your “magic rectangles” shaped like the OM symbol,
I must admit a certain doubt.
If everything sacred becomes geometry,
then holiness will soon be reduced to an equation,
and the living Word will vanish behind the grid.

Be careful, my friend, with those who claim cosmic enlightenment.
The self-proclaimed gurus and planetary messiahs
will still have to sit for the Marseille Examination —
and most of them, I fear, will find themselves
back at Level Zero before the results are out.

With cordial regards and a smile both mathematical and human,
Prof. Albert Manigold