English to Portuguese Other Philosophy

O que significa a palavra number nesses quatro casos?
Marquei as palavras entre * *.

The scientific reasoning from which this dogma is deduced is the following. As the principle of all things is the one, it is necessary that the progression of beings should be continued, and that no vacuum should intervene either in incorporeal or corporeal natures. It is also necessary that every thing which has a natural progression should proceed through similitude. In consequence of this, it is likewise necessary that every producing principle should generate a *number* of the same order with itself, viz. nature, a natural *number*; soul, one that is psychical (i. e. belonging to soul) ; and intellect an intellectual *number*. For if whatever possesses a power of generating, generates similars prior to dissimilars, every cause must deliver its own form and characteristic peculiarity to its progeny ; and before it generates that which gives subsistence to progressions, far distant and separate from its nature, it must constitute things proximate to itself according to essence, and conjoined with it through similitude. It is, therefore, necessary from these premises, since there is one unity, the principle of the universe, that this unity should produce from itself, prior to every thing else, a multitude of natures characterized by unity, and a *number* the most of all things allied to its cause; and these natures are no other than the Gods.

Trecho da introdução de Thomas Taylor no livro Iamblichus, on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians.