Read what mathematicians and philosophers through the ages have thought of the magic number star maps as they have sought for the truth of our ‘Universe’.

“The peculiar interest of Magic Squares and all lusus numero rum in general lies in the fact they possess the charm of mystery. They appear to betray some hidden intelligence which by a preconceived plan produces the impression of intentional design, a phenomenon which finds its close analogue in nature.

Although magic squares have no immediate practical use, they have always exercised a great influence upon thinking people. It seems to me that they contain a lesson of great value in being a palpable instance of the symmetry of mathematics, throwing thereby a clear light upon the order that pervades the Universe wherever we turn, in the infinitesimally small interrelations of atoms a well as in the immeasurable domain of the starry heavens, an order which, although of a different kind and still more intricate, is also traceable in the development of organised life, and even in the complex domain of human action.

The ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras says that number is the origin of all things, and certainly the law of number is the key that unlocks the secrets of the Universe. But the law of number possesses an immanent order, which is at first mystifying, but on a more intimate acquaintance we easily understand it to be intrinsically necessary; and this law of number explains the wondrous consistency of the laws of nature. 

Magic squares are conspicuous instances of the intrinsic harmony of number, and so they serve as an interpreter of the cosmic order that dominates all existence. Though they are mere intellectual play they not only illustrate the nature of mathematics, but also, incidentally, the nature of existence dominated by mathematical regularity.

In arithmetic we create a Universe of figures by the process of counting;  in geometry we create another Universe by drawing lines in the abstract field of imagination, laying down definite directions; in algebra we  produce magnitudes of a still more abstract nature, expressed by letters. In all these cases the first step producing the general conditions in which we move, lays down the rule to which all further steps are subject, and so every one of these Universes is dominated by a consistency, producing a wonderful symmetry.

There is no science that teaches the harmonies of nature more clearly than mathematics, and the magic squares are like a mirror which reflects the symmetry of the divine norm immanent in all things, in the immeasurable immensity of the cosmos and in the construction of the atom not less than in the mysterious depths of the human mind.” 

From the mysterious depths of the human mind has now come the subtle use of magic number squares combined with science fiction imagery to teach in a fun way basic number skills. 

Through mind there streams into the Universe something strange, something new, something that was not there before and cannot be demonstrated or proved.

The human mind constantly changes and creates .... The ‘space age’ has brought a new imaginative approach to the field of investigating magic number squares.