To the cultures of both the ancient Chinese and the ancient Greeks and Romans, the number '1' was symbolic of the earliest humans first becoming consciously aware that things in nature exist, even though they might not be physically present at that very moment. Other animals do not have this ability, and it was at this stage, with the origin of a conscious mind, that mankind became different from the other animals. The number '1' symbolizes a unity that cannot be subdivided, and does not symbolize a divisible pattern, or cycle, of nature. In the first dimension of the universe, there existed time, but space did not exist.
Mankind is finite, as space is finite, and so mankind identifies with space first.
In the first dimension of awareness, there was awareness of the existence of space, but there was no awareness of the existence of time. In the first dimension of awareness, there was no awareness of any cycle of nature. Both time and space in the first dimension of awareness can be symbolized by the geometric point. This point is symbolized by the point that is located immediately in front of the eyes, the point of the 'here' in space and the point of the 'now' in time. There was no awareness of a past or of a future in time, only of the present, the now.