…with the merchants came the philosophies of the East. The first in the West to really take on the problem seriously was Pythagoras of Samos Pythagoras visited India, studied there, and is known in India even now as the Ionian master. He received much of…

…came the philosophies of the East. The first in the West to really take on the problem seriously was Pythagoras of Samos Pythagoras visited India, studied there, and is known in India even now as the Ionian master. He received much of the esoteric lore…

…For it was contrary then to the prevailing tempo of the time. So the doctrine of reincarnation, while it was taught by Pythagoras, was carefully veiled and not generally acknowledged to the average person. At the time of Plato, of course, he places into…

…path of his own immortality. Now, some also have asked how long Part of the great cycle of life. It was according to Pythagoras and most of the followers of Eastern schools that under normal conditions the individual is out of embodiment from 600 to 1200…

…of phenomena in the universe which we cannot see but which was intuitively believed by some of the earlier scientists such as Pythagoras and Ptolemy of Alexandria we live in a universe that is one vast organism one tremendous power one great entity and…

…of the way we all have to look at these things one of these days. So we have to work in our way, Pythagoras started it, with the disciplines. The discipline of retrospection. The individual sitting down and living his day when night comes rather than…

…help us to meet the challenge of transition. If we do this, we find gradually that our condition is markedly improved. Pythagoras was able to help his disciples to weed out all kinds of little inconsistencies, little absurdities of action and conduct,…

…attention of the Greek scholars as a result of their travels in the Far East. Among the pioneers in this, of course, was Pythagoras of Samos, who in about the 6th century BC seemed to have brought this doctrine strongly to the attention of the Greeks.…

…people would kind of wish they could have been born perhaps in the golden age of Greece, where they could have studied with Pythagoras or Plato and Aristotle. Others would like to be born a thousand years from now when they hope we will have more common…

…creation and is scattered now through every form of living thing from man to the smallest cell or atom, that all this, as Pythagoras points out, will be gathered up and that in this great moment when all these sparks become one again, on that occasion,…

…of Numbers, I'd like to point out a number of points which perhaps have caused confusion in the public mind. Pythagoras used number symbols almost exclusively as hieroglyphical figures to represent essential phases of universal law. It is not known to…

…universal law. It is not known to what degree he was involved in what we call today numerology. It is not certain that Pythagoras himself practiced divination by numbers. It is possible that he did. but by no means is it proven. The ten records that…

…records that have survived would seem to indicate that numerology developed considerably later and sometime after the death of Pythagoras and his legitimate disciples. The association between letters and numbers is possible in the Greek alphabet, in which…

…pagination and in place of numbers in many instances. We know there is a peculiar divinatory device called the wheel of Pythagoras, which shows, apparently, the numerical equivalent of letters and vice versa. This wheel, though attributed to him, is not with…

…gathering of clouds, from the changing of winds, from the entrails of sacrificed animals, and in many other manners. Pythagoras was accredited with knowingness, was having a tremendous internal mystical and perceptive power. Therefore, many legends have gathered…

…of the human soul. But these keys probably came from Asia, and certainly were tossed by the office, and later asked the Pythagoras a path to Tango, and finally, a rather beautifully systematized and summarized in the writings of Peter. Let us begin with a…

…power of animal life to them was the multiplication of species and the projection and extension of the forms of life. Therefore, Pythagoras declares, power of generations. In the human life of man, the soul also plays a series of compound roles for the…

…a teacher, a master, a scholar, and devotes the second part of his life to the improvement of this inner part of him. Pythagoras in his school at Crotona, for example, did not teach children. He brought adults together, put them in the first grade, and…

…the numerative power and the relation of the soul to the concept of number, thus getting ourselves right straight back into Pythagoras, and explaining certain points the soul according to Plato and Pythagoras is a number because of its own essential nature…

…concept of number, thus getting ourselves right straight back into Pythagoras, and explaining certain points the soul according to Plato and Pythagoras is a number because of its own essential nature it is by substance and being an ogdoad or the power of…

…and gradually building a tribal or cooperative existence. Therefore, all of his psychic resources were objectified. And according to Pythagoras, what we call civilization is a pattern. And this pattern is the objectification of the soul into the environment…

…the 47th Prophecy, may be extended diagrammatically, symbolically, philosophically, and mathematically into many, many different departments of life. Pythagoras declared that in everything that you study, in everything that you think about, in every problem that…

…and beauty is actually the perfect dodecanism, the most perfect of all the symmetrical solids. And as this is the fifth solid, and Pythagoras is the one who discovered in his time that there are only five symmetrical solids, or were known in his days to…

…which was to precede the ascension of man through the cycle of the numbers. This part, this divine piece, or as Pythagoras called it, this seminal essence fell into the darkness of matter, its terrorized darkness. and then remain in the darkness, through…

…of parts plus an organizing mind. A disorganizing mind, in animate things, we call it spiritual being. In inanimate things, Pythagoras called it diminutive soul, inasmuch as it was a quality of life within soul's forms or parts. And Pythagoras carries…

…things, Pythagoras called it diminutive soul, inasmuch as it was a quality of life within soul's forms or parts. And Pythagoras carries this concept further, in maintaining that as man variously extended his faculties and powers, adding to the totality of…

…another piece of exaggeration and that is or pent-alpha, as it was called by the Pythagoreans, was the symbol of healing. And Pythagoras is said to have worn upon his finger a ring ornamented with a five-pointed star, this star being composed of a…

…this is a superabundant number. So in this problem, superabundantly deficient numbers are compared to common. And the reason that Pythagoras made use of this particular calculation is to exemplify, in part, the importance of equilibrium in the achievement of…

…they fell from arithmetic to geometry. And this double motion of numbers is very, very important in our philosophy. Now, Pythagoras, like all the Asians, began the entire concept of mathematical philosophy with the hypothetical dot. The dot, or point, is…

…which already surrounds his illustrious name. Our discussions in these talks will be principally with the mathematical philosophy of Pythagoras, which also divides into two essential parts, one of which may be termed theoretical and the other practical. On…

…divides into two essential parts, one of which may be termed theoretical and the other practical. On the practical level, Pythagoras made the greatest contribution of the ancient world to the advancement of the science of mathematics. He is responsible for…

…achievement of Euclid. Wincurring has influenced all mathematical thinkers down to the present day. If it had not been for Pythagoras and Euclid, there might not have been a Steinmetz or an Einstein. The great development of mathematics rested, therefore,…

…not have been a Steinmetz or an Einstein. The great development of mathematics rested, therefore, upon the practical findings of Pythagoras and the philosophy of numbers upon his philosophical speculations. Pythagoras was one of the first, if not the first,…

…of mathematics rested, therefore, upon the practical findings of Pythagoras and the philosophy of numbers upon his philosophical speculations. Pythagoras was one of the first, if not the first, to emphasize the importance of numbers and mathematics in the…

…the greater virtue. Now, someone else will say, If I'm supposed to change my habits, which habits should I change first? Pythagoras says, change first that habit, the changing of which will change all other habits. In other words, you can start cutting…

…all human beings should be. Therefore, perhaps we think of Jesus or Buddha or Zoroaster or Confucius or Laozi, Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras. These were the people, to our thinking, who were most nearly complete people. We have a different way of defining…

…heroes and on a larger scale, the national heroes. the world heroes and we remember in the past we remember not only Pythagoras and Plato but Napoleon and Genghis Khan and we begin to recognize that we inherit from the past memories that are important…

…end or constructive purpose in our own existence. The old Greeks brought this question under consideration and one of them asked Pythagoras how man should pray. The old Greek replied, Never pray for anything. Don't pray for the fulfillment of any desire.…

…the gods. They invoked spirits. They did many other things of this nature. Buddha warned against it, as also in Greece did Pythagoras. He warned against it on the ground that all of these rites and rituals had something to do with the gratification of…

…conviction within themselves that there were many different forms of vibration that could be of value or important to us. Pythagoras pointed out that forms, shapes, patterns, designs, dimensions, all have vibratory factors. That the vibration of a cube is…

…us to create vibratory patterns that overwhelm us with their beauty of form and color and sound and order that truly like Pythagoras we can hear the music of the spheres and like the great composers can capture out of space the wonderful melodic lines…

…with conscious intellect. The luminosity of self-knowing. And it was placed in the fourth division of the solar system, where Pythagoras in his monochord, a great musical structure, placed the fret which formed the octave. therefore the octave became the…

…it is therefore our house. And from a very early time, men began to think of it as a temple, a tabernacle, a shrine, Pythagoras referred to the Sun as a flaming altar around which the chariots of the gods were driven in their orbits, what we would…

…musical notes. And nearly all Chinese and other Oriental instruments are arranged according to a concept of planetary interrelationships. Pythagoras had the same concept when he broke the monochord, or the single string with frets. and arranged these threats…

…in the motions of planets. Not that the motions of planets constitute in themselves this difference, but by another subtle factor which Pythagoras also pointed out, namely that the power of planets is not in their bodies but in their intervals. That it is…

…in things arises from a consciousness in all things, Then we can also realize that from this consciousness arose what Pythagoras called the law of mathematical sequences. In other words, consciousness is necessary to produce patterns which can only be…

…itself. Space was therefore regarded as potentially capable of sustaining two conditions. A point was also made by Pythagoras. These two conditions become the beginning of polarization. And polarization is the beginning of creation. creation and polarization…

…And polarization is the beginning of creation. creation and polarization are both the beginnings of division. And as Pythagoras also said, division is the beginning of death. Consequently, embodiment, the creation moving from its eternal suspension into…

…even to the degree of death. The Greeks were taking no chance with bad music. They simply did not believe in it. Pythagoras, wandering through a Greek city, was able to strike the keynote of architecture with his lute And Pythagoras believed and taught…

…believe in it. Pythagoras, wandering through a Greek city, was able to strike the keynote of architecture with his lute And Pythagoras believed and taught that every piece of structure that man raises from a three-legged stool to the most elaborate cathedral…

…the psychic field or the median distance in man's nature, which we call today the soul. The soul in nature, according to Pythagoras, is its animating part. Therefore, it is the anima, or the psychic energy sphere, from which all of man's sensory and even…

…of man which is essentially religious, the emotion of devotion, of love, of piety. These things pertain to the soul which Pythagoras represented by an eight-faced symmetrical solid Because he said that the soul had eight attributes. Of which the lowest or…

…instrument is according to the Hindus, represented the monochord, or the great chain of vibratory harmonics that unites heaven and earth. Pythagoras describes it as the monochord of the world, with its lower end placed in the element of earth and its upper…

…from most of the classical authors of his time and of ancient times, with particular dependence upon the old texts relating to Pythagoras, with which he was familiar in the original Greek. So here is another rare work, which the general prepared. Only 100…

…these values what went into ancient ritualism what parts of learning were embodied in it. Pike tells us, more or less quoting from Pythagoras and Iamblichus, that it is not a question of what went into it. The mere question is everything came out of it.…

…persons should have condoned such institutions. Are we to marry these thoughts with the ideas and principles and teachings of men like Pythagoras and Plato? Are we to assume that Plato was a charlatan or a stupid fool? when he declared that when he stood…

…through these rights And afterwards enriched the world as no other group has ever enriched it. We have had many composers, but Pythagoras discovered the scale by which we compose. We have had many astronomers, but Ptolemy was the one who gave us the great…

…of ancient peoples to possess this knowledge. And Pike is convinced that men of the caliber of Socrates, and of Plato, and of Pythagoras, and many others in other parts of the world could not have been deceived in this matter. That these men were aware…

…with the ancient roots. Furthermore, these older temples did keep a certain roadway open between themselves. And from the travels of Pythagoras and later of Apollonius Pianus and other of the great initiates of the period, We know that these persons traveled…

…had not become creep out. They had not said my God against thy God. Or they already had achieved and had maintained, as Pythagoras tells us, the realization that in all the various areas that he visited, and he visited in over 20 of the great religious…

…was different from himself. He did not believe that trees could not understand. He did not believe that rocks were dumb. Like Pythagoras, he spoke to the river and the stream answered him. The ancient man lived, therefore, in a world of life, not in…

…skills lead him into trouble. but the ancient system placed his moral character first and his vital attainments high in this pattern. Pythagoras of Samos in the 6th century traveled through most parts of the known world of his own day. He visited many of…

…did flow around the world, it flowed because of the existence of this great interrelated system of esoteric educational orders. Pythagoras discovered and after reaching visiting and affiliating with more than 20 great religious groups that in his day this…

…some magical overtone. But such apparently was not the original intention. The concept seems to be the same as that expounded by Pythagoras of Samwell. In other words, the name becomes a curious key to the thing named. By this I mean that nearly every…

…actually named Moses, but to whom this name was given, the identity is concealed in the name. The same was true of Pythagoras himself. He pointed out that his own name, Pythagoras, was the master key to his entire system of instruction. If therefore this…

…given, the identity is concealed in the name. The same was true of Pythagoras himself. He pointed out that his own name, Pythagoras, was the master key to his entire system of instruction. If therefore this name was taken out of its original language so…

…symbolically, a kind of diagrammatic person, upon whose body the letters of the alphabet were completely distributed throughout the body. Pythagoras tells us, for example, that in the pronunciation of the word Pythagoras, it is necessary for the mind to…

…of the alphabet were completely distributed throughout the body. Pythagoras tells us, for example, that in the pronunciation of the word Pythagoras, it is necessary for the mind to energize a series of levels of sound. that these sounds in turn have forms,…

…are suitable for the mandala processes. They most certainly are. For one of the oldest masters of these sacred arts was Pythagoras of Sabaoth, to whom the world is indebted for many of its most basic mathematical discoveries. A great and wonderful mandala…

…a Greek formula. For the oldest account that we have of the discipline of retrospection, are associated with the Institute of Pythagoras at Sotona, a Dorian colony in Italy where he created his school. Pythagoras believed that it was important to keep a…

…of retrospection, are associated with the Institute of Pythagoras at Sotona, a Dorian colony in Italy where he created his school. Pythagoras believed that it was important to keep a constant circulation of vital energy in the consciousness of man. One way…

…of effort. Now this works sometimes, but other times it doesn't work at all. And procrastination, generally speaking, pays off very badly. Pythagoras pointed out that everything that we do in life should either be done on purpose or not done at all. It's…

…bred by generations of floppy thinking will sometime come to a head that perhaps destroys our culture at a very vital moment Pythagoras therefore believes that the wise man must always be in control of his processes, of his thoughts, and of his emotions.…

…This is true also of Greece, in which is perhaps a more immediate and more pressing example, for we know that Pythagoras and Plato and Aristotle and Euclid were not foolish, superstitious men. and that the philosophies and theologies which they venerated…

…But again, because of the very concept that he had of God, based upon the same numerical speculations which later inspired Pythagoras to develop them on that theory, for the Egyptians were the source of his information as he himself admitted, the Egyptian…

…symbols. And I think we are perfectly justified in assuming that men, scholars, mystics, sages, of such caliber as Aristotle, Plato, Pythagoras, Euclid, Socrates, that these men did not believe that Zeus took upon himself the form of a bull and abducted…

…are they to be understood in the Greek mythology? I think we are perfectly safe in assuming, from Plato, from Pythagoras, and from other sources, that by these deities the Greek meant not personal divinity, but symbolic terms, embodiments, or personifications…

…was conceived as existing within the completeness of being. And there arose within the infinite, which is the all-number of Pythagoras, the utter principle of numeration, there arose the beginning of a dual existence. And this dual existence, the Greeks…

…all of them. The sixth century B.C. was one of the great centuries in the history of the world, where in that century Pythagoras, Buddha, Confucius, and Laozi, and Zoroaster, Svetlana, were all alive at the same time. We know that 600 years later was the…

…could enter the great schools of philosophy. Music, as an example of harmony and rhythm, is only one. We know, of course, Pythagoras is said to have been able to hear the music of the spheres, the sidereal or celestial music, the music that's played…

…law of reincarnation was long accepted in the East, drifted over the caravan routes, and finally through the travels of Pythagoras and the conquests of Alexander and the journeys of Apollonius, finally reached the Mediterranean area and the Aegean to…

…dream is the ultimate union with reality the ultimate outgrowing of all conditioned existence, the ascent of the numbers, as Pythagoras taught, this mysterious pyramid of numbers called the tetractys, which finally ends again in the one, the one in turn…

…the ghost world. The ghosts of the dead continued forever. This did not meet with the approval of minds such as Pythagoras and Plato and Aristotle and modification began at a comparatively early date. Among the Egyptians and Phoenicians the invisible world…

…interested in a doctrine that has flourished for thousands of years, was publicly taught by Gautama Buddha, and stoutly defended by Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato. Nor is it an old belief long outgrown, for in this time nearly one-half the population of…

…spheres And we are beginning to see much of the old thinking that engrossed people like Paracelsus and even earlier, Flotinus, Pythagoras, and all these. They had certain thoughts. For a long time, material science said they were very foolish and put them…

…leads to obscuration. The more difficult the words, the more learned they sound, the less they impart in terms of value. Pythagoras suggested definitely that the best way to correct the difficulties of language was to keep quiet. And he advised this so…

…going to make a series of discoveries and much later several hundred years later Apollonius of Tyana became a Pythagorean long after Pythagoras had departed but he decided also to take the five-year silence in order to test his own inner resources he also…

…and made him agree with us as a consequence of being silent for five years we escape all such responsibility On several occasions, Pythagoras used silence as a means of sound. He used it as a kind of music, as mysterious silence here and there in…

…really going to work unless we make them when we are in a state of peace. This is very, very necessary to us. Pythagoras warned parents that no parent should ever rebuke a child while the parent themselves is angry. It must be done from a standpoint…

…inner development, that we become wiser, greater, better, and more kindly as the result of a tragic situation of some kind. While Pythagoras was teaching At Crotona, he had among his disciples one young man who was what we would call today slow of…

…he tried desperately hard, but he couldn't understand or take on the heavy elements of a philosophical discipline. And finally one day, Pythagoras became so annoyed at him that he made a sharp rebuke. of his stupidity. The boy reached into his girdle, took…

…a sharp rebuke. of his stupidity. The boy reached into his girdle, took out a dagger and killed himself in the presence of Pythagoras. Pythagoras took the oath on the body of the boy that never again while he lived would he criticize any living thing.…

…sharp rebuke. of his stupidity. The boy reached into his girdle, took out a dagger and killed himself in the presence of Pythagoras. Pythagoras took the oath on the body of the boy that never again while he lived would he criticize any living thing. Now…

…a victim of it before it's all over. Once we can make a complete pattern of negation, we have to live with it. And Pythagoras pointed out that the answer was to solve the problem within the day in which it occurs. So we said a crossword. We were…

…doing this, we will find each day we grow. Each day we come a little nearer to the fulfillment of our own integrities. Pythagoras also pointed out in his thinking that where we had a mistake, maybe it is impossible to correct that mistake. word spoken…

…way in which you could trick someone else into giving you privileges that you did not deserve. Actually on various occasions Pythagoras going through the towns is said to have struck the keynotes of temples and buildings. if these keynotes were right the…

…rules or accepting any responsibility for our own mistakes? this is why we go back to people like Plato and Aristotle Pythagoras to understand something about these principles and they say there are two ways of being governed one from the inside which…

…so by being still and not allowing the outside to dictate to us all the time we begin to develop the philosophic calm Pythagoras recognized at this point and recommended a silence of five years by the end of that time the individual ought to know that…

…Apollonius of Cyana, the thermiturgist of the Alexandrian period, made a Pythagorean life for himself. He took on voluntarily, although the Pythagoras had been dead for over five centuries, took on the silence, the five year of silence. And around the midst…

…book we have to know all of the elements by quietly considering them and if we consider them we will reflect upon them now Pythagoras had this retrospective exercise to help us in this reflection he said that every day before we go to bed we should sit…

…personal self too dominant The individual prays for wealth, he prays for power, he prays for whatever he wants. But it is, as Pythagoras said, only the wise man who prays for what he needs. And the need that we have is the experience of the presence…

…studying this pattern the pattern which to him is a dream something that as he looks upon it his own inner life comes out Pythagoras the Neoplatonist made a great point of beauty they made a point of the fact that the beauty in the human soul is due…

…an interesting and I think valuable subject, and that is the importance of experience from living, being properly remembered. Pythagoras of Samos was the one who introduced the discipline of remembering. the retrospective exercise in which the individual…

…and emotions is to record the consequences of attitudes. The moment we express some attitude, we set an action in motion. And Pythagoras believes that all incidents are in motion. The individual who starts something must live with it to the bitter end in…

…will be better off than those who didn't try in big ways. It is all a matter of growing. And the idea that Pythagoras had in connection with this keeping of records was to make the individual his own teacher. how by little thoughtfulness and by…

…do things that will make this better and more secure for all concerned. a family is therefore like the famous 47th proposition of Pythagoras a triangulation of energies it is a group forming a unit it is a cosmos a solar system It is a magnificent…

…And because they were sacred sciences, the teachers gave part of the moral responsibility. If you studied with a disciple of Pythagoras, you came out of this school convinced of the realities of integrity. You were convinced of the greater world of which…

…which of the persons involved is right if you can't find any rightness in any of them at least keep quiet do not as Pythagoras said stir fire with a sword relax do the best you can to arbitrate difficulties And in the course of so doing, you start…

…we cannot depend upon these words to bestow living facts. This brings us into another interesting equation. We learned from Pythagoras nearly 2600 years that the definitions of things are best attained from the intervals between them, and not from the…

…called life or it can be called infinite mind. Whatever you want to call it. It is one eternal principle as Pythagoras pointed out. All divisions into multiplicity take place within this unity. There is nothing outside of totality. Therefore, all that…

…to what you want to be doing then go to work on the mind and this people have done since the time of Pythagoras the contemplated disciplines of Pythagoras were not the type of meditation we think of today Retrospection was a process, a process of going…

…be doing then go to work on the mind and this people have done since the time of Pythagoras the contemplated disciplines of Pythagoras were not the type of meditation we think of today Retrospection was a process, a process of going back over the daily…

…in the study of man's integration we know that man can be subject to two evils And that these two evils, as Pythagoras pointed out 2600 years ago, are the evils of excess. Now excess is either superabundance or deprivation. Excess is imbalanced always.…

…that did not happen in this lifetime. So we not only have the problem of creating new situations that are right, but as Pythagoras pointed out, we have the eternal problem of facing the situations that already exist or that come to face us. If we face…

…as a modifying force can be either orderly or disorderly. We get back to the simple problem of Pythagorean philosophy. Namely, that Pythagoras believed that medicine could be taken into the body through the eyes and the ears. That that part which is taken…

…particularly Plotinus and Proclus. These two great scholars, mystics and contemplators, deriving their inspirations from Plato and Pythagoras, evolved a concept of personal relationship between man and the universe that had not previously been emphasized.…

…Of course, we wouldn't believe that at the present time, but we do know that sometimes the allotments are pretty heavy. Also, Pythagoras, a little later, brought in the harmony of music. And music is a symbol of harmony. He says, human beings, to survive,…

…unknown past. The traditions, the cultures, the allegiances, all grouped around these sacred institutions. Of such minds, we have Pythagoras. who probably give more to advanced sciences of music and mathematics than any other recorded anatomism by Democritus.…

…the golden age of Greece, we had a brief period of security and success. And probably the greatest exponent of this was Pythagoras of Thames. Pythagoras, who incidentally finally died a martyr to stupidity, was one of the great minds of all time. He found…

…of Greece, we had a brief period of security and success. And probably the greatest exponent of this was Pythagoras of Thames. Pythagoras, who incidentally finally died a martyr to stupidity, was one of the great minds of all time. He found out from…

…goods were returned to them. But while they were there, there was no exchanging and no investing in monetary things. Pythagoras started by realizing, therefore, the danger of money as a corrupter of ethics. and lived accordingly and taught accordingly. Now,…

…a great sympathy for the lesser and instead of looking down on it we regard it as a parent might regard children as Pythagoras very wisely observed there are only three relationships in life he says they are those who are wiser than we are and they…

…way with music. There is a wonderful harmony. Music is not just a series of noises. Music is the way by which, as Pythagoras said, the music of the spheres, by means of which the universe was brought forth into manifestation. And Gaeta in the prologue…

…to us as family truisms. They're available to everyone. And so are the teachings of Christ, the teachings of Buddha, the teachings of Pythagoras, of Plato, of Lao Tzu. All of these teachings are basic. There is not one of them that came from an academic…

…something simply to be used to move a machine. This life is the sovereignty of all things, and we can go back to Pythagoras to try and find out something about ancient knowledge on this subject. To the Pythagoreans, in their school of thinking, there is…

…all kinds of misery, but behind all of these moves there is either a strengthening of faith or a weakening of it. Now Pythagoras and most of the Greeks like to think of the search for faith under such headings as astronomy, mathematics, and music. They…

…by enforcing laws. which in themselves are merely means by which we seek to govern our own mistakes. But reality, as Pythagoras and Plato and Aristotle, all these great philosophers realized, a reality is the thing we are seeking. And the reality is…

…one of the first things to do is to set aside a little bit of time for the simple purpose of thinking. Pythagoras advocated this and then the disciplines of retrospection and meditation that the individual should at some time each day for five minutes…

…know that he died of a broken heart, and according to some accounts, his death was hastened with poison. Years later, along came Pythagoras, burned to death with his school by a fanatic. We find Confucius, his last words, I have failed. We find Lao Tzu…

…of the Christian era practically all of the religions of the world received tremendous spiritual impulse it was in this period that Pythagoras of Samos became the glory of Greek learning he was the one to whom we are indebted to most of the secrets…

…political structures or any of the traditional values. The world is more inhabited now. In the time of Plato or Socrates or Pythagoras, there probably were less than half a billion people on earth. Today we are pressing six billion. We have a world that…

…an eighth, or receptive, instance. Thus he again follows the Neoplatonist, enumerates the eight parts of the soul, again following Pythagoras, who declared the soul to be a non-doer. or a symmetrical structure with eight sides. The soul, then, consists of…

…mentioned on a philosophical level. Namely, he became a devout student of Neoplatonism. He followed largely in the footsteps of Pythagoras, Samus, and of Plato of Athens. He was also deeply interested in the neoplatonic philosophy of Plotinus, and the…

…the symbol, and therefore that a deity was not distant from an image magically and mystically composed bearing upon that deity. Pythagoras explained that in the orders of architecture, with the shapes and columns of a temple, its roof, its dome, its…

…have the first. Understanding. Of the nature. Of magnetism. It was used principally in healing. It was well known to Pythagoras, who gave us considerable information on the subject, which was promptly forgotten by everybody else. Then we'd have little…

…surrounds the complete person now then we go inside of this for a moment to see what we're dealing with so we go back to Pythagoras who was very timely in that he tells us that in Egypt there was a temple in which therapy was the result of this…

…into the nature and substance of magnetism, or related matter bearing upon this, may be traced as early as the time of Pythagoras in the West, and were certainly known at a still earlier date in India and China. Yet it was not until comparatively…

…within the temple or within the privacy of his own home, was under one broad pattern of discipline. from the record of Pythagoras of Samos, who visited India in the sixth century before the beginning of the Christian era, and was initiated into the…

…and regeneration of human beings. These were the departments and areas of general coverage. We have particular respect for the opinion of Pythagoras in this matter for the reason that so far as we know, he is the only non-Hindu who was ever initiated into…

…And I am convinced that these reports are the productions of imagination or imposture. and that so far as is generally known Pythagoras and possibly Apollonius of Tyana are the only ones who have a valid claim to having actually participated in the inner…

…circumstances. About the sixth century before the beginning of the Christian era, or very close to the time of the journey of Pythagoras to the caves of Anaphanta in the harbor of Bombay, and to the Ajanta temples in the Hyderabad decade. A great change…

…rituals of other nations if they traveled in distant countries it is apparent that such occurred in the case of both Pythagoras and Plato For by some means generally assumed to have been their initiation, they were welcomed into the temple sanctuaries of…

…structure and we find this change also in the doctrinal setup The older doctrine is very obscure But by the time of Pythagoras, Plato, and Socrates, the new doctrine of the mysteries was certainly taking shape within the structure of both the Orphic Rites…

…and mystery in the rites of Egypt, and of course in all of the great systems of Asiatic culture. Assuming then, as Pythagoras has given us sufficient insight to permit us to assume, that the Eleusinian mysteries were not a unique attitude, but were really…

…the Eleusinian mysteries were not a unique attitude, but were really only part of a distribution representing a culture level. St. Pythagoras would have been correct when he said that having visited India and been initiated into the mysteries of the Brahmins…

…the same thing, it is almost inevitable that we are dealing with some form of basic metaphysical equation. Otherwise, certainly, Pythagoras could not have included early Brahmanism with its mass of metaphysical speculations. as being the same as the initiation…

…seem that during the classical period, Greek scholars never ceased their praise of Egyptian wisdom. Men of the caliber of Pythagoras and Plato spoke most eulogistically of the spiritual attainments of Egypt. And in government and law, Solon and Thales bear…

…a very strong belief, in a kind of spiritual magic. That Anything that was perfect became ensouled by its own power. Pythagoras taught this among the Greeks. He said that when a beautiful image was created, this image became ensouled, not necessarily by…

…to cut through them all with strange doctrines. They were parts of the wisdom of Persia and of Greece. They were known to Pythagoras and Plato. They have been always part of the wisdom of Islam in Arabia. And they have always been present in the…

…of regeneration centered upon the existence of a messianic power or a third balancing factor between the two great opposites. Pythagoras points out this definite point when he insists that the primary numbers arrayed against each other, the one and the…

…was a marked renaissance of Persian culture. about this time, perhaps under the last of the Zoroasters, who it is said Pythagoras of Samos was personally acquainted with. In Greece it was Pythagoras who established the foundation of the great age of…

…under the last of the Zoroasters, who it is said Pythagoras of Samos was personally acquainted with. In Greece it was Pythagoras who established the foundation of the great age of philosophy which may well be termed the golden age of Greek learning.…

…visit Western centers of learning. It is also quite possible that more Europeans visited Asia than we now realize. We know that Pythagoras was able in the 6th century BC to reach India. We know that the armies of Alexander the Great penetrated Asia. We…

…in things arises from a consciousness in all things, then we can also realize that from this consciousness arose what Pythagoras called the law of mathematical sequences. In other words, a consciousness is necessary to produce patterns which can only be…

…solve a problem decides for himself how that solution must be attained. He knows what the solution is that he wants. But as Pythagoras says, every man knows what he wants, but only God knows what he needs. Therefore, in an effort to achieve a solution,…

…it is therefore our house and from a very early time men began to think of it as a temple a tabernacle a shrine Pythagoras referred to the sun as a flaming altar around which the chariots of the gods were driven in their orbits, what we would call…

…the musical notes And nearly all Chinese and other oriental instruments are arranged according to a concept of planetary interrelationships. Pythagoras had the same concept when he broke the monochord, or the single string with frets, and arranged these frets…

…in the motions of planets. Not that the motions of planets constitute in themselves this difference, but by another subtle factor which Pythagoras also pointed out, namely that the power of planets is not in their bodies but in their intervals. that it is…

…definitely is wrong. And I think Thales came nearer than anyone else to setting up the theory which was later extended by Pythagoras and still recently in the work of Newton and Kepler. The Kepler work was also given special attention by Carl Jung. The…

…living on earth which cannot or does not renew itself as rapidly as its populations increase We are no longer in the days of Pythagoras or one of the ancients in which the total population of the world is not much more than 200 million. We are no…

…decision, to career, to marriage, to death, and to destiny as far as the major purposes of life were concerned the philosopher Pythagoras was named for the Pythia of the temple of Delphi when the child was born the seeress predicted his future and that…

…representing the deities and systems of numbers by means of which oracles were delivered. We can then remember the wheel of Pythagoras, which, while it may or may not be authentic, is certainly ancient, and by which divination was performed through the…

…aristocracy consisted of the father mother child this was the great 47th proposition of Euclid or rather more correctly of Pythagoras but attributed to Euclid therefore the court cards were transformed into a family and this family in early religious thinking…

…accidents. They tell us that at a long ago time, men made comparatively accurate observations of the world in which they lived. Pythagoras, writing or teaching about 600 years before the beginning of the Christian era, was one of the first to note that…

…divisible into three distinguishable layers, of which Stephanie, who are left to us, partly by philosophers as early as Pythagoras, and finally coordinated and integrated by Ptolemy of Alexandria. These three were called, moved upon together, these three orbits…

…and systems. Perhaps he also realized that this power that had come to him had been previously reported of men like Pythagoras. That these divine men were divided because of a tremendous divine power moving through them. He experienced this power. And in…

…Within 100 years, there flourished Confucius and Laozi in China, Buddha in India, the last of the Zoroasters in Persia, Pythagoras in Greece, and several lesser luminaries, including the so-called Great Sophistic School of the Greeks, and the rise of several…

…strongly supported, and there seems no reason to consider it incredible. There is also a definite tradition among the Greeks that Pythagoras did study with, the last of the Zoroasters. This, however, is open to some questions for the reason that the term…

…Zarathustra. It may have been a term to cover the fire priests of Persia. We are not absolutely sure. It is conceivable that Pythagoras, having visited India, may have come in contact with Buddha or at least met some of his disciples. This we cannot say…

…the Bhagavad Gita, Vishnu is made to say, when virtue fails upon the earth, then I come forth. Now, at the time of Pythagoras, Greek culture was young. At the time of Zoroaster, the last Zoroaster, if he flourished 600 BC, Persian culture was old. At…

…for his people and the establishment of a higher level of cultural education not only for the masses but for their leaders. Pythagoras came at a time which was a transition in the entire life of Greek thinking, because he emerged with the rise of…

…probably has to do with ancient astronomy or parallel thereto inasmuch as the entire concept parallels very closely the monochord of Pythagoras the single stringed musical instrument with the upper end of the string attached to the Empyrean or the sphere of…

…the sun's position were those of the three superior planets, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Notice this vertical thread placed, as Pythagoras placed it, between heaven and earth, and divided by seven frets into intervals, became very similar in its general…

…is unfolded. It is also quite possible that we have in this the key to the ancient concept of the octave, as Pythagoras developed it in music. For we remember that he was initiated in India at Alephanta and Ellora, and was therefore acquainted with…

…is the pure energy of life in all things. And the ultimate of this life is its own eternal, unconditioned fertility. Pythagoras of Samos said that every conceivable unit of life is seminal, or seed-like. Therefore, that life is an eternal substance,…

…participation by the whole nature represented by the twelve. For they constitute the zodiacal band or the hypothetical dodecahedron of Pythagoras, which constituted the full structure of the universe or the total nature of any being, was twelve. Therefore, in…

…Therefore, this energy is not merely a Freudian generating energy. This energy has generation as one of its powers. Plato and Pythagoras assumed that this energy had eight powers. Actually, in all probability, this would only be a classification of the most…

…we will have peace in the world. These things are part of our destiny. These things were well known to Plato and Pythagoras. They were well known to the foreign and eastern nations. And everyone has realized that it is impossible to solve our present…

…the world, sages, teachers, and wise people who have made that adjustment. The Greeks made it. Probably the greatest of them all was Pythagoras. He paid with his life. Plato, he made it. and we have given him some credit, but that we suffer from a bad…

…but no one learns how to make a life. Therefore, these things, again, have to be thought about. It is said that Pythagoras, wandering down the streets of one of the cities of Greece, carried with him a lute, which was a small harp-like instrument.…

…honor instead of corrupting too much of it for vanity. So we might like to have something to help the soul to come out. And Pythagoras tells us a little bit about that also. He tells us all about what music is. And he tells us a little bit about how…

…life is ruined because the mind has been captured by some excess or degeneration. These things all have to be considered. Now, Pythagoras was the one who developed the diatonic scale in about 600 B.C. Up to that time, all music in the griefing states…

…upper surface of the sun to the outside surface of Saturn. These two dividing marks represented a tremendous harmonic problem. Now, Pythagoras discovered the problem, but what could he do about it? He had nothing to work with in that line. The Egyptians…

…able to set up the musical solar system. And so it explains how and why all these things work the way they did. Pythagoras was the one who should have all the credit for the basic principles involved. But he suddenly discovered the universe of sound. He…

…realize that science is also based upon mathematics actually mathematics was the first of the divine sciences and the sciences of Pythagoras and the ancients were three mathematics astronomy and music now the one thing we are having trouble with is music…

…every building that is asymmetrically installed is incorrect is poorly built worse designed is a disgrace to society and also a danger Pythagoras in Greece walked the streets of Athens I suppose late I doubt if he was ever there but one of his…

…or something of this nature. The whole history of mathematics, the fascination of it, as revealed in the writings of Pythagoras, we have completely ignored. So we keep alone, using only the surface of knowledge. very carefully refraining from becoming aware…

…or the ten commandments or the sermon on the mount or the wisdom of Confucius the teachings of Buddha the mathematical genius of Pythagoras the mysticism of Christ we have these things we don't even teach them except on rare occasions we kind of get a…

…and cosmologists. We find everything from history to astronomy. We find the contemplations of Plato and the extraordinary investigations of Pythagoras. We find a careful estimation of the great semantics of Aristotle, Euclid, and all the other groups. We also…

…these writings would unlock the mythologies, legendary, and lore of the ancients. That these secrets were identically those of Pythagoras, of the Eleusinian and Bacchic mysteries of Greece. And that these same mysteries and these same secret instructions were…

…It is sometimes held now that the Essene community at En Gedi by the Dead Sea was originally founded by Pythagoras. In any event, the Greek system certainly influenced both the Essene school and the Therapeuti of Egypt, another mystical Jewish…

…Greek system certainly influenced both the Essene school and the Therapeuti of Egypt, another mystical Jewish community. monadology of Pythagoras, his doctrine of number and numeration certainly has become so associated with the Kabbalah that today many people…

…mathematical or magical manner has not generally occurred to the reader of Scripture. So, in the numerical system of Pythagoras and other aspects of Greek philosophy, we find material which later passing through a certain Judaistic interpretation was embodied…

…bodies and enter into the body of God, which becomes his proper and inevitable vestment. And this is the body which, as Pythagoras of Crotona said, deity is an immense and eternal being, whose body is composed of the substance of light, and whose soul…

…a somewhat lesser degree, because his mind was very much more on the fourth level of pure English. The mind of a Pythagoras ascending through consciousness, he was aware of the universal harmony of the spheres. A mind of that caliber would have its…