…not a completely pure intuition. So that if the individual has developed, as we might say a person like Pythagoras might have developed, a tremendous abstract intuitive apperception of divine things, rationally conceived, but at the same time essentially…

…power gradually growing up. the ones in whose hearts the good peace has been granted. Buddhists would not hesitate to say that Pythagoras or Plato or Michelangelo or Leonardo were all the ones in whose we're ready to sacrifice more easily brought He is…

…you can gain something for this is trying to understand a little better things you have taken for granted. Try to go back as Pythagoras taught and see if you can really find the reason for a difficulty that has plagued you for half a lifetime. See who…

…We know obedience to the rules of peace taught by Confucius. We also know the exact science of redemption as set forth by Pythagoras of Samos. These were the sons of Sapiens who gave us rules. They are honored and they were regarded as a great…

…to bear in mind this simple fact that even at our very best, we know only what we want, not what we need. Pythagoras pointed that out very definitely and refrained from recommending prayer to be a fulfillment of personal desire. I think we should realize…

…certainties some kind of a falseness is not built upon absolute mathematics the universe mathematically is perfect according to Pythagoras we know now that biologically and psychologically it is infinitely suitable to the needs for which it was fashioned…

…family relations, we recognize the outworking of a divine principle. We realize that the 47th proposition of Euclid, actually by Pythagoras, is an example of the equilibrium of family, the primary trinity of family, father, mother, child. This triad goes on…

…angel always works through service through giving through sharing through contributing various virtues in the ancient times a people like Pythagoras had their spirits Pythagoras was regarded as an embodiment of Apollo he also had an attendant muse that was…

…service through giving through sharing through contributing various virtues in the ancient times a people like Pythagoras had their spirits Pythagoras was regarded as an embodiment of Apollo he also had an attendant muse that was with him each of these…

…a kind of cosmic egg in which we live. This has been described by many ancient writers. It was known in the times of Pythagoras and Plato. It was understood that the individual lived in a globe of light and that this globe of light was his strength in…

…of suspicion, of irritation whenever these two persons came together. And it was inevitable that these subtle reactions should be communicated. Pythagoras and Socrates and many others in the ancient classical world made a great deal of the dance as a medium…

…which is the eating. Experience is the problem that comes to us every day. And it was for this reason that Pythagoras made such emphasis upon the importance and the integrity of watching the consequences of daily experience in conduct. Daily experience…

…and laws operating in the universe. These principles were known to some. They were known to Plato. They were known to Pythagoras, and probably to Socrates. They were at least intuitively sensed by Aristotle, although his type of mind was not given as…

…might otherwise not be immediately accessible to us. The Greeks went a little further, however, than this. They declared, following Pythagoras and the Egyptians, that all forms in nature are in sympathetic relationship to similar forms. That forms of a kind…

…Naturally, as with other peoples, efforts to define the nature of this absolute were considered more or less fruitless. Socrates, Pythagoras, Buddha, Confucius, Plato agreed primarily in the principle that to define the infinite is to defile the infinite These…

…buddhi. For the knower becomes identical or identified with illumination intuition, and these other high attributes of consciousness. Pythagoras and Plato both point out that this Buddhic principle, which represents man's spiritual internal power to approach the…

…course, in your Greek mythology, there are twelve of them, and as you might suspect, they are the Zodiac. Now, when Plutarch... Pythagoras wrote on the subject he said men falling into birth or into embodiment fall through the bodies of the twelve holy…

…persons, they came to be thought of as laws, as energies, as fields of power, of archetypal patterns, of mathematical formulas, as Pythagoras reported in his visit to the temples of the Egyptians, where he said the gods were all presented to the priests…

…the titan saw the 12 primordial energies of space came to be gradually organized into a series of 12, so dodecahedrons, as Pythagoras called them, which in ultimate form became consistently the number of the gods. So from the 12 titans, we naturally have…

…of soul. We must feed peace with peace. For we cannot feed peace with a sword. Or with discord. And we cannot as Pythagoras points out. Achieve peace by scattering coals with a sword blade. Each thing must be according to its own kind. If we desire…

…the problem of balancing and integrating the forces of these patterns... constituted the great secret of Greek religion and philosophy. Pythagoras and Plato and Aristotle were well aware of the fact that man having twelve dynamic factors must bring them in…

…literally. Hesiod gives us a wonderful sweep of Greek creative religious thought. And we must also bear in mind the contribution of Pythagoras of Samos, who was perhaps one of the first to explore the order and arrangement of the solar system. We know now…

…who was perhaps one of the first to explore the order and arrangement of the solar system. We know now that Pythagoras, 600 years before the beginning of the Christian era, taught heliocentric astronomy. That is, knew that the planets moved around the…

…the planets moved around the sun, something for which men much later were burned at the stake. We also realize that Pythagoras was a magnificent mathematician, astronomer, physicist. That he was a musician and musicologist of excellence. This man was not a…

…perhaps opened to them the psychological doors of their own inner lives it was only after the rise of the Orphics that Pythagoras and Plato could have lived and could have taught as they did teach because the principal contribution of all here was this…

…that therefore there is a master plan behind everything in nature, that master plan is totality, wholeness, unity, oneness, or as Pythagoras calls it, the monad. And it is from the Pythagorean term, the monad, that the monadology concept arose. The monad,…

…and song of death. The rhythm of man's heart sings or plays a strange and wonderful melody. This melody is unique. And as Pythagoras pointed out, every structure in nature has a keynote. And this keynote is the secret of its strength and also the secret…

…only way in which you can get away from polarity is to reestablish a unity. The Pythagorean monad, or the one. And do as Pythagoras did. Consider the one the symbol of truth and the two the symbol of error, inasmuch as the one is indivisible and the…

…this determination to have what they want. Let's just relax the whole thing and realize that we do not know what we need. As Pythagoras is reported to have said, all men know what they want, but only the gods know what they need. If we are quiet and…

…from the orbits of the planets that the planets, therefore, could properly be regarded as symbolic of the human soul. Although Pythagoras created what he called a monochord, or a single string which he stretched between the earth below and the firmament…

…Pythagorean problem, which is interesting for us for just a moment. And that is the Sydney consideration of the concept of one. Now Pythagoras said there is a one which is the archetype of the first. There is the monad or complete unity, which is the…

…one may be all or the first. And when the one stands by itself, it can also be I, which is selfless. But as Pythagoras definitely defined it, God as one is not only the first, but the all. So totality is unity. And this unity Pythagoras called monad,…

…as Pythagoras definitely defined it, God as one is not only the first, but the all. So totality is unity. And this unity Pythagoras called monad, because it is one. So that the individual has the experience of oneness, not only as identity, but as unity.…

…brother, sister, and affection to the young, or those intellectually or spiritually immature children. Thus enduring relationships, as Pythagoras expressed it, enduring others, all human beings were either his parents, brother's sisters, or his children. Now this…

…point in which he has achieved quietude. And in the quietude of his own inner life, he hears for the first time what Pythagoras called the music of the spheres. He begins to be aware of the celestial harmony, which cannot be heard because of the…

…literature. Plato points out that art has as its final purpose its adornment of the human being himself. Beauty becomes, as Pythagoras said, the medicine of the soul. The soul, in order to interpret beauty, to express beauty within itself, must to a…

…is the magic and mystery of enlightenment. It is the alchemy of transmutation, which is accomplished as the result what Pythagoras calls the philosophic life. So theurgy is that branch of philosophy which has been most completely neglected for nearly 2,000…

…spiritual source of its own life. It was this soul, therefore, that attaining a certain immortality was ultimately, as described by Pythagoras in the Golden Verses, reunited again with the divine power from which it came. This is the panorama of psychology…

…were known as ascetics, but they departed from worldliness and in most instances engaged in extensive fasts, as also did Pythagoras. This fasting especially lowers the sugar content in the brain and seemingly results in a clarification of faculties by the…

…any particular importance to him. This left the situation almost untouched, except that Socrates and most of the Greeks, including Pythagoras, pointed out clearly that the road to consciousness was a road to separation between worldly and divine matters. and…

…contributed to almost every form of cultural development. It has also rather consistently been on the ragged edge of being dangerous. Pythagoras admitted it but warned against the development of it. This was true of a good many other scholars. We know that…

…of this nature. The whole history of mathematics, the fascination of it, as we see revealed in the writings of Pythagoras, we have completely ignored. So the people are 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…

…of which we can picture forth our own inner interpretations of universal beauty. Music is indeed the music of the spheres that Pythagoras heard. It is the power to put all arts into a harmonic relationship. Music is the symbolism of universal harmony, and…

…upon original revelations. Therefore, the great period of revelation is not now. The great period of revelation gave the world Pythagoras and Akhenaten and Moses Zoroaster, Buddha, Krishna, all the great scholars and wisdom teachers of the past. Now, why was…

…be in a continuous disturbance with himself he will not regret what he did yesterday and build a new regret today Pythagoras advised this doctrine of recollections to accomplish freedom from habit patterns he advised his disciples that every day they should…

…to do in India and this is what Taoism attempted to do in China this also is the mystery of Neoplatonism and the ideals of Pythagoras it was the idea that man only comes into trouble when he does it wrong As long as he is right, he doesn't know…

…is another entity art is an entity these things are magnetic patterns by means of which beauty and harmony are perpetuated Pythagoras pointed out and others after him that every musical note has its adjustment with the universal pattern everything is one…

…seated in the marble pavement of the Moslem Mosque were reading Aristotle and Plato and studying the abstract musical theories of Pythagoras. all under the broad banner of Islam and all dedicated to the advancement of the religion of the Prophet now Omar…

…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…

…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 orthotic, is certainly ancient, and by which divination was performed through the…

…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…

…no way of estimating except through the old esoteric doctrines that have descended to us from minds such as Paracelsus and Pythagoras the ancients definitely believed that the individual had a field of energy around him which could and did affect his life…

…find it in the Ten Commandments. We find it in the teachings of Jesus, in the Buddha, Zoroaster, Hermes, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Pythagoras. All of these great people who were the real teachers of mankind pointed out this inevitable truth that as we are able…

…people also, there comes this problem of trying to get into the inside of our own questions and our own problems. Pythagoras advocated a discipline of retrospection for this purpose. He taught that his disciples and everyone who believed in truth should at…

…to get into a little closer relationship with themselves. On the other hand also, you have a form of concentrative exercise that Pythagoras also advocated. He and his disciples went out at dawn and offered the day to the light which had created it. they…

…background of centuries of research, they did some of the most important basic thinking we have in the world of science. Pythagoras, with his mathematics, and Ptolemy with his astronomy, were true great pioneers in the search for the facts about existence.…

…scientific complications now this target-like device with its various rings inspired a number of useful discoveries Apparently it impelled Pythagoras to discover the octave or the mystery of musical harmony. It permitted him also to discover the principal…

…then took this design and laid it on the human body and came to the conclusion that the seven-fold division of Pythagoras was equally applicable to the physical structure of the human being. Not only his composition, but his actual physical body. little…

…the problem of the meaning of it all has interested a great many. Probably the outstanding vegetarian in western philosophy was Pythagoras of Samos, and from him have descended a number of groups that have refrained from animal food. The Neoplatonists of…

…us. Therefore, they have no way of appearing except through their eyes. Sometimes we may hear certain sounds that they make, as Pythagoras heard the music of the spirits and went and heard the song of birds. Before we have this means, this communication…

…is distinct from itself, individuality. Individuality, therefore, is not at the apex. It is a conditioned expression, as Pythagoras is aware. The eternal meditator produces, therefore, from meditation beings that exist with a certain sense of individuality.…

…always appears to exceed the body in which it is functioning this brings us to an interesting philosophical truism advanced by Pythagoras of Samos and he does it by means of his numerical philosophy Pythagoras points out that you can take physical…

…us to an interesting philosophical truism advanced by Pythagoras of Samos and he does it by means of his numerical philosophy Pythagoras points out that you can take physical substances and that these physical substances become in a sense and sold always by…

…happened to ourselves in the proper manner, we can achieve a great deal. This is more or less the contemplated discipline of Pythagoras, that we should look back upon the day, upon the year, upon the life, and determine what we have actually learned.…

…can have this experience occur within himself, he must have attained to a certain level of merit. Plato and Pythagoras required certain prerequisites to admission into their sacred schools. Perhaps these prerequisites were to a degree symbolical, for we…

…prerequisites to admission into their sacred schools. Perhaps these prerequisites were to a degree symbolical, for we know that Pythagoras initiated his own slaves, and it is not likely that these slaves possessed the literal prerequisites which he required.…

…might of the father spirit. And between this heaven and earth dominion wielding was fashioned the subtle fabric of the soul. Now, Pythagoras and the others declare that a soul is properly called a form. Form and matter are not the same thing. All bodies…

…Homer. This was at least 300 years or more before the beginning of that great age of Greek learning, led by Pythagoras and followed by the great Pythagorean successors Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists. Thus we have largely our knowledge or…

…the heroes. and Plato and his commentators describing this allots such persons as Hercules to the higher order of heroes also Pythagoras and many of the great scholars and leaders and sages and teachers because they achieved not only their own enlightenment…

…and become affected by the subtle symmetry of things he says because in each human being there is a soul and following Plato and Pythagoras he declares the soul although he only mentions it in this essay he goes much more in detail in many of his other…

…be locked in one. Thus we go back to the problem of the priority of knowledge in the Pythagorean theory. Pythagoras bestowed priority upon mathematics and considered mathematics the symbol of absolute beauty. He made a triad of mathematics, astronomy, and…

…amount of historical doubt. Whether it was his own work, or whether it was compiled like the so-called golden verses of Pythagoras, we do not know. But certainly we do know from his other writings that it represents the attitudes, opinions, and beliefs…

…been standing since Antediluvian times. Our priest in this particular work says that these pillars have been seen and studied by Pythagoras when he was in Egypt. and that this knowledge which was upon these pillars was known to both Pythagoras and Plato…

…seen and studied by Pythagoras when he was in Egypt. and that this knowledge which was upon these pillars was known to both Pythagoras and Plato and that it was through them that it descended into the Greek side of Neoplatonism and it was through the…

…some particular project thus forming an entity or an entirety And following, as he expresses it, one of the older doctrines of Pythagoras, Iamblichus points out that the moment a group of divided elements are restored to a unity, they are ensouled by a…

…term today mysticism. It is true that the Orthodox were mystics, but by the time Orthodox doctrine had passed through Pythagoras and Plato, very largely its mystical contents have been redirected into fields of philosophy. The Greeks considered the human…

…itself is the first illusion, for it is the first restriction or limitation of that which is in itself eternal and inevitable. Pythagoras referred to mind as the second power, or the power at the root of division. And according to the Neoplatonists, being,…

…divided. It is indivisible. There can never be two. nor can it divide by some philosophical fission to become a duality. As Pythagoras had earlier taught, the only way in which division can be countenanced in the concept of a total divine power is that…

…an interesting point here. We know that in the 6th century B.C., Nearly all Greek scholars visited Egypt. We know that Pythagoras received a large part of his education from the Egyptians. We know that Plato visited Egypt, receiving the mysteries at Sais.…

…to Egypt. Yet in Greek philosophy, we do not find the elements of the Egyptian religion, which flourished at the time of Pythagoras or Plato, We do not find Pythagoras returning with a hierarchy of Egyptian deities to impose upon the Greek mind. We do…

…do not find the elements of the Egyptian religion, which flourished at the time of Pythagoras or Plato, We do not find Pythagoras returning with a hierarchy of Egyptian deities to impose upon the Greek mind. We do not find him returning with Egyptian…

…impose upon the Greek mind. We do not find him returning with Egyptian religious rites, ceremonies, or rituals, although Pythagoras was profoundly concerned with ritualism. From what we can generally observe, the Pythagorean system was essentially derived from…

…Egypt about the time of the rise of the Hermetic literature was more than a coincidence? Is it at all conceivable that Pythagoras and Plato and Sola and others who made the same at that time difficult journey actually received a teaching different from…

…completely upon such sciences as mathematics for the possible calculations by which he seeks to attain his ends. And mathematics, as Pythagoras pointed out, is the first science of God. Thus we have an excessive intellectualism which has not yet achieved the…

…or Zarathustra. And it is quite possible that the last of the Zoroasters who is said to have been personally known by Pythagoras, was by no means the first of these fire prophets, but was a distinguished philosopher or mystic or illuminata who had…

…mysteries always had a deeper dimension than the general opinions of the people. As far back as the 6th century, when Pythagoras traveled throughout the Near East and the southern parts of Europe and finally into Far Asia, he came back fully convinced…

…rebelling against the literal acceptance of doctrines which they held to have mystical or secret meanings. that made possible the rise of Pythagoras and Plato, because it was the duty of these men to refine and improve and deepen and broaden the concept of…

…as long as it was, but that it appeared spontaneously in many areas, and that it is intimated by men like Pythagoras and Plato, who were initiates, to have existed. intimated by Apuleius and Plutarch to have existed, referred to arcanely by Cicero…

…chemical combinations of elements Somewhere there were basic thoughts. The basic thought of the 47th proposition of Pythagoras or the Euclidean proposition. Study your ancient contributions in astronomy, geometry, music, rhetoric, grammar. Somewhere these things…

…arose about B.C. 600. This was the beginning of what may be termed the Greek cultural period in the West. And from Pythagoras to the final collapse of Greek civilization, we have a cycle of approximately 600 years. For our purposes, we may begin with…

…to the final collapse of Greek civilization, we have a cycle of approximately 600 years. For our purposes, we may begin with Pythagoras and the original Greek sophists. men of the caliber of Thales and so on. And we bring the cycle to the close…

…600 years earlier. When those persons living approximately in the 6th century BC, Confucius, Laozi, Buddha, Zoroastros Betama, and Pythagoras, they formed the great challenging notes for their own people. and gradually these doctrines also declined until at the…

…100 years, there are flurries. 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 question for the reason that the term…

…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. Produce simultaneously a type…

…the Bhagavad Gita, Vishnu is made to say, when virtue fails upon the earth, then I come forth. Though 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…

…their own way. Zoroaster, who died with the assassin's spear in his back because he taught the brotherhood of man. Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, all these great teachers have given us a heritage. In the Middle Ages, many of them died martyrs to the search…

…things that must be known. Now, to begin with, the mathematics. The greatest of the mathematicians of antiquity were probably Pythagoras and Euclid. Both of these individuals recognized that mathematics existed on three levels and that each of these levels…

…it inherited from a savage world which did not possess it? How did we get this understanding of the exactitudes of life. Pythagoras gave the clue to the matter with his famous 47th proposition, which is attributed to Euclid, but was by Pythagoras. The…

…life. Pythagoras gave the clue to the matter with his famous 47th proposition, which is attributed to Euclid, but was by Pythagoras. The answer to the whole thing was very simple. The highest level of mathematics was the spiritual realization of the…

…psychologist analyzing the various processes and forces of life the ancients and Greeks of course were informed on these matters including Pythagoras and later in North Africa the work that is best known to us of Claudius Ptolemy these pioneers sought to…

…in great patterns music therefore represents the music of the spheres in astronomy it represents the marvelous tables developed by Pythagoras for universal harmonies it shows the solar system to be a musical instrument which was also discovered in China and…

…a Grecian background, and we realize that in those days the world produced some of its most important and powerful minds. Pythagoras who gave us essentially ancient science. Plato, the philosopher of his age and of his time. Orpheus, the great inspirer of…

…go a little further though to understand what was meant by this today our word wisdom has very little technical significance Pythagoras probably gave it a greater significance like virtue it is a very abstract term the Greeks reserved the term wisdom not…

…the Sophists of Greece it gradually fell into the interpretation of being professional educators but even the sixth century before Christ Pythagoras refused to be considered wise saying that only God is wise and therefore he chose not to be a sophist but…

…over dissipation. We have to get over the tremendous money we are wasting and begin to put a discipline upon our life. Pythagoras set up a discipline system that was quite improper. He began with a retrospection. Every night before a person goes to bed…

…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, we…

…For this reason, we find most of the ancient teachers had schools or systems by which they communicated knowledge. The school of Pythagoras at Crotona was one of the most famous of the ancient world. The school of Plato at Athens was another. And in…

…these religious systems, therefore, became gradually integrated around astronomy, mathematics, and music. Those who wish to enter the school of Pythagoras must first pass an examination in these three sciences, for to the ancients music was also a science. Any…

…The advancement of the cosmos The final liberation of all that lives. The return of the part to the entire. As Pythagoras would call it, the restoration of unity as the supreme principle of existence. Unity, of course, is oneness, fraternity. happiness…

…into the Gobi Desert, leaving behind a world that never understood him or what he was trying to do. Muhammad was poisoned. Pythagoras was assassinated. Zoroaster had a spear in his back. Those who have loved man most were also most hated. They were feared…

…of life everlasting. Each year could be a time for a new statement of faith, a new review of the year that is gone. Pythagoras of Samos recommended that the philosophical-minded people look back over a period of time, a year or even a day, and try to…

…the mystics that comes along, mystics like Bami, or any of the ancient mystics, mystics of Egypt, Greece, great philosophers, Plato, Pythagoras, Socrates, all these had gone a little way and had become acolytes, so to say, in this sacred assembly. And yet…

…which this being was created so that the monad though it may expand the walls of it never break division takes place within it as Pythagoras says but itself it is not divided so the monad is always a symbol of unity which is not broken up or lost by…

…a body, but an odour. It not only had an odour, but it had a sound or a tone equivalent. A thinking much like that of Pythagoras. It also was true that these forms built up out of atoms had flavors as an apple, which has a form, it has a color,…

…foundation, and therefore may prove especially useful. The first and most important thinker that comes to mind in this relationship is Pythagoras of Samos. And I strongly suspect that he will ultimately be considered, if not the first, the greatest of the…

…he will ultimately be considered, if not the first, the greatest of the Greek atomists. Now, we are not inclined to consider Pythagoras in this light. We think of him more as a mystic, as a great contemplative thinker, strongly religious, and at the same…

…religious, and at the same time incorporating in his mentation many basic scientific disciplines and methods From an earlier source, Pythagoras derived his concept of the atom. Now our word atom, like our word psychology, has come gradually to mean the…

…during the period of the Ptolemies in Egypt, atom became a proper term for deity, because of the concept that deity is indivisible. Pythagoras, searching for his term, a term which was later to be taken over by von Weidmann, hit upon the concept of the…

…term, a term which was later to be taken over by von Weidmann, hit upon the concept of the monad. Therefore, to Pythagoras, the monad was the atom. Now the monad, according to the Pythagorean concept, was an indivisible unit which should not be considered…

…the outflowing expression of the will of the Creator, that who breaks the laws of nature disobeys God. This was the belief of Pythagoras. This was the belief of Buddha. This is the great moral burden of the Institutes of Manu, that these great laws exist…

…it bestowed. And lastly of all. Last of all he returns to Saturn. It proves. And then as the wonderful golden verse of Pythagoras says. The soul freed from all these bonds. And all these burdens. And all these raiments. Rises in its own pure nakedness.…

…perhaps a little on the flighty side but underneath it there's a principle here this principle of duality Which caused Pythagoras to spit upon the ground whenever the number two was mentioned. Simply because it represented division. Wherever there is division…

…of a situation because there are usually more than two sides. Justice consists in recognizing the law as it applies to all sides. Thus Pythagoras pointed out that virtue is not upon one end of the pan, one pan of the balance and vice upon the other and…

…mystery Now if we wish to assume that the divine creative power was a septenary, let us consider for a moment what Pythagoras thought of a septenary. From the earliest studies of numerology, back in the classical period when folks really took it seriously,…

…lettered instead of numbered. And every letter had its numerical equivalent. On very, we do not have this in English. But according to Pythagoras, the number seven was the number of law. It was the number of the universe. It was the number of the gods.…

…of information bearing upon the esoteric use of numbers and of the various deities and principles that are represented by them Pythagoras who was perhaps one of the outstanding leaders of the study of number letter relationships pointed out that man in…

…which in the gnostic ritual is sometimes called the abortion. It is the abode of the fallen spirits. And it is also, as Pythagoras pointed out, the sphere of generation. So he bestowed upon the seven energies of the soul an eighth power, which he called…

…of this knowledge, or that man has intuitively developed it within his own psychic nature. And it is possible that Pythagoras being correct, that man possessing a soul which is archetypally sevenfold in principle. But this sevenfold archetype forces man to…

…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 the…

When we begin to discuss the views of Pythagoras on the subject of poetry, we are a little bit reminded of the church manner in which the late Calvin Coolidge often answered questions. We can say of Pythagoras, he was for it. And from this point on, we…

…are a little bit reminded of the church manner in which the late Calvin Coolidge often answered questions. We can say of Pythagoras, he was for it. And from this point on, we have to look elsewhere for further information. We know that the Pythagoreans…

…of a number of so-called heterodox ideas in connection with therapy. We also realize that really all of the work of Pythagoras was highly specialized and highly scientific. He was perhaps the greatest researcher of antiquity, and in his school at Crotona he…

…enjoyment of good reading by the sick, that there was a special purpose involved. Porphyry also goes on to tell us that Pythagoras was a strong believer in the development of rhythmic patterns in motion, in sound, in color and in life generally. Thus, we…

…dance. Realizing that there might be something of interest in this department, and recognizing that the effect and influence of Pythagoras have been long experienced in society, It seemed advisable to make a brief survey of some early opinions concerning…

…the key to the vibratory rate of the glass. And by the emphasis upon it, destroyed the glass. The same thing is told of Pythagoras of Samos, the great Greek philosopher of the 5th and 6th century BC. He was also aware of the mysterious magic or power…

…power of buildings, structures, forms, and organizations of materials. When he walked down the street at one of the great Italian cities, Pythagoras spoke the keynote of each of the public buildings. Each one had a different keynote, and he said that if he…

…the picture. These things we have to remember very carefully. But there is a music. There is the music of the spheres, as Pythagoras called it. There is the great music of Bach and Beethoven. There is great music in our hearts and souls. There is great…

…and dedication, will go on. Because they are part of this morality of the infinite. And it is this morality that Pythagoras became aware of. He realized that every part of knowledge has laws governed by mathematics, and governed by precise rules and…

…presence of the wise of any age or whatever age it was. Plato had his school. Aristotle had his school in Ascender Track. Pythagoras had his school in Cotona. And Socrates had his school in the nearest forest. where he could sit and discuss with his…

…of the faiths of men becoming a basis of unity between peoples, rather than a constant source of disunity. The ancient world, Pythagoras knew this unity. Others have known it also. But today you see the actual machinery of unity moving into action. And we…

…in these different groups were identical. And the arts and the general knowledge were shared by all, regardless. Therefore, Pythagoras, 600 years before the Christian era, traveling throughout the world, visited and was received hospitably and lovingly by over…

…and artificers the builders of monuments who knew the proportions and mathematics and had deeply imbibed from the wisdom of Pythagoras and Euclid but even this isn't a complete explanation for it is almost impossible to determine how this tremendous job…

…It is referred to in very ancient times, for it was believed and taught that in Egypt, as earlier or earlier than Pythagoras of Samos, that is the sixth century BC the Egyptians represented their deities by symmetrical geometric solids and that in the…

…to a comparatively brief point, the original authorship being unknown. Traditionally, it is believed that these verses were written by Pythagoras himself. There is much to indicate the possibility but the actual facts are not available. We know, however, that…

…verses were regarded as a true exposition of his teaching, and the internal content binds them very closely to the school of Pythagoras. As we realize, very little has come down to us. in the actual words of this great Greek philosopher. He is recognized…

…admitted indebtedness to his system. Yet this system has survived mostly through interpretation and commentary by other persons. Pythagoras flourished in the sixth century before the Christian era. His school at Crotona was ultimately destroyed by vandalism,…

…anything. And we sort of feel today that to be so such a mood is to fall under a kind of antique pattern. Yet, Pythagoras was probably wiser than most modern, not in the fact that we should go about worshiping each other such was not the intent of…

…the wrong things. And because man is a venerating creature, he must have his heroes. we all must respect something. And Pythagoras points out that when we respect that which is superior, we inevitably incline ourselves to become like that superior. Where…

…energy fields do not sustain him so it is very important to maintain harmony and this was one of the great principles of Pythagoras that the world had to be maintained as a musical instrument that it had to be in harmony always and the individual in…

…a sort of a marvelous wonder world of forces and values which work together with the music of the spheres, as Pythagoras called it. A universe of infinite integrity, infinite beauty and infinite wonder. A universe which exists within ourselves as a…