The Dodecad
The numbers 1 through 12 are what’s called the Dodecad. Do means 2. Decad means 10. These are not just numbers, but qualities of reality and the numerical armature that nature uses to build herself. There’s twelve hours on the…
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Flower Power
The power in the flowers is generated by geometry, the second discipline in the study of the Quadrivium (Number, Geometry, Music, Cosmology). Before that is Number. Can you define a triangle without the certain ‘threeness’ that is embedded in its…
The Platonic and Pythagorean Solids
The Platonic solids are 3-dimensional forms that nature uses to build herself. The mental construct of reality seen in the form of geometry. There are only five of them, naturally, since it is this (phi)veness that generates life as we…
The Seven Liberal Arts
The seven liberal arts are the disciplines of study that the Pythagoreans taught in their mystery schools. They’re the subjects or skills, that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person to cultivate to gain a solid foundation of…
The Philosopher’s Stone (d)
Manly P. Hall writes, The Philosopher’s Stone is an ancient symbol of the perfected and regenerated man whose divine nature shines forth through a chain of purified and unfolded vehicles. It is a term used to describe the Supreme Wisdom, the…
5040 The Perfect Number
Plato mentions in his Laws that 5040 is a convenient number to use for dividing many things (including both the citizens and the land of a state) into lesser parts. Claiming it to be the ideal population of a city,…
Mathemagical Synchronicities in our Measure of Space and Time
Our units of measurement of space and time encode a synergistic system, a sacred canon of number beyond that of which we commonly associate today. Miles, furlongs, minutes, seconds, degrees, these units synchronize with a cosmic order creating a divine…
Cognitive Dissonance
Evidence alone rarely sways the opinions of the people or the person. More creative means must be employed to ignite the fire of self transformation, to clear past the fog of cognitive dissonance that keeps the collective unconscious enslaved to fallacious…