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Pythagoras

by Goatchrist

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MD Lyrically beautiful and greatly achieved music. Favorite track: Numbers.
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Worlds 08:44
In twain is split all existence - Two dwellings, and a plane of interaction. Repositories of all things, classified. Inferior: Dwelling of physicality. Atoms and matter, substance and light. Malkuth, in it's entirety. Dual worlds merging into one - The abstract moon and the life-giving sun. Recognise human life as the sum of two parts, The whole being greater where divinity starts. Superior: Dwelling of abstractions. Ideas and thoughts Existent, as they are, but physically absent. Hokhmah and Binah. Supreme: Union of two worlds. Sentient life - the melding of abstract and physical influence. The highest state of being: Keter; Godhood. Their union is the Monad, The oneness - the ultimate. It's components are the Duad, Two worlds intersecting. It's force is the Tetrad, Evenly even. It's form is the Tetractys, The Holy number.
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Tetractys of the Decad: One, two, three and four in union; musica universalis - Unity; Dyad; Harmony; Kosmos. And too, the dimensions: One - a point; two - a line, Three - a surface, triangular, Four - a volume, tetrahedral. "By that pure, holy, four lettered name on high, nature's eternal fountain and supply, the parent of all souls that living be, by him, with faith find oath, I swear to thee"
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Tetrahedron: A Fire ablaze, deep within. Of four faces - Equilateral triangles. Cube: The roots in Earth. Evenly even, With six square faces. "The symmetrical solids were regarded by Pythagoras as of the greatest importance. To be perfectly symmetrical, or regular, a solid must have an equal number of faces meeting at each of its angles, and these faces must be regular polygons. Pythagoras, perhaps, may be credited with the great discovery that there are only five such solids." Symbolically, These solids have significance. To the Greek mind of the time, The conclusion was inevitable - The shapes of the elements: Air, fire, earth and water, Possess particles, Whose shapes are the Pythagorean solids. Octahedron: A gale in the Air. Of eight faces - Equilateral triangles. Icosahedron: The deep, foreboding Waters. Of twenty faces - Equilateral triangles. "The Dodecahedron was, to the ancient mathematicians, the most mysterious of the solids; it was by far the most difficult to construct, the accurate drawing of the regular pentagon necessitating a rather elaborate application of Pythagoras' great theorem. Hence the conclusion, as Plato put it: "the regular Dodecahedron was employed by the Deity in tracing the plan of the Universe." " Symbolically, These solids have significance. To the Greek mind of the time, The conclusion was inevitable - The shapes of the elements: Air, fire, earth and water, Possess particles, Whose shapes are the Pythagorean solids.
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Numbers 05:45
Arithmetic - the fundament of all - From it stem music, geometry and astronomy. This field is split in twain, Into magnitude and multitude. Monad - the one. Any system considered as whole. Both the universe, And each respective element within. The indivisible, The Divine. The summit of the many. Unity. Two orders exist: odd and even, Of which odds form two classes: Incomposite - prime numbers. Composite - with divisors Even numbers form three classes: Evenly-even, in duple ratio from unity; Evenly-odd, being halved only once; Oddly-odd, halved more than once, non-power two. One - the Monad, Pre-eminent mind, Hermaphrodite. The state of God. Two - the Duad, Opposition. First rebel of the Divine One. Three - the Triad, Equilibrium. Union of the Monad and Duad. Four - the Tetrad, Root of all, Evenly-even. The perfect number. -- Five - the Pentad, Ontologically ether. Six - the Hexad, The form of forms. Seven - the Heptad, The motherless virgin. Eight - the Ogdoad, Of the first cube. Nine - the Ennead, Failure incarnate. "The Decad - ten - according to Pythagoras, is the greatest of numbers, not only because it is the Tetractys, but because it comprehends all arithmetic and harmonic proportions. Decad is the nature of number, because all nations reckon to it, and when they arrive at it they return to the Monad. The Decad was called both Heaven and the World, because the former includes the latter."
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If man inhabits the supreme plane - That is, being abstract and physical - Then the 'self' itself cannot dwell In the world of matter. If the self is defined by the abstract, Then death leaves the soul intact. Hypothetically, The same abstract form in another could be. When a man's eyes close for the last time, His self crosses over the demarcating line, Between the higher and lower planes; A self non-comprehending, without a brain. The "soul" is the character - All parts of the self nondependent on matter. Independently, It exists - unconstrained, free. It can occupy A space in the world - the human mind. But wholly indistinguishable From another, identical. Thus, when we die Our souls can go on to create new life; The qualities that made the "you" Can exist in others too. So take solace in truth: Your death is not the end of you. The body is of lesser form, It shall decay as you live on. Know that you connect not just, In time and space but up above, Too, with all who have displayed, The neural patterns of your brain. Know, too, death is not the end, Just as the soul never began, Take solace in these words, here sung, And know that, O, ye shall live on.
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Against the voice of the masses, they fought; Democracy as rule by lynch mob is what they taught. Croton dominated Sybaris to the North, Through the power of mind rather than of the sword, Whence the high elite proposed a democratic constitution, Which itself represented democratic revolution. Pythagoras considered the proposal in his mind, Where he found that the idea was entirely assinine. Vesting power in the masses is known as inefficient, And a great autocracy would be surely beneficient. Then the sun will set over Croton, The folk tire of his ways - of his ways. The greatest mind in all of time, Approaches the end of his days - of his days. Enemies travelled in the dead of night, To the meeting house in Milo, setting it alight. Then the sun will set over Croton, The folk tire of his ways - of his ways. The greatest mind in all of time, Approaches the end of his days - of his days. And so he ran from the burning house, Unto some other place - other place, But he came to a field of beans, And halted in disgrace - in disgrace. Now these men were upon his back, He accepted his fate - his fate. As they struck their swords upon his flesh, His soul would dissipate, His skin now breaks, He shall not wake, The hour is late. The death of a sage.

about

Dedicated to R. R. Givens, a man of great talent and understanding, and a significant inspiration in the creation of this album.

A concept album about Pythagorean teachings.

"Worlds" deals with Pythagorean metaphysics, namely the ontology of all existence - existence as 3 distinct planes, these being abodes of physicality (the physical world), abstractions (the dwelling of ideas, concepts and so forth) and the plane in which physicalities and abstractions are melded (as far as we know, this is limited to humans and their spheres of influence).

"The Tetractys" concerns the arrangement of the number ten by Pythagoras, into a form which he declared could comprehend all arithmetic proportion, and which can be augmented mathematically into a lambdoma, comprehending Pythagorean ratios and hence comprehending all harmonic proportions (Pythagoras' own tuning system being generated by the untempered perfect fifth, of ratio 3:2).

The focus of "Pythagorean Solids" is the five three-dimensional solids whose faces are regular polygons and who have an equal number of faces meeting at each vertex. Explored further are the links the Greek mind would have naturally made between these solids and the five pre-scientific 'elements': air, fire, earth, water and aether.

"Numbers" concerns Pythagorean theory of numbers and their symbology, justifying this throughout. Of greatest importance are Monad - the oneness, the God in the panentheistic sense, Duad - masculine and feminine, first to rebel against the divine Monad, Tetrad - the perfect number, being evenly even, and Tetractys - the most perfect number, the nature of number.

"Harmony of the Spheres" is a concept track pertaining to the Pythagorean idea of the same name; it was posited that the nature of ratios between the orbital radii of the celestial bodies produced harmonies when motion was considered. The Islamic tradition states that this grand planetary harmony, "musica universalis", was said to be heard exclusively by Pythagoras, who could hear it due to the purity of his mind and soul.

The track "Metempsychosis" deals with the Pythagorean attitude towards reincarnation, with the word itself literally meaning "transmigration of the soul". Due to the ontology of being (as described in "Worlds"), it was concluded that the self cannot be dependent on matter and thus cannot die when the physical body ends - and thus, as an abstract from, presence itself in other sentient, abstract-comprehending beings.

"The Death of Pythagoras" concludes the album with a retelling of the semi-mythical account of the demise of the Greek sage, including the source of conflict between Croton (Pythagoras' community in Southern Italy) and the neighbouring Sybaris.

Written and recorded in October - November 2019 in Leeds.
Instruments recorded at J. Guilherme's home studio.
Vocals recorded at V. Calin's home studio.
Mixed and mastered at J. Guilherme's home studio.

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released November 20, 2019

J. Guilherme - Instruments and vocals, songwriting, recording
V. Calin - Lead guitar (track II), vocals (chorus, track IX), recording
D. Tann - Vocals (track II)

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