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Worlds
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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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The Tetractys
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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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Pythagorean Solids
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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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Introduction to Numbers
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Numbers
05:45
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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.
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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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Harmony of the Spheres
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Metempsychosis
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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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The Death of Pythagoras
04:31
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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.
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Goatchrist Leeds, UK
Experimental musical entity expounding Kabbalistic truth.
Leeds, U.K.
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