Hi everyone,

I made a long documentary on Pythagoras on YouTube. If anyone is interested, here is the link: PYTHAGORAS: Behind The Math And Myth https://youtu.be/Ac2gYn9hylw

Also, I will highly appreciate any feedback and criticism on it.

Thank you!

Hi,

I'm reading Russell's The History of Western Philosophy and have finished the chapter on Pythagoras.

Just like most people, I scratched the surface of Pythagoras' work in math classes at school, but it's the first time I come across a work that tries to show his philosophy as something universal (ie, applicable to a lot of fields other than maths).

Given the above, I've got a question - am I right to think that Pythagoras' philosophy is universal as it promotes acknowledging what's evident and then deducing the less evident from it (as supposedly done by Pythagoras' successors)?

The Enneagram is an occult symbol used in certain circles.

Its first appearance was by the hand of Gurdjieff, an armenian mystic from the late 19th to mid 20th century, who was quite ambiguous about its origins, stating that he learned of it during his travels in central Asia. He did not make any assertion over its origins. Later, it was utilized by Oscar Ichazo, a Bolivian spiritual teacher.

Now, there's a whole charade involving copyrights and intellectual theft after some people started using Ichazo's theories. The lawsuit is quite famous. In the end, the other authors managed to convince the judge that the origin of the enneagram as taught by Ichazo was ancient, making it go back to the desert fathers, the sufi, the Kabbalah etc. The accusation is that he clearly took it from Gurdjieff without any accreditation. Ichazo denied all of this and he had the following to say:

"The enneagram figure, which the Gurdjieffians affirm that I took from their Master, is in fact one of the forms known as 'seals,' which were produced by the Pythagorean school (500 BC), and the Platonic mathematicians (300 BC) who studied the internal relation of numbers with geometrical forms, giving to each number, not only their characteristics, but their internal interrelations. "

Is there any truth to this?

Just curious!

In his series Cosmos, Carl Sagan mentioned that the dodecahedron was hidden by the Pythagoreans from the ordinary people because knowledge of it was felt it was a knowledge too powerful to be shared. The relevant part can we watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSDRIuHTZnM Can anyone here elaborate further? Is is this a correct depiction of the facts in your eyes? I could not find much on this when researching online, but I guess I did not go deep enough. Thank you so much!

I just realized that today is the last date in this century which is a Pythagorian triplet. We wont get the next one in our life times 😭 . 24/7/25 24²+7²=25²

Hail Pythagoreans.

Does the following reflect an accurate description?

1. Monad (1): Represents unity, the origin of all things, and the divine. It's a symbol of the essence of existence and the source of all numbers.

2. Dyad (2): Represents the principle of "otherness" or difference. It's the first number after the Monad and introduces the concept of relations since a relation requires at least two entities. In this sense, it was associated with diversity, division, and the physical world.

3. Triad (3): Symbolizes harmony, since it encompasses the beginning (Monad), middle (Dyad), and end, creating a whole. It's also associated with concepts such as wisdom and understanding, and it was seen as a reconciling or mediating figure between unity and diversity. Some have connected this with the idea of birth, life, and death.

4. Tetrad (4): Represents solidity and was associated with the four elements: earth, water, air, and fire. It was also related to the four seasons, four directions, etc. Pythagoreans considered it a perfect number since it is equal to the sum of its divisors (1+2), excluding itself.

5. Pentad (5): Represents health and life. It's associated with marriage (the sum of the first male number, three, and the first female number, two) and also corresponds to the five senses.

6. Hexad (6): Represents creation and is often associated with space and time. The six faces of a cube represent spatial dimensions, and the six periods of a day (dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, dusk, night) represent time.

Is it safe to say the principle that binds these structures/beliefs is symmetry?