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The Pythagoreans were a Hellenic organization of astronomers, musicians, mathematicians, and philosophers who believed that all things are, essentially, numeric. The group strove to keep the discovery of irrational numbers a secret, and legends tell of a member being drowned for breaching this secrecy (see Hippasus). Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. ...
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An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ...
A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...
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A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ...
A number is an abstract entity used originally to describe quantity. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In mathematics, an irrational number is any real number that is not a rational number, i. ...
Hippasus of Metapontum, born circa 500 B.C. in Magna Graecia, was a Greek philosopher. ...
The pentagram (five-pointed star) was an important religious symbol used by the Pythagoreans. It was called "health". A pentagram, pentacle, pentalpha, or pentangle A pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. ...
Pythagorean cosmology Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical. In the area of cosmology there is less agreement about what Pythagoras himself actually taught, but most scholars believe that the Pythagorean idea of the transmigration of the soul is too central to have been added by a later follower of Pythagoras. On the other hand it is impossible to determine the origin of the Pythagorean account of substance. It seems that the Pythagorean account begins with Anaximander's account of the ultimate substance of things as "the boundless." Another of Anaximander's pupils, Anaximenes, who was a contemporary of Pythagoras, gave an account of how Anaximander's "boundless" took form, through condensation and refraction. On the other hand, the Pythagorean account says that it is through the notion of the "limit" that the "boundless" takes form. Jump to: navigation, search This topic is considered a necessary subject on Wikipedia, and there is a high-priority on its being cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Reincarnation, as a doctrine, holds the notion that ones personality, spirit, soul, true self, I (not to be confused with the Ego as defined by psychology) or critical parts of these returns to the material world after physical death to be reborn in a new...
Anaximander (Greek: ΑναξίμανδÏος) (610 BC/609–c. ...
Diogenes Laertius (about AD 200) quotes Alexander Polyhistor's (about 100 BC) book Successions of Philosophers (and according to Diogenes, Alexander had access to a book called The Pythagorean Memoir) in his account of how the Pythagorean cosmology was constructed (Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum VIII, 24): Diogenes Laërtius, the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Cilicia, and by others from the Roman family of the Laërtii. ...
Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor was a Greek scholar who was enslaved by the Romans during the war of Sulla and taken to Rome as a tutor. ...
Successions of Philosophers or Philosophers Successions is a lost book written by Alexander Polyhistor, and referenced several times in Diogenes Laertius book Vitae philosophorum (Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers). ...
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a biography of the Greek philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. ...
- The principle of all things is the monad or unit; arising from this monad the undefined dyad or two serves as material substratum to the monad, which is cause; from the monad and the undefined dyad spring numbers; from numbers, points; from points, lines; from lines, plane figures; from plane figures, solid figures; from solid figures, sensible bodies, the elements of which are four, fire, water, earth and air; these elements interchange and turn into one another completely, and combine to produce a universe animate, intelligent, spherical, with the earth at its centre, the earth itself too being spherical and inhabited round about. There are also antipodes, and our ‘down' is their ‘up'.
This cosmology also inspired the Arabic gnostic Monoimus to combine this system with monism and other things to form his own cosmology. The word monad comes from the Greek word μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means one, single, unique) and has had many meanings in different contexts in philosophy, mathematics, computing and music: Among the Pythagoreans (followers of Pythagoras) the monad was the first thing that came into existence. ...
Gnosticism is a blanket term for various mystical initiatory religions and sects, which were most prominent in the first few centuries CE. It is also applied to modern revivals of these sects and, sometimes, by analogy to all religious movements based on secret knowledge gnosis, thus leading to confusion. ...
Monoimus (lived somewhere between 150 - 210) was an arabic gnostic (arabic name: Munim), who was known to us only from one account in Theodoret (Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium i. ...
Monism is the metaphysical view that there is only one principle, essence, substance or energy. ...
"guitar_man_6" is the head of the Modern Pythagoreans.
Reference - Pythagoras Revived, Patrick J. O'Meara, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989.
"guitar_man_6" is the head of the Modern Pythagoreans.
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Jump to: navigation, search Pythagoreanism is a term used for the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers the Pythagoreans, much influenced by mathematics and probably a main inspiration source to Plato and platonism. ...
Esoteric cosmology is cosmology that is an intrinsic part of an esoteric or occult system of thought. ...
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