"Is there such a thing as chance? I don't think so. There's more, there's always more. Call it grace, call it synchronicity, but I think of it as God telling us that at the deepest level everything is scripted, of saying there are no accidents!"
The Way Things Are - Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau
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DIVINE MATHEMATICS
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"The laws of thought, in all its processes of conception and of reasoning, in all those operations of which language is the expression or the instrument, are of the same kind as are the laws of the acknowledged processes of Mathematics." George Boole (1815-1864), English philosopher
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"The zero concept is not only a mathematical discovery, but was originally conceived as a symbol of Brahman. Zero is not a single cipher, positive or negative (growth and decay), but the unifying point of indifference and the matrix of the All and the None. Zero produces all figures, but it is itself not limited to certain value….Zero is the transition-point between opposites, it symbolizes the true balance within divergent tendencies." Betty Heimann, 'Facets of Indian Thought'
Breaking the Mind Barrier
(Todd Siler)
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"The ancients were aware of nature's geometric language and purposefully employed it in their arts, crafts, architecture, philosophy, myth, natural science, religion, and structures of society from prehistoric times through the Renaissance. The world today needs scholars and researchers who give the ancients credit for their intelligence and understanding, to view their art and entire cultures in light of its mathematical symbolism."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"Philosophy is written in this grand book – I mean the universe – which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth." Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), 'Il Saggiatore'
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition
(John Bartlett)
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"There appears to be deep-hidden in the unconscious, awaiting favourable opportunity to come forth into the conscious, a transcendent geometrical symmetry, like that referred to by the Greek philosophers in such aphorisms as 'God geometrizes', or 'The Universe is founded on number'; and, also, a divine beauty and perfect harmony."
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
(W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)
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"Whole numbers may well be the discovery of God's 'primal thoughts.'"
C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961
(Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)
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"Scientists confirm with formulas what ancient seers knew through revelation: that the world's patterns and cycles are harmonious when seen as mathematical relationships…Where we see 'things', nouns and discrete objects, the ancient mathematical philosophers saw PROCESSES, verbs, transforming patterns meshed harmoniously."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"Hahnemann's discoveries (homeopathy) revive the Medieval doctrine of correspondentia, namely the idea of connection by a context of analogy. Aristotle called it 'formal causation'….It may indeed carry a heuristic value if applied according to holistic, specific gestalt principles – that is, by comparing not single random details or superficial appearances but basic and essential functionalities. The homeopathic experience points to a vast, hitherto unrecognized network of correlations between form, function and behavior as well as outer-world and human forms and functional dynamics. These correspondences which we are barely beginning to discover clearly suggest common functional denominators and patterns underlying the human microcosm and outer macrocosm in mutual analogy and reflection."
The Alchemy of Healing
(Edward C. Whitmont, MD)
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"Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg delivered an address in 1970 on 'The Meaning of Beauty in the Exact Sciences." In that talk he called mathematics 'the archetype of the beauty of the world', and he invoked the philosopher Plotinus, who said 'Beauty is the translucence, through the material phenomena, of the eternal splendor of the 'One'.'"
One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths
(Matthew Fox)
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"I predict – and I am by no means alone – that one of the most exciting growth areas of twenty-first-century science will be bio-mathematics. The next century will witness an explosion of new mathematical concepts, of new KINDS of mathematics, brought into being by the need to understand the patterns of the living world." Ian Stewart, mathematician
The Hidden Connections
(Fritjof Capra)
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"Harmonious relationship…is eternally and inherently present in the universe, waiting only to be discovered or realized. There is a cosmic harmony, which is founded in the eternal perfection of number."
The Modern Numerology: A Practical Guide to the Meaning and Influence of Numbers
(John King)
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"Modern physics has definitely decided for Plato. For the smallest units of matter are, in fact, not physical objects in the ordinary sense of the word; they are forms, structures, or – in Plato's sense – Ideas, which can be unambiguously spoken of only in the language of mathematics." Werner Heisenberg, cited in Sheldrake's 'The Presence of the Past'
Origins of the Sacred
(Dudley Young)
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"A common theme in worldwide mythology is the human as microcosm, a miniature model of the whole universe…this view was long considered a key to the understanding of the Self. The ancient philosophers saw their inner lives arranged according to nature's own harmonies, for in nature, geometry, and their spiritual lives they discovered the same principles."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"Numbers, as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness that is essential." Marie-Louise vonFranz, Jungian psychologist and writer
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"The ancient metaphor of Indra's net and the modern formulations of quantum physics remind us that we are all woven together."
The Search for the Beloved
(Jean Houston)
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"Numbers have been part of our thinking since before we lived in caves. There is not a single religion, past or present, which fails to attribute a special significance to some number or group of numbers."
The Modern Numerology: A Practical Guide to the Meaning and Influence of Numbers
(John King)
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"Plato speaks of a mathematical intuition by which we perceive the structure of reality. It was through insight of this kind that Sir Isaac Newton was given his monumental vision of the order within the cosmos. Kurt Godel speaks of the insight through which we can perceive the truths of mathematics and compares this to Plato's understanding of how we encounter the Ideas. This 'seeing through' ordinary reality, if carried far enough, can bring us to a religious understanding."
Companions on the Inner Way
(Morton T. Kelsey)
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"Organisms are self-forming and also goal directed, not random. F. L. Kunz held that such self-ordering forms operate according to a principle of order, of dynamic geometry: 'The self-proportioned geometry of the living orders is the diversified expression of a consistent, universal principle.' ('Order in the Universe')."
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight
(Shirley Nicholson)
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"The orderly process of geometric construction shows us the steps nature metaphorically uses to clothe the archetypal patterns. The geometer gradually learns to see the world of common experience as governed by laws of nature that can be understood as expressions of mathematical archetypes."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"There may indeed be a 'mythopoeic mentality,' but it is not restricted to precivilized man, but is to be found in geniuses as different as Boehme, Kepler, Blake, Yeats, Wagner, Heisenberg…Myth is not an early level of human development, but an imaginative description of reality in which the known is related to the unknown through a system of correspondences in which mind and matter, self, society, and cosmos are integrally expressed in an esoteric language of poetry and number." William Irwin Thompson, 'At The Edge of History'
Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery
(Cranston/Head, editors)
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"The simple beauty of a crystal is, in part, its strict mathematical order. Through the study of number and shape we begin to apprehend the cosmic order."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"It is very likely that in nature a marvellous mysticity of numbers is at work, and in history also. Is not everything of significance, symmetry and strange connection? Can God not reveal Himself as well in mathematics as in other sciences?" Novalis
The History of Magic and the Occult
(Kurt Seligmann)
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"Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself." Claude Bragdon
Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being
(John D. Barrow)
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"Acknowledging the mathematically elegant intellectual integrity of eternally regenerative Universe is one way of identifying God." Buckminster Fuller, 'Theology Versus Science: Regarding Some Familiar and Not-So-Familiar Cosmic Principles'
American Theosophist, The
(Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)
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"Nature itself rests on an internal foundation of archetypal principles symbolized by numbers, shapes, and their arithmetic and geometric relationships."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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