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Pythagoras and Dimensions One of the first acknowledged scientists was Pythagoras, 6th century BCE Greek mathematician and philosopher, but it would seem, on further inspection, that he absorbed his ideas of triangular and circular maths from the Egyptians, where they can be found evident in the structure of pyramids. Believing that numbers were the ultimate reality, the Pythagorean school extrapolated a mathematical and philosophical model of the entire universe from this conjecture. In Pythagoras time zero wasn’t recognised as a number with value, so, although they worked extensively with fractions, their first whole number was 1, the number of reason. Even a definition for the number 2 was highly debated, between whether it was odd or even, prime or not, or even a number at all, which goes to show how much mathematics was an integral part of philosophy and indeed spirituality. It is from Hindu philosophy that the Greeks and Pythagoras may well have absorbed the concept of one, universal being, expressed in the Upanishads as the divine Brahman and represented by the Greeks as a circled dot, the first seed, the foundation and builder, the Monad, the ultimate secret of the Freemasons and divine knowledge of esoteric, secret societies. However, like their Hindu counterparts, this form of pantheism could also express the many parts within the one, and arguments would reign as to whether the mind was real, the physical was real, or that both were an expression of a third energetic substance. Where the dot and the circle, or the number 1, was seen to represent unity and the generator of dimensions, then two dots represented duality and diversity, symbolised by the square. Here, already, we are seeing the basis of sacred geometry, where the opposites are being fused and subsequently expressed in both sacred architecture, sacred art in the form of Mandela, music and of course alchemy, to name but a few. An extract from Dragons and Rings shows how the pythagorean model can be used to explain the theory of dimension.
The Pythagoreans believed that the potential for this system of dimensional reality was contained in the form of an energetic or thought matrix within a fluid void of darkness and formed the pattern and basis of it, as above, so below. This, in a way, expresses the complete dichotomy of their thought process, and where Pythagoras struggled to reconcile this in his Harmony of the Spheres, it is only in the last few years that quantum scientists have resolved the anomalies that Pythagoras encountered, and in the process proved his assumptions absolutely correct. To learn more about dimensional structure expressed in sacredgeometry and quantum mathematics as well as what the fluid void of dark energy really is buy Dragons and Rings: Sacred Geometry meets quantum physics: A DVD by Steve Mitchell
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