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Thursday 13 December 2007

Sacred Mathematics

Sacred Mathematics, by way of definition, refers to the concepts which, according to ancient (and a few modern) scholars, encompassed all of creation in mathematical terms. It includes numerical ratios of the most profound significance (literally Transcendental Numbers), the nature of numbers themselves (Numerology), their mutual relationship (Astrology), strange beasts such as Magic Squares and Infinite Series, those astounding aspects of geometrical relationships in Sacred Geometry which seem to defy logical or rational explanation, and the manner in which all of these aspects describe the universe.

Sacred Mathematics represents a wholly contained and internally consistent philosophy -- a philosophy which describes physical reality, its cosmogony and every aspect of its science. The Greek Philosopher, Plato, has said: “Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent. Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.”

This profoundly philosophical interpretation or Mathematical Theory is echoed in many spiritual traditions. Such references are not always direct, however, and in fact may have been intentionally obscure in order to prevent the “uninitiated” from gaining access to the power inherent in such knowledge. The School of Pythagoras, for example, was known to limit the dissemination of the mathematical and philosophical understandings they achieved. The so-called Mystery Schools of ancient Egypt, Sumeria, Greece, and Judaea were also very much into keeping their own counsel and limiting access by the uninitiated. The biblical prohibition from eating of the Tree of Life or Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil may represent another case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing -- at least to someone's thinking.