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Anonymous ID: c21109 Dec. 25, 2023, 5:47 p.m. No.20130742   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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PYTHAGORIC FUNDAMENTALS

 

The study of geometry, music, and astronomy was considered essential to a rational understanding of God, man, or nature, and no one could accompany Pythagoras as a disciple who was not thoroughly familiar with these sciences. many came seeking admission to his school. Each applicant was tested on these three subjects, and if found ignorant, was summarily dismissed. Pythagoras was not an extremist. he taught moderation in all things rather than excess in anything, for he believed that an excess of virtue was in itself a vice. one of his favorite statements was: “We must avoid with our utmost endeavor, and amputate with fire and sword, and by all other means, from the body, sickness; from the soul, ignorance; from the belly, luxury; from a city, sedition; from a family, discord; and from all things, excess.” Pythagoras also believed that there was no crime equal to that of anarchy.All men know what they want, but few know what they need.Pythagoras warned his disciples that when they prayed they should not pray for themselves; that when they asked things of the gods they should not ask things for themselves, because no man knows what is good for him and it is for this reason undesirable to ask for things which, if obtained, would only prove to be injurious. the God of Pythagoras was the Monad, or the one that is Everything. he described God as the supreme mind distributed throughout all parts of the universe – the Cause of all things, the intelligence of all things, and the Power within all things. he further declared the motion of God to be circular, the body of God to be composed of the substance of light, and the nature of God to be composed of the substance of truth.