Jewlz...you're welcome..:) Nicely met....and Severus, thank you too...and dear Angelus, you've started a most excellent conversation here..Here's a bit for sharing knowledge then...^^
Thanks Dabbler...it's a good piece...here's my sample of literature on Truth....that elusive aspect of knowledge conducted as universal philosophy...from a bit older source than the 70's...;)
"From the fathomless and unknown beginning the principles of mathematics existed as a divine, unnamed reality. The man accredited with its discovery simply extracted from the infinite the principles of universal order and christened them the science of mathematics. This new science thereupon became a hypothetical monad, and diversity took place within it, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus becoming the vehicles of its expression in the sphere of mental activity.
These are the lesser monads suspended from the body of the parent monad. As gold exists in the dark earth long before the miner's pick bares it to the light of day, so all the truths revealed to man in the past and to be discovered by him in the future are eternal, and as divine principles were the media in the beginning by which the Creator flowed into Being from the eternal state of Non-Being. In its exact sense, Truth is therefore the way of God in "all" things and truths the ways of God in "particular" things.
The forms of learning which mortals term science, philosophy, and theology are simply aspects of divine procedure on the physical, mental, and emotional planes respectively. As Number becomes numbers, so Truth becomes truths and the subordinate monads suspended from Truth become that which is real upon each of the countless levels of existence.
Wherever one of these facts is established, it becomes the monad or radiant center from which flows forth a number of secondary agencies. The moment this lesser establishment and flow take place, mathematics is again manifested. From the monad of theology, for example, are suspended the religions, of which there are not less than seven major bodies. the flow of theology into any one of its religions establishes a new vortex, therby giving expression to another suspended element of mathematics. Each of these major divisions of religion becomes, in turn, the monad of a still greater order of diversity, a notable example being the Christian faith whose branches number several hundred. Each motion of Truth out from itself toward the infinite diversity which is the inevitable circumference of Unity is thus measured, determined, and directionalized by Number moving through its own vehicles--numbers and their infinite combinations."
So then, what is truth if not that which we hold dear to our own hearts that makes each of us "whole." I further submit ..another piece by the same author...who also touches more on Pythagorean terms between these two articles...however, I still like the summations of both.
"This quality of wholeness, which is the common property of these diversified and otherwise irreconcilable bodies, becomes as it were, their common denominator. Though wholeness is present in all natures it is not an attribute of natures. This wholeness is an archetypal quality--an attribute of Deity. Regardless of the nature of its expression, every activity, quality, or condition is essentially a wholeness. This wholeness is made manfiest by a division within itself whereby its nature becomes a mass of innumerable fragments, each of the fractions partaking of the quality resident in the original wholeness, and manifesting it through the wholeness of its own fractional part.
For example, Man is a wholeness possessing and manifesting certain rational qualities and characteristics. This archetypal wholeness, flowing into diversity, breaks up to form men. Each individual, by virtue of his own inherent wholeness, shares in the viritues of his participation in the one causal nature moves in the rhythm of the archetype, which archetype manifests through such laws as polarity, generation, rationality, morality, and such other ideals and practices as are the common property of all men."
So then, what is our common denominator..what makes us all whole....in our singular truths? How is it that any one individual can succumb to illusions that the Truth they hold as infinite is the only Truth to be known? There are fanciful fads and popular beliefs that come and go with the fading and passage of time, but of Truth...that most Divine Knowledge passed down from generation to generation.....Truth....is Eternal.
*quoted material from Manly P. Hall and Lectures on Ancient Philosophy-Mathematics, the Master Science
