18thVestalVirgin's Blog - page 3

…see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn’t really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, …all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of ‘em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.
Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums) 1958

There is divergence among mystical mathematicians about whether women are even or odd numbers. We must take all things into account when seeking a resolution to this enigma.

For example, all humans are born of women and thus women are the source; consequently they can be seen as 1. Alternatively, the divine is 1 and the source of all things.

Males are more dependent than woman and in constant need of assistance from them. They can therefore be seen as the number 2. A man requires a woman to bring a child into the world, thus women are number 3. Extending this line of reasoning, women are odd numbers and men even.

This is only an effort to think aloud and perhaps get some reasonable feedback or alternative suggestions.

The beginning of the journey is the infinite because all journeys are infinite. Our nature is such that we long to comprehend the infinite and this leads to a quest that can only be accomplished via a mystical epistemology and metaphysics. It is not coincidence that, for example, the great mathematician Pythagoras was a mystic and believed that numbers have mystical powers. Furthermore, mathematicians seek perfect and immutable truth. Such truth can only be found in a Higher Power.

Let's consider Pythagoras. All educated people, even those who are not mathematicians, are aware of his importance in the history of ideas. What few know is that he formed a religion. For him, mathematics was ecstatic revelation; deeply profound and mystical apprehension.

Or, consider music, something employed in religion and numerous meditative and mystical rituals and ceremonies. Music is mathematical. Without mathematics, there would be no music.

So we have started our journey and we must follow the path, even not knowing its end; or whether, indeed, if there is an end.

It is quite clear that mathematics can explain nature. From what we have discussed thus far, one example is the Fibonacci Sequence. There are others.

What are the theological ramifications of mathematics and nature? Does that mean that God is, in fact, a mathematician? That is the direction we are heading.

Yes, in this sense. To understand the infinite that constitutes the divine and to comprehend the nothingness from which it came, is to know Reality and to know God.

Great teachers have known this. Fools don't believe them.

2^n-1(2^n - 1), where (2^n - 1) is prime.

6,
28,
496,
8128,
33550336,
8589869056,
137438691328,
2305843008139952128,
2658455991569831744654692615953842176,
191561942608236107294793378084303638130997321548169216,

131640364585696483372397534604587229102234723183869431
17783728128,

144740111546645244279463731260859884815736774914748358
89066354349131199152128,

2356272345726734706578954899670990498847754785839260071014302
7597506337283178622239730365539602600561360255566462503270175
0528925780432155433824984287771524270103944969186640286445341
2803383143979023683862403317143592235664321970310172071316352
7487298747400647801939587165936401087419375649057918549492160
555646976,

1410537837067120690632079580860631898814867435147156678388386
7599995486774265238011410419332903769025156195056870982932716
4087724366370087116731268159313652487450652439805877296207297
4467232951666582288469268077866528701889208678794514783645693
1392206037069506473607357237869517647305526682625328488638371
5072974324463835300053138429460296575143368065570759537328128,

5416252628436584741265446537439131614085649053903169578460392
0818387206994158534859198999921056719921919057390080263646159
2800138276054397462627889030573034455058270283951394752077690
4492443149486172943511312628083790493046274068171796046586734
8720992572190569465545299629919823431031092624244463547789635
4414813917198164416055867880921478866773213987566616247145517
2696430221755428178425481731961195165985555357393778892340514
6222324506715979193757372820860878214322052227584537552897476
2561793951766244263144803134469350852036575847982475360211728
8040378304860287362125931378999490033667394150374722496698402
8240806042108690077670395259231894666273615212775603535764707
9522501738583051710286030212348966478513639499289049732921451
07505979911456221519899345764984291328

The Numbers

“Numbers are the Universal language offered by the deity to humans as confirmation of the truth.” -St. Augustine of Hippo,

What do numbers mean?

0: Everything/Nothing

1: A new beginning, seed planting, time of planning and action, leadership, standing tall, independence, goal setting, Masculine

2: Communication, cooperation, relationships, sensitivity, groups, working together, soul mates, Feminine

3: Creativity, self-expression, social, sing, dance, drama, three-is-a-crowd

4: Hard work, persistence, attaining goals through slow and steady progress, determination, stubborn, rigid

5: Change, travel, go with the flow, expressive, creative, surprise, unexpected, be careful of overindulgence

6: Service, community, family, home, mother/father, good with children, naturally balanced, healer, health focus

7: Soul searching, spiritual attunement, research, the Hermit, solitary, lost in thought

8: Business and enterprise, monetary concerns, Karma, respect, recognition, advancement, harvest

9: The highest degree of change, loss and letting go, empty your cup to make room, for the new, humanitarian, counselor, service to the whole, giving of self

10: Completion, Back to the Beginning (1), Perfection, Wholeness

Master Numbers: These are especially powerful numbers:

11: Spiritual focus, pursuits and growth, heightened sensitivity (and empathy) towards others, the number of the psychic, other worldly events, intense dreams

22: The Master Builder, having everything you need to complete a monumental task, building a grand foundation, spiritual determination

Special Numbers: These numbers relate to karma:

13: Persistence and Perseverance are required to move forward

14: You are building on a cracked foundation, go back to the drawing board and alter your plans, you have been rushing

16: Relative to the Tower card in Tarot, your world crumbles, the Fall of the Ego as with the Tower of Babel, A Spiritual Test/Lesson

19: Fierce Independence is required of you, or you are too proud to accept help—Take help when it is offered, but be sure you complete the task at hand on your own

23: To break apart, reshuffling the deck, change of course, multiple opportunities arise, difficult choices, crumbling of foundation

What to do: Reduce your number in this manner. Consider 18. 1 + 8 = 9. Therefore, 9 is my number. See above for the meaning of 9. If you don't know your number, ask me and I will give you one.

Geometry, coeternal with God and shining in the divine Mind, gave God the pattern... by which he laid out the world so that it might be best and most beautiful and finally most like the Creator.

Quote from "Astrology in Kepler's Cosmology" by Judith V. Field, in Astrology, Science, and Society: Historical Essays (1987)

Can animals count?

Looking into it fairly seriously can be fun and surprising. Let me know what you think.