“Geometry has two great treasures: one is the theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.” (Johannes Kepler Mathematician and Astronomer, 1571-1630) 

Pythagoras was a historical person born 580 BCE. in Samos, Ionia. He was not only a visionary but also a messenger of divine truths and founded a philosophical and religious school in Croton, Southern Italy. Trained and initiated as an Egyptian priest, his legendary feats and abilities, many shamanic in nature, “refer to his relations with gods and spirits, to his mastery over animals, to his presence in several places at the same time.” (A History of Religious Ideas, Mircea Eliade, pg. 194) However, his greatest gift, to humanity as well as to religion, was in bringing to fruition the basis for a total scientific system: 

“Pythagoras’ great merit is to have laid the foundations for a ‘total science,’ holistic in structure, in which scientific knowledge was integrated into a complex of ethical, metaphysical, and religious principles accompanied by various ‘corporal techniques.’ In short, knowledge had a function that was at once gnoseological, existential, and soteriological. It is the ‘total science’ of the traditional type, which can be recognized in Plato’s thought as well as in the humanists of the Italian Renaissance, in Paracelsus, and in the alchemists of the sixteenth century—a ‘total science’ such as was realized, above all, by Indian and Chinese medicine and alchemy.” (A History of Religious Ideas, Mircea Eliade, pg. 195-196)

Pythagoras believed that at its deepest level, reality is mathematical in nature. Therefore, to the Pythagorean’s, numbers were divine or in our terms today, archetypes. Writing about this Gordan Strachan in “Jesus the Master Builder, Druid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity” states: 

“The attributes or qualities of the numbers arose from the marriage of the theological and the intrinsic. Thus the number one was symbolic of the One, the Monad, God, the potentiality of all number, a point, or a circle within which the attributes of all numbers could be geometrically inscribed. Two was the Dyad, associated with division and strife but also with the potentiality of harmony. Three was harmony, the ubiquitous and wondrously good ‘third term’... 

He goes on to explain about the Fibonacci series where each progressed number is the sum of the two previous ones i.e. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…  

“The supreme importance of the Fibonacci series lies in the fact that its sequence of ratios underlies so many patterns and processes in nature that it can be considered ubiquitous. For instance, it governs the multiple reflections of light through mirrors, the gains and loses in energy radiation, the breeding patterns of rabbits, the male-female ratio of bees in hives, phyllotaxis or leaf distribution in plants, branch distribution in trees, seed distribution in daisy and sunflower heads, the proportions of animals’ bodies, the proportions of the human body, the spiral growth of many shells, the growth of the foetus in animals and humans, the spirals of the inner ear, the unfolding bracken, animal horns and distant nebulae. In other words the series of ratios generated by the Fibonacci numbers lie at the heart of the growth patterns of nature and were held to be the signature of the Creator throughout Creation.”

With this as truth, we will utilize this preceding knowledge as a theory, which I call the 'Mark of God,' to bring us clarity of heart and mind.

The first four numbers in the sequence are the key to the revelation that we seek to discover. Those numbers are 1…1…2…3. The first “1” is representative of the great mystery, that which is called God, the ‘Mystery of all Mysteries.’ The reality that is too enormous, too grand for our human consciousness to comprehend. The second ‘1’ is the representation of Creation or if you prefer, the Heavens. It is mysterious as well as known.  

Next comes the “2” from the equation of “1 + 1 = 2.” The “2” represents our heaven (non-plural) and earth, our incarnated home. From Creation came heaven and earth. Finally at “1 + 2 = 3,” we have Heaven, Earth and at last the “3” all creatures of the earth including Humanity. Let me explain this in a different way. 

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1— however, this concept was taken from Egyptian theology.) In these profound words are secreted the knowledge that I have explained above.

We begin with the premise that One is God, the Monad, according to the Pythagorean’s. It is not a number but the principle of Unity where all other numbers are birthed. Out of the One, or God if you prefer, comes the vibration/word/big bang shattering the silence. (“In the beginning was the Word,” in the beginning was the second “1” of the Fibonacci series).

It has also been identified in the past as the Logos (Greek: ‘word’) and it may also mean ratio or relation. This Word is not only God but is also the love and light of God, which is Creation. God is pure Mystery while the Created, is mysterious (Divine—“and the Word was God”) as well as known (Intrinsic—“and the Word was with God”).

At this point begins what may be referred to as ‘One and the many’ or if you will—Unity in diversity, which means that each part must contain the whole. In other words, we are talking about generation, in which One produces the many, and immanence, in which One is present in the many. And thus… 

From God and the Heavens is birthed our earth as well as many other worlds that support life in the form of sentient beings.  Coming from God, the earth is divine, the love/light of God, as well as intrinsic—the created. The Dyad thus becomes Heaven (our section of Creation) and Earth but according to the Pythagorean Theory does not reach wholeness or harmony until the third term.

The number three is thus humanity and from a broader perspective all Creatures (animals, birds, etc.) of the Earth; all are divine as well as having an intrinsic expression, which you might of heard as ‘on earth as in heaven.’ From a theological standpoint, the third term that bridges the gulf of duality of heaven and earth is humanity, which results in a Trinity of Heaven (Father), Earth (Mother) and Humanity (Children). In researching supporting documentation for this book, I discovered that what I have always known within the core of my heart and soul was actually an extensive stellar idea 2,000 years ago: 

“Indeed, one of the most widespread cosmological ideas at the beginning of the common era, entertained by both pagan and Christian philosophers alike, is that humanity represents the living harmony and synthesis of all the forces which make up the cosmos. A child of earth and heaven, humanity is the living bridge between matter and spirit, a living, harmonic image of the entire universe. As Clement of Alexandria says, man, composed of body and soul, is ‘a universe in miniature,’ an image of ‘the Celestial Logos,’ itself ‘the all-harmonious, melodious, holy instrument of God.’” Jesus Christ Sun of God pg. 62 

What makes this so marvelous is that the Trinity, of Heaven, Earth and Humanity, is all-inclusive. In its magic of honoring the oneness and equality of all, the structure of our trinity reflects all of creation in its unity and diversity. From our hearts and mind we may realize that from the egotistical viewpoint of isolationism, exclusivity and centralism the trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost is spiritually immature because it separates instead of unites. 

The Trinity of Heaven, Earth and Humanity is truly a universal trinity, or if you will, a Holistic Trinity. It ultimately unites all of creation together. In human terms, we are each other’s brother and sister evolving together while seeking the return to the One Source. From this viewpoint there are no proxies to do the work (salvation/evolution) for us or for any other of the other conscious beings that are spread throughout the, at last count, eight billion galaxies.

THE GOLDEN MEAN