At
one time or another, I would venture to say that you sat through classes in
school where the Pythagorean tradition, the Fibonacci series of Phi were
discussed. These concepts seemed not only un-important to our life, but just
plain boring. Guess what? By taking these ideas out of the realm of mathematics
and geometry, they can be revealed for what they truly are: Spiritually
creative constructs that are the architectural blueprints of the universe, at
least from our own human perspective.
There is a little known fact that, at one
time, the mystical science of numbers began with one, not with zero. This was
an acknowledgement of the scientific theology that all came and comes from One.
Sacred geometry as well believed in the metaphysical philosophy of the unity
and the inexplicable oneness of existence. While the ancients began with one,
present day mathematics and geometry begin with zero:
“Unity is a
philosophic concept and a mystic experience expressible mathematically. The
Western mentality, however, withdrew its discipline of acknowledging a
supra-rational, unknowable mystery as its first principle.
Our present thought
is based on the following numerical and logical sequence:
-5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
With zero in the
centre, there is a quantitative expansion 1, 2, 3 ... and our sense of balance
requires having -1, -2, -3 ... on the other side, giving a series of
non-existent abstractions (negative quantities) which demand an absurd logic.
The system has a break-point, zero, disconnecting the continuum and
dissociating the positive numbers from the negative balancing series.
In the ancient
Egyptian numerical progression, beginning with one rather than zero, all the
elements are natural and real:
1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
All the elements
flow out from the central unity in accordance with the law of inversion or
reciprocity. The Egyptians based their mathematics on this simple, natural series
of numbers, performing sophisticated operations with it for which we now need
complex algebra and trigonometry.” (http://members.aol.com/areoasis/Reviews/sacred-geometry.html)
Ancient cultures held this wisdom of numbers.
Thousands of years ago, there was no separation between what we refer to as
science, art and spirituality. To indigenous people’s holistic minds, their
religious leaders, the shamans, were not only caretakers of the soul but also
investigators into the workings of the sun, the moon and the stars. Everything
was considered to be alive and connected in a web of loving oneness. These
spiritual architects, in seeking harmony and unity for their people, created and
designed calendars, pyramids, temples, and other works of wonder that even
today defy and surpass modern technology and science. All were created
according to the laws inherent within the mysteries of the earth and the
heavens.
The same numeric ratios were used as the
foundation of Mesoamerican’s sacred calendar, in the building of the great
pyramids in Egypt, as well as the building of the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan in
ancient Mexico.
Sadly enough in today’s world, we have a
separation of science and religion. Life, and all its mysteries, is either
analyzed through the lens of an electronic microscope or filtered through the
eyes of religious faith without any regards to the holistic and
interconnectedness of our natural existence. In the past the “Masters of the
Secrets” were both priest and scientist who viewed the world not as
materialistic but as one where divine life revealed it’s self in the natural
world through time and space. Today in
a world of suffering and global warming, why do we have the separation of
science and religion? What ever happened? In simplistic terms, the ‘church’
banished nature from religion while science, separating humanity even further,
expelled God.
Listening to the knowledge and wisdom of
ancient cultures reveals how our 21st Century fixation on the
separation of science and religion is a determent to the healing of our
fractured society and wounded earth. This is the urgency of bringing true
science back into the fold of true religion.
THE
PYTHAGOREAN’S AND THE FIBONACCI SERIES
“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 581 B.C. 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.”
Since “Fibonacci numbers lies at the heart of
the growth patterns of nature and were held to be the signature of the Creator
throughout Creation”, we will utilize this 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
Now moving on to the next part of
our investigation the Divine Proportion or the Golden Mean, known as the Greek
letter j (phi), is the irrational number of 1.618034
endlessly repeating; could this be a hint of life everlasting, immortality?
This Golden Number is also the Fibonacci number in the Fibonacci series where
the ratio of each successive pair of numbers approximates phi. In other words the Fibonacci series defines
the ration of the Divine Proportion and is often times also referred to as j or phi. And as we saw before the Fibonacci series
is found throughout Creation and thus is considered to be omnipresent. For example
we observe it in the DNA molecule where it measures 34 angstroms long by 21
angstroms wide for each full cycle of its double helix spiral. Another
interesting fact, according to Dan Winter author of “The Alphabet of the
Heart”, is that an EKG of the heart will display a different wavelength for
each emotion, and for love along it shows the wavelength of the Golden Mean.
This Godlike proportion is also the Golden or Fibonacci Spiral:
“Any rectangle constructed
to Golden Mean proportion hold’s what’s called the golden spiral coiled within
it. Unlike a regular spiral, the distance between the golden spiral’s coils
keeps increasing, growing wider as it moves away from the center. This is the
spiral of constant expansion and growth. It is found in all of Nature, from
galaxies to ram’s horns, from seashells to sunflowers. The golden spiral is the
template of growth, the mathematical formula for evolution.” (www.archdome.com/goldenmean.html)
The Divine Proportion is also the ratio or
relationship in geometric proportion where the point on a line divides it so
that its parts are in proportion, or in the image of, the whole. In other words
the lesser is to the greater as the greater is to the whole. Thus the Divine
Proportion or in this case the Golden Rule may symbolize the three that are two
that are one:
Phi is a three-term ration constructed from
two terms:
a:b::(a+b):a
= phi = 1.618
If
a = Heaven, b = Earth and a + b = Humanity
We
have, (a) Heaven:(b) Earth::(a+b) Humanity:(a) Heaven
The
1 in 3 and the 3 in 1:
God
(“1”) = Heaven (“1”), Earth (“2”), Humanity (“3”)
THE THREE DISCOVERIES
If anyone feels that I have waded into the waters of “fuzzy
math”, then I do apologize for faulty mental thinking, but I do not apologize
for my heart knowledge. Albert Einstein once said: “One thing I have learned in
a long life—that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike.” In other words, our minds measured against our hearts are primitive
and childlike.
So
after all of this what have we discovered? First, to define the indefinable is
difficult but necessary. From a human theological perspective, this is our best
understanding of God:
‘God, the One and Oneness of all, the Great Mystery, our
parent, creator and guardian, which is within us and that is outside of us,
transcends our abilities even as divine human beings to comprehend the essence
of what is the greatest mystery of all. God, the Creator, surpasses our
dualistic view of reality and is neither male nor female but is the Mystery of
all that there is. God is love not fear, immanent, and transcendent.’ (JC
Husfelt)
If we consider this as defining God, and
listening to the solid evidence of numbers, then this ‘Mystery of Mysteries’
encapsulates and envelops use all and this settles the explosive issue and puts
to rest the concept of ‘my god vs. your god.’
Second, we have an alternative to the trinity
of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which is Heaven, Earth, and Humanity. This is a
Holistic Trinity that comes from God and is God as well as each part being
intrinsically unique. From an esoteric or metaphysical viewpoint, we discover
that Humanity is the connecting link or ‘Rainbow Bridge’ between Spirit
(Heaven) and Matter (Earth) providing the opportunity for the unity of heaven
and earth. Our triad of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, representing humanity’s
perspective of the threefold nature of creation, is based on unity and love. In
most cases world shattering, groundbreaking work is based on love not the fear
usually rampant within the current accepted beliefs.
Finally we arrive at our third discovery,
which I feel has the most consequential impact of the three. 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”). All of Creation has the mark
of God, divine, as well as having an intrinsic identity or self. Thus every
person is divine as well as human—Divine Humanity. I am the Son
of God and so are you and I am the Son of Man and so are you. Of
course, if you are female substitute Daughter and for clarification, Man means
Human—Man/Women.
Is this teaching new? Not really.
Even when the ruling religious hierarchy understood this, issues of power and
control prevented the priestly class from teaching this knowledge to the
masses. If people understood that they held the keys to their own kingdom, then
the priests and the other religious leaders would have lost their opportunity
to profit from their unique status.
The ancient mystery schools, such
as the one founded by the semi-mythical figure of Orpheus, believed in
immortality and therefore the divinity of man and woman. An initiate of these
schools of knowledge and wisdom, in seeking spiritual awakening, “realizes that
he is more than mortal flesh and blood. He is himself an eternal ‘god’—a divine
being.” (The Complete Guide to World Mysticism, pg. 68) Buddhism also
acknowledges this belief when they say that a person doesn’t meditate to
achieve Buddhahood. You meditate because you are a Buddha.
Furthermore, the knowledge of each person’s
divine humanness was orally taught in Biblical times, but I feel, not properly
recorded. The Bible, besides being written through human filters, is the
“product of a more or less arbitrary selective process. It has also been
subjected to some fairly drastic editing, censorship, and revision.” (Holy
Blood Holy Grail, pg. 318)
In conclusion and to
summarize our three discoveries: if we search within our heart and listen to
common sense, we may come to realize that a God based on fear, not love, is a
theology of control. A God based on the idea that humanity is born into sin, is
a God that mirrors hierarchal authority. Such a religion is born of earthly
power, greed, corruption and materialism.
A
God and trinity based on love, is a theology of freedom. A God of love and a
theology of Divine Humanity reflect egalitarianism, and such a religion is born
of oneness, spiritual awareness and connection. Envision a world that believes
in Divine Humanity and its message of purity, unity and equality. This would be
a golden age where love, peace and harmony rule the day. A society where each
citizen strives each day to express his or her divinity, and when mistakes are
made and words are spoken in anger and fear (our humanity), forgiveness is
given and the emotional wounds are healed. This would be a culture where
“turning one’s cheek” and “loving one’s enemies” are not hollow phrases but are
true expressions. It is an interesting
footnote that the Aquarian Age, that we are in the process of entering, is
often referred to as the age of love.
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