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the teachings of Theosophy as recorded PHILADELPHIA
U.L.T.
THE MATHEMATICS OF THE SOUL "The world is, through all its departments, a living arithmetic in its development, a realized geometry in its repose."
PYTHAGORAS taught that the entire universe is one vast system of mathematically correct combinations. Plato shows the deity geometrizing. The world is substained by the same law of equilibrium and harmony upon which it was built. The centripetal force could not manifest itself without the centrifugal in the harmonious revolutions of the spheres; all forms are the product of this dual force in nature. Thus, to illustrate our case, we may designate the spirit as centrifugal, and the soul as the centripetal, spiritual energies. When in perfect harmony, both forces produce one result; break or damage the centripetal motion of the earthly soul tending toward the centre which attracts it; arrest its progress by clogging it with a heavier weight of matter than it can bear; and the harmony of the whole, which was its life, is destroyed. Individual life can only be continued if sustained by this two-fold force. The least deviation from harmony damages it. All systems of religious mysticism are based on numerals. The sacredness of numbers begins with the great First---the ONE, and ends only with the nought or zero --- symbol of the infinite and boundless circle which represents the universe. All the intervening figures, in whatever combination, or however multiplied, represent philosophical ideas, from vague outlines down to a definitely established scientific axiom, relating either to a moral or a physical fact in nature. They are a key to the ancient views on cosmogony, in its broad sense, including man and beings, and the evolution of the human race, spiritually as well as physically. The number seven is the most sacred of all. -H.P.Blavatsky
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