the soul is a harmony

    

  

Pythagorean Harmonic Music Interval Diagram 
showing Perfect Numerical Ratios appearing through Music

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Pythagoras used various intervals of harmonic ratios as a medicine for diseases of the body, the emotions and the Soul. He aligned Souls to their divine nature and through music he performed what he called, “Soul Adjustments”. 

Pythagoras was able to discern the harmony and consonance of heavenly bodies, the “Music of the Spheres”, and put to use his discovery of mathematics as they relate to the harmonic ratios. He made stringed instruments that could be tuned so that they would consistently produce layered consonant musical intervals.

Later Pythagoras calculated other chromatic and enharmonic orders, (using simple ratios to create complex intervals). He recognized that music was an expression of “Harmonia”, the Divine principle that brings order to chaos and discord. Thus music has a dual value because like mathematics, it enables humans to see into the structures of nature.  

Pythagoras taught that if it was utilized correctly, music can: 

a) bring the faculties of the Soul into harmony 
 

b) compose and purify the mind
 

c) heal the physical body, thus restoring and maintaining perfect health. 

One of his most important discoveries was that harmonic musical intervals could be expressed by perfect numerical ratios, a finding that led him to the realization that all sensible phenomena follow the pattern of number.

Pythagoras said the first important lesson to learn is that which subsists through music, for it possesses remedies of human manners and passions that are able to restore pristine harmony and faculties of the soul.

The more immediate, evident, and undeniable evidence of the influence of Number on our (mental, psychic, emotional) state is through the medium of music. Pythagorean philosophy is a “purification”, the aim of which is the assimilation to God. 

The universe is divine because of its order (kosmos), harmonies and the symmetries it contains and reflects. These principles make the universe divine for they are the characteristics of divinity and so they also innately subsist within the human soul. 

The Pythagoreans taught that the soul is a harmony. If we are to become like God, then according to Pythagorean philosophy the soul must become aware of its harmonic origin. According to Pythagoras, all harmony and order is the divine principle of number, and for them, mathematical studies are the contemplation of divine principles.

—Dr. James Hopkins
excerpts

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There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. 

If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. 

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. 
What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. 

―Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor, excerpts

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