# The World Is Beautiful

I'm reading Pythagoreans now. Originally I was going to post after
I finish the reading. But since it moved me a lot, I couldn't hold
on.

Pythagoras is the true master. Plato is fake. Well not entirely
fake. But at most Plato is just his biggest pupil.



There are many great things in Pythagoreanism. But what influenced
me the most is that THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL. With the most convincing
reason "Because the world is full of numbers". Full of light.
Pleroma. All we have to do is to follow the divine light.

NUMBERS ARE IMMANENT. It's a shame that Plato made them transcendental.
If I mimick Palamas, maybe the essense of numbers is transcendental
while their energies are immanent. Geometry, Music, Astronomy are
the exemplars. Especially music.

Music is "Numbers in time". With 1:2 you get an octave. With 2:3
the perfect fifth. With 3:4 the perfect fourth. And so on. Within
music you can EXPERIENCE numbers. It gives you katharsis. This
means that numbers influence your soul. Or more importantly the
Will. It's a magick.

Within music, some ratios make you excited. Other ratios make you
sad. So numbers have qualities. Quantity and quality are the same!
Every number has its corresponding value and meaning.

Hence each position of planets also has its meaning. Because
astronomy is "Numbers in space and time". The music of planets.



Pythagoreanism makes Hermeticism extremely clear. I even want to
call it the gnosis. I think the essences of them are the same. But
in the end I follow Hermeticism. I'm not going to follow some random
Pythagorean teachings like "Do not eat beans".

From now on I will ditch Gnosticism for Pythagoreanism. Now I think
that the cosmos is beautiful. It's just that most people do not
follow the universal order. Thus for my perennial inquiry, I'm
going to change the route from

Hermeticism -> Gnosticism -> Buddhism -> Hinduism -> ...

to

Hermeticism -> Pythagoreanism -> Neoplatonism -> ...
.

I might arrive at Gnosticism again after Neoplatonism. But in this
new route, I think the orthodox church would be the next. Though
I still think that Gnosticism and Hindu religions have lots of
truths.

Also I have dismissed social harmony. I have been an individualist
who pursues strong independence. But after I met Pythagoreanism,
it somewhat has changed. If it means implementing the golden ratio
with the human society, I will pursue the social harmony. Imagine
the human society as a lyre. The mousike of humans!