The Symbology and History of the Triangle △

The Symbology and History of the Triangle △

Perhaps no other ancient symbol in the world is more important and recognized by all nations than the Triangle △.

The triangle has always been considered to be sacred from its earliest associations with mathematics, philosophy, and religion.

Since time immemorial, it has been used to represent diety and the active principle in the form of fire that pervades all nature and life as we know it.

This is why we find the triangle commonly used in many religions and belief systems, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, Rosicrucianism, and Kabbalah to name a few.

From the great pyramids of Egypt to the Star of David and Signet of Solomon (Two interlaced triangles) and its association with the “Eye of Providence,” sometimes referred to as the “All-Seeing Eye of God” and “The Grand Architect of the Universe (T.G.A.O.T.U)” to modern mathematics.

The Greek philosopher, Plato once said that the world was built from triangles.

It is a geometric shape that has three points, upon which it can stand. It is also a stable shape because as you add more sides, it gets more stable.

At its essence, the triangle and number 3 represent the balance and stability between the three worlds of human existence – earth, heaven, and hell.

Many of know the triangle and eye from the U.S. Great Seal and the back of the dollar bill.

The triangle has also been used for hundreds of years as a symbol of the Holy Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Often depicted in Christian iconography as a triangular halo with rays of light emanating as a sign of God’s radiance.

In Judaism, the Star of David and Signet of Solomon shows two interlaced triangles.

One triangle is upright and the other is inverted to represent the two main forces in nature – the light and dark, good and evil, ignorance and wisdom, and active and passive.

The point-up triangle can also represent fire – the male energy or masculine elements. The point-down triangle represents matter, and the earth – female energies and feminine elements.

As it relates to humans, we can safely state that it symbolizes the union of body, mind, and spirit, or heaven, earth, and water, and its mastery over these elements.

Throughout the symbology of Freemasonry, you will find the most prominent of all symbols is the triangle, which is also represented by the number 3 and the structure of a pyramid.

According to Freemason and historian, Albert Mackey, there is no symbol as significant as the triangle and was adopted by all nations in early antiquity as a symbol of deity. Mackey had wrote;

“There is no symbol more important in its significance, more various in its application, or more generally diffused throughout the whole system of Freemasonry, than the triangle. An examination of it, therefore, cannot fail to be interesting to the Masonic student.

The equilateral triangle appears to have been adopted by nearly all the nations of antiquity as a symbol of the Deity, in some of his forms or emanations, and hence, probably, the prevailing influence of this symbol was carried into the Jewish system, where the Yod within the triangle was made to represent the Tetragrammaton, or sacred name of God.

The equilateral triangle, says Brother D. W. Nash (Freemasons Magazine iv, page 294), “viewed in the light of the doctrines of those who gave it currency as a divine symbol, represents the Great First Cause, the Creator and Container of all things, as one and indivisible, manifesting Himself in an infinity of forms and attributes in this visible universe.”(Source: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry)”

In Freemasonry, and other mystery schools like Rosicrucianism, it is a representation of the metaphysical joining together your physical self with your spiritual self to create harmony and balance within yourself and the world.

According to Freemason and author, Manly P. Hall:

“Man’s threefold lower nature—consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental faculties—reflects the light of his threefold Divinity and bears witness of It in the physical world.

Man’s three bodies are symbolized by an upright triangle; his threefold spiritual nature by an inverted triangle.

These two triangles, when united in the form of a six-pointed star, were called by the Jews “the Star of David,” “the Signet of Solomon,” and are more commonly known today as “the Star of Zion.”

These triangles symbolize the spiritual and material universes linked together in the constitution of the human creature, who partakes of both Nature and Divinity.

Man’s animal nature partakes of the earth; his divine nature of the heavens; his human nature of the mediator.” (The Secret Teachings of All Ages)

Albert Pike said;

The ingenious and mystical idea which caused the Triangle to be venerated, was applied to the figure 4 (4). It was said that it expressed a living being, I, bearer of the Triangle △, the emblem of God; i.e., man bearing with himself a Divine principle (Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, 1871, 632-633).

The Ancient History of the Triangle

The mysteries of the triangle were first invented by Pythagoras who gave us the Pythagorean theorem, or Pythagoras’ theorem, which is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a right triangle.

The Pythagorean theorem states that with a right-angled triangle, the sum of the squares of the two sides that form the right angle is equal to the square of the third, longer side, which is called the hypotenuse. This allows you to determine the length of the hypotenuse with the equation a2 + b2 = c2, in which a and b represent the two sides of the right angle and c is the long side.

He was was also credited with devising the tetractys, the triangular figure of four rows which add up to the perfect number, ten.

After Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher Plato was one of the first people that considered the world to have been built from triangles with the number 3 being a sacred mathematical number that has helped form its structure.

Platonic triangles are now referred to as triads, have been proven by science to be the fundamental building blocks in nature, society, technology, and mathematics.

We can see the triangle is representative of the Egyptian pyramids. It is a symbol of power, stability, and strength. The pyramid was known as Mer which means “place of ascent” – a place where a person’s soul could ascend after death.

It was the Ancient Egyptians who would influence the Greeks through the great philosophers such as Plato and Plutarch that would later become incorporated into Christianity by Rome and also by the Freemasons.

Plutarch said that the Egyptians worshipped Osiris, Isis, and Horus in the form of a triangle. He stated that they believed that everything perfect has three parts and there good God made himself threefold, while the evil God remained single.

Plutarch had written about the nature and divine status of the triangle in On Isis and Osiris in Moralia;

“Now the better and more divine nature consists of three; or of the intelligible part, of matter, and of that which is made up of both, which the Greeks call Cosmos (that is trimness) and we the world.

Plato, therefore, uses to name the intelligible part the form, the sample, and the father; and matter the mother, the nurse, and the seat and receptacle of generation; and that again which is made up of both, the offspring and the production.

And one would conjecture that the Egyptians called it the most perfect of triangles, because they likened the nature of the universe principally to that; which Plato also in his Commonwealth seems to have made use of for the same purpose, when he forms his nuptial diagram.”

In Plato’s dialog Timaeus, he explains the fundamental triad when he writes, “two things cannot be rightly put together without a third; there must be some bond of union between them.” He also presents this triad in his dialog Philebus as Beauty, Truth, and Measure (metriotes) or Symmetry (symmetria) and a related Platonic Triad is, (One, Intellect, Soul).

According to Plato, all the physical world elements are only reflections of the corresponding Forms (Ideas) from the World of Ideas.

If the world was truly built from triangles as Plato said and as we learn from the Freemasons, that it represents the emblem of God. What is called the Great First Cause, the Creator and Container of all things, as one and indivisible, manifesting Himself in an infinity of forms and attributes in this visible universe.

Then can we now identify an element or cause with modern science to see what the triangle truly represents and if the world is truly built from triangles?

Yes, I believe that I have done just that as I will explain in my article, Plato’s Fire: How the world is made of phosphorus tetrahedrons.

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly: Fuc*ing Like Demons, Blood Rituals, and Lucifer

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly: Fuc*ing Like Demons, Blood Rituals, and Lucifer

“A life without you is worse than death, put a bullet in my head if we have nothing left and if that ever comes, meet me in heaven and lets f*** like demons.” – Machine Gun Kelly

Shortly after the engagement video of Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox, Megan had posted on Instagram about their blood ritual:

“Just as in every lifetime before this one and as in every lifetime that will follow it, I said yes… And then we drank each other’s blood.”

In a recent interview with Glamour Magazine, the reporter asked Megan Fox if they really drank each other’s blood, she said “Yeah. So, I guess to drink each other’s blood might mislead people or people are imagining us with goblets and we’re like Game of Thrones, drinking each other’s blood,” she responds, laughing.

“It’s just a few drops, but yes, we do consume each other’s blood on occasion for ritual purposes only.”

Fox continued, “I’m much more controlled. I read tarot cards and I’m into astrology and I’m doing all these metaphysical practices and meditations. And I do rituals on new moons and full moons, and all these things.

And so, when I do it, it’s a passage or it is used for a reason. And it is controlled where it’s like, ‘Let’s shed a few drops of blood and each drink it.’

He’s much more haphazard and hectic and chaotic, where he’s willing to just cut his chest open with broken glass and be like, ‘Take my soul,’” she says, dramatically mimicking her beloved’s alleged chest-bearing, chest-slashing passion.

In an interview with British GQ, Megan Fox describes their romance as “demonic”.  She said;

“This is a very intense relationship…Our souls chose this to absolutely have to face our shadow selves; to face things about ourselves we didn’t want to have to know, that we tried to push away…There’s also the demonic side”.

Megan shared pics from the GQ photoshoot as she holds a gun to her boyfriend’s groin in one image on her Instagram profile with the caption:

“The tale of two outcasts and star crossed lovers caught in the throes of a torrid, solar flare of a romance featuring: feverish obsession, guns, addiction, shamans, lots of blood, general mayhem, therapy, tantric night terrors, binding rituals, chakra sound baths, psychedelic hallucinations, organic smoothies, and the kind of sex that would make Lucifer clutch his rosary”.

 

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They’ve also described each other as “twin flames” descended from the same soul, tattooed each other and recently arrived at the launch of MGK’s nail polish line chained together via their fingernails. Their PDAs are prolific, their high-vis double dates with Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker or Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have created a whole new genre and aesthetic in celebrity dating culture.

“He’s literally my exact physical type that I’ve been manifesting since I was four. I’m also four years older than him. So, I think I made him. My thoughts and intentions grew him into the person that he is, who knows what he would’ve looked like or been like if it wasn’t for me.”

In a previous interview on the Drew Barrymore Show, Megan Fox had said that her and Kelly’s souls chose eachother“A life without you is worse than death, put a bullet in my head if we have nothing left and if that ever comes, meet me in heaven and lets f*** like demons.”

“Our souls chose this to absolutely have to face our shadow selves; to face things about ourselves we didn’t want to have to know, that we tried to push away.”

Jefferey Dahmer: A potential for great evil resides deep in the blood

Jefferey Dahmer: A potential for great evil resides deep in the blood

Jeffrey L. Dahmer was a convicted serial murderer who had admitted killing and dismembering 17 young men and boys, told police he strangled most of his victims, had sex with corpses, slit the bodies from sternum to toe, and cut off the flesh.

Dahmer surgically experimented with the bodies of his victims in his attempt to preserve them as zombies so he could continue to use them for sex. When that failed, he resorted to even more gruesome measures.

Dahmer surgically experimented with the bodies of his victims in his attempt to preserve them as zombies so he could continue to use them for sex. When that failed, he resorted to even more gruesome measures.

‘He ate body parts so that these poor people he killed would become alive again in him,’ his former attorney, Gerald Boyle said.

Dahmer’s bloody pattern of sexually motivated murder, dismemberment, and cannibalism led him to feel that he was the devil, according to his attorney.

“He became enamored, overwhelmed, caught up in the character in the (horror movie) ‘Exorcist III.’ The character was Satan because he was the personification of evil,” attorney Gerald Boyle said in his opening statement in Dahmer’s sanity trial.

Jeffrey Dahmer said that he was enthralled by the notorious Faces of Death videos. He rented Faces of Death and became fascinated with a corpse shown in the video.

“He was good looking. He was totally naked. I don’t know why I happened to have a fascination with that,” Dahmer said.

When police finally entered Dahmer’s apartment 213, they found seven skulls, four heads in a free-standing freezer, one head on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator, and assorted body parts in a blue fifty-seven-gallon barrel.
Among the items were more than a hundred photographs of people in various stages of dismemberment, most so disgusting that even experienced law enforcement officials could not bring themselves to look at them.

Milwaukee detective Dennis Murphy testified about what Dahmer said during his confession.

‘He stated he kept the skulls of the good-looking ones because he did not want to lose them,’ Murphy said.

‘He stated he would cut off the penis and other body parts and masturbate in front of them for gratification.’

Murphy said Dahmer, asked about cannibalism, said, ‘the only time I did was a bicep … it was big and I wanted to try it.’

‘He stated that he put Crisco on the bicep, softened it up with a meat tenderizer, then fried it in a skillet,’ Murphy said.

‘He said it tasted like beef,’ Murphy said.

He said Dahmer ‘talked in a calm, monotone voice’ during his confession.

Jeffrey Dahmer grew up in a middle class family. His parents were incompatible and argued often, which left him with little attention. He had no close friends and no one for him to hug or feel affectionate towards.

This led to isolation for Jeffrey as he had no friends to play with nor adults to spend time with. He coped by withdrawing into his own world and creating his own stories that always turned out right as long as they weren’t disturbed.

Dahmer wasn’t unknown to the law.

In 1982, he was charged with disorderly conduct. In 1986, he was arrested for exposing himself to a group of children. The charge was commuted to disorderly conduct and he pleaded guilty in 1987.

In 1988, Dahmer picked up a thirteen-year-old Laotian boy and gave him a drink laced with a sleeping potion. He fondled the boy as well. This time, he was charged with second-degree sexual assault and the enticement of a child for immoral purposes.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in detention, but because he was apologetic, the sentence was stayed, and he received five years of probation instead.

This meant he could keep his $9.81-an-hour job at the chocolate factory, and go back to jail at night.

His father, Lionel Dahmer, had contemplated in his memoir, A Father’s Story, the family unit was anything but a happy one. Because Lionel was busy with his own doctoral studies, he was often absent from the home.

Yet, he pondered the nature of evil in an existential way, especially as it related to his son, Jeffrey.

“As a scientist, [I] wonder if [the] potential for great evil..resides deep in the blood that some of us … may pass on to our children at birth,” he wrote in the book.

He suggests that prescription drugs Jeffery’s mother was on while pregnant could have affected his brain in a negative way. In his book, Lionel Dahmer questions if his son’s shyness was a red flag of future murderous tendencies.

Confused about what may have “caused” his son to kill, Lionel expresses the complicated and often contradictory feelings he had about Jeffrey. The dad often blamed himself for Jeffrey’s (severe) flaws. Lionel said he was negligent and probably didn’t give enough to Jeffrey, emotionally. In his memoir, he referenced the “fan mail” his son received.

“Clearly, some of these people believe that in some bizarre way, my son could rescue them from lives in which they felt entrapped. It demonstrated a level of sympathy and pity that I simply could not reach. . . . I often wondered why, in a world of so much feeling, I could express so little.”

Recounting Dahmer’s life, Dahmer’s defense attorney, Jerry Boyle said that as a youth in Ohio, Dahmer was fascinated by the bodies of animals he found on the highway and brought home to cut up. At 14, Boyle said, Dahmer realized that he was a homosexual and first fantasized about having sex with a corpse.

Prosecutor Michael McCann, in his opening statement, described Dahmer as a clever plotter who carefully covered up his crimes.

McCann said Dahmer killed his victims so he could continue having sex with them after they were dead. “He wanted to continue the pleasure with their bodies,” he told the jurors.

Dahmer would have preferred sex with men who were alive, but he drugged and strangled his victims because they would always leave after having sex, McCann said.

“He enjoys the bodies for a day or two but then he becomes tired of them. It then becomes a disposal problem,” he said.

Two detectives later Thursday read their account of Dahmer’s 60-hour confession, given shortly after he was apprehended.

The dramatic opening statements and testimony marked the judgment phase in the worst multiple murder case in this city’s history. It began last July 22 when police entered Dahmer’s apartment west of downtown Milwaukee and found body parts of 11 of his victims.

The cannibalistic serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, had been fired for excessive absenteeism about two weeks before his July 22 arrest. As a result, he could no longer pay his rent. He expressed that he planned on living at a Salvation Army shelter and destroying the body parts in his apartment.

It was at that time when Dahmer bought a 57-gallon drum to dissolve bones and flesh in it, and flush them once they were turned into mush.

He also debated whether to keep 11 skulls as “souvenirs” but the risk of detection by police was too high.

It was a warm summer day in 1991 when police were called to the home of serial killer Jefferey Dahmer.

A young man by the name of Tracy Edwards had escaped from the house and made it to the station. He was chained by the ankle and had just barely survived after being drugged and beaten by Dahmer for several days.

Police immediately went to check out his story, not expecting to see what they found when they got there.

Dahmer claimed that he was his adult lover and that they had been experimenting with S&M.

The man then explained that he had met Dahmer on a bus and agreed to go to his apartment for sex.

Once there, he said that Dahmer was acting very strange, so he asked if he could leave. At this point Dahmer grabbed a pair of handcuffs and put them on him. He then pulled out a knife and began to cut off his clothes.

After being reassured by Dahmer that he wasn’t going to kill him, Edwards convinced Dahmer to let him go to the bathroom. Once there, Edwards locked the door and jumped out of a window. He ran on foot until he found two policemen.

At this point Edwards fled from the apartment, naked and still in handcuffs.

He ran on foot until he found two policemen who immediately went to Dahmer’s apartment to investigate.

Once Dahmer opened the door, the officers were confronted by a foul smell that radiated from his place.

They looked inside and saw a huge pot of acid on the stove that appeared to have body parts bubbling inside it. Then they noticed a head in his refrigerator.

When the police searched Dahmer’s apartment they found an array of photographs depicting dismembered bodies, along with four severed heads in the refrigerator.

Underneath the bed they found two more skulls and a 57 gallon drum filled with chemicals containing human remains.

The police also found some Polaroid photos which showed how some of his victims were murdered.

Jeffery Dahmer, the serial killer and cannibal’s reign of terror had officially ended.

On November 28, 1991, he was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms.

In February 1992 Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane to an additional charge of murder and one count of committing a lewd act on a child. He received another life sentence for each charge and was sentenced to 10 years for the lewd act conviction.

A few years into his sentence, Dahmer was killed by a fellow inmate on November 28, 1994.

Christopher Scarver, a man serving time for killing his boss with a claw hammer, beat Dahmer to death with a broom handle. The two men were doing cleaning duty at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.

Scarver had been sentenced in 1990 for the murder of his former boss during a robbery.

In 2015, Scarver decribed the details of his killing to the New York Post.

He said Dahmer had a personal escort of at least one guard at all times when he was out of his cell because of his friction with other inmates.

“Some people who are in prison are repentant — but he was not one of them,” he told the Post.

Scarver said that he was repulsed by the youth-molesting cannibal’s lust for flesh and kept in his pocket a newspaper article detailing Dahmer’s murders.

He said Dahmer would taunt other inmates by fashioning limbs out of the prison food, applying ketchup on places to represent blood.

On November 28, 1994, Dahmer, 34 at the time, was assigned to clean the bathrooms with another inmate, esse Anderson and Scarver — unshackled and unattended.

Scarver, then 25 told the Post he’d gone to retrieve a mop when he felt someone poke his back. When he turned around, he saw Dahmer and the other inmate “laughing under their breath.”

“I looked right into their eyes, and I couldn’t tell which had done it,” he told the New York Post.

After the incident, Scarver followed Dahmer to the locker room where he confronthed Dahmer about the killings.

When Dahmer tried to escape, Scarver then took a metal bar and swung it at his head, crushing Dahmer’s skull.

Scarver then found the other inmate, Jesse Anderson, and did “[p]retty much the same thing.”

Scarver said he believes the prison officials left them all alone on purpose, knowing he hated Dahmer and wanted him dead.

“They had something to do with what took place. Yes,” he told the Post.

After the murders he pleaded to “no contest” in exchange for a transfer to a federal penitentiary.

Scarver was then sentenced to two life terms on top of the one he was already serving at the time.

He is currently incarcerated at Centennial Correctional Facility in Canon City, Colo. where he spends some of his time writing poetry for his website.

Farmer discovers rare 3,300 year old Hittite-era bracelet in Turkey’s Çorum

Farmer discovers rare 3,300 year old Hittite-era bracelet in Turkey’s Çorum

A farmer living in Turkey’s central Çorum province, discovered a 3,300-year-old ancient bracelet while he was plowing his farm.

The artifact is from the ancient Hittite civilization, and it carries depictions of Hittite symbols, including imagery of the Itar/Auka and his servants Ninatta and Kulitta.

The farmer and his neighbor found the artifact while working on their farm in Çorum’s central district of Orduzu.

the farmer, identified only as Osman K., said that he saw a metal item in the field while he was plowing his farm and stopped his tractor upon discovering that it was an ancient artifact.

The farmer said that he initially tried to sell the bracelet, thinking it had no historical value. However, once he failed in his attempt to sell it and learned that it was an ancient piece, K. reported the finding to the local gendarmerie station.

The gendarmerie then sent the bracelet to the Çorum Museum Directorate for further examination and conservation work.

The Hittites were an ancient peoples of Anatolia who lived between 1600 B.C. and 1200 B.C.

They were an Indo-European people who established an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 B.C., as well as a kingdom in northern Syria called Mitanni or Hanigalbat and a kingdom in southern Levant called Kizzuwatna or Que or Cilicia, both of which became known as Syria after its conquest by Assyria in 740 B.C.

Hüseyin Kocabaş, the head of the museum, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that it is rare for an old artifact to be unearthed with such a high degree of preservation.

Noting that the bracelet is also decorated with animal figures including lions and bulls as well as gods depicted in human form, Kocabaş said: “The bracelet is 1 cm wide and 16 cm long. It is made of bronze and tin metal alloy.”

He added: “It can be dated back to around 1300 BC.

The archaeologist also noted that there are few pieces of Hittite-era jewelry and this piece sheds light on the jewelry styles of the civilization.

“The bracelet has important historical value. It is one of the rareest examples of this type of work. This kind of bracelet dates back to the Late Bronze Age [1500-1200 B.C.] and is not only important for Çorum but also for Anatolia and even the world,” said Ahmet Tuna, a professor at Çorum Hitit University’s History Department.

Tuna also noted that this was not the first time an image depicting Auka had been discovered in Çorum, although similar artifacts were found in other Turkish provinces.

With its location in Çorum, the most famous home of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusa and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986.

Çorum has made its mark on history as an influential settlement in antiquity.

Hattusa served as the capital of the Hittite Empire, which played an important role in urban life and the development of Bronze Age civilizations.

It was the first national excavation site in Turkey.

 

Pythagoras Says that God and the Soul of Man are the Number One

Pythagoras Says that God and the Soul of Man are the Number One

It is important that you understand that Pythagoras held our souls come from the number One (1) which is derived from the first principles and assigns God and the soul to the number One.

This is our soul’s connection to the One Monad, which is God and the good, which is the origin of the One, and is itself intelligence, reason, and its end result, immortality (ie: True Gnosis – One With Christ in the Head).

These they call Divine spirits [δαιμονες] who are psychical beings (i.e. real people with purified souls).

However, Pythagoras taught that when the One becomes two, it becomes the “undefined dyad (ie: Duality or something consists of two elements or parts)” which is a divinity and the bad, surrounding which is the mass of matter.

We can say that this is a man divided against himself, imbalanced, and is ignorant (i.e. No Gnosis) of these Sacred Laws.

Pythagoras regarded the “soul of man between spirits” who always contemplated the Divine Essence (i.e.: their soul, true selves).

We are born into the world in a fallen state (ie: ruled by the passions and desires of the material world) which makes us forget our spiritual natures and divine selves.

Pythagoras had taught that it was from our separation from the Deity that we lost the wings which raised us towards celestial beings, and were thus precipitated into the region of death where all evils dwell.

By putting away earthly passions and devoting ourselves to virtue, our wings will be renewed, and we shall rise to that existence where we shall find the true good without any admixture of evil.

Through the process of life, death and rebirth our wings will be renewed, and we shall rise to that existence where we shall find the true good without any admixture of evil.

In Christian Scripture, this is what is called the “fall of man,” which is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience (ie: a life of sin).

It was said that when a man is in this state, he moves in its aerial clothing, and is thus subject to Fate ie; evil and temptation, because his whole life is attached to its earthly interests and material pursuits (money, fame, pleasure etc.).

Therefore, man is not pure, and it is only when he casts off this earthly garb of the first spheres and becomes ethereal, i.e.: Spiritual, that he becomes sure of his immortality.

The entire doctrine of the Pythagoreans would culminate in assisting initiates to connect with the One – The Monad AKA Their Soul, and through knowledge AKA Gnosis, to become masters of the self, the world and the spirits who inhabit “both.”

The Russian occultist, philosopher, and author Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (HP Blavatsky) had said about Pythagoras, “Pythagoras, the pure philosopher deeply versed in the profounder phenomena of nature, the noble inheritor of the ancient lore, whose great aim was to free the soul from the fetters of sense and force it to realize its powers, must live eternally in human memory.”

In other words, by learning how to die, we accomplish the most fantastic goal of all humans which is saving our own souls – The One via “The Great Work.”