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The Pythagorean Number System - Numerology
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Monad: Was of course One, and represented many metaphysical principals and concepts; it was known as eidos, the source of limit and form; the eudaimonia, the demiurge, the creator; happiness; harmony, order and friendship. It was equated to Apollo, the god of reason, and to Hyperion, the central flame, and both the sun as the centre of the universe and the mind as the centre of all within the human body. It also represented Unity and Perfection.
Dyad: Is of the number Two. For the Pythagoreans, this number represented the first stage towards the route of creation. The dyad represented polarization, opposition, divergence, inequality, and mutability. It is often called tolma (daring), as it breaks away from the perfection and unity of Monad.
There are surviving lists of opposite qualities that exist in the works of later writers from the classic period that reflect the teachings of Pythagoras and his students.
Triad (Three). The Pythagoreans saw three as the first true number. It was a whole, representing a beginning, middle, and end. The number represents the principal of everything that is whole and perfect, three dimensions, and the three-part soul. The number also implies Past, Present, and Future. Embodies wisdom and foresight, because people that consider all three parts of time will choose a correct course of action. Knowledge was also represented by the triad, as were the powers of prophecy and fate. To correlate the triad to the acts of prophecy, the oracles of the ancient world would stare into bowls upheld by a tripod before delivering their prediction. The most famous was the Oracle a Delphi.
Tetrad: This is the number Four. Four represented completion. For the Pythagoreans, everything both natural and numerical was completed in the progression of One to Four. To express this they showed that there were four seasons, four elements (earth, air, fire, and water), four vital musical intervals, and four kinds of planetary movement. Four portrayed righteousness and stability.
The philosopher Plato (427-347 B.C.E) later used the number four to relate that there were four faculties of man – intelligence, reason, perception, and imagination. The Pythagoreans considered the four mathematical sciences of arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy the foundations of true knowledge. Thus the tetrad represented Justice to Pythagoras and his students.
In the minds of the Pythagoreans, the number four represented completion of all things in the following progression of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10. This is how they arrived at the glyph of the tetraktys. The tetraktys then became the model for the kosmos (universe or cosmos), and the human psyche.
Pentad: The number Five was represented by the pentad. It is a combination of odd and even, represented by the numbers two and three added together (2+3=5). Five also represented marriage, the union of male and female reconciliation and harmony. Five was sacred to Aphrodite. The Pythagoreans saw the pentad as comprehensive of the natural phenomena of the universe. Often this was worded as the universe was seeded by the monad, gains movement through the dyad, then gains life through the pentad and is encircled by the decad.
Hexad: The hexad is the number Six. To the Pythagoreans it is the first perfect number. By adding together the numbers of One, Two, and Three (1 + 2 + 3 = 6) to arrive at the number Six the hexad is created. The number represents the states of health and balance. It also represented wholeness, peace, and sacrifice. The number six was also associated with androgyny.
Heptad: The heptad is the number Seven. This number cannot be generated by any operation of math with any of the numbers that make up the decad. The concepts that are represented by the heptad are joy, love, and opportunity. The number also represented virginity and was considered to be sacred to the virgin goddess Athena. Also, since seven cannot be divided, except by itself, it represented an acropolis (fortress).
Octad: The octad or the number Eight was significant to the Pythagoreans because it was the first cube (2 x 2 x 2). They linked eight to safety, steadfastness and everything that was balanced in the universe. The Pythagoreans often called the octad, "Embracer of Harmonies", because it is the source of musical ratio.
Ennead: The number Nine, which was also called horizon, because it marked the line between the decad (10) and the numbers that led up to it. The Pythagoreans saw nine as a number of completion, this was due to the nine months of pregnancy and that there were nine Muses.
Decad: The decad or the number Ten was the most sacred of all numbers to the Pythagoreans. It was said that Pythagoras used the word dechada (receptacle) as a pun to describe this number. This number contained all things in a single structure and influence. It was the sum of the divine influences that held the universe together, and was all the manifest laws of nature. It was also seen as the universe, heaven, God, and fate.
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