Elemental Mysteries

Elemental Mysteries Energy, Number, and Frequency Elemental Mysteries Energy, Number, and Frequency

The heavens, Pythagoras "taught, are the realm of pure number, where objects move in perfect, unchanging circles, the realm that can best be perceived through pure reason. . . "Our only release from our earthly body, 'the tomb of the soul,' is withdrawal from the world to dispassionate contemplation of reason and mathematics." 1 Perennial Tradition explores how Divine Consciousness manifests as energy, through such ordering principles as number and frequency. Perennialist teachers Hermes, Pythagoras, and Plato explicated how energy, number, and frequency comprise the elemental substrate of Reality. "But now the sight of day and night, and the months and the revolutions of the years have created number and have given us a conception of time, and the power of inquiring about the nature of the universe. And from this source we have derived philosophy, than which no greater good ever was or will be given by the gods to mortal man." Plato, Timaeus The Perennial Tradition deals with fundamental mysteries and the most basic questions: Why is there being at all? Why is our physical world ordered, and not governed by incoherent chaos? Why and how is this "Cosmos" (as the Greeks termed it) intelligible to humans? What is the essence of these organizing principles: number, frequency, pattern, structure, harmony, culture, and form? How do these organizing principles make apperception, understanding, and intelligence possible? In this essay, we investigate elemental, unknown, as yet inexplicable realities--in short, Mysteries. Unfortunately, to the ordinary mind these essences will seem commonplace and lackluster. To them, there will appear to be no supernatural quality in such awe-inspiring Mysteries as being, existence, space, time, goodness, number, and frequency. "The deeper secrets and laws of our being are self-protected; to learn them requires an adaptation of character and purpose, and a humility of mind and spirit, inconsistent with those displayed by the perverse or merely curious enquirer. To understand, let alone practically to explore, the Hermetic Mystery is not for every one--at least, at his present state of evolutional unfolding. . . . Only to those whose spiritual destiny has already equipped them with a certain high measure of moral and intellectual fitness will even a rough notional apprehension of it be practicable."Mary A. Atwood, Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy, 1850 Pythagoras, Plato, and later Perennialist savants have demonstrated that Reality is constructed, at its deepest level, by the imposition of divine organizing principles. Such principles as "energy," "number," and "frequency" are not merely mental patterns of thought imposed on a "blank tablet" (tabula rasa) of bodily sensations. These canons of order are imminent in physical reality and are discoverable through philosophical, mathematical, and scientific investigation.

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