Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00190)

    Of course, now we're getting into questions of philosophy, where labels  of
"true" and "false" are frequently meaningless, and labels of "more useful" and
"less useful" taken on more weight.

    Bart Lidofsky

Eugene Carpenter wrote:

> Tobias Dantzig, beloved mathematician historian of Einstein, wrote that
> unlike the common belief that mathematics is metaphor for the physical
> world, the reverse is true. THE PHYSICAL WORLD IS METAPHOR FOR THE WORLD OF
> MATHEMATICS.  Sorry to shout, but it is an incredibly important statement if
> true.  I think Heisenberg would agree as would Whitehead.
>
> Gene
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com>
> To: theos-talk@theosophy.com <theos-talk@theosophy.com>
> Date: Friday, May 19, 2000 5:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Mathematics, Spinoza, Leibniz
>
> >    Just a couple of comments on a couple of points in your letter:
> >
> >LeonMaurer@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> To consider numbers, per se, as having any relationship to spiritual
> wisdom
> >> or consciousness -- other than as a mathematical tool for the
> confirmation or
> >> measure of the effects of fundamental universal law, is purely
> speculative.
> >
> >    That's not as much of a problem as you might think; consider that
> numbers are
> >merely a way of looking at the universe; mathematics is an entirely
> artificial
> >discipline, which is what makes its laws fixed within any given
> mathematical
> >system (note that one cannot describe mathematics except in mathematical
> terms).
> >This does not mean that mathematics is not useful, though it can be argued
> that
> >mathematics belongs in the realm of philosophy rather than science.
> >
> >> True Science (with its understanding of both the metaphysical and the
> >> physical forces and forms based on "the Harmony of the Spheres" in
> *exact*
> >> conformance with the fundamental principles) and fundamental theosophical
> >> teachings (as presented by HPB and the Masters), are one and the same.
> >
> >    And scientists today are getting ever closer (albeit not close enough)
> to
> >"True Science", at least as you define it.
> >
> >    Bart
> >
> >
> >
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