Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00191)

May 20th

HPB in the SECRET DOCTRINE says:

"There is no "chance" in Nature, wherein everything is
mathematically co-ordinate and mutually related in its units.
 SD I 635 ]  See also SD I 97, 642, 638 (spiritual astrology),

Mathematical statements preceded forms in both time and space.
The "life-atoms" are the basics of Nature and every structure is
implicit in their experience, as they are "immortal, and
perpetual motion machines."

The "memory" of every form they have ever participated in making
remains permanently engraved in their "memory."  -- says
Theosophy.



D. T. B.

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-theos-talk@theosophy.com
[mailto:owner-theos-talk@theosophy.com]On Behalf Of Eugene
Carpenter
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 8:55 AM
To: theos-talk@theosophy.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World Mathematics, Spinoza, Leibniz

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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