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“Geometry is 'number in space', music is 'number in time'.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“In a seven-tone scale the eighth note is the octave, twice the pitch of the first note, and so signals the movement to a new level. This may be why, in religious symbolism, the eighth step is often associated with spiritual evolution or salvation.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“Islamic patterns speak of infinity and the omnipresent center.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“Ludwig Schlafi (1814-1895) proved that there are six regular four-dimensional polytopes (generalisations of polyhedra): the 5-cell made of tetrahedra, the 8-cell or tesseract made of cubes, the 16-cell made of tetrahedra, the 24-cell made of octahedra, the 120-cell made of dodecahedra, and the 600-cell made of tetrahedra.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“Many familiar objects from cassettes to credit cards and Georgian front doors are Phi (1.618...) rectangles.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“When one circle is drawn over another like this so that they pass through each others' centers, then an important almond shape, the vesica piscis, literally 'fish's bladder' is formed. It is one of the first things that circles can do. Christ is often depicted inside a vesica.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“The dodecagon is also made from six squares and six equilateral triangles fitted around a hexagon”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“Twelve is the number which fits around one in three dimensions in the same way that six fits around one in two dimensions. The New Testament is a story of a teacher surrounded by twelve disciples.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“Ten is formed from two pentagons and ten life-invoking pentagons sit perfectly arpund a decagon, and DNA, appropriately as the key to the reproduction of life, has ten steps for each turn of its double helix, so appears in cross-section as a tenfold rosette.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“Eleven is important as the first number that allows us to begin to comprehend the measure of a circle. This is because, for practical purposes, a circle measuring seven across will measure eleven halfway around.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“Venus draws a fivefold pattern around Earth every eight years allowing us to draw an amazing diagram. In those eight years there are almost exactly 99 full moons, nine elevens, the number of names or reflections of Allah in Islam. Jupiter draws a beautiful elevenfold pattern around Earth.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“The ancient Maya were superb stargazers. Their calendar synchronized not just the Sun and Moon, byt also Venus and Mars. They worked out that 81 (or 3X3X3X3) full moons occur exactly every 2,392 (or 8X13X23) days, an astonishingly accurate gearing.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“The ancients were obsessed with measures, and the number eleven is central in their metrological scheme. Shown opposite is the extraordinary fact that the size of the Moon relates to the size of the Earth as does three to eleven. What this means is that if we draw down the Moon to the Earth, as shown, then a heavenly circle through the moon will have a circumference equal to the perimeter of a square around the Earth. This is called 'squaring the circle'. Quite how the old druids worked this out we may never know, but they clearly did, for the Moon and the Earth are best measured in miles, as shown. A double rainbow also magically squares the circle.”
― quote from Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“The fruit of the Spirit is not spouse control or staff control or environmental control; it is self-control (see Gal. 5:23).”
― Neil T. Anderson, quote from Victory Over the Darkness
“that's what God does. He moves the wind across the water or leaves it still. He can do all that. That's God doing that and He can do it on any lake that He wants to.”
― quote from Life is So Good
“For reincarnation is neither a dogma, i.e. a truth necessary for salvation, nor a heresy, i.e. contrary to a truth necessary for salvation. It is simply a fact of experience, just as sleep and heredity are. As such, it is neutral. Everything depends on its interpretation. One can interpret it in such a manner as to make it a hymn to the glory of God—and one can interpret it in such a way as to make it a blasphemy. When one says: to forgive is to grant the opportunity to begin again; God forgives more than seventy-times-seven times, always granting us opportunities anew—what infinite goodness of God! Here is an interpretation to the glory of God.”
― quote from Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism
“He didn't ask for any of this, did he?" "None of them did, come to that." Logan responded. "But that's what life does to you. It gives you a whole lot of stuff you don't ask for and expects you to deal with it. No complaining, no excuses.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from The Gypsy Morph
“You make your way through the application of intelligence, grace, and consideration for others. You do the right thing, not the easy thing.”
― Shelley Adina, quote from Lady of Devices
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