Pythagoras was a mathematician, philosopher, but also the founder of a school where the disciples were initiated into the great mysteries of the world. Historians have called this grouping „The Initiation School”.
The name of Pythagoras comes from Pythia, the one who predicted his coming to the world. Pythagoras was the founder of an important school, where young people with aptitudes came to know the secrets of knowledge.
Pythagoras was born in 580 BC, in Samos, an island in the Aegean Sea. Following an announcement that a clairvoyant made about his birth, his father decided to name him Pythagoras, that is, the one whose birth was announced by Pythia.
Pythagoras is considered the first master of humanity. His life was full of mysteries and adventures. At the age of 18, he left the Samos island after attending the Olympics. He arrives in Lesbos, where he will be initiated by great masters. Later, he arrives in Syria and Egypt, where he will be meeting various priests and magi.
The Initiation School
He returns to Greece where he will establish a true school of philosophy, religion and science. Even women and foreigners were warmly welcomed to study in this school. The selection of participants in these courses was made by Pythagoras himself. He had some criteria. These include physiognomy, gestures, laughter, relationships with parents.
The probationary period was as long as three years; after the end of this probationary period, the participants could continue the courses or were rejected. In addition to his mathematical knowledge, he taught notions of esotericism, symbols, codes about what the inside of man meant.
Arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy were considered by Pythagoras as the four fields that underpinned evolution. Participants in these courses had to strictly adhere to certain rules. Diet was a first rule. It was forbidden to eat meat, organs or eggs. These were the symbol of life.
Rigorous selection
Not everyone could be part of the group. The young people were selected by Pythagoras himself, who from the beginning imposed drastic conditions. All the goods they owned were donated to the school, they had to respect a certain diet, they had to study and have as little contact with people who did not belong to the group.
Pythagoras founded this school after spending 17 years in Egypt, where he studied alongside the high Egyptian priests. The school also had a profoundly mystical character. Many of the students’ knowledge went beyond reality. Pythagoras was teaching death and the existence of the soul beyond it.
The disciples had to go through five important stages, during which they could never see their mentor. For Pythagoras, number 5 represented perfection; the symbol was the five-pointed star, hence the five initiation stages.
Each disciple was bound by strict rules. Certain foods were avoided, the meal was served in common, the morning began with long walks; Pythagoreans gathered to greet the rising sun. The disciples were initiated through different rituals; fire was the primordial element. During the classes they attended, the disciples were not allowed to write, they had to listen and remember. Later, they transmitted the knowledge verbally.
Pythagoras and the Octagon Theory
The octagon theory was one of the most secret theories of Pythagoras. In Pythagoras’s conception, the octagon had to do with Merkabah or the magnetic field of man. According to Pythagoras, the human body has two light fields that rotate in reverse, allowing dematerialization and teleportation.
Plato was one of the pupils of the Pythagorean school and reached the third initiation level. However, he spoke very little about the education he received. There was a tacit agreement among the disciples not to divulge these secrets.
Every day, each student retreated to a room, where they tried to find out the mysteries of the Pythagorean symbols for 12 hours. After 12 hours, he was brought to a room where he had to expose his conclusion. If he did not reach the right solution he was severely punished and humiliated in front of his colleagues.
The science of numbers
The science of numbers, the consequence of universal evolution, the study of the soul, were some of the topics that the disciples studied. Approaching God, the source of universal harmony, was one of Pythagoras’s favorite themes.
The numbers were not abstract symbols. They represented the divine force. To Pythagoras, the number three represented the man and the number four, the divinity. Summing them up, the result was SEVEN, representing the evolution.
Number ten represented perfection because it incorporated the principles of the evolution of divinity. With 1, 2, 3, 4 we can form numbers using addition or multiplication signs.
According to the principles of Pythagoras, material and spiritual evolution are reverse, but parallel, movements that determine human evolution. Material evolution is the manifestation of God in the matter, while spiritual evolution is the elaboration of the spiritual consciousness that generates the closeness to God.
Pythagoras wrote about spiritual cosmogony, about the evolution of the spirit and the transmigration of the spirit beyond the real world.
The mystery of numbers
To him, each figure had a meaning, a symbol. The number 7 was the engine of life which consisted of the number three, the triple nature of the spirit and the four elements of matter: earth, air, water, fire. He considered that behind the number seven is God, who is said to have created the Earth and the surrounding universe in six days and rested the seventh day.
Figures and numbers hide information, energy and vibrations. Pythagoras spent more than 20 years in Egypt, where he studied numbers. By summing the birthday, the month and the year of birth, we obtain a number that has a special significance, according to the studies carried by Pythagoras.
- The figure 1 represents confidence, self-control, desire to lead;
- The figure 2 represents communication, sensitivity, duality;
- The figure 3 represents civic spirit, extrovert, enthusiasm;
- The figure 4 represents work, order, rigor, self-discipline;
- The figure 5 represents mobility, adventure, adaptability;
- The figure 6 represents harmony, stability, family;
- The figure 7 represents the inner life, introspection, searches and answers;
- The figure 8 represents material achievements, courage, energy;
- The figure 9 represents altruism, dream, idealism, emotion.
Pythagoras was a perfect orator; in a single day, he gathered over 600 disciples, young people who wanted to follow his teachings. Throughout his life, Pythagoras tried to unravel the mystery of numbers.
The world is a number
According to Pythagoras, the whole world is a number. He is the founder of demonstrative and religious mathematics. The number represented the ordered plurality, and everything that existed was represented by a number. Pythagoras was the first to give numbers a geometric representation. He claims that ten is the perfect number, consisting of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4.
Pythagoras discovered the arithmetic ratio a-b = b-c. At the same time, Pythagoras discovered the irrational number, the square root of two. It revolutionized the knowledge of those times. Thus, the fraction appeared.
Each number had its own meaning. One meant the point, two – the line, three – the triangle, four – the volume, five – the colors, six – the soul, seven – the spirit, eight – the love, nine – the intellect and ten – the perfection.
Pythagoras was also passionate about astronomy. He used the term “cosmos” for sky and claimed that the Earth is round. Pythagoras was convinced that the soul did not die and that there was a cycle of reincarnation. Such a cycle ended every 216 years.