Esoteric teaching of Pythagoras

Geonumerology, unlike numerology, adopts a systemic approach where the study of relationships between numbers is more important than the numbers themselves.

The interpretation of a number depends to a large extent on its position in relation to the others. A number taken in isolation is of little interest.

The analogy is largely based on ternary law, correspondence theory and the use of symbols.

The symbol can be a number, a geometric sign, a word, or a sentence. The use of words and the use of figurative symbols are complementary to each other. Language in itself is nothing other than symbolism, where words are used as expression to bring to mind something that is not there.

There is a principle that unites the parts, but whose universality has been forgotten by the parts, each taking on a different form. Among the Greeks, this relationship is called the Logos, or Logic, or Reason. It is also called the "Word" because it is thought, word and action at the same time. 

He makes each part different from the other and distributes destinies like the roles in a play. As the link between unity and multiplicity it allows to keep a unique Order.

The theosophical reduction (from the Greek: theos, divine or Gods and sophia, wisdom) corresponds to the current 9-numbers of numerology. It consists in reducing all numbers to the first 9.

In the time of Pythagoras (6th century B.C.), the letters of the Greek alphabet were used to designate numbers: Alpha for One, Beta for Two, Gamma for Three, Delta for 4, and so on.

Numerology derives from this principle and applies a numerical value to each letter of your name which making it possible to calculate the number for any name or word by adding together the values of its letters.

The correspondence table below associates each letter of greek alphabet with a number.

The way in which the first 9 numbers are arranged the way in which they can be interpreted.

The first 9 numbers form a system in itself since all numbers are reduced to the first 9.

A systemic approach involves three things:
- a determined number of elements;
- a structure that serves as a receptacle for the elements;
- relationships between elements within the structure.

This is the layout adopted in geonumerology and derived directly from the tables created by Pythagoras. The interest of such an arrangement is to allow a cartesian approach

(abscissa and ordinate) of the first 9 numbers, where each one has a place assigned to it in relation to the whole.

This arrangement corresponds to the Three Worlds:
- the World of Archetypes: 123
- the Microcosm: 456
- the Macrocosm: 789

The numbers 1, 5 and 9 keep their place in the matrix whatever the arrangement, in rows or columns. They are representative numbers.

Just as the universe is divided into three worlds: the natural world, the human world and the divine world, man is composed of three distinct but interrelated elements: body, soul and spirit. The Triad or law of the ternary is therefore the constitutive law of things and the true key to life.

Figurate numbers allow us to create a bridge between arithmetic and geometry. They derive from the use of small pebbles represent the units that make up numbers with symmetrical geometric shapes.

Pythagoras was the first to make the connection between numbers, geometric shapes and spatial dimensions. Below is a visualisation of the number 10, the fourth triangular number and central symbol of the Pythagorean school, named the Tetractys.

Given the total parallelism between arithmetic and geometry, it is thus possible to visualize the number in space using points, or pebbles (calculi in Latin), according to the number of units it contains:

• 1 point for the number 1;
• 2 points for the number 2, the line (1D);
• 3 points for the number 3, the triangle (2D);
• 4 points for the number 4, the tetrahedron (3D).

A figured number is an integer that is usually represented by points and which forms a regular geometric figure.

To know the Theosophical addition of a number, it is enough to add up arithmetically all the numbers from the unit to it.
Thus the number 4 gives in theosophical addition: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10.

This operation corresponds in all respects to the way Triangular numbers (1, 3, 6, 10, ...) are elaborated.

Unlike other symbols such as chemical symbols or musical notes, geometric symbolism is the only one that corresponds to nature itself, to the very structure of the universe. A true universal language, esoteric symbolism is like an absolute reflection of nature and its laws, not an invention.

This "language of the image", which the Ancients conceived as a language in its own right, has its own alphabet and grammar.

The Number represents the Idea. He is the Father. Geometry is the Mother of Creation, generating the forms. Each Number inhabits the form that is "destined" for it. Thus the metaphysical abstraction of the Number materializes in geometry, takes shape. The creation of the forms, following the laws of proportion and symmetry, always takes place starting from the same standard meter: the radius of the circle.

Matyla C. Ghyka, in the foreword to her work on The Golden Number, speaks of the symmetry and proportion of Mediterranean art:

The Idea from Latin idea, "type of things"; borrowed from the Greek ι ̓ δ ε ́α properly "visible form, aspect" hence "distinctive form", "species"; derived from the Greek ε ι ̃ δ ο ν "to See".

Each number has a meaning, and the language of numbers only becomes clear and readable in the light of shapes. But just as we had to learn the letters of the alphabet to be able to read these lines, so we need to have the alphabet of archetypes shapes to be able to interpret the symbol properly.

Geonumerology is a discipline that attempts to uncover the deep psychology of an individual through the study of the lines of force present in the symbols of his name and date of birth.

Geonumerology is therefore a mixture of numerology and geometry. Geometry will allow us to visualize the number, to give it a body in space, to grasp its lines of force and finally to discover the idea hidden behind the symbol.

All integers are associated with one of the following 4 secret values: 1, 3, 6 or 9.

The secret value of a number is obtained by applying the process of theosophical addition to it followed by reduction.

Let's take an example: the number 7

• The theosophical addition of the number 7 gives: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 = 28
• The theosophical reduction of the number 28 is : 2 + 8 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1
• The secret value of 7 is therefore at 1

By applying the secret value to the first nine numbers, we see that the total of each line (see on the right), or World, gives the Unit.

The unit reappears every three numbers in the Three Worlds.

The unit and its reflexions in the two other Worlds constitute the Divine Axis or Divine Attributes (first column of the secret matrix composed only of 1) and correspond in the archetypal matrix to the numbers 1, 4 and 7.

Reasoning by Analogy is reasoning by association of ideas, combinations and synthesis. Its tools are the symbols between which correspondences are established.

The keystone of the esoteric teaching of Pythagoras rests on the idea of the interdependence of all the elements of the cosmos by a link, a primordial energy, associated by some with divine love, by others with the law of attraction, in a word with the force that unites, or better, keeps together all parts of the universe.

God, Man and the Universe, here is the first ternary from the original unity.

The first and constitutive analogy between Man and God or between Man and the Universe generates a multitude of correspondences.

If the numbers 4 and 7 are the reflections of the Divine World in the Human World and in the Natural World, then there must be a human reflection in the Divine and Natural Worlds as well as a natural reflection in God and Man .