You see the almost in the belief that all creatures have a voice and respond to the Creator. Job 30:11 speaks of it, and Solomon speaks of our connection to eternity by God’s setting it in our heart. There is a cord which connects us to the Creator. Pythagoras and Plato saw a creator, but not the God in creation. Harmony recognizes harmony, and when the human soul regains its true estate it will not only hear the celestial choir but also join with it in an everlasting anthem of praise to that Eternal Good controlling the infinite number of parts and conditions of Being.
When he liberates himself from the bondage of the lower world with its sense limitations, the music of the spheres will again be audible as it was in the Golden Age. Man fails to hear these divine melodies because his soul is enmeshed in the illusion of material existence. The Pythagoreans believed that everything which existed had a voice and that all creatures were eternally singing the praise of the Creator. Counting inward from the circumference of the heavens, Pythagoras, according to some authorities, divided the universe into nine parts according to others, into twelve parts. “ Pythagoras conceived the universe to be an immense monochord, with its single string connected at its upper end to absolute spirit and at its lower end to absolute matter–in other words, a cord stretched between heaven and earth. See what Pythagoras and his followers believed: Yet when the truth was shown to them, they went away from it.
Pythagoras, and Plato who brought Pythagoras’s concept to the people, for that matter, had incredible intellects. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.” For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. “ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. We looked at Kepler, the 16th century astronomer whose brilliance pushed forward Pythagoras’s theories much further, and we ended up in the twentieth century by looking at modern string theory.Īl this to say that Romans 1:18-23 are amazing verses. However, he was too smart for his own good, and wound up on the other side of God, promoting knowledge as the thing to be worshiped. Pythagoras was very smart, and his experiments were carefully done. In Part 2 I looked at how Pythagoras is thought to the be the progenitor of string theory, the notion in physics that everything vibrates and strings are the elements that make up the universe. This is my Father’s world: I rest me in the thought
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