These renowned sages were hardly solitary pilgrims. A number of very old, very famous Greeks-among them Thales, Plato and Pythagoras-made quite some names for themselves after traveling to Egypt to become initiates of the mysteries. In truth, this formula was part of the Sacred Geometry of ancient Egypt and was also known to the ancient Vedic civilization as well.Īnd how did the occult knowledge of the ancient mysteries, the precious high knowledge of the Egyptian priestly class, escape Egypt to become known to Greece and then to the West? Through those wily, intrepid seafarers, the ancient Greeks, of course. ![]() But alas, like just about every other bit of knowledge of this nature, he was simply publicly disseminating elements of the ancient occult knowledge of the Egyptian mystery schools for the first time. You'll also find it topping the neck of classical string instruments such as violins, violas and cellos-the element called, appropriately enough, the scroll.įibonacci, otherwise known as Leonardo of Pisa, was the first to publish this arithmetical progression ( 0 0+1= 1 1+1= 2 1+2= 3 2+3= 5 3+5= 8 5+8= 13.) in 1202, gaining him lasting fame. The principle underlying both those physical forms is the Fibonacci sequence, a simple arithmetic progression that regulates and balances natural growth, including those rams' horns and nautilus shells and all matter of things from artichokes to tree branches, pine cones, fern heads and so on. Others have proposed that the spiraling volutes depict rams' horns or nautilus shells, and here we are moving much closer to the truth. In fact, if Western civilization was born in ancient Greece, then Greek civilization can be said to have been born in Ionia. Its legacies are staggeringly outsized: the foundations of Greek philosophy, geometry and mathematics with the Ionian school of the eminent Thales and his followers Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Archelaus, and Diogenes of Apollonia the mystery school founded by Pythagoras of Samos, the great geometer and philosopher and generations of brilliant artists and architects who deeply influenced the development of Hellenic art. ![]() This loose confederation for a time banded together to form the Ionian League, which was an early and great center of Greek civilization. Both cities spawned colonies, spreading Ionian influence throughout the eastern Mediterranean, and with Samos were the backbone of Ionian power and influence. Its major city, Miletus, was an important commercial center and Phocaea was a great port. Ionia itself was a small but economically and culturally powerful Greek province, actually a ridiculously small coastal enclave (no more than 90 x 55 miles in extent, located near Smyrna in present-day Anatolia, Turkey) that also encompassed the islands of Samos and Chios.
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