Hi everybody and welcome to my 7th blog,
this is the second one of two parts about the “seven liberal Arts”. In the first one we covered the “Trivium”. If you have not read it yet, I do highly recommend you to check it out (Blog 6). It describes the fundamental process of how experiences in our physical universe are created and hence it is vitally important to understand, if you want to archieve… well anything and everything at the most efficient rate.
In today’s topic we will look at the Quadrivium. In my point of view it is not as important to grasp as the Trivium, but this does not mean it is not important… It is indeed very substantial in achieving greater understanding of how our universe is BUILT. To make a disclaimer right from the beginning: This does NOT mean that this is ALL what the universe is made of, BUT it is still a great chunk of it… A chunk so great indeed, that it is very worth knowing it more in detail…
So… how is a great part of our universe built? The answer is… somewhat surprising… while at the same time a matter of course…! Something where we say: “Yeah, I did know that kinda, but I never thought of it that way…”.
The Answer is… Numbers…
The Quadrivium describes the four ways of quantifying the Universe.
If the Trivium describes the three Qualities of how to create reality, the Quadrivium describes the four ways of how to quantify your created reality.
The Quadrivium, same as the Trivium, emanates from the latin. “Quattuor” (meaning “four”) and via (“Way” or “Path”) combined together means simply: “Where four paths meet”. What are now these four paths? Let’s get into it…
Path 1 – ARITHMETIC (The Art of Numbers): In the past few years, mainstream science has come to the conclusion, that the physical universe is basically nothing else than a highly advanced simulation. As breaking news this sounds… the truth about that has been with humanity all along… The people of the indus valley called the physical Universe “Maya” which can be translated as “the illusion”. And if you were not very aware and careful at all times you easily could get caught up in this illusion and take it way to seriously… Illusions might not be true but they can appear very real… And what makes them so real is a very advanced arrangement of… Numbers.
Now, numbers can be very abstract appearing and thats why people often have difficulties in playing with or even grasping them. I for myself had back in the days at school a hard time in maths. A lot of the time I was not able to understand advanced calculations because of my unevolved abstract thinking. Therefore I could in consequence of that not really decode the emerging functions and logic results of arithmetics. But this is required for getting to the goal of any mathematical problem. And since we found out (or more accurately “remembered”) that the physical universe is some sort of mathematical simulation, it is somewhat important to understand how numbers do work and what they are.
My best approach to define numbers would be this one: A Number is the most fundamental attribute of an entity to describe or determine it’s grade of it’s separateness from everything else…
Why this weird sounding definition and not some straight ol’ boring wikipedia-quote? If we imagine that everything is one (Truth) that would mean that there is no need or even the possibility for numbers to exist, because everything is one, there is nothing else to even imagine of. It needs to divide itself first into something that we call “parts of itself”. Suddenly there is something appearing we call “Separation” (Illusion) that soon to be recognized as to have no limit. If you envision a sphere in your mind and you divide it into two smaller spheres, and one of them again, and again, and again… you quickly realize that this can go on forever… and it does…
So how to compare or do something with these infinite ways of separateness: We have to measure its grade if we want to create with them. And this can be accomplished by determining correcly their numbers and how they relate to each other. The same Numbers they got automatically at the very point when they separated from the “One and all”. Therefore we can see that numbers are inherent to the creation of the physical universe. They are not something we invent. They are something that spawn at the very moment something is separate to something else. They are something we have to give certain unique and unambiguous symbols to work with them properly… One symbol chosen for a number might be “1”, another one would be “2” and “3” and “4” and so on… up to infinity and beyond. We see that there are endless possibilies of combining them together. And this is Arithemtic or the “Art of numbers”…
Path 2 – GEOMETRY (The Art of Numbers relative to Space): Have you ever looked at pictures of some ancient buildings like the Colloseum, Ankor Wat, the Pyramids (no matter if the ones in Gizeh, in Chichen Itza, China or elswhere) and marvelled at their beatuy? Maybe you not only looked at pictures but stood right in front of them. I for myself had not the pleasure of having this experience yet. But even from the pictures alone we can agree they have something magical to them. A world of difference compared to the dead Cuboids in our Cities of today we see as “great architechture”. Not to deminish the achievment of the architects, engineers and all the people involved creating a skyscraper in the physical world. But they are often a sad shade of the greatness of some ancient structures like the well known pyramides of Gizeh. Even modern architects admited that they would struggle to build something like this and they would not know how to achieve it in that sort of perfection… These buildings are a proof of what can be possible if you know how to do it. In Geometry you have also infinite possibilities to unfold. We built in our time building to hights that would be perceived impossible centuries ago. A common phrase under architects is this one: No building is “unbuildable”, it just have’nt been built yet…
Architecture like this, that pretty much all of us would consider as beautiful, is a symphony of numbers relative to space. All the Arithmetics have been aligned as consummately as possible. All the angles and distances have been completed. And thats why we consider it as gorgeous, powerful and sometimes even mesmerizing. It is the “Art of numbers relative to space”…
Path 3 – MUSIC (The Art of Numbers relative to Time): To think of music as numbers relative to time might appear a little strange at first glance but on further pondering it makes total sense… If we take music as that what violines, guitars, drums, trumpets and singing are producing than they have all one thing in common: They are producing soundwaves… Soundwaves have a certain Frequency… The nowadays used unit to measure frequencies is “Hertz”… How is Hertz mathematically defined? It is defined as 1/s (or “1 over one second”)… And there you have it… A number (1) relative to time (“s” for second)… Music is the dance of numbers in the realm of time…
Depending on how you arrange the Frequencies of your musicinstruments an infinite spectrum of possible combinations of numbers and timeintervals are also revealing. You can have combinations like some classic or folklore pieces that can boost happiness and cheerfulness. You can create combinations that are perceived as eerie and scary and can be used in horrormovies (What would be a movie without music… or even sound…). But if we define music as everything that vibrates… it suddenly becomes a whole nother story. From the biggest stars to the smalles atoms (even quarks and the hypothetic strings). Everything vibrates. Everything has a frequency. You are already in a neverending Ocean of vibration. You are begining to see more and more that the entire cosmos is also an “art of numbers relative to time”…
Path 4 – ASTROLOGY (The Art of Numbers relative to Space & Time): Normally when people hear the word “Astrology” they do not think of it as a “science” or something that can be studied. They think of it as the exact opposite of what they imagine under the word “science”. Astrology in modern times has become misinterpreted as some sort of fraudulency or cheap scam to trick simple-minded beings. Nothing could be further from the truth…
Astrology is here defined as the influence of heavenly bodies (stars, planets, etc.) on our individual and global Level depending on their arrangement in space and time.
It is true that Astrology can be misused as a way to cheat people into spending their money, but at the same time… what CAN NOT be misused to do this? Every topic can be misused to trick people. This applies also for areas that they usually don’t link with frauds and scams. Areas like Science, Medicine, Media and Government. But countless times there have been proofs of that especially these districts have been used to trick people into something that is not true (and more and more people are grasping this)…
A field of Knowledge can not be judged upon by what it is used for. It does not make it good or evil just because it was used for good or evil purposes. Knowledge is always neutral. And to say that the constellation (space) and position-changing (time) of stars has no influence on everything on this planet is total nonsense and utterly wrong. This can be proofed very easily.
If you ask yourself if the sun has influence of life to this planet called earth, then the answer you give yourself is certenly a “yes”. Because it totally has. Without the sun, there would be basically no life, period. There would be no plats, that grow from sunlight. There would be no animals no matter which one you think of on the ground, in the water or sky. There would be no warmth to support even basic lifeforms. Our entire natural Paradise called earth would be a dead, barren and bitterly cold rock.
So yes, the sun has absolutely an effect on our lives.
To move forward from this very obvious statement you ask yourself, what is the sun in a generalised term called? The answer would be, that the sun is a… star! So we do know by definition one star, that has massive influence on life on earth. And if we look at the other stars in our nightskies we just see different suns like our own. Do they have the same fundamental influence on us like our sun? No…! Do they have maybe enough power to give their force in at least some way to catalyse certain energymovements on our planet…? We better conclude, that this is the case…
Given the fact, that even some very close stars to our solarsystem absolutely dwarf our own sun we really should consider the possibility, that they can boost or slow down specific thoughts, emotions and actions depending on their quality. Do they “control” our behavior? No…! Only we control our thoughts, emotions and actions, and we only. But they can influence them significantly. It is like compared to swim a river upstream or downstream. If you swim upstream you still can get to the source of the water. There is no law that hinders you to reach your goal. But it is one heck of a Herculeian task to say it at least. It is waaay more difficult than for example swimming downstream to the sea. In that case you have to do sometimes basically nothing and you can just enjoy being carried by the force of the water.
If some stars are in close arrangement in the havens they can even combine their power to send them out in the neighboring universe. They form, like the neurons in a brain, a cluster called starsign. This collective mightiness is spread out in all directions. And the solarsystems closest to them (like for example ours) is where these energybundles are mostly absorbed and redirected or even focused from satellites like planets and also our sun right to us on earth. Then it reaches us and influences some thoughts, emotions and actions to make them easier or harder to have or create…
So it is vitaly important to understand that the Cosmos is also an “art of numbers realtive to time and space”
And that would be it for this time. I hope you could get also some epiphanies out of this one. Originally this blog was much much longer. But I rememberd while I was writing and writing, that this is a blog and not a book 😉
Each of these topics – same as with the trivium – could be written about for hundreds of single blogs, and we still would have not covered in all by any stretch of the imagination (See “Numberphile”. A giant Youtubechannel almost just about Arithmetics with over 500 Videos in April 2019). So this blog was also a learning journey for me. I cut my written text at one time litteraly in half to not overwhelm me or the readers…
There is just too much detail to talk about and I left this one here as the “surfaces scratching”. The diving deeper will be part of the future.
Next blog I already decided to write about more about the “Law of Karma”, or “why the things are happening to us that are happening to us”. Be excited about it. It is a topic that every human needs to understand especially in our times… I’ll see you there…
Truth, Love and Freedom,
Your Vatono
Top right: Geometry
Bottom left: Music
Bottom right: Astrology
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