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The First Point In The Pythagorean Triangle Explained.
existed , from India and Japan to the extremest west , including the Goths , the Celtce , and the Aborigines of America . All acknowledge the unity of T , G . A . O- T . U ., whether involved in the deepest ignorance , or refined by civilization and a knowledge of philosophy and science . The sages of Greece , through a series of wiredrawn reasoning , came to the same conclusion as the uninformed savages of Britain , Scandinavia , Mexico , and Peru .
The Divine Being was called by the Romans Jove , or JAH ; by the Chaldeans , the Phoenicians , and the Celtre , Bel , or But ; and by the Indians and Egyptians Aum ( Om ) , or ON . The first was plainly Jehovah , the second was a common name of God , and the last used by the early Christians , to express the Being whom they worshipped , O QN , nai o i ] v , Kai o ep ^ ofxevoy , God , which is , and was , and is to come . * But it must always be kept in mind that the heathen , in acknowledging their
chief God to be the Maker , or G . A . O . T . U ., did not understand it in the exact sense in which it is received by Jews and Christians . They believed that God built the world out of existing materials ; we are satisfied that he created it out of nothing . The divine unity was plainly revealed to the Jews at their'deliverance from the bondage of Egypt . Thus when Moses promulgated the law , he said— " Hear , O Israel , the Lord our God is one Lord . " + This declaration was so frequentl
y repeated , that tbe Jews , amidst all their rebellions and religions defections , never doubted its truth . In like manner the Vedas of India , the Zends of Persia , the Hermesian writings of Egypt , the Eddas of the northern nations of Europe , & c , all contained the same truth ; and from these original sources , it was conveyed through Thales and
Pythagoras , to the philosophers of Greece and Rome . The latter great philosopher styled the supreme deity TO ev , UNITY , and jiovas , THE MONAD ; a term by which he doubtless intended to express his conceptions of the simplicity as well as purity of the divine nature . The sole cause and first principle of all that exists . Pythagoras esteemed the deity to be the centre of unity , and source of harmony . He likewise conferred on this Almighty Sovereign the name by which Plato afterwards distinguished the first hypostasis of his triad
, TO dyaBov—the chief good . From this eternal monad , however , from this primeval UNITY , according to Pythagoras and all his disciples , there sprang an infinite duality 4 Thus was the doctrine of the monad , or unity , carried out in these early ages , and amongst an idolatrous people ; for however they might worship an indefinite number of intelligences , they had discrimination enough to perceive that there could be only one Being of unbounded
power , because a duplication of such beings would circumscribe the potency of each individual , and destroy his omnipotence and immutability . " It was idle , " says Bryant , " in the ancients to make a disquisition about the identity of any god , as compared with another , and to adjudge him to Jupiter rather than to Mars , to Venus rather than Diana . According to Diodorus , some think that Osiris is Serapis ; others that he is Dionysus ; others still that he is Pluto ; many take him for Zeus
, or Jupiter , and not a few for Pan . This was an unnecessary embarrassment , for they were all titles of the same god ; there being originally by no means that diversity which is imagined , as Sir John Marsham has very justly observed , ' Neque enim tanta , -noXvdeoTvs gentium , quanta fait deorum , -iro \ va > vvu . ia . '" §
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The First Point In The Pythagorean Triangle Explained.
existed , from India and Japan to the extremest west , including the Goths , the Celtce , and the Aborigines of America . All acknowledge the unity of T , G . A . O- T . U ., whether involved in the deepest ignorance , or refined by civilization and a knowledge of philosophy and science . The sages of Greece , through a series of wiredrawn reasoning , came to the same conclusion as the uninformed savages of Britain , Scandinavia , Mexico , and Peru .
The Divine Being was called by the Romans Jove , or JAH ; by the Chaldeans , the Phoenicians , and the Celtre , Bel , or But ; and by the Indians and Egyptians Aum ( Om ) , or ON . The first was plainly Jehovah , the second was a common name of God , and the last used by the early Christians , to express the Being whom they worshipped , O QN , nai o i ] v , Kai o ep ^ ofxevoy , God , which is , and was , and is to come . * But it must always be kept in mind that the heathen , in acknowledging their
chief God to be the Maker , or G . A . O . T . U ., did not understand it in the exact sense in which it is received by Jews and Christians . They believed that God built the world out of existing materials ; we are satisfied that he created it out of nothing . The divine unity was plainly revealed to the Jews at their'deliverance from the bondage of Egypt . Thus when Moses promulgated the law , he said— " Hear , O Israel , the Lord our God is one Lord . " + This declaration was so frequentl
y repeated , that tbe Jews , amidst all their rebellions and religions defections , never doubted its truth . In like manner the Vedas of India , the Zends of Persia , the Hermesian writings of Egypt , the Eddas of the northern nations of Europe , & c , all contained the same truth ; and from these original sources , it was conveyed through Thales and
Pythagoras , to the philosophers of Greece and Rome . The latter great philosopher styled the supreme deity TO ev , UNITY , and jiovas , THE MONAD ; a term by which he doubtless intended to express his conceptions of the simplicity as well as purity of the divine nature . The sole cause and first principle of all that exists . Pythagoras esteemed the deity to be the centre of unity , and source of harmony . He likewise conferred on this Almighty Sovereign the name by which Plato afterwards distinguished the first hypostasis of his triad
, TO dyaBov—the chief good . From this eternal monad , however , from this primeval UNITY , according to Pythagoras and all his disciples , there sprang an infinite duality 4 Thus was the doctrine of the monad , or unity , carried out in these early ages , and amongst an idolatrous people ; for however they might worship an indefinite number of intelligences , they had discrimination enough to perceive that there could be only one Being of unbounded
power , because a duplication of such beings would circumscribe the potency of each individual , and destroy his omnipotence and immutability . " It was idle , " says Bryant , " in the ancients to make a disquisition about the identity of any god , as compared with another , and to adjudge him to Jupiter rather than to Mars , to Venus rather than Diana . According to Diodorus , some think that Osiris is Serapis ; others that he is Dionysus ; others still that he is Pluto ; many take him for Zeus
, or Jupiter , and not a few for Pan . This was an unnecessary embarrassment , for they were all titles of the same god ; there being originally by no means that diversity which is imagined , as Sir John Marsham has very justly observed , ' Neque enim tanta , -noXvdeoTvs gentium , quanta fait deorum , -iro \ va > vvu . ia . '" §