10-06-2024, 07:28 PM
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(10-04-2024, 09:24 PM)Maxmars Wrote: I am impressed that so many ancient philosophical texts describe or allude to principles which mirror the cutting edge thinking about physical reality.
Yes, that's a good observation, and one that certainly comes to mind on occasion. I don't know what MSS/texts you are referring, but it's most definitely a true statement.
Here are just a couple (major) examples that are often aroused to the forefront of my mind lately:
1a. Hermes Trismegistus (Hermetics). This is mostly just derived of some reading material that has accompanied me at various points along my way. I will say that it has stood the test of time (unlike M-theory) and the ideas are usually rekindled whenever someone speaks of consciousness in conjunction with the universe e.g. all is mind (the 1st principle).
1b. The seven Hermetic principles:
1. The principle of mentalism (all is mind).
2. The principle of correspondence (as above so below; as within so without).
3. The principle of vibration (everything moves; everything vibrates).
4. The principle of polarity (everything is dual).
5. The principle of rhythm (everything comes and everything goes, everything ebbs and everything flows).
6. The principle of cause and effect (post ergo propter hoc – in most cases).
7. The principle of gender (found everywhere; even inanimate objects are constructed of atoms that contain negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons).
How much of the above would strike one as contemporary is debatable, but at least some of it if not most of it.
2. The ancient Hebrew/Hermetic MSS/texts/images that allude to a pre-spatial primordial origin; analogous philosophical quotes of antiquity such as God is a virtually infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. The "center is everywhere" segment would not be implying any kind of spatial "everywhere", but instead would be reiterating a "pre-spatial" state where it would be the only thing in existence, period, so given that particular scenario it would technically be "everywhere" since there exists no relative spatial location prior the beginning of any spatial dimensions, and from this non-spatial context one might even entertain the idea of this 'thing' being comprised of infinities "within" e.g. the omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient qualities et cetera.
