Pythagorean Central Fire is the Number One as the Lower Tan T'ien!: Debunking equivalence of Plato and the I Ching music harmonics

http://ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com/2017/12/dear-professor-danielle-allen.html  building on that previous blog post:

Amazingly I discovered an article by Professor Ernest McClain on Plato and the I Ching music harmonics

It is just one chapter in another book - so I had never seen the book. I even corresponded with Professor McClain, before his death, but he had never mentioned this article.

On the one hand - it is further corroboration of the close ties between Pythagorean philosophy and Daoist alchemy training.

But at the same time it also reveals the "bait and switch" method of Plato that, unfortunately, Ernest McClain went along with.

Jung Hee Choi: (pdf link) writes how 3 in the  Tao Te Ching: "refers to the musical fifth" and so Ernest McClain also corroborates this claim, calling it "tonal-trinitarianism."

Professor Richard McKirahan confirms (pdf) that (An Overview of Philolaus' Metaphysics and Epistemology):

"knowing the rations 2:1, 3:2, and 4:3 (which, by the way, is all the early Pythagoreans knew) is not enough to know the nature of the octave; we also need to know what limiters and unlimiteds are in play."

 So Richard McKirahan had his whole chapter online but now just part of Philolaus On Number in google preview

McKirahan emphasizes that while Philolaus stated frequencies or harmonic intervals are ratios, not numbers, yet:

the early Pythagoreans .....held that things are numbers.... 

 Also we should add that "One" is not a number, since number was defined as a "plurality of units" - rather One was not even the Sun, but rather One was the "central fire" - the secret source of the Sun.

I should have blogged on this book already - when I had access to the full article....http://ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com/2017/11/debunking-later-pythagorean-philolaus.html

Right....so it was Philolaus providing the secret of the "double octave."

 So then the ratio 3:2 is the string length 2/3 and the ratio 4:3 is actually 8/6 as 3/4 of the double octave 12 to 8 string length.

And how was it derived - in my Blue Light of Blues Music article? Not the same!

I have previously cited academic analysis that the "Orthodox Pythagoreans" did not use the ratio 9:8 even though Philolaus had to use 9:8 and so the only way he could do so was by creating the double octave analysis.

"Going down by a Fifth means dividing by 3/2. All together we have 2/(3/2) = 4/3. Thus, by combining intervals, we have actually produced a new interval, called the Perfect Fourth. The Perfect Fourth is defined by a ratio of 4/3."

http://www.phys.uconn.edu/~gibson/Notes/Section3_2/Sec3_2.htm

So we are always taught that the double octave is 6:8:9:12 but in fact Philolaus realized (or argued erroneously) it is 0:6:8:9:12!!!


And so as I say in the blog post - the 4 is the double octave as 12 with 0 to 6 as the first octave and 6 to 12 as the 2nd octave!! And so then 4 (the 2nd octave) is actually the octave SQUARED - - based on the secret of Archytas - the bait and switch from doubling octaves to squaring as geometric mean. To quote myself:

The whole discussion is about the "central fire" (Hades or Hell) and so alchemically, as Kingsley points out that Empedocles teaches to focus the mind on the lower body stomach - that the "central fire" is in fact the light that comes out of the darkness of the lower emotional energy itself.

Wow I started out to debunk Ernest McClain - which was kind of a waste of time - and instead I discovered a NEW secret of Peter Kingsley!!

Peter Kingsley: Yes, and it’s also found in Taoist exercises as well as particular strands of Buddhism.... Empedocles tells his student that “if you press my words down underneath your dense-packed diaphragm,” in other words if you breathe them in deeply into your belly, then they will stay with you and they will grow and they will change you.

The inner farming

Kingsley is refering to the Central Fire as the Number One - the Shen under the Jing secret of Daoist alchemy.

Dear Dr. Peter Kingsley:

http://ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com/2018/02/pythagorean-central-fire-is-number-one.html

So Professor Richard McKirahan pooh-poohs the early Pythagoreans as not being as smart as Philolaus who realized that harmonic intervals are ratios, not "number." And so McKirahan then says Philolaus had to use the double octave to get 4/3 as the Perfect Fourth from the ratio 8/6 as 3/4 the wavelength of the double octave. And so this was the secret "vanishing mediator" to ARchytas using the geometric mean squared equation that converted the noncommutative phase of 2/3 C to F Perfect Fifth subharmonic into 4/3 as the harmonic mean (not the subcontrary mean).

But what McKirahan has no idea about is the real Pythagorean alchemy training - that you know about it! That to breath into the diaphragm is the secret of the Number 1 as the central fire, alchemical the fire below the water to create the pneuma or aion or qi or prana. It is amazing that these "expert" professors are still castigating and rejected real Pythagorean philosophy!! Thank you for revealing the truth - that I can only understand from having trained with a real Daoist alchemist based on the same harmonic secrets.

Dear Professor McKirahan: Thank you for your essay and study of Philolaus on Number. I have a response as a blog post http://ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com/2018/02/pythagorean-central-fire-is-number-one.html and just so you know, the true secret of Pythagorean philosophy is that "one is not a number" means that 2/3 is the Perfect Fifth as the subharmonic with different geometry than 3/2 as Perfect Fifth overtone harmonic. Philolaus and Archytas covered this up since only 3/2 could be used as the arithmetic mean to derive the octave as geometric mean squared. What was lost was noncommutative phase as quantum nonlocal consciousness with G=3=F at the same time as noncommutative phase. I go into the details about this - in several articles. The most recent being Blue Light and Blues Music. http://ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-blue-light-of-blues-music-ii.html  you can read on my blog - but Dr. Peter Kingsley truly did figure out the real secret of Pythagorean philosophy since the number 1 as the Central Fire means to put your spirit as fire underneath the water, as the central fire - not the sun - thereby creating the aion of the ionized cerebrospinal fluid to the brain - this is the same as Daoist alchemy training. I have all the details free on my blog.

Thanks and please let me know any comments, criticisms, questions, etc.

drew hempel, MA

So then from this PDF - The Reign of the WhirlWind - we find that perhaps Philolaus understood the real secret of noncommutative phase!!

 He called his "harmonized One," the "Mother of the Gods." ....It was also the "binding measure of Nature" because it is the "odd-even ratio." (A 16).

And so Pythagorean believed that the Fiery Hearth DEVOURED THE AIR (the Void) to create the Cosmos!!

yes the shen devours the qi to create jing.

The Cosmos nourished itself by exhalations of fire (shen) and water (jing)

The body is a tomb for our soul and rational thought is the spark of the Hearth.

Harris, H.S. is the author.

Manuscripts of H.S. Harris - YorkSpace - York University

https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/883

H. S. (Henry Silton) Harris, author and educator, was born on 11 April 1926 in Brighton England. He received his B. A. (Literae Humaniores) in classics and philosophy from Oxford University in 1949, his M. A. in 1952 and his Ph.D. (philosophy) in 1954 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Following a teaching ...

And from Andrei Lebedev:

There can be little doubt that Being of the  Aletheia corresponds to the Light in

 Doxa, and Non-Being of  Aletheia corresponds to the Night in  Doxa. This was correctly understood already by Aristotle who equates the basic oppositions of Aletheia and Doxa and correlates what-is with fire and what-is-not with earth in GC 318d7 ὥσπερ Παρµενίδης έγει, τὸ ὂν καὶ τὸ µὴ ὂν φάσκων εἶναι πῦρ καὶ γῆν.

 The lines B 8.34 ff. should be interpreted in the same way, as asserting   the   intelligible  nature  of  the  objects  of  mind: Ταὐτὸν δ᾽ἐστὶ νοεῖν τε καὶ οὕνεκεν ἔστι νόηµα. ‘The  same  thing  is  to  perceive  and  what  causes  perception’

the Sphere of Being in  Aletheia  was conceived as a Sphere of divine thinking light.

The cosmic harmony of the Pythagoreans was not just a law of nature (like Anaximander's law of exact compensation in material change), but a moral and political paradigm for ascetic spiritual discipline.

The verb  used by Philolaus , the use of...  in the sense of “to come into being  by means harmonizing itself” is both unlikely and unattested.

 Parmenides (i.e. in the early 5th century B.C.) is a technical term for subjective opinion produced by sense perception as opposed to the objective reality that can be known by “pure mind”,

By “emptiness” Parmenides means not the empty space of Democritus, but the “absence of mind”, i.e. body.

 These were originally geometrical concepts: peras corresponds, e.g. to the shape of a square, and apeiron to the “empty space” enclosed within it. Since it lacks a shape of its own, it cannot be an object of thought, we can only “dream” about it (, Tim. 52a 11).

 According to Sotion Parmenides was converted to «tranquility”, i.e. Pythagorean virtuous life of contemplation, by his Pythagorean teacher Ameinias.

 One may guess that Pythagoreans and Eleatics practiced spiritual exercises and meditations contemplating with the internal the intelligible «Sun of Justice» described in Parmenides’ Aletheia.

Dear Professor Andrei Lebedev: I finished my master's degree doing intensive nonwestern Pythagorean meditation from a Daoist spiritual yogi philosopher healer Chunyi Lin of http;//springforestqigong.com who trained at Shaolin. I trained in music from a young age along with theory but realized there was a logical mathematical error in harmonics. So I ascribed to Pythagorean harmonics and so was against the square root of two, as I knew it was from the wrong harmonics. So I have since discovered the secret math is called "noncommutative phase" - not known again till quantum physics! So I had read Kingsley and also the "three gunas" of India is from music theory, just as the Tai Chi of Daoism - from the same Pythagorean philosophy. I have a blog with my research - http://ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com and so you have truly enabled me to understand some real secrets. I agree with your criticisms of Burnyeat - although he does emphasize how Plato did promote the square root of two. I have corresponded with math professor Luigi Borzacchini about the secret music origins of Western math. And so now from your research - we can understand the square root of two as neither geometric form, nor arithmetic distance but as Plato stated, it is "apeiron" - the formless space within the geometry. It is amazing this is not taught in Western math! haha. But nevertheless, as you point out, this still is not the real Pythagorean meaning of Apeiron, but rather, as you say you can only "dream" about the formless. And so just as the number one is the Hearth - this is the alchemical fire that has to be put into the watery void of the lower emotions - what is called in Daoism, the lower tan t'ien. It is stunning how this is the same secret of Empedocles teaching as Kingsley points out - to focus the mind on the diaphragm. This then creates the ionization or "aion" as time being a negentropic flow or cosmic flow of the serpent - the cerebrospinal fluid that then feeds the sun as the brain - while the hearth is the counter-sun of the void in the lower tan t'ien (technically the small intestines). And in reality this is the 5th dimension as noncommutative phase - that creates the sun and the Universe - called quantum degeneracy pressure - it is not random - but phase coherence as quantum biology has discovered. It is the "spark" of the rational mind as internal listening as Harmonia.

There are more connections between Daoist alchemy, Indian yoga of the three gunas - Kriya Yoga - and Pythagorean philosophy that I Have now realized after reading your work. Thanks again and my blog has all the links to my research - all free.

Take care and let me know any criticisms, comments or questions.

p.s. yes these spiritual masters can see in 4D out of their brain - as a sphere of light that is non-local - meaning it also does long distance healing and has precognition and sees information from the past, stored in buildings, etc. And so when you say one description of hell is the sublunary realm - this is true in the sense then that the moon energy has to be build up into the solar energy to then merge back into the Emptiness - as you say the Light feeds off the Emptiness. This is very much the secret of the law of phase harmony - the light is eternal motion since there is no rest mass but there is hidden momentum that is reverse time energy. And so - this is also a Harmonia process or 3 in 1 unity - as nonlocal phase. It got covered up by Archytas using the wrong music theory - and so Plato promoted the wrong music theory of Archytas whereby geometric mean is the octave. In fact the arithmetic mean is also 2/3 as subharmonic. And so the subcontrary mean is actually 2/3 originally - as noncommutative phase or G=3=F at the same time. This is the secret of the Tetrad or Tetraktys and why, as Boethius said, the Orthodox Pythagoreans rejected 9/8. Instead the infinite spiral of fifths is noncommutative phase so that the sublunar emotional energy 2/3 is ionized into spirit light energy as 3/2.

I have more details on my blog. Thanks again,

drew hempel, MA