Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem

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Among the Greeks, the scholars of the Egyptians, all the higher ideas and severer doctrines on the Divinity, his Sovereign Nature and Infinite Might, the Eternal Wisdom and Providence that conducts and directs all things to their proper end, the Infinite Mind and Supreme Intelligence that created all things, and is raised far above external nature,--all these loftier ideas and nobler doctrines were expounded more or less perfectly by Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, and Socrates, and developed in the most beautiful and luminous manner by Plato, and the philosophers that succeeded him.

And accordingly Ocellus Lucanus, the Disciple of Pythagoras, held that the principal cause of all sublunary effects resided in the Zodiac, and that from it flowed the good or bad influences of the planets that revolved therein.

The peculiar and principal symbol of this Degree is the Tetractys of Pythagoras, suspended in the East, where ordinarily the sacred word or letter glitters, like it, representing the Deity.

Star, magical adored under name of Remphan, 103-u Star of five points originated from the Pentalpha of Pythagoras, 634-m.

Unity, that sublime centre to which the chain of causes necessarily ascends, was the august Idea toward which all the ideas of Pythagoras converged.

Philosophy of the Hermetics that of the schools of Alexandria and the theories of Pythagoras, 774-l.

Modern science strikingly confirms the ideas of Pythagoras in regard to the properties of numbers, and that they govern in the Universe.

It reiterates the maxims of Pythagoras, Confucius, and Zoroaster, and reverentially enforces the sublime lessons of Him who died upon the Cross.

In the Grecian Mysteries, as established by Pythagoras, there were three Degrees.

Thus the Egyptian Priests tried Pythagoras before admitting him to know the secrets of the sacred science.

This was the doctrine of Pythagoras, who learned it when he received the Egyptian Mysteries: and it was the doctrine of all who, by means of the ceremonial of initiation, thought to purify the soul.

It is, according to Pythagoras, vast troops of souls that form that luminous belt.

Zoroaster, Sanchoniathon, Pherecydes, Syrus, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, of all the ancients, that is come to our hand, is symbolic.

From the Milky Way, according to Pythagoras, diverged the route to the dominions of Pluto.

As examples of this sort, they named Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and Christ.