The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius.

“Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other living things to be ignorant of themselves, is natural; but for man it is a defect.”

~ Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy ~

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The Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIÆ) is a work by the sixth-century philosopher Boethius that has been described as having had the single most important influence on the Christianity of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance and as the last great work of the Classical Period.  

The Consolation of Philosophy was written during a one-year imprisonment Boethius served while awaiting trial – and eventual horrific execution – for the crime of treason under the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great.

A page from a version of
The Consolation of Philosophy
published in 1485.

Boethius was at the very heights of power in Rome and was brought down by treachery. This experience inspired the text, which reflects on how evil can exist in a world governed by God (the problem of theodicy), and how happiness can be attainable amidst fickle fortune, while also considering the nature of happiness and God. It has been described as "by far the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen."  Wikipedia

Dante said : "The blessed soul who exposes the deceptive world to anyone who gives ear to him."

Theodicy =  Attempts to answer the question why a good God permits the manifestation of evil. I am not sure if it correctly addresses this in the light of the Seven Principals of Truth and the principals of Rhythm and correspondence and the cyclical nature of the universe in general.  Do they ponder that this universe is a huge animal crawling through space with a lot of other big animals and that we earth people are just the tiny bacteria on this particular gigantic animal we find ourselves on.   Yes that is a big picture and if our divinity is directly relation to the All Mighty then it is possible isn't it?

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The Use of Homeless Spikes

Homeless Spikes! I had never heard of them and I was horrified at such a lack of humanity.  I could barely believe what I was reading and the attitude people have toward those who have fallen on hard times in life.

The image was widely shared on Twitter (Andrew Horton/Twitter

From the Telegraph

Homelessness charities said the use of metal studs to prevent rough sleepers is widespread and they have been installed on ledges and in doorways for more than a decade.

I am going to keep my eyes open for this happening here in Australia.  I would not put it past Abbott and his heartless cronies to bring in such a law.  Perhaps they have already and I don't know about it yet.  Its like they bring in new laws now faster than any of us can keep up with.   I tend to think that even the most law abiding person would break the law these days unwittingly, its just that legislated.

Security spikes protect a gated community in the East End of London. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Its hard to believe that the world can treat their fellow man in such a degrading humiliating way in front of their peers by their peers for what?  Being poor?

Sydney has many homeless people, I respected their dignity and didn't photograph them.

 

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ARCHITECTURE and LIFE!

It is one tremendous world. The universe presents equal opportunity for all and special privilege for none .

St James Church Morpeth NSW

This great commune has as its ultimate the gradual manifestation of its purpose and structure that man himself builds .

ARCHITECTURE according to the Vitruvian Canons is a human representation of the laws of life as they relate to stress and pressure and harmony of form and materials, Therefore the building was a symbol of an invisible building composed of the eternal principals of mathematics and science.  In the same way everything  that we construct, that we build in our minds and hearts is based upon great archetypal forms that exist forever in nature and all of these archetypes are alive.  They are not just dead things, there is nothing dead, even the belief in death cannot kill us... because there is something that is inside of us always and this thing that is inside of us symbolizes itself outward into various forms and manifestations.

 Written after listening to MPH again.  I could listen to this man forever not just every night.

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The highest form of pure thought is mathematics.

Plato - Ancient Greek Philosopher. He is reputed to be the world's most influential philosopher. 428 BC-348 BC.

What holds your world together?  Leave me a comment and tell me what does this in your world.  In my world it is a beautiful place where  Sound and unseen forces hold it all together for me.   Vibration and resonance at exact precise pulse moments is what makes my world the beautiful place that it is.  Sound and resonance.  We are beings of light after all.   Light has a resonance and so does colour.  So do we!

These resonances have now been calculated to be mathematically perfect in the delivery.   Even in past times the word Rhetoric  meant far different to what it means to us  today.  It was the Art of the Orator, and these days we see it as the wordy exaggerated speech of politicians and the like.   We are left swindled and mildly off course.  This is the travesty left by the previous world education leaders ( The roman Catholics) for a little over two thousand years.

Imagine the use  of fibonacci in design schools if the truth was followed.  What beauty would come from the designs churned out by the students at will.  If only they knew.  They don't though because it isn't taught in our education systems.  Some person some where decided it was not important.  That person was a roman.  He was apposed to the general populace having true power and he desired to strip us and he did.

I am telling you  that this is important and if they won't teach you then you need to teach yourself.

Plato was a brilliant philosopher. He understood this connection we all share with everything else.  He understood we are the same as the stars in the sky and the ground we walk on and the waters of the oceans.  Our veins and rivers are similar and are the life blood of both entities of Earth and humanity.

The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia), which literally means "love of wisdom". Plato was was a great lover of wisdom .  

Detail of The School of Athens by Raffaello Sanzio, 1509, showing Plato (left) and Aristotle (right) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I love to quote Plato because he and I must have so many similarities and in fact he could have been a relative.  Because Fibonacci sequences ago, we may have even came from the same family.   A family of thinkers and lovers of natural beauty and aesthetics in nature. 

The perfection that nature offers up in everything.  The divinity of  it all just is a delight to see.  It is so plain to see.   It is everywhere around us.  It is in the petals of the flowers.  The separate seed pieces in the spiraling of a pine cone.   Our Pineal Gland is the first thing created from the sperm and egg when they combine to become life.  The fibonacci sequence is alive and well at the beginnings of life.  We have thirty three bones in our spinal cord.  Our bodies are walking mathematical showrooms of science and mathematics.  Perhaps Math and Medicine should be taken jointly.  After all  isn't God referred to as the great Physician. 

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

 These are wise words of Plato's.  He is so correct  and besides anger stems from fear and fear resonates lower and does nothing but sound like a gong.  Fear is not sweet.  It is rough and feels awful to hear  any fear resonance.  You hear it in shaky voices in shock.  This is a sound that makes my body go faster.  It makes my heart beat faster and my pupils dilate.

It is also not worth the anger at our leaders for teaching faulty education.  We need to take control for ourselves and do what we can to educate ourselves and our children in the sweet sciences of ancient times past.

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