What the next First Turning won't be like

[Eric the Green]

(10-06-2021, 03:31 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:  The best reason for believing in one God is that the universe makes sense. Does something supernatural underpin mathematics and physics?

They are at least Platonic. Numbers don't exist in the sensible universe. They are in the realm of pure form or reason. To that extent they are supernatural. And yet we can use them to measure the universe, and to demonstrate that theories of physics work. The originators of modern western science had the purpose of proving that God created an ordered universe. They understood that numbers are part of a higher intelligence of harmony and rhythm. If the universe demonstrates this harmony, they thought, it is proof of the faith.

I have noticed harmonies that indicate to me an intelligent design, although I don't believe in that theory per se. The design is not imposed by an external God force. It is inherent in the full nature of reality, which is more than what we often think it is. I notice that our two great lights (Sun and Moon) have the same color as the two most luminous metals (gold and silver). The ancients decided the value of these metals according to the length of the two orbits. These two bodies are arranged proportionately just right so that total eclipses can occur, according to the number 108. The orbits of Earth and Venus are aligned so that the pattern between them forms a 5-pointed star or pentagram. The pattern looks like 5 petals, in 4 sizes, within the 0 circle. The number 540 (The BWV number of Bach's Toccata in F) is 5 times 108, and is the total number of degrees in a face of a dodecahedron, one of the 5 platonic solids that represents the universe, the zodiac, ether, or spirit, depending on how you call the fifth element. The angles within a pentagram are each 108 degrees, and the lines in a pentagram (which can be drawn inside a dodecahedron face) shows the divine proportion, which creates the fibonacci series. The relationship between these two orbits are in fibonacci numbers, 5, 8, 13.