The first step - PREPARED.
Life Pythagorean novice.
Only from that moment began noviciate called by the (paraskéié, which lasted for at least two years and could last up to five years. Novices or hear (akoustikoï had to observe during the lesson absolute silence. They did not have the right either to object or asked their teachers . They had to accept their teachings with a silent respect and a long time to reflect on them alone. To implement this policy in the minds of new listeners, it showed a statue of woman, enveloped in a white cover with a finger, attached to her lips. Музу silence.
Pythagoras believed the youth was not yet ready to understand the origin and end of things. He thought that train young people in the dialectics and discussion before they do not Feel the meaning of truth, then prepares the Sophists executed claims. He wanted above all to develop in their students the highest human capacity: intuition.
But he was not taken for the purpose of their interpretations of what a difficult and mysterious. He believed their natural feelings of the main duties of man, with his entry into life, and the relationship with the world the latest laws. Zapechatlevaya in the hearts of young people, above all, love of parents, he developed a feeling for the identification of the father with the idea of God the great Creator of the universe.
"There is nothing honors his father," he said. "Homer called Jupiter the King of Gods, but to show all his greatness, he called him the father of gods and humans." Pythagoras compared with mother nature, a benevolent and beneficent, and as a celestial body makes Cybele, Demeter as fruits and flowers emerging on the earth, so the mother is feeding her child all the joys available to him. That is why the son should read in his father and his mother's earthly representatives of the great deities.
He argued that the love of the homeland comes from the love that people nurtured in childhood by his mother. Parents are not given to us by chance, I think indignant, but due to higher order, relating to all the previous person who can call it fate. Parents need to respect whatever they may be, and their friends choose.
Entering the Pythagorean school offered pair, according to spiritual affinity. Junior had to go in the high quality of those to which he aspires, and the two comrades had to bring each other to a better life. "A friend is my alter ego. It should be read as God," said Teacher.
It is in relation to the Pythagorean rule Teachers demand absolute obedience, so in the friendly relations they have complete freedom over the fact Pythagoras made out of a sense of momentum all the virtues of friendship, the poetry of life, the path to the ideal.
In this way, individual students in budilas power, morality ozhivotvoryalas and took the nature of poetry, with love by the rules of life ceased to be cramped and served - on the contrary - to assert individuality. Pythagoras sought to obedience was voluntary.
In addition, the teaching of morals, preparing for the perception of philosophy, for us, which is found between public duties and the harmony of the cosmos, cause of foreboding world of law analogies and correspondences. In this regard, and is the basis of mysteries, occult teachings, and all philosophy. Um student accustomed to see the invisible print order is likely true. General rules and requirements to disclose a summary of the prospects of higher world. Morning and evening, the students sang to the accompaniment of lira gold verses:
Render immortal Gods reverential adoration
And then keep your faith ...
Commenting on this rule, the student explained that the gods, different from sight, were essentially the same among all peoples, because they correspond to the rational forces that operate throughout the universe. With this understanding, wise to honor the Gods of their homeland, having at the same time, a totally different understanding of their essence, than the people ignorant.
Tolerance to all cults, the unity of all peoples in the human evolution, the unity of religions in the esoteric science, all these new ideas began to arise in the mind of the newly entered student. A golden lira continued its profound teachings:
Honor the memory of beneficent heroes
Honor the spirit of the immortal demigod.
These verses came began to differentiate - as though through a veil - the divine Psyche, the soul of man. The heavenly lights the way to his inner eyes. Because the cult of heroes and demigod, meditate on the teachings of the future life and the mystery of the global evolution. This great secret is not disclosed to the disciple at once, preparing it for its acceptance, referring to it on a hierarchy above the human beings, called demigod heroes and who are its leaders and supporters of his life. Added to this, that they serve as mediators between man and god, that through them, with heroic qualities, he could reach closer to the deity.
"But how to enter into intercourse with these invisible geniuses? Whence comes the soul? Where it goes? And why this grim mystery of death?" Entrant does not dare to ask these questions, but they could guess the expression on his face, instead of the answer, the teacher pointed him in the fighting on the ground, on the statue in the temple and the enlightened soul in heaven, this "fiery strength of Gods, where proniknul Hercules.
In the depths of ancient mysteries, all the gods were reduced to a single supreme God. This revelation, the concept until the end, it became a key Cosmos. The idea that kept secret until the dedication in the proper sense of the word. Entered not knowing anything about it. He gave only a prediction of this truth in the reflection carried over to the music and numbers. For the number, teacher will teach, enclose the mystery of things, and world harmony is the perfect expression of God. Seven sacred tune, built on seven notes semistrunnika correspond to the seven colors of light, the seven planets and seven modes of existence, is repeated in all spheres of material and spiritual life, beginning with the humility to the greatest. Melodies of Ladová imposed per pupil, would have to configure it and make it so harmonious that it can respond to vibrate at every blow of truth.
This corresponded to a purification of the soul and cleanse the body, which was achieved by proper hygiene and the strict discipline of manners. Encourage their passions were first on duty. Who has not brought his own nature in harmony, it can not reflect and divine harmony.
But the ideal of life is not a member Pythagorean asceticism, as the marriage of the Pythagoreans considered as something sacred. In doing so, students were required to chastity, abstinence is dedicated to serve as a source of strength and perfection. "Assign sensuality means to accept the humiliation in front by himself," said Teacher. He added that voluptuousness is the illusion that it can be compared with the singing of the sirens, which are just closer to them, disappear, and the place where they where distributed singing are a broken bone and red pieces of the body on a rock, izedennoy ocean waves; whereas the true joy of this concert music, which leaves traces in the soul of the celestial harmony. "
Pythagoras trust on the virtues of women, but treated with great suspicion by the ordinary woman. One student, who asked Pythagoras, when he could be closer to her, he replied: "When you walk your rest."
Pythagorean day as follows: as soon as the fierce sun vyplyval drive from the blue waves of the Ionian Sea, the golden temple music columns, which rise above the housing of young Pythagoreans sang a hymn Apollo, performing at the same time, the sacred dance of Doric, both courageous and solemn.
After the usual ablutions committed a walk through the temple in complete silence. Each awakening was seen as a resurrection to new life. Starting his day, the soul was supposed to focus, to chaste purity heed subsequent lesson. Under the shadow of the sacred groves of the students grouped around the teacher, or around his representatives, and the lesson took place in the shade of trees or the freshness of the church porches. At noon prayer delivered heroes and benevolent geniuses. Esoteric tradition asserts that the good spirits are approaching to land, together with sunlight, while the evil spirits are looking for dark and appear only with the onset of night. Moderate lunch usually consisted of bread, honey and olive.
Afternoon time devoted to gymnastic exercises, and then learned, meditation, and prepared for the Inland lesson the next day. After sunset there was a general prayer, sang the national anthem kosmogonicheskim gods of heaven, Jupiter, Minerva, Providence, Diane, is patron of the dead. At that time, incense or other burned incense on the altar under the open sky and the sounds of the anthem, connecting to the waves of flavors, quietly raised darkened the air, when the first stars lit in a deep azure sky. Day ended with the evening meal, after which the youngest of the students read aloud, and read the most senior explained.
So proceeded days Pythagoreans, pure and clear as the morning sky without clouds. Year calculated on a large astronomical holidays. Thus, the return of Apollo hyperborean and celebration connected all the mysteries of Ceres. And once again entered the disciples, and on all levels, both men and women alike.
At these celebrations, young girls playing in the lira, married women in peplumah purple and saffron-colored performed successive choruses, accompanied by songs with harmonic passages and verses antistrof, who later took over the tragedy.
During the festive celebrations, which seemed to reflect the divine grace and movement, and the penetrating melody choruses, a young student came foreboding occult forces, powerful ozhivotvorennoy laws of nature, the deep secrets of clear sky.
Marriage ceremonies and funeral rites were more intimate but no less solemn character.
Sometimes, arranged the original ceremony, perhaps in order to impress the imagination of students: when anyone of them voluntarily left the school and returned to their previous lives, or when the student a secret esoteric teachings that only happened one time, he erected on the tomb wall in the sanctuary, as if for the deceased. By this ceremony, Teacher, said: "it is more dead than dead, since he returned to a bad life, his body moving among the people, but his soul is dead, we will mourn him." This tomb erected lifetime, it had like a barnacle shadows, like the writing on the wall.
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