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1 "Cognizance of harmony in nature and mathematics attunes us to harmony at our own core." A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

2 "The archetypal principles of number manifest themselves as forms around us. Circles and spheres, triangles, squares, pentagons, spirals, and the five Platonic volumes represent principles that shape the world." A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

3 "Plato speaks of a mathematical intuition by which we perceive the structure of reality. It was through insight of this kind that Sir Isaac Newton was given his monumental vision of the order within the cosmos. Kurt Godel speaks of the insight through which we can perceive the truths of mathematics and compares this to Plato's understanding of how we encounter the Ideas. This 'seeing through' ordinary reality, if carried far enough, can bring us to a religious understanding." Companions on the Inner Way (Morton T. Kelsey)

4 "Mathematics possesses not only truth, but some supreme beauty." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British mathematician, philosopher, 'Mysticism and Logic' The Great Thoughts (George Seldes, compiler)

5 "Those who have maintained that the position of Mathematics is a fundamental one, have drawn one of their strongest arguments from the actual constitution of things. The material frame is subject in all its parts to the relations of number. All dynamical, chemical, electrical, thermal actions seem not only to be measurable in themselves, but to be connected with each other, even to the extent of mutual convertibility, by numerical relations of a perfectly definite kind." George Boole (1815-1864), English philosopher A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)

6 "Number gives the clue to the form and purpose of the life which the form veils." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

7 "It is not such an audacious conclusion after all if we define number psychologically as an archetype of order which has become conscious (cf. 'On the Psychology of Eastern Meditation', par. 942). Remarkably enough, the psychic images of wholeness which are spontaneously produced by the unconscious, the symbols of the self in mandala form, also have a mathematical structure. They are as a rule quaternities (or their multiples). These structures not only express order, they also create it. That is why they generally appear in times of psychic disorientation in order to compensate a chaotic state or as formulations of numinous experiences." Synchronicity, An Acausal Principle (Carl Jung)

8 "Whole numbers may well be the discovery of God's 'primal thoughts.'" C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961 (Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)

9 "Numbers keep recurring not because we make them do so but because they are inherent in the proportions of nature that express the timeless mathematical archetypes." A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

10 "Numbers are the representations of real and eternal truths beyond space and time, and of a purposeful pattern to the universe." The Modern Numerology: A Practical Guide to the Meaning and Influence of Numbers (John King)

11 "It is only the pattern with its message that proves really vital to life. On the ocean one could make the analogy that it is not the saltwater but the abstract energy that shapes and powers the wave. Likewise it is not the atoms in DNA but their geometric relation that makes the gene." Seven Mysteries of Life, An Exploration in Science and Philosophy (Guy Murchie)

12 "The ancient metaphor of Indra's net and the modern formulations of quantum physics remind us that we are all woven together." The Search for the Beloved (Jean Houston)

13 "There appears to be deep-hidden in the unconscious, awaiting favourable opportunity to come forth into the conscious, a transcendent geometrical symmetry, like that referred to by the Greek philosophers in such aphorisms as 'God geometrizes', or 'The Universe is founded on number'; and, also, a divine beauty and perfect harmony." The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

14 "The Universe is operated with exact mathematical precision." Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge (Zolar)

15 "Scientists confirm with formulas what ancient seers knew through revelation: that the world's patterns and cycles are harmonious when seen as mathematical relationships…Where we see 'things', nouns and discrete objects, the ancient mathematical philosophers saw PROCESSES, verbs, transforming patterns meshed harmoniously." A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

16 "Photographs taken through electron microscopes and far-ranging telescopes reveal that images from vastly different scales evoke a feeling of similarity and recognition. A spiral nebula that measures hundreds of light-years across looks remarkably similar to something that measures a thousandth of a centimeter, say the eye of a firefly. One can be seen as the fractal resonance of the other, the resonance of the microcosm to the macrocosm." A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story (Jean Houston)

17 "The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty." Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948), Scottish zoologist, classical scholar A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

18 "At the mathematical level of the geometrical patterns of the Fibonacci series that we observe when cells come together, we see Plato's 'intelligible realm'. The math, not simply the meat, brings us to the threshold of another domain, an ontological realm in which principles of self-organization from noise allow new modes of being to emerge. The coordinated cells begin to become overlaid by mathematical patterns, states of being whose form of 'incarnation' is not meat but math." Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness (William Irwin Thompson)

19 "The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in the form of beauty." John Mitchell (b. 1933), English geometer and philosopher A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

20 "Mathematics has more than once proved that its purely logical constructions which transcend all experience subsequently coincided with the behaviour of things. This, like the events I call synchronistic, points to a profound harmony between all forms of existence." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

21 "Numbers have been part of our thinking since before we lived in caves. There is not a single religion, past or present, which fails to attribute a special significance to some number or group of numbers." The Modern Numerology: A Practical Guide to the Meaning and Influence of Numbers (John King)

22 "Every soul is according to number.." Secrets of Enoch, ch. LVII, v. 7 The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden (various)

23 “The mathematically precise arrangement of a crystal evokes in us the intuitive feeling that even in so-called ‘dead’ matter, there is a spiritual ordering principle at work.” Marie Louise vonFranz, ‘The Process of Individuation’ Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung)

24 "The geometry of the archetypes and the Universal Mind are evident in the principles of symmetry which pervade nature and art. Symmetry shows us a glimpse of the ideal beauty which is reflected in nature, infusing it with order. Symmetry is universal; it can be found everywhere as the broad principle of balance and harmony." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

25 "Mathematics is the archetype of the beauty of the world." Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), quoted by Werner Heisenberg in 'Science and the Beautiful' Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (Ken Wilber, editor)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite