Neopythagoreanism
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Neopythagorean
)Neopythagoreanism (or neo-Pythagoreanism) was a school of
unio mystica with the divine.[1]
The word Neopythagoreanism is a modern (19th century) term,[2] coined as a parallel of "Neoplatonism".
History
In the 1st century BC
Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl. 150 AD), who wrote about the mystical properties of numbers. In the 2nd century, Numenius of Apamea sought to fuse additional elements of Platonism into Neopythagoreanism, prefiguring the rise of Neoplatonism. (Iamblichus
, in particular, was especially influenced by Neopythagoreanism.)
Neopythagoreanism was an attempt to re-introduce a
Ideas with Pythagorean number theory, and identified the good with the monad (which would give rise to the Neoplatonic concept of "the One
"), the source of the duality of the infinite and the measured with the resultant scale of realities from the one down to the objects of the material world.
They emphasized the fundamental distinction between the
spirit
.
The Porta Maggiore Basilica, where Neopythagoreans held their meetings in the 1st century, is believed to have been constructed by the Statilia gens.[3] It was discovered in 1915 near Porta Maggiore on Via Praenestina in Rome.[4][5][6]
See also
Notes
- ^ Calvin J. Roetzel, The World That Shaped the New Testament, 2002, p. 68.
- ^ Definition of Neo-pythagoreanism by Merriam-Webster
- ^ The Family of Statilius Taurus, Herbert W. Benario, The Classical World, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Nov., 1970), pp. 73–76
- ^ Secret pagan basilica in Rome emerges from the shadows after 2,000 years, Nick Squires, The Telegraph, 19 Nov 2015
- ^ The neopythagoreans at the Porta Maggiore in Rome, Lisa Spencer, Rosicrucian Digest No. 1 2009. p36-44
- ^ Underground basilica of Porta Maggiore map
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-0872205758
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Neopythagoreanism". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Media related to Neopythagoreanism at Wikimedia Commons