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Interfaith Fair: “Experience Peace”
Saturday May 17, 2008, from 10 am to 3 pm
The Vedic Cultural Center, 18108 NE 76th Street, Redmond WA 98052
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Open to the Public - No Charge - Unsectarian - Nonpolitical
This
month our topic is “The Magic and Mystery of Numbers.” We'll be
discussing such questions as: Are numbers real? How far is math a human construct, and how far a property
of nature? How are music and the other arts related to number? What
about proportion, symmetry, rhythm, and harmony? How have various
cultures used numbers and geometry to describe the universe and its genesis? Is
the universe infinite? Are we? What are the limits of quantification and
mathematics in describing nature? What are the philosophical and mystical
meanings of the various numbers as well as figures such as the circle,
triangle, square, pyramid, pentagram, cube, point, and tetractys? What makes such symbols suitable
for communicating what goes beyond human language? What about gematria and other mystical uses
of numbers? Come and share your ideas!
Articles on this month's topic
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May 15: Facing Illness
June: Understanding, Tolerance, Respect
July: Tao, Yin, and Yang
August: Ancient Monuments and Mysteries
September: The Path of the Mystic
“There are certain broad general truths
which transcend the power of expression in ordinary language, for verbal
language is the instrument of a certain portion of the mind which has limits.
The knowledge of which we are speaking relates to powers of the mind which
transcend those limits, and therefore they are beyond the power of words.
Such profound ideas are expressed by symbols. The full meaning of these
symbols has to be grasped intuitively by the exercise of higher faculties of
the mind.” – H. T. Edge