15-08-2016, 04:06 PM
There is a significance to 72. I haven't a moment to look up my files just now, but it is related to the number 108, and I recall that one of the sources I was using at the time was Jim Tester's History of Western Astrology. Published, I'm pretty sure, by Boydell Press. Point is that (hope my memory isn't playing me false here), it cropped up in relation to the 'Marriage of Mercury and Philology'.
About Pythagorean beliefs and neo-Pythagorean ideas.
As it happens, I've been looking at that part of the Italian peninsula where Pythagoras lived, recently so I'd be very interested to hear more about him.
It might interest people to know that Pythagoras (or 'a' Pythagoras) was listed among the people who were said by the Harranians ('Sabians') to be worshipped by them. It is a very interesting fact that when 30 of every 40 Hellenistic works known to have existed by the beginning of the Roman period have been lost, we have every book listed by the Harranians as their holy writ.
About Pythagorean beliefs and neo-Pythagorean ideas.
As it happens, I've been looking at that part of the Italian peninsula where Pythagoras lived, recently so I'd be very interested to hear more about him.
It might interest people to know that Pythagoras (or 'a' Pythagoras) was listed among the people who were said by the Harranians ('Sabians') to be worshipped by them. It is a very interesting fact that when 30 of every 40 Hellenistic works known to have existed by the beginning of the Roman period have been lost, we have every book listed by the Harranians as their holy writ.