14 jun Platonic shapes
It can not be explained more simpel and profound than Pythagoras explained to Plato what the platonic shapes are. Pythagorass learned this from Thoth. What could he have ment with Toth and how can the platonic shapes help to solve the riddle of the sphinx? With this riddle I mean the restlessness of trying to make up your mind between the two opposite poles of reality, searching of the mind to figure out what to do next to feel happy, what went wrong, the senseless questioning; Why and how? And what did I do to deserve this? Or what can I do to get what I think I need more than anything in this world.
We create the world by our thinking, how does this happen in our mind? We learn from others what to think and behave, we copy, we calculate, we watch, we learn, we combine, we connect, we receive, we enter, we leave, we flow, we block, we resist, we force. To break the cycle of patterns we learned voluntary or unvoluntary we need to understand what the body is, and how the human body we live in functions. Our ability to understand our reality is limited to our knowledge and our ability to perceive and process, make ‘sense’ of the reality we live in.
The goal is to live the life we want. What do we want? What is our will? Is there a will? To illustrate the goal we can achieve if we manage to get behind the wheel of the vehicle (understand our body and how to juggle the chaos until ) is Agape the highest form of love, or the works of love Kierkegeardt discribes and many others in so many different ways. The Platonic solids, (or Thoth would be more accurate) have these things in common.
They have one face, the same face on all sides.
There is only one angle in it.
All the points of this shape can fit on the surface of a sphere.
There is a way to create more based on motion and movement.
This pretty much sums it up, realisticly this is the highest achievable goal for all of us. What that means to realize you are built out of platonic shapes that form a platonic shape within platonic shapes is bacically what we experience. Everything evolves around this truth everything else, all judgements, al worries are based on fear that this reality is evil. Every thing in this life is just a fraction of the whole shape, that has the same face at every side, is in motion and moves.
Thoth was a Moon god. The Moon not only provides light at night, allowing time to still be measured without the sun, but its phases and prominence gave it a significant importance in early astrology/astronomy. The perceived cycles of the Moon also organized much of Egyptian society’s rituals and events, both civil and religious. Consequently, Thoth gradually became seen as a god of wisdom, magic, and the measurement and regulation of events and of time. He was thus said to be the secretary and counselor of the sun god Ra, and with Ma’at (truth/order) stood next to Ra on the nightly voyage across the sky.
Thoth became credited by the ancient Egyptians as the inventor of writing (hieroglyphs), and was also considered to have been the scribe of the underworld. For this reason, Thoth was universally worshipped by ancient Egyptian scribes. Many scribes had a painting or a picture of Thoth in their “office”. Likewise, one of the symbols for scribes was that of the ibis.
In art, Thoth was usually depicted with the head of an ibis, possibly because the Egyptians saw the curve of the ibis’ beak as a symbol of the crescent moon. Sometimes, he was depicted as a baboon holding up a crescent moon.
During the Late Period of ancient Egypt, a cult of Thoth gained prominence due to its main center, Khmun (Hermopolis Magna), also becoming the capital. Millions of dead ibis were mummified and buried in his honor.
Thoth was inserted in many tales as the wise counselor and persuader, and his association with learning and measurement led him to be connected with Seshat, the earlier deification of wisdom, who was said to be his daughter, or variably his wife. Thoth’s qualities also led to him being identified by the Greeks with their closest matching god Hermes, with whom Thoth was eventually combined as Hermes Trismegistus,[30] leading to the Greeks’ naming Thoth’s cult center as Hermopolis, meaning city of Hermes.
In the Papyrus of Ani copy of the Egyptian Book of the Dead the scribe proclaims “I am thy writing palette, O Thoth, and I have brought unto thee thine ink-jar. I am not of those who work iniquity in their secret places; let not evil happen unto me.” Plate XXIX Chapter CLXXV (Budge) of the Book of the Dead is the oldest tradition said to be the work of Thoth himself.
There was also an Egyptian pharaoh of the Sixteenth dynasty named Djehuty (Thoth) after him, and who reigned for three years.
Plato mentions Thoth in his dialogue, Phaedrus. He uses the myth of Thoth to demonstrate that writing leads to laziness and forgetfulness. In the story, Thoth remarks to King Thamus of Egypt that writing is a wonderful substitute for memory. Thamus remarks that it is a remedy for reminding, not remembering, with the appearance but not the reality of wisdom. Future generations will hear much without being properly taught and will appear wise but not be so.
Artapanus of Alexandria, an Egyptian Jew who lived in the third or second century BC, euhemerized Thoth-Hermes as a historical human being and claimed he was the same person as Moses, based primarily on their shared roles as authors of texts and creators of laws. Artapanus’s biography of Moses conflates traditions about Moses and Thoth and invents many details. Many later authors, from late antiquity to the Renaissance, either identified Hermes Trismegistus with Moses or regarded them as contemporaries who expounded similar beliefs.
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