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The Pattern in All Things

Pythagoreans saw a deep and mysterious patterned structure in nature. They were convinced that a great power lay in numbers..., maybe even the power that had created the universe. They therefore believed that all Nature and all beings manifested in it did so in accordance with numbers, so that the entire universe, through these numbers, became the manifestation of perfect harmony.

To disseminate and conceal their teachings about this, the Pythagoreans synthesized their ideas into one symbol: the sacred Tetraktys (tetraktys in Greek means “fourness”). For them it was the very expression of Divinity, the image of the created and eternal realms.