What do Reincarnation and Mathematics have in common?
…the Greeks!
The ancient Greeks were big on reincarnation. In fact, reincarnation was a doctrine closely associated with the followers of the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras. Pythagoras believed that the soul survives physical death and that after a series of soul-cleansing reincarnations the soul has the opportunity to become free from the cycle of birth and death. (This sounds strikingly similar to Buddhist teachings. See: Buddhist Wheel of Life).
Speaking of famous Greeks and philosophy, an ancient manuscript was recently discovered to contain early undiscovered commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, one of the foundations of Western studies of logic!
New Layer of Ancient Greek Writings Detected in Medieval Book
April 26, 2007
Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News
“At first glance, the manuscript appears to be a medieval Christian prayer book.
But on the same pages as the prayers, experts using a high-tech imaging system have discovered commentary likely written in the third century A.D. on a work written around 350 B.C. by the Greek philosopher Aristotle.”
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