Harmony, cosmic

Vernadsky (1994, p. 318-319) Creatures on Earth are the fhiit of a complicated cosmic process and are a necessary and lawful part of a harmonious cosmic mechanism, in which it is known that charwe does not exist". 

Heimarmene provided a demonic aetiology for the religious errors of those the author observed around him fallen angels had introduced spiritual amnesia into the cosmos, by their transgression twisting a harmonious cosmic order into disorder and chaos. 

Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer once compared events in our world to the tops of waves in an ocean. We notice the tops of the isolated waves, but beneath the surface there may be some kind of synchronistic mechanism that connects them. Whatever you believe about such far-out speculation, be humble. Our brains, which evolved to make us run from lions on the Ethiopian plains, may not be constructed to penetrate the infinite veil of reality. We may need science, computers, brain augmentation, and even literature and poetry to help us tear away the veils. Einstein himself realized the insufficiency of the human mind when he wrote, My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as laws of nature. For those of you who read the Neoreality book series, look for the hidden mechanism, feel the connections, pierce the cosmic shroud, and sail on the shoreless sea of love. ... 

Einstein, Albert, On Cosmic Religion, a Worship of the Harmony and Beauties of Nature That Became the Common Faith of Physicists. In Einstein, Albert, Cosmic Religion with Other Opinions and Aphorisms QAqw York Covici-Friede, 1931), 52. 

The main building blocks of the proposed new model are the relationship between geometry, numbers and space the theory of relativity and the periodicity of atomic matter. Taken together, these considerations indicate a cosmic symmetry that defines a harmonious holistic system that embraces all objects from the subatomic to extragalactic scales. The common geometrical factor is the ubiquitous golden parameter, r = 0.61803... 

A major complication with this cosmic model was the Pythagorean demand of perfect circular orbits for all celestial bodies. The more accm-ate astronomical observations became, the more complicated the required corrections to restore the circular pattern. The authority of Pythagoras and Thales must have been enormous, especially as Plato also endorsed the geometrical perfection of the cosmic composition. The planets, including the srm and the moon, like the fixed stars, circled the earth on concentric spheres with numerical regularity, each contributing its harmonious pitch to the music of the spheres. 

As recently shown (Boeyens, 2009) the Bode -Titius law, which hints at some harmonious regular organization of planetary motion in the solar system, is dictated by a more general self-similar symmetry that applies from subatomic systems to galactic spirals. The common parameter is the golden ratio, r = 0.61803. Any such cosmic symmetry should be dictated by a successful cosmological model. 

From any point of view, be it magic, religion or science, there is consensus about the splendid nature of the cosmic whole. One man s divine plan is another s magical harmony or consilience among the laws of Nature. Unity of knowledge about the natural world is not in dispute. The most striking manifestation of this unity occurs as self-similarity across all levels of observation, from the infinitesimally small to the astronomically large. 

It was Marcus s Stoic education that had produced in him this profound sense of harmony with the cosmos, this conviction that the solution to the enduring question of how one ought to relate to the cosmic order was one of internal acquiescence or apatheia—hterally, a freedom from the troublesome pathe or passions which had accrued in so many encrusted layers around the pure, divine Reason within the individual. 

Providence, through heimarmene and the cosmic harmony, caused sexual intercourse and established nativities. .. the one who loved the body that came from the error of desire remains erring in darkness, suffering sensibly the effects of death. (Poim. 19)... 

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