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The Pythagorean-Neoplatonic-Cartesian-Leibnizian Doctrine: THE SYNTHESIS OF PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND MATHEMATICS
It is also called the mathematical doctrine (and mathematics is the synthesis of philosophy and science, rather than being inside a synthesis that is another doctrine: a Hegelian synthesis comes from a thesis and antithesis combined.)Madame Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine, or the supposed doctrine described in it, or modern Theosophy, is described as 'the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy.' The synthesis of science and philosophy is mathematics and is the only such synthesis or school of thought necessary. Philosophy can be described in several ways or deals with several categories, and science is described in the opposite ways or deals with the opposite categories, but mathematics is described in both ways and deals with any conceivable category. Mathematics is the only rational school of thought that can be applied to spiritual questions to reach in-depth objective answers.Why is that so? It is because only mathematics is open to investigating absolutely any question to the fullest objective or even subjective degree, and anything that exists, including living/mental/spiritual beings and processes they go through, can be defined in terms of mathematics. In fact, mathematics traditionally deals with things purely on the level of mind/spirit, and also deals with any sort of process. There is nothing existent, including ideas of nonexistence, let alone absolutely any other word, that cannot be defined and investigated by mathematics, and there is no other subject that rigorously addresses the former idea as well as all others: even language itself can be defined mathematically, but mathematics is the only objective language (though many sentences in other languages can be objective if expressible mathematically/logically.)Theosophy claims to integrate philosophy into it, but there really us no other subject devoted to wisdom, including divine wisdom, than philosophy itself, unless you want to transcend to mathematics and see it also is. Theosophy says it integrates science in, but they are separate schools of thought, and Theosophy is its own school of thought, i.e. its own philosophy, not an 'integration' of philosophy. You could call philosophy its own school of thought, but because of word origin, it would be founded in Classical Greek philosophy. The continuation of Classical Greek rationalist idealist philosophy is much more rational than Theosophy and can even have science and religion synthesized in it, so Theosophy is nothing special in the sense of these syntheses, and in fact it may ignore/contradict certain Classical rationalist idealist, but spiritual, ideas. Religion should be able to be removed from the synthesis of Theosophy, and then you have Classical Greek philosophy (or perhaps with some Eastern schools,) i.e. Philosophy, which in its most famous idealist forms focuses on mathematics.The Pythagorean-Neoplatonic-Cartesian-Leibnizian doctrine is the mathematical doctrine, and is idealist (non-materialist; mentalist/spiritual.) Sure, Pythagoreanism, Neoplatonism, and Leibniz's ideas had religious elements, but they were not as important as the mathematics. Hegel and Nietzsche are two other philosophers either involved in mathematical idealism, or whose ideas led to important psychological interpretations and applications in it. These are not the only philosophers/mathematicians important to it, and there are newer ones, so it may be best to just call it 'the mathematical doctrine.'You can mix religion with mathematics to come up with some other doctrine, but it should only be done for fun and to lead people to a more in-depth search for spiritual truth. Mathematics is the most in-depth, important subject; philosophy and science are a bit less so, and religion is somewhat less so, and mathematics is the sole source of absolute truth. Mathematics is everything.'All is number,' 'number rules the universe'--Pythagoras.See More