“After learning Mathematics which is Islam, and Islam is Mathematics, it stands true. You can always prove it at no limit of time” - The Supreme Wisdom Lessons
“The Religion of Islam is equally as true as Mathematics & mathematics is as true as Islam if you know how to use both of them in the proper place” - The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
Maat, pronounced "Ma-aut", corresponds to the faculty within man wherein is intuited and experienced the urge to live truth (according to the laws of the indwelling self). The name and the meaning derived from the hieroglyph that is the phonetic symbol of "Maa"-the measure of a cubit. The connection of measurement with Truth is one of the most profound achievements of the African mind. We saw that the name of Maat's compliment (brother/husband), Tehuti, is also based on the idea of measurement. When something, one side of an equation is known, it is because we have an objective standard, the other side of the equation, against which to measure it. Hence the "double measure" or "Tehu-ti", the "utchau metut" (Weighing of Words) and the Weighing of the Heart judgment, etc.
The construction of all things and the unfolding of all events are based on universal patterns underlying the activities of all natural forces. While some of the patterns underlying physical phenomena have been discovered and codified by Western scientists (E.g., chemistry, physics), Africans and other Nonwestern people have discovered and codified the patterns governing our day to day existence and spiritual development. In other words, the quality of life, the destiny of men and nations are ruled by forces that are as measurable and subject to codification into immutable laws as are the factors governing physical and chemical phenomena. In the esoteric tradition, the branch of study governing these laws is Cosmology. The embodiment of these laws (moral canon), against which the actions and beliefs of Man are weighed/measured, is Maat.
By extension, the term 'maat' has several denotations in the everyday language of the Kamitic people; straight, rule, law, canon by which the lives of men is kept straight, real unalterable ("it, the law, hath never been altered since the time of Ausar"), upright, righteous and steadfast or consistent. The last correspondence, "steadfast or consistent", is of extreme importance. In the Kamitic tradition, a person cannot claim that he is living truth if he has not been consistent in the observance of the spiritual laws at each and every crossroad situation. This is why it is said, "Today as Yesterday, Tomorrow as Today, is Truth!"
© Ra Un Nefer Amen
"Now what is good? I feel goodness is Total Order. Not only outwardly, but especially inwardly. I think that Order can be Absolute, as in Mathematics I believe there is Complete Order. And it is disorder that leads to chaos, to destruction, to anarchy, to the so-called evil."
"Order, inwardly, is akin to the Absolute Order of Mathematics."
"And there must be order, something living and beautiful, not a mechanical thing - the order of the Universe, the order that exists in Mathematics, the order that exists in nature, in the relationship between various animals, an order that human beings have totally denied, because in ourselves we are in disorder, which means that we are fragmentary, contradictory, frightened and all the rest of it."
"So order in this sense has the same pattern as Mathematics; in the Highest Mathematics is the Highest Order, Absolute Order. And that Absolute Order, one must have it in oneself."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"If we carefully study the Christian Gospels, then we will find in them Pythagorean Mathematics, the Chaldean and Babylonian Parable and the formidable Buddhist Moral."
"All Kabbalists base themselves on the Tarot and it is necessary for them to comprehend the Tarot and study it deeply. The Universe was made with the Law of numbers, measurements and weight.
Mathematics forms the Universe, and the numbers become living entities."
- V.M. Samael Aun Weor
"The Pythagoreans declared Arithmetic to be the Mother of the Mathematical Sciences.
This is proved by the fact that geometry, music, and astronomy are dependent upon it but it is not dependent upon them. Thus, geometry may be removed but arithmetic will remain; but if arithmetic be removed, geometry is eliminated. In the same manner music depends upon arithmetic, but the elimination of music affects arithmetic only by limiting one of its expressions. The Pythagoreans also demonstrated arithmetic to be prior to astronomy, for the latter is dependent upon both geometry and music. The size, form, and motion of the celestial bodies is determined by the use of geometry; their harmony and rhythm by the use of music. If astronomy be removed, neither geometry nor music is injured; but if geometry and music be eliminated, astronomy is destroyed. The priority of both geometry and music to astronomy is therefore established. Arithmetic, however, is prior to all; it is primary and fundamental."
- Manly P. Hall 33°
"Supreme Mathematics, this ain't black magic, I do my work amongst dope fiends and crack addicts, Civilize the savage, Eighty-Five's run rampant, We try'nna save these babies lives."
- Lord Jamar
[edit on 5-9-2006 by Tamahu]
