This is the introductory text of a series of books called "the God Series" in which the most ancient secret society in the world - the Pythagorean Illuminati - reveal, for the first time in the public domain, the "answer to everything".
Pythagoras provided a glimpse of the answer 2,500 years ago when he declared, "All things are numbers". The God series fully reveals what Pythagoras meant. Mathematics - built from numbers - is not an abstraction but is ontological: it actually exists. Numbers are real things. Specifically, they are the frequencies of energy waves. (Moreover, energy waves are simply sinusoidal waves: sines and cosines, meaning that the study of energy is the study of sinusoids). There are infinite energy waves, hence infinite numbers. No numbers are privileged over any others, so negative and imaginary numbers are as ontologically important as real numbers (upon which science is exclusively based).
Real numbers correspond to space and imaginary numbers to time. Negative numbers are "antimatter": a mirror image universe.
The two most powerful numbers of all - and the ultimate basis of Illuminist thinking - are zero and infinity, which are harnessed together ontologically (opposite sides of the same coin, so to speak). The existence of zero and infinity is vehemently denied by the ideology of scientific materialism. In Illuminism, these two numbers not only exist, they are the "God" numbers: the origin of all other numbers. Zero and infinity comprise the Big Bang Singularity itself from which an infinitely large universe emerged: "everything" literally came from "nothing".
Moreover, zero is also the "monad" of Leibniz (an Illuminati Grand Master). It is therefore the number of THE SOUL, and it has INFINITE capacity. Being dimensionless - a mathematical point - the soul is outside the dimensional, material domain of space and time, hence the soul is indestructible, immortal and cannot be detected by any conventional scientific experiment.
What we are describing are the necessary, analytic, eternal truths of mathematics - they have no connection with Abrahamic religious faith. There is NO Creator God but, astoundingly, each soul is capable of being promoted to God status, just as the pawn in chess can become the most important chess piece, the Queen, if it reaches the other side of the battlefield (the board). In Illuminism, if you reach gnosis - enlightenment - you become God.
Mathematics is literally everything. Unlike science, mathematics offers certainty: 100% true and incontestable knowledge. Mathematics unifies science, religion and metaphysics. Mathematics is the true Grand Unified Theory of Everything that science pursues so futilely. Science can never deliver truth and certainty because it is inherently a succession of provisional theories, any of which can be overturned at any time by new experimental data. Science is based on ideas of validation and falsification. Mathematics is based on absolute analytic and unarguable certainty. No experiment can ever contradict a mathematical truth.
Mathematics is the ONLY answer to everything. Mathematics is the ONLY subject inherently about eternal, Platonic truth. As soon as existence is understood to be nothing but ontological mathematics, all questions are ipso facto answered.
The God series, starting with The God Game, reveals the astonishing power of ontological mathematics to account for everything, including things such as free will, irrationalism, emotion, consciousness and qualia, which seem to have no connection with mathematics.
Read the God series and you will become a convert to the world's only rational religion - Illuminism, the Pythagorean religion of mathematics that infallibly explains all things and guarantees everyone a soul that is not only eternal but also has the capacity to make of each of us a true God.
best contemporary rationalist idealist philosophy book
This is the best (along with his others and those of the two associated writers) introductory modern series on rationalist idealism in Classical Greek & Cartesian & German Idealist philosophy & postmodernism, including Pythagoreanism/Illumination, Platonism, Hermetism, Gnosticism, Leibnizianism, Hegelianism, formal & natural & social science, religion, and the arts, in this case such as a full historical overview of philosophy and belief systems from the stone age to present day, and what is the final, perfect philosophical view. It's not theist in the popular sense, but describes the most rational thing to call 'divine'. This is the best overview of philosophy, and first in the best series that explains reality more clearly than anything else.
The author keeps bragging about how mathematics is the underlying principle of the universe which exists despite human experience.
Illuminists base their arguments deeply in rationalism. The author states multiple times how people that believe stuff without any evidence are straight up morons.
Yet their whole system of knowledge (rationalism) is based on an imaginary idealist world of plato in which you need to BELIEVE in order to make sense of it.
Some very beautiful analytical philosophy in this book, however some of it does read like a high schooler on a power trip after discovering the atheism subreddit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no strict abrahamist, but I feel like the misplaced contempt (at best, but even irrational hatred at worst) for Abrahamic religion is unproductive. While I think that criticisms of Abrahamism are justified and necessary (especially when dealing with fundamentalists and literalists), I’d like to point out that the mythos aspects of these religions can be very insightful. I think that Joseph Campbell’s mono myth found in any great literature (abrahamic texts included) can be perfectly extrapolated when it comes to interpreting hard mathematical/logos patterns of development in reality. It can be used to describe meaning (not just function) of processes such as cell cycles, life cycles, human will and desire, and it’s worth pointing out that myth is necessary for interpreting vague historical truth, or truth that escapes modern man’s logical faculties, that would otherwise be lost. I think the universality of its application also falls perfectly in line with this text’s proposition of platonic forms, objective reality, and teleology in general.
Anyways, it was an enjoyable read with a plethora of philosophical concepts that I haven’t heard explained better by anyone else (other than Hockney’s sources themselves). One more critique is that I found it repetitive at times but this was not always an issue, as I believe the intention was to have certain topics explored more than once but in relation to other topics. I personally found it a bit tedious as I was capable of making the connections on my own with but a reference to the previous concepts.
Looking forward to reading more titles in this series.
Very interesting book. Best paired with Burtt's Metaphysics of Science. Would recommend to open-minded analytical types with a sufficient grasp of metaphysics and philosophy of science.
This is the most thought provoking book I've read in years. It has simply never occurred to me that mathematics is deeply philosophical. This was my introduction to Pythagorean Illuminism and Ontological Mathematics, and I have no doubt that this is the beginning of a long a fascinating journey for me.
I highly recommend this book to all philosophically and mathematically minded individuals.
I found your book series through morgue official. This is the best book that I’ve read in my life, and the only book I’ve read so far in your series. Can’t wait to read more. This is the real thing.
We are born with a zero and die with a zero. In between, are in front, on top or behind the zero. This book has revealed we are also inside the zero with infinite possibilities.
I want the last year and a half that it took to read this thing back. Has good bits in history and philosophy but cheap selling points and the contradicting condescension just isn't worth my time and energy. The things you have to read when your girlfriend is an avid reader like you...
Anyone who proclaims that they are the ILLUMINATI should be questioned; with this being said, in the that they are ILLUMINATI, they should be classified as Fictional. This book and series are full of logical fallacies and propaganda. I don't recommend it to anyone—all this information is in your local library or the Internet.
Pure shizocore, but at least this includes inner consistency and a good overview of some interesting information. Other than that it is just a mad man writting. EDIT: After some time, I had to add one star. The overview of philosophy contained here deserves it and I also got to agree with many thoughts from the book. EDIT 2: Removing the star, it is just too much contradictory bulls*it.
Sometimes it reads like crankery, sometimes it reads like the rants of a 12yo, sometimes it reads like the absolute peak of human genius on the likes of Plato, Aristotle and Leibniz. Overall it's an entertaining read, even if the book is poorly structured. I might read other books from this series when I feel like having a good laugh. He should drop the Illuminati roleplay, it looks silly.