Pythagorean Beliefs
New members of the Pythagorean cult faced an intense five-year vow of silence and a strict vegetarian diet, with unique prohibitions like avoiding beans due to their supposed connection to souls. Pythagoras believed in the immortality of the soul and reincarnation, claiming to remember four past lives. Central to their philosophy was the idea that mathematics, particularly geometry, underpins the universe, with numbers represented as dots rather than symbols.In this clip
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