Musica Universalis — Number as Reality

The Pythagorean maxim: 'All is number.' Not that number describes reality — number is reality. The ratios between things are more real than the things themselves. Hex 50 (The Caldron) is the ritual vessel where raw material becomes nourishment through precise proportions. Hex 48 (The Well) is the inexhaustible source — the deep structure that all civilizations draw from regardless of the rope they use. Both are containers of pattern. The Pythagoreans would recognize the I-Ching's binary structure — yin/yang as 0/1 — as confirmation of their deepest intuition.

Cross-Tradition Resonances