Each issue of the Rosicrucian Digest provides members and all interested readers with a compendium of materials regarding the ongoing flow of the Rosicrucian Timeline. The articles, historical excerpts, art, and literature included in this Digest span the ages, and are not only interesting in themselves, but also seek to provide a lasting reference shelf to stimulate continuing study of all of those factors which make up Rosicrucian history and thought.

Therefore, we present classical background, historical development, and modern reflections on each of our subjects, using the many forms of primary sources, reflective commentaries, the arts, creative fiction, and poetry. This magazine is dedicated to all the women and men throughout the ages who have contributed to and perpetuated the wisdom of the Rosicrucian, Western esoteric, tradition.

May we ever be worthy of the light with which we have been entrusted.

In this issue, we explore the figure of Pythagoras and his Mystery School whose roots are in ancient Egypt and the East, and whose teachings have profoundly influenced music, art and architecture, mathematics, science, and mysticism throughout the centuries, and still move us with their resonance today.

Getting Started:

• For the discussions, please go to each week's page to find the readings and topics. You can share your thoughts and researches in the Threads on each page.
• All of the reading / listening materials and illustrations for this Digest issue, including those available exclusively on the Web may be found at the Publications Page.
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Class Schedule:

All of the articles are available at www.rosicrucian.org/publications in the Pythagorean Digest. Don't forget to scroll all the way down the Table of Contents page for the "Web Supplementals," articles that are only in the Web edition of the Digest.

Week 00 June 15-21
Welcome Week

Week 01 June 22-28
Paths of the Ancient Sages: A Pythagorean History by Peter Kingsley, Ph.D.

Week 02 June 29-July 5
Pythagoras the Teacher: From Samos to Metapontum by Giulia Minicuci, adapted by Mary Jones, S.R.C.

Week 03 July 6-12
The School of Pythagoras by Ruth Phelps, S.R.C. and The Pythagorean Philosophy of Numbers by Silvano Leonessi, adapted by Mary Jones, S.R.C.

Week 04 July 13-19
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras and Examinations of the Golden Verses by Antoine Fabre d’Olivet

Week 05 July 20-26
Pythagoreans and Sculptors: The Canon of Polykleitos by Hugh McCague, Ph.D., F.R.C.

Week 06 July 27-Aug 2
Pythagoras and Music by Melanie Richards, M.Mus., S.R.C.

Week 07 Aug 3-9
The Neo-Pythagoreans at the Porta Maggiore in Rome by Lisa Spencer, M.A.O.M., S.R.C.

Week 08 Aug 10-16
Study and Meditations in Commemoration of H. Spencer Lewis’ 100th Anniversary of Initiation into the Rosicrucian Order on August 12, 1909. No live Skype text chat on Thursday, but feel free to interact in the Threads. Attend one of the Commemorations on Wednesday August 12 at a local group: www.rosicrucian.org/local/.

Week 09 Aug 17-23
Music of the Spheres and Pythagorean Numerology by Frater X and Life is Number: the Universe is Music by Caterina Autelitano, adapted by Mary Jones, S.R.C.

Week 10 Aug 24-30
Apollonius: History or Fable? by Ben Finger, Jr.

Week 11 Aug 31-Sep 6
Reviewing our Acts by Former Imperator Ralph M. Lewis, F.R.C. and A Pythagorean Bookshelf by the Staff of the Rosicrucian Research Library

Week 12: Sep 7-Sep 13
Philosophical and Scientific Reflections on the Pythagorean Tetraktys by Giuseppe Chindemi, adapted by Mary Jones, S.R.C.

Week 13: Sep 14-20
Pythagorean Teachings Across the Centuries by Angela Tripodi, adapted and expanded by the Rosicrucian Research Library Staff and Friends

Week 14: Sep 21-27
Egyptian Numerology: the Pythagorean Triangle and Its Esoteric Meaning. Some Historic Notes and Brief Comments on Sacred Geometry by Antonietta Francini, S.R.C., M.D. with Benefactor Taciturnus, F.R.C.

Week 15 Sep 28-Oct 4
Silence by Jeanne Guesdon, S.R.C.

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