Author Archives: Pierre Beaudry

GENERATING_THE_FIVE_PLATONIC_SOLIDS_WITH_NICHOLAS_OF_CUSAS_METHOD_OF_FOLDING_UNFOLDING_AND_ENFOLDING

There is a Nicholas of Cusa method for generating the five Platonic solids by way of folding, unfolding, and enfolding. And, you don’t need a compass, a straight edge, or any mathematical calculation to do the work. All you need to do is to wave your hands around like a chorus director. I like to call this the ironic waving around a knotty Divine Proportion, because it causes you to be creative by having your mind make an axiomatic backward flip into yourself to locate a higher epistemological level; that is, into a domain which discards all simple hypothesis of circular folding and takes you into the higher hypothesis of continuous doubly-connected circular action.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND DONA NOBIS PACEM

The purpose of this report is to show how to create something as opposed to producing an effect; that is, to create the causal process for an effect to be produced as a thoughtful or beautiful object. That was the method of Leonardo Da Vinci and of Raphael Sanzio who both painted objects as if they were “beautiful.” However, what was actually beautiful was not the objects they painted as such, but the process by means of which they showed how to make those objects appear to be “beautiful.” What is beautiful about artistic composition is not the effect, but the cause of that effect. This is the difference that the Divine Proportion makes.

AGAPE_THE_GEOMETRICAL_PRE-ESTABLISHED_PRINCIPLE_UNDERLYING_CREATIVITY

ATTENTION:

          Calling on mathematicians, young and old, who are interested in the geometry of numbers, and, more specifically, in the geometry of modular arithmetic: this is not a mathematical project, but an epistemological puzzle.

RESTORING_THE_CHRISTIAN_IDEA_AND_PRACTICE_OF_SHARING_AGAPES

In regards to what Lyndon LaRouche wrote about agape in his book review It’s All About Us, in the EIR of November 11, 2022, I consider it important to remind readers that the first Christian apostolic community had a practice that was known as sharing their “agapes” or their “feasts of love” with their enemy.

J._S._BACH_AND_THE_KNOTTY_GEOMETRY_OF_LYDIAN_INTERVALS

If you go back to what I have been writing on the geometry of the torus, you will find there the connection between geometry and the Lydian modality in music. My last report, for instance, is precisely on that subject. Although I barely used the term of “Lydian” in it, I used the same knotty epistemological performative action in composing it.