>Cryptographer and classicist Ambrose Jerusalem is a UC Berkeley graduate student with a beautiful girlfriend and a comfortable future, until the National Security Agency recruits him to track a strange pattern of computer break-ins. Individually, they might not mean much a State Department official discovers a peculiar series of incriminating appointments in her computer calendar dating back to 18th century France; a corrupt president of the International Monetary Fund is startled by an oracular voice from his computer charging him with crimes against divine numerology and God but together, they provide disturbing evidence that someone has broken RSA encryption, the security lynchpin protecting the world s computer systems. Even more bizarre, a secret cult of latter-day followers of Pythagoras, the great Greek mathematician and philosopher who believed reality could be understood only through a mystical system of numbers, appears to be behind the attacks. With his deep knowledge of both cryptography and classical antiquity, Ambrose is the government s best chance to uncover the cult. Soon Ambrose discovers he is not only the hunter but the hunted, and the game is not simply code-breaking, but a deadly plan to alter the fate of the world.
You get it. I know Delphi gets it. But how deep does the rabbit hole go?????????? I won't take my meds NO NO NO!!! My third eye is open and I'm ALL IN!!!
>Numerous scholars have proposed that the power of the Eleusinian Mysteries came from the kykeon's functioning as an entheogen, or psychedelic agent.[7] The use of potions or philtres for magical or religious purposes was relatively common in Greece and the ancient world.[66] The initiates, sensitized by their fast and prepared by preceding ceremonies (see set and setting), may have been propelled by the effects of a powerful psychoactive potion into revelatory mind states with profound spiritual and intellectual ramifications.[67] Multiple anons have successfully projected themselves and been exposed to revelations
Also thanks for this, I was a bit stuck in the initiation of symbolism in greek mythology. I am still learning - the ancient wisdom will come to me, most certainly. Currently reading through Plato, Homer, Aristotle to later St. Johannes Aquila, etc. So many applications of the laws hidden in these texts. Most texts on greek banquets are daunting to read if you read them literally; something to be learned here.
