I am still pondering radians. The word, which is beautiful in itself, is of fairly modern origin; it is not ancient Greek. It sounds like "radiance," which has the same linguistic root. Astrologically the Sun is represented by a dot in the center of a circle. Alchemically, this represents not only the Sun, but Gold, the ultimate material. That is the same diagram of the Unit Circle which gives us trigonometry and radians. My Pythagorean prayer is offered to the One in the Center whose radiance reaches everywhere.

Let the unit circle represent the circle of the seasons, Earth's orbit around the Origin Point Sun. The year is thus 2Pi, and half a year is Pi. We are almost at the summer solstice here in the northern hemisphere, which is, after all, Pi radians around the earth from our antipodes in the southern hemisphere. Count Pi radians from the winter solstice six months ago. (All time measurements are very approximate.) The summer is the radiant time for us in the north, and the weather is just as I like it, hot and simmering and steamy.

Monotheistic time as measured in Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is linear and progressive, an arrow of divine justice which goes only in one direction. The time of Radians is cyclical and repetitive, spinning through its multiples and divisions of Pi in number-mystical serenity. Reach 2 Pi, and you're back where you started. Reach 4 Pi, and you're back where you started when you started. Someday I may advance far enough to calculate in extra dimensions. In that case, are there other unit circles at angles to our own unit circle, each with their own Pi? Are there unit circles where Pi isn't 3.14159265…? Or is Pi, as the Divine Single Sun suggests, the one constant in all the worlds?

Radiant with daimonic light, the sacred spheres of solar unit and planets spin in their appointed paths. The reason for calculus is because the world, as Pythagoras first declared, is mathematically describable. If there were another world which was not mathematically describable, could we even conceive of it, let alone witness it? If we were in a solar system with multiple suns, would our philosophy and sacred geometry be different? The greatest gift that the One has given to sentient beings is Imagination. We can imagine things which cannot exist. Can the Omniscience do that? Let the summer sun stand still in the sky, at least until next week.

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