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 Chapter X - Music Of The Spheres.  “From whence proceed these sounds, so strong and yet so sweet, that fill my ears? “The melody which you hear, and which, though composed in unequal time, is nevertheless divided into regular harmony, is effected by the impulse and motion of the spheres. . . . The ears of mankind, filled with these sounds, have become deaf . . . . and cannot comprehend them, just as you cannot look directly upon the sun, because your sight and sense are overcome by his beams.” —CICERO’s “Vision of Scipio.” THE theory of ancient music appears to have been constructed from a deep study of the harmonic relations existing between the parts of the universe and the universe itself as unity and the 'musical canon' like that of architecture of cellular development and of all natural forms of life based on certain symmetrical geometrically arranged consonances revealed in the proportions of the planets and the intervals between their orbits the same way these str...

As I was ending that thought yesterday, a shard in my mind reminded me of a mnemonic that I had looked up the value for recently and it was only a shard so I forgot how to remember the whole thought....and as I was reading about Egyptian arithmetic this afternoon it came to me μοναδσ  - The monad another popular word to endlessly discuss the meaning of never discusses the value of the mnemonic and the mnemonic is a value and the value is 365. A number that indicates completeness in twelve, seven, four  and  360 + 5 other ways and a number that was well known to the Egyptians as the length of a year long long before the Gregorian calendar was introduced. One of the first dialogues of Plato I remember reading is Cratylus which has the subtitle, 'what's in a name'. as was my habit then of thinking what Plato was using the sound of a particular word to evoke the idea of another, after listening to the dialogue I thought yes, what's in a name if we make up nonsense meanings ...