Secret Plato Code Discovered and Solved, Historian Claims

Greek Reporter ^ | May 22, 2023 | Thomas Kissel

[nickcarraway]

Did Plato hide a secret code in his writings? Dr. Jay Kennedy, a historian and a member of the University of Manchester’s Faculty of Life Sciences, recently published a scholarly work parsing the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s writing, discovering a rhythmic system of symbols that constitute a musical pattern in the storied philosopher’s key texts.

This rhythm is known as “The Plato Code.”

Dr. Kennedy closely read Plato’s writings, most notably The Republic, and in its structure, he was able to perceive an entire blueprint of constructed Greek musical notes. Kennedy observed how Plato would insert groups of words at each twelfth portion of his writing— realizing that the Greek musical scale contains twelve notes—and that with these spaced increments, Plato was able to portray the entire musical scale.

These notes were not all the same, expressing a wide range of emotion and affect through their contrast and dissonance.

The hidden codes show that Plato anticipated the scientific revolution 2,000 years before Isaac Newton, discovering its most important idea—that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. The decoded messages also open up a surprising way to unite science and religion. The awe and beauty we feel in nature, Plato says, shows that it is divine; discovering the scientific order of nature is getting closer to God.

Grecian Delight supports Greece This revelation could transform today’s culture wars between science and religion.

Plato’s thinking in this regard was influenced by Pythagoras, another ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician who is perhaps best known for discovering the Pythagorean Theorem. Pythagoras believed that the universe could be reduced to a natural, mathematical foundation and that the solar system moved in a rhythm he called “a harmony of the spheres.”

Because musical notation corresponds to mathematical notation, Pythagoras thought the workings of nature were determined by a mathematical-musical harmony. Plato adapted this musical movement to the experience of his writing.

“It’s a musical code,” says Kennedy. “Plato and the Greeks believed music was the key to mathematics and the cosmos. What we didn’t know was that he used Greek musical scales to give his works a hidden structure and then built layers of hidden meanings beneath that.”

“The Plato Code” deepens the already rich Republic The presence of “the Plato Code” in the Republic adds a structural sophistication to a work that was already dense with complex ideas about the nature of society and politics. Plato was able to inscribe a reference to Pythagoras in the very DNA of his writing while also impacting the abstract concepts of democracy and civilization for years to come.

Plato is famous for his writings that pierced to the heart of man’s fraught relationship with the process of world-building: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

But the advancement in mathematical and musical construction Plato created opens up the possibility for new ways of thinking just as much as his more well-known political philosophy.

“This is a true discovery, not simply reinterpretation,” Kennedy insisted. “The result was amazing—it was like opening a tomb and finding new set of gospels written by Jesus Christ himself. Plato is smiling. He sent us a time capsule.”

Dr. Kennedy, a researcher in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Manchester in the UK, continued: “As we read his books, our emotions follow the ups and downs of a musical scale. Plato plays his readers like musical instruments.”

However, Plato did not design his secret patterns purely for pleasure. It was for his own safety. The great thinker’s ideas were a dangerous threat to Greek religion. He clearly held that mathematical laws—and not the gods—controlled the universe.

Plato’s own teacher, Socrates, had been executed by the state for heresy. Secrecy was therefore normal in ancient times, especially for esoteric and religious knowledge, but for Plato it was a matter of life and death. Encoding his ideas in secret patterns was the only way to be safe.

Plato experienced a huge amount of personal upheaval as a result of his writing. His life was famous for its fascinating drama. Born four centuries before Christ at a time when Sparta defeated plague-ravaged Athens, he wrote thirty books and founded the world’s first university, called the Academy.

He was a feminist, allowing women to study at the Academy, and the first great defender of romantic love (as opposed to marriages arranged for political or financial reasons), and he defended homosexuality in his books. In addition, he was even captured by pirates and sold into slavery before being ransomed by his friends.

“Plato’s importance cannot be overstated. He shifted humanity from a warrior society to a wisdom society. Today our heroes are Einstein and Shakespeare—and not knights in shining [armor]—because of him.” Dr. Kennedy said.

Over the years, Dr. Kennedy carefully peeled back layer after symbolic layer, sharing each step in lectures in Manchester and with experts in the UK and the US.

He recalls: “There was no Rosetta Stone. To announce a result like this I needed rigorous, independent proofs based on crystal-clear evidence.”

“The result was amazing—it was like opening a tomb and finding new set of gospels written by Jesus Christ himself,” he concluded.

“Plato is smiling,” Dr. Kennedy added. “He sent us a time capsule.”

Dr. Kennedy’s findings are not only surprising and important; they overthrow conventional wisdom on Plato. Modern historians have always denied that there were codes, but now, Dr. Kennedy has proven otherwise.

He adds: “This is the beginning of something big. It will take a generation to work out the implications. All 2,000 pages contain undetected symbols.”

[A Navy Vet]

Academics often see what they want to see. I wonder if the first notes were, DA DA DA, DA DUH DADA, DA DA DUH, DA DA? Or maybe Jimmy Page intro to Stairway to Heaven? Or it could have the bass intro to These Boots are Made for Walking?

[Ezekiel]

"It's a musical code," says Kennedy. "Plato and the Greeks believed music was the key to mathematics and the cosmos. What we didn't know was that he used Greek musical scales to give his works a hidden structure and then built layers of hidden meanings beneath that."

Great. Happy Chanukah:

חי

🔥
1 2 3 4 | 5 6 7 8

19 + 188
=
207
=
אור
(LIGHT)

(The center candle is the "shamash" [שמש] helper candle that also spells shemesh, "Sun".)

do (re mi fa) 🔥 (sol la si) do

reading right to left:

דו (רה מי פה) 🔥 (סול לה סי) דו

דו (רה מי פה סול לה סי) דו
10 (70 + 35 + 96 + 85 + 50 + 205) 10

י (541) י

י (ישראל) י

יי
(70 + 35 + 96) (85 + 50 + 205)

(201) (340)
שם רא

ראשם
(their head/chief/leader)

Let's start at the very beginning:

"Do-re-mi-fa-so and so on are only the tools we use to build a song. Once you have them in your heads you can sing a million different tunes, by mixing them up. Like this.."

Always interesting that the clip begins with "Esther", aka Ayelet haShachar, the Doh of the Dawn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp0opnxQ4rY

"The result was amazing—it was like opening a tomb and finding new set of gospels written by Jesus Christ himself," he concluded.

Nothing new here:

י (ישראל) י

Exodus 30

11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12. When you take the census of the people of Israel according to their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to the Lord, when you count them; that there should be no plague among them, when you count them:
13. This they shall give, every one who passes among those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary; a shekel is twenty gerahs; a half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord:
14. Every one who passes among those who are counted, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the Lord:
15. The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering to the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls:
16. And you shall take the atonement money of the people of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial to the people of Israel before the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls:

Half-Shekel – Metaphor for Entanglement

Looks like they are connected:

Hanukkah and Purim – Turning the World Upside Down and Putting it back Right-side Up

[Fledermaus]

He had the code on Pluto

[nickcarraway]

Pluto is not a planet.

[Fledermaus]

But my 5th grade science teacher said it was and all teachers are geniuses! Do I need the /s?

[yelostar]

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/plato-and-his-hidden-music-code-00427 (May 2013)

Plato was a Pythagorean and as a Pythagorean he was familiar with numerology and music theory and harmony. Mathematics and harmony are interconnected. Therefore in the works of Plato there is the assumption that some type of a music code was embedded. 

Jay Kennedy of the University of Manchester has done an extensive research into Plato and Pythagoras and now Kennedy suggests that he found a way to crack the code that Plato has used. He believes that the pattern that Plato used corresponds to the twelve note musical scale and is all over his texts.

https://williamzeitler.com/media/MusicalGematria.pdf March 2012

from page 22 of his paper, Musical Gematria, by William Zeitler:

The concept behind this diagram is hardly new. Plato himself said much the same thing:

“Every [geometric] diagram, and system of number, and every combination of harmony, and the agreement of the revolution of the stars must be manifest as One through All to him who learns in the proper way. And [they] will disclose themselves if, as we say, a man learns aright by keeping his gaze on Unity; for it will be manifest to us, as we reflect, that there is one bond naturally uniting all these things.”
– Plato, Epinomis28 [emphasis added]

[minnesota_bound]

The songs title: In a gadda da vida, honey

[dfwgator]

A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!

[Ezekiel]

Secret Greek codes facing the music:

This is probably a good place to make another link to the Greeks and Purim (it's all in the timing):

The 2023 movie Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny features a plot around the Antikythera.

Antikythera mechanism

The Dial of Destiny:

chugat hagoral [חוגת הגורל] = 661 = Esther [אסתר], the 11th star number (following after the 10th which is 541)

Which is a play on Chag Purim, because

1. "They cast Pur, which is the lot" [hagoral הגורל], Esther 3:7
2. A chuga ("dial") is rooted in the same concept as a chag, a festival circling around the seasons in its time.
3. It looks like he's got a rope. ("Teaser Poster")

[Honest Nigerian]

What a vain and idiotic article about an idiotic and vain self-identified researcher of Plato’s writings.
I am not saying there is nothing there; but Pythagoras did not discover that theorem which bears his name. And the analogy to finding a Gospel penned by Jesus? Well, someone was paying attention in the hype-marketing class.

[ModelBreaker]

“He keeps going Bach and forth.”

LOL

[jroehl]

Socrates also proposes that there should be no separate families among the members of the guardian class: the guardians will possess all the women and children in common (457c-d). Socrates proceeds to discuss how this measure is for the best and Glaucon allows him to skip discussing its feasibility (458a-c). The best guardian men are to have sex with the best guardian women to produce offspring of a similar nature (458d-459d). Socrates describes the system of eugenics in more detail. In order to guarantee that the best guardian men have sex with the best guardian women, the city will have marriage festivals supported by a rigged lottery system (459e-460a). The best guardian men will also be allowed to have sex with as many women as they desire in order to increase the likelihood of giving birth to children with similar natures (460a-b). Once born, the children will be taken away to a rearing pen to be taken care of by nurses and the parents will not be allowed to know who their own children are (460c-d). This is so that the parents think of all the children as their own. Socrates recognizes that this system will result in members of the same family having intercourse with each other (461c-e).

[Mean Daddy]

D-R-I-N-K Y-O-U-R O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway. Yeah, and the same thing is found in all of my FR posts -- every twelve-hundredth word I've posted is my in-progress memoirs. ;^)