One is the power divine in all things known,
And One the ruler absolute alone.
For in Jove's royal body all things lie,
Fire, night and day, earth, water and the sky;
The first begetter's pleasing love and mind;
These in his mighty body, Jove confined;
See, how his beauteous head and aspect bright
Illumine heaven, and scatter boundless light! (8)

The typical path or method of the Pythagorean philosopher is three-fold; purgative, illuminative, and unitive. In the Pythagorean School the students were divided into groups, beginners who practiced the purgative training listened to lectures on ethics, and who practiced morality and austerities designed to help them gain control over, "stomach, sleep, lust and anger."(9) They were made to take mindful walks in the morning and they were taught the value of silence. For illuminative training, the more advanced studied the reasoning sciences which we now call the Seven Liberal Arts, specifically, Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Music, Dialectic, Grammar and Rhetoric. This was so that, through cognition and logic, they would come to the conviction that Union with God was the only way to escape the wheel of dissatisfaction and unhappiness they found themselves on. Finally, for unitive training the most advanced students were taught meditation. This was called, "contemplation of the One, or contemplating the Good."(10) There might be someone who would object to my calling contemplation of the One, meditation, because contemplation is commonly defined as discursive rumination or analysis, and meditation is the shutting down of rumination or analysis. Yet the act of contemplating the One is the de facto shutting down of rumination and analysis due to the One's perfectly simple nature. Neither discourse, nor logical analysis enters there. Using logic to know the One is like using a compass to get to the North Pole. It only takes you about as far as Prince of Wales Island and then it fails. Try to discursively ruminate on the One; you will only be able to say what the One is not, like Euclid describing the source and end of all Geometry, the point, "A point is that which has no part."(11) The One can only be contemplated in the pure silence of the mind. These training methods were designed to create resonance between the individual and the One, and in so doing cause the individual to become divine.