In the 14th century "Seven-Lobed Platter With Children at Play" mothers watch as their toddlers cavort in a luxurious garden, and all seems right and harmonious with the universe.
As Socrates indicates, divine reason is the ultimate source of all that is good and harmonious in the universe, while human reason is but its poor copy (26e 27c; 28a 30e).
The goal is to live such a good life that one no longer needs to be resurrected, but ascends to a state of eternal energy, harmonious with the universe.
Through shamanistic rites or collective ceremonies, humans must encourage and maintain their harmonious integration in the universe, controlling the forces that govern it; their beneficial or harmful effects are largely determined by human action.
The Buddha's enlightenment is described not as a rapturous blaze of ecstasy, but the placid dissolution of self into the harmonious weft of the universe.
But to Jim Chee, a young cop studying to be a healer, the real issue is how violence destroys the harmonious order of the Navajo universe.
And since the universe is maximally harmonious, there is no end to the pleasure we can derive from the acquisition of distinct knowledge.
In the material universe, there are harmonious proportions between the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water) and the human body, an idea that was applicable to Galenic medicine, which regarded good health as dependent on a harmonious balance between the four humors (hot, dry, wet, cold) related to the four elements.
"This is the medieval synthesis itself," Lewis explains, "the whole organization of their theology, science, and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental Model of the Universe".
84 is a sacred number in many spiritual traditions, representing a harmonious relationship between the individual and the universe.
