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out of chaos, comes order: one of the oldest mottos of Craft Freemasonry. [3] (oremus) pro invicem (Let us pray), one for the other; let us pray for each other: Popular salutation for Roman Catholic clergy at the beginning or ending of a letter or note. Usually abbreviated OPI. ("Oremus" used alone is just "let us pray"). orta recens quam pura ...
The word seclorum does not mean "secular", but is the genitive (possessive) plural form of the word saeculum, meaning (in this context) generation, century, or age. Saeculum did come to mean "age, world" in late, Christian Latin, and "secular" is derived from it, through secularis. However, the adjective "secularis," meaning "worldly," is not ...
Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
Studying word order in Latin helps the reader to understand the author's meaning more clearly. For example, when a verb is placed at the beginning of a sentence, it sometimes indicates a sudden action: so complōsit Trimalchio manūs means not just "Trimalchio clapped his hands" but "Trimalchio suddenly clapped his hands".
Spontaneous order, also named self-organization in the hard sciences, is the spontaneous emergence of order out of seeming chaos. The term "self-organization" is more often used for physical changes and biological processes, while "spontaneous order" is typically used to describe the emergence of various kinds of social orders in human social networks from the behavior of a combination of self ...
MIT scientists discovered particles transition from chaos to order due to entropy. This breakthrough reveals hidden dynamics of collective motion in systems.
Symbol of Chaos: Michael Moorcock, Aleister Crowley and chaos magic: A symbol originating from The Eternal Champion, later adopted by occultists and role-playing games. Tetractys (Tetrad) Greek school of Pythagoreanism: The tetractys is an equidistant and equiangular arrangement of ten points inside a triangle, akin to the fourth triangle number.
Latin, meaning "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews". The Letters are also the initials of a significant sentence in Latin, namely, Igne Natura Renovatur Integra, meaning "By fire nature is perfectly renewed". I∴ P∴ M∴ – Immediate Past Master. English title of an official last promoted from the chair.