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The Pythagorean Brotherhood was a philosophical, religious, and scientific community founded in the 6th century BCE in Ancient Greece by Pythagoras of Samos. The Brotherhood is recognized as a group that believed mathematical order to be the fundamental building block of the universe and placed great emphasis on spiritual purification and moral discipline. As one of the earliest systematic schools of Western philosophy, it was characterized by strict rules governing both theoretical knowledge an