The Figure Equivalent to God
Ancient people were very much interested in the laws of proportion. These laws were later organized in a system of rules for designing of correct figures, which in fact became the foundation of math as a science. The first great scientists of this system were the Greeks Thales and Pythagoras.
This, of course, does not mean that these same problems did not later perplex, say, the Babylonians and Egyptians; however the attempt to change space (which can be achieved only through the use of correct figures) is typical for this period of 7-6 c. B.C. At this time man was already able to influence space instead of simply perceiving it.
This period is related to the attempt to create, when man took over from God the process of solving spatial problems. What was God for the Ancient people? He was the perfect geometrical figure, in other words, the sphere. Imagine Thales or Pythagoras who inscribed this sphere in a cube. Or inscribed the circle in a square. Essentially, they took God and placed him inside a vessel. By the way, for this reason Anaxagoras, the pupil of Thales, was isolated from society.
The desire to design a figure equivalent to God was part of an attempt to study the perfect proportion, in other words the proportion that could generate a maximum quantity of energy. After all, what were the first attempts to calculate the circle about? The ancient scientists tried to calculate God’s power. And they reached the following conclusion: this can be done by determining the quadrature of the circle or squaring the circle. In other words, if you possess perfect proportion, then you can multiply your power by two. Isn’t that true genius? However, what does ‘multiply the power by two’ mean? It means you get rid of previous conditions, in other words become a rocket launched into orbit. And then the two vectors will not be contradictory but complementary.
As it turns out, we should treat the first mathematicians, including Antiphons, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Democritus, Archimedes, Plato, and others not as mathematicians or philosophers but as alchemists who were trying to obtain energy from space. We must also remember that people at that time saw the world not only from a materialistic and physical perspective but actually perceived its volume, density and even the frequency of the energy with an accuracy higher than the one all complicated machines can achieve today.
Let’s take for example the work of Antiphon who inscribed a square in the circle. What does that mean? It means that in order to understand the circle you must first understand the square. The square is a basic perfectly proportionate figure. It has one problem – the lack of rotation. However, once we have a square, we can design an octagon. And the octagon is the median figure lying between the square and the circle that helps it to not only aggregate energy but also to unwind it.
For the ancient people all this was related to the higher principles of life in nature. Something like the question: ‘What does God feel?’. The solution was not purely logical (i.e. pertaining to the left hemisphere) but had also right-hemisphere aspects. Ancient people wanted to feel this variable and not simply understand it. This very sensuous and living geometry served as the basis for Plato’s school.
10 november 2011
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