Consider now why I consider it inappropriate to another widely held view on the subject of the film AGORA, ie why I think is not a conflict between reason and faith, between science and religion . In this as in other matters, the film is ambiguous. Incidentally, this explains the title that accompanies these digressions, AGORAfilia and phobia AGORA : my relationship of love / hate relationship with a unique film in many ways, especially technical- and deficient in some others, especially in the handling of documents that the script is allowed. The film presents, in principle, a dedicated Hypatia, both in class and in their particular investigations almost exclusively mathematical and astronomical matters. Thus, with a vision cronocéntrica projecting over the past our current schemes around science, Hypatia us immersed in a strictly scientific issues and totally alien to matters spiritual. C'mon, it's a far cry from the scientific theological speculations. If that is the norm these days, it is certain that such a divorce between science and religion is not held up well-established ideas of the Enlightenment. Newton himself did not see the absolute space and time other than the presence of God eternal and unlimited.
The movie is ignored that Hypatia was a Neoplatonic philosopher. Perhaps closest to the intellectualism of Porfirio theurgy that Iamblichus or Proclus, but in any case concerned with spiritual issues at the highest level. Porphyry tells us in his biography of Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism experienced four mystical ecstasy in his presence. In his History of science and its relations with philosophy and religion [1] , Sir William Cecil Dampier puts it clearly: "Neoplatonism and early Christian theology grew up together, mutually reacting upon one another-indeed, accusing each other of plagiarism. Christianity, like Neoplatonism, is based on the fundamental premise that the ultimate reality of the universe is spirit, and in the patristic age suprarational adopted Neoplatonic attitude. "(1997:94 DAMPIER)
could not be otherwise when, from Pythagoras and Plato, geometry and astronomy were but the vehicles pure and appropriate to approach the divine questions, something like the language of the gods. And so, without doubt, understood Hypatia and passed it on to his disciples, as attested Sinesio when referring to his teachings as the "sacred geometry" ( hurt geometries) or the "divine geometry" ( theia geometry) (letter 93). It is precisely Sinesio letters of where we can extract enough material to get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe teachings of Hypatia. Mary does so masterfully Dzielska in the book cited. Suffice it to mention the significant treatments philosopher receives from his faithful disciple Sinesio "venerable philosopher, favorite of divinity" (letter 5), "the true master of the mysteries of philosophy" (letter 137); "that sacred hand that intervened between us "(face 133)," Your most divine soul "(letter 10)," His divine voice "(letter 5)
This classic and common link between mathematics and mystique was certainly present in the education of Hypatia, as his father, the mathematician Theon, was much given to the mysteries and revelations of Hermes and Orpheus. "Steeped in tradition, the family reads surely the revelation of Hermes, the Orphic theological writings, several Greek texts and manuals of astrology, divination (DZIELSKA 2006:90) An astrological poem contained in the Corpus Hermeticum among Extracts of Estobeo (XXIX) has been attributed to Theon:
OF HERMES. [FATE] [2]
seven wandering stars throughout space describing its orbit on the threshold of Olympus and eternity forever moves including: the moon light night, the dark Crono, the sweet sun, pafiana [3] with the marriage bed, the aggressive Ares, Hermes the beautiful wings and Zeus protogenerador of whom nature was born. Is divided among them the human race and we live in the Moon, Zeus, Ares, Aphrodite, Kronos, Helios and Hermes, ethereal breath of hope for tears, laughter, anger, generation, word, dream and desire. Crying is Cronus, Zeus generation, the word Hermes, Ares anger, sleep Luna, the desire of Cythera [4] Helios and laughter, because, justice, he laughs all mortal intelligence and boundless cosmos.
Apparently, according to scholars, such interest in the occult was common between the Alexandrian mathematicians (cf. G. Fowden and JC Haas in DZIELSKA 2006: 89)
Mathematics and mystical go hand in hand at least until Boethius (480-525), perhaps the last bastion of that spirit of ancient philosophy, writing summaries, reviews, and inspired by the Greeks treated the four mathematical disciplines taught by the Pythagoreans, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music, " which he called quadrivium , and served basis for the teaching of medieval monastic schools. Shortly after his death, by order of Justinian in 529 closed the schools of philosophy in Athens "in which at that time was teaching a half mystical Christian Neoplatonism: the emperor wanted to delete it, first, the last vestiges the teaching of pagan philosophy, and, second, eliminate any competition with the official Christian schools. "(1997:97 DAMPIER)
will not until the Renaissance to rediscover airs of divine geometry. In the fifteenth century, the cardinal and philosopher Nicholas of Cusa in De Docta ignorantia , recalled the mystical tradition:
"Thus Boethius, the most illustrious of the Romans, held anyone who do not exercise deep in mathematics could achieve the science of things divine. Did Pythagoras, the first philosopher, both by name and by the facts, the numbers did not research the whole truth? " [5]
precisely in that first book The learned ignorance, God is presented by Nicholas of Cusa as the fullness to which nothing is missing. He is the coincidentia oppositorum , since he matches everything besides Him is thought to be different from our understanding. In the infinite opposites are reconciled, as demonstrated by the geometry, then the curve of a circle of infinite radius can be thought of as a line:
"So, if the curve has less curvature when the circumference is greater circle, the circumference of the circle, greater than which there can be no other, is minimally curved making it maximally straight. "(lib. I, cap. XIII)
Pythagorean spirit of cusano undoubtedly influenced Johannes Kepler, the head to give mathematical support to the Copernican heliocentric with his famous three laws on the movement of the planets in their elliptical orbits. However, it is often forgotten that his official occupation was the astrological almanacs, which was convinced that God created the world in mind the mathematical harmonies, and therefore the first formulation of the third of his famous laws appears in an esoteric book Pythagoreanism oozing, 1619: Harmonices Mundi, The Harmonies of the World. The Pythagoreans were able to combine the four divine arts math-arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy-in a colossal and sublime vision: the music of the spheres . El razonamiento que les llevó hasta ello es, desde sus supuestos, impecable: todo movimiento armónico –vibración, diríamos hoy-, produce un sonido; el movimiento más perfecto es el circular; los astros se mueven con movimiento circular; luego los astros producen al moverse…un sonido perfecto. Se cuenta que a Pitágoras le objetaban: “¿y cómo es que no se escucha tan maravillosa sinfonía cósmica?” Y que él, al parecer, respondía: “porque hacemos demasiado ruido…” Amén. Parece ser que Kepler no se resignaba a sufrir este mundanal ruido y, ni corto ni perezoso, se applied to the colossal project of writing something like the score of this cosmic symphony, relating the perfect polyhedra or Platonic solids with specific musical scales and planetary movements. As apotheosis as indecipherable. For those who want to venture into the maze Geometric original work here are some samples:
Landing Alexandria again, I want to clarify why he said that the film Amenabar showed, in my opinion, ambiguous in this regard. Although, as I said earlier, we are drawn to a Hypatia asepsis applied to astronomy, with no apparent contamination of metaphysical speculation, the final scene, in my opinion very successful, shows it about to die, drowned pity for his former slave Davo-in attitude almost mystical ecstasy circular skylight looking like the temple in which it is - does the Caesarion? - viewed from the side where it is located ....¡ is an ellipse! And we had previously suggested that perhaps Hypatia, an expert on conic sections, would have thought that centuries later discovered-no sin gran disgusto para sus pitagóricas creencias- el citado Johannes Kepler: que los planetas no se mueven en órbitas circulares, sino elípticas. La sugerencia del guión según la cual Hipatia habría hecho compatible su devoción pitagórica por el círculo con el nuevo hallazgo al darse cuenta de que la elipse no es más que un círculo visto en perspectiva, me parece magistral. Al menos al final se nos muestra un resquicio de la divina geometría de la que hablaba Sinesio…
[1] En Tecnos, Madrid, 1997
[2] quote the translation of Xavier Renau Nebot Hermetic texts, Gredos, Madrid, 1999, p. 417
[3] refers to Aphrodite, who is said to be born in the Cypriot town of Paphos
[4] Ionian island of Kythira is one of the places that are attributed the birth of Aphrodite
[5] Book I, Chapter XI, page 49 of the Castilian edition of Aguilar, Madrid 1981
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