Spherical Heavens of Greek Cosmology

The ancient Greeks understood that the only way that the complicated circuits of heaven can work is if it’s in the form of a sphere. It also begs the question, how could they conclude as to what shape the heavens are if they can’t see the border of it? Parmenides (circa 515–450 BCE) Parmenides was an early pre-Socratic philosopher who contributed to the idea of a spherical cosmos. Fragment 1 of Parmenides (as quoted by Simplicius): “The solid heavens, being circular, surround all things within them.” Eudoxus of Cnidus (circa 390–337 BCE) Eudoxus was an influential Greek astronomer and mathematician who developed early models of the spherical cosmos. Eudoxus (as summarized by Hipparchus and reported by Simplicius): “Eudoxus made the fixed stars to move on a sphere, and the sun, moon, and planets to move on other spheres concentric with the sphere of the…

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Art of the Ancient World

This is just a collection of some the artwork, geometry, instruments, and designs of the ancient world. Raphael’s depiction of the unmoved mover from the Stanza della Segnatura: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover   The Divine Comedy’s Empyrean, illustrated by Gustave Doré The Candida Rosa is the place where the souls reside in the Paradise built by Dante : «Therefore in the form of a white rose / the holy militia was shown to me / which Christ made a bride in his blood.» (Paradiso – Canto thirty-first , vv. 1-3 ) In ancient European cosmologies inspired by Aristotle, the Empyrean Heaven, Empyreal or simply the Empyrean, was the place in the highest heaven, which was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire (or aether in Aristotle’s natural philosophy). The word derives from the Medieval Latin empyreus, an adaptation of the Ancient Greek empyros (ἔμπυρος), meaning…

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Cosmic Egg: Mythology Unveils the True Nature of Heaven & Earth

Since the beginning of time people have racked their brains trying to figure out just what the hell heaven and earth truly is.  Many held a worldview of three layers consisting of heaven, earth, and the underworld. They understood that the ‘universe’ was created and not the product of time, chance, and happenstance. The idea of everything coming from nothing in a ‘big bang’ was a foreign abstraction for these ancient philosophers; they had more common sense than we do today. The common denominator among all these ancient cosmologies is the concept of the ‘cosmic egg’  or a ‘universal womb’ in which -the entire universe as we know it- is contained therein. We do call our home “Mother Earth” after all, which makes sense since our world is imbued with these feminine qualities. If God takes the masculine form it only goes to serve…

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