Colors of a Black Mountain
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Colors of a Black Mountain
A Tribute to Hypatia of Alexandria,
370-415 A.D.
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As we walk in the Holy Valley
She comes and says
God …
… is goodness .. in every alley.
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a black mountain
surrounds our vision but
on we walk
hoping for a way out
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God, she said
“… is in every grain of bread,
good thoughts,
which always fill my head…”
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“God’s the mind of this great wonder
Love, not revenge, we should remember
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she dreamt of a dawn
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“… God is knowing He’s always there
caring for those who do not even care”
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Have you ever wondered …
who first thought of God
and where is he now?
a rose … even .. a bud?
only if we knew how:
to look …
but also see.
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And as debates will never finish
they won’t – i know for sure as much
skirts of black would now diminish,
and rays of light would spray a bunch:
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of colors
pure colors
in infinite shades
revealing beauty
of what once was
but won’t be again
a black mountain
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© 2007, Wael Nawara
In the Loving Memory of Hypatia (370-415 AD)
And all those who Lost their Lives to Defend the Right of
Each Man and Woman to Think Freely and Believe According to their Own Conscience.
Hypatia, My Friend …
Your Life was not Wasted …
Your Life is Remembered and Cherished
And your Terrible Death – Assassination Stands to us as a Reminder
of What could happen …
When we can no longer see the True Beauty and Infinite Colors of a what can be in the Darkness
A Black Mountain
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Hypatia on the Moon
Of the three hundred or so
craters on the Moon named after mathematicians,
One is called Hypatia !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And we do not even KNOW Hypatia here in Egypt …
It is because we FORGOT who we ARE
Now …
My Friends …
We Must Remember
Hypatia …
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Hypatia of Alexandria
born between 350 and 370 AD
Assassinated 415 AD
was a Neoplatonist philosopher
the first notable woman in mathematics
taught in the fields of astronomy and astrology.
She lived in Alexandria in Roman Egypt at the turn of the 5th century, at a time when paganism was actively suppressed. Her fame stems principally from her murder in 415 AD at the hands of a Christian mob.
Letters written to Hypatia by her pupil Synesius give an idea of her intellectual milieu. She was of the Platonic school, although her adherence was to the writings of Plotinus, the 3rd century follower of Plato and principal of the neo-Platonic school.
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Neoplatonism
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Neoplatonism was invented in Alexandria !!!
It is generally a religious philosophy.
Neoplatonism is a form of idealistic monism (also called theistic monism) and combines elements of Polytheism (see Monistic-polytheism).
Plotinus taught the existence of an ineffable and transcendent One, from which emanated the rest of the universe as a sequence of lesser beings.
Salvation
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Neoplatonists believed human perfection and happiness were attainable in this world, without awaiting an afterlife. Perfection and happiness— seen as synonymous— could be achieved through philosophical contemplation.
They did not believe in an independent existence of evil. They compared it to darkness, which does not exist in itself but only as the absence of light. So too, evil is simply the absence of good. Things are good insofar as they exist; they are evil only insofar as they are imperfect, lacking some good that they should have. It is also a cornerstone of Neoplatonism to teach that all people return to the Source. The Source, Absolute, or One is what all things spring from and, as a superconsciousness, is where all things return. It can be said that all consciousness is wiped clean and returned to a blank slate when returning to the Source. All things have energy as their essence. When people return to the Source, their energy returns to the One, Monad, or Source and is then recycled into the cosmos, where it can be broken up and then amalgamated into other things.
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I think the Movie – the MATRIX – somehow was very influenced by Neoplatonism …
Notice the Terminology:
The One
Neo
The Source
Re-incarnation
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Neoplatonism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism
Hypatia of Alexandria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_of_Alexandria
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Letters written to Hypatia by her pupil Synesius give an idea of her intellectual milieu. She was of the Platonic school, although her adherence was to the writings of Plotinus, the 3rd century follower of Plato and principal of the neo-Platonic school.
Later sources attribute several works to Hypatia, including commentaries on Diophantus’s Arithmetica, on Apollonius’s Conics, and on Ptolemy’s works, but none have survived. Her contributions to science are reputed (on scant evidence) to include the invention, working with her father Theon, of the astrolabe and the hydrometer.
the Christian historiographer Socrates Scholasticus in his Ecclesiastical History portrays her as follows:
There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such attainments in literature and science, as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom came from a distance to receive her instructions. On account of the self-possession and ease of manner, which she had acquired in consequence of the cultivation of her mind, she not unfrequently appeared in public in presence of the magistrates. Neither did she feel abashed in going to an assembly of men. For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_of_Alexandria
How Did the Scientific Achievements of Alexandria were LOST for over a 1000 years:
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Some insight into the intellectual conflict of early 5th century Alexandria is given by the letters written by Synesius of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolomais, to Hypatia, whom he loved and respected as his previous teacher. In one of them, he complains about people who begin to undertake philosophy after failing at some other career: “Their philosophy consists in a very simple formula, that of calling God to witness, as Plato did, whenever they deny anything or whenever they assert anything. A shadow would surpass these men in uttering anything to the point; but their pretensions are extraordinary.” In this letter, he also tells Hypatia that “the same men” had accused him of storing “unrevised copies” of books in his library.
This suggests that books were rewritten to suit the prevailing Christian dogma, which may also relate to the difficulty of finding accurate contemporary information about Hypatia’s life and death.
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See this Graph:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1144936&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=2557335988&aid=-1&id=762555541
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_of_Alexandria
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The Arab (Andalusians, Iranians, Iraqis, Egyptians, Iranians, Syrians, etc.) Scientists and Mathematicians in the 8th to 12th Century relied heavily on the Alexandrian Books which escaped the Fire of 390 AD – ordered by the Patriarch … [1]
Influence on European Renaissance
European Scientists re-read the Alexandrian Knowledge from its Greek and Latin sources but also through the contribution of Muslim Scientists.
Contributing to the growth of European science was the major search by European scholars for new learning which they could only find among Muslims, especially in Andalusia (Spain) and Sicily. These scholars translated new scientific and philosophical texts from Arabic into Latin.
Translated into Latin, these works began to appear in the West after the Renaissance and appear to have had an impact on Western science.
But the True Source of all this knowledge comes from ALEXANDRIA … and not from Athens …. as Maged Tawil will probably tell you in “Egyptian Athena”.
How little do we know of our History …
Amnesia … that’s what it is …
We Must Remember …
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[1]
Ancient and modern sources identify four possible occasions for the destruction of the Library:
1) Caesar’s conquest 48 BC;
2) The attack of Aurelian in the 3rd century;
3) The decree of Theophilus in 391;
4) The Muslim conquest in 642 or thereafter.
It is our belief that damage to the Library probably took place at all those dates …
The assassination of Hypatia in 415 AD and the way in which she was murdered, adding to that the fact that the Library and Alexandria as a whole seized to produce any significant scientific output since 400 AD, lead us to believe that by 400 AD … the Library was incapacitated.
How did Hypatia Die?
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And Why Did she Die in this Way?
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