Is This What the Essence of the Ophite Diagram Looked Like?
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Is This What the Essence of the Ophite Diagram Looked Like?
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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Re: Is This What the Essence of the Ophite Diagram Looked Like?
In 1981 A. J. Welburn wrote an article about reconstructing the Ophite Diagram, and he came up with this complicated thing:
I do not feel competent to comment on it, though.
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Re: Is This What the Essence of the Ophite Diagram Looked Like?
Me neither. I just saw the Pythagorean diagram (above) and thought it had a lot of the elements - the 'dividing line,' the small circle etc. The small circle goes around a tetrad which was taken by the neo-Platonists to be the Demiurge who is the Son of the Christian understanding. The cross is there too. Since all the gnostic groups venerated the tetrad it's presence at the center of the diagram is significant.
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote