Cristian Ungureanu-

„God as Geometer”- Projections of the Antique geometry in the European Medieval Art

Thirsty and curious as is any artist who doesn’t fall asleep shortly after the light is

closed, I started to “drink water after others” – as a friend says. In this case (and not only) we

don’t even know the name of the French monk who began to make illustrations to a Bible,

convinced that God created the Universe and its numerous laws on the basis of the numerical

ratio between circles and spheres. It is very possible that the medieval monk also heard the music

of the spheres while he was trying to enclose the circles into squares (which resemble so much to

the circles as length and size that you almost believe they are equal to each other, if it hadn’t

been for the irrationality of π).

This remembered me about the character from the movie “Waking Life”, who was

concerned with “...not just Eternity, but Infinity”, as well as of the contemporary astrophysicist

Stephen Hawkins who said that we are going to discover the “thinking” of God when the unified

theory of the six main laws that govern our jar with stars will be discovered…

And this until now (is it in the front or further behind?- Gino de Dominicis stated in

the ‘60s that he is older than the Egyptian artist and that he prefers the pre-diluvian art!). Since if

we go with 50 years forward, I might see that, in fact, there are about sixteen laws which make

us so imperfect and beautiful in our growth caused by longing...

We are longing to turn back home! That’s why we tramp as frantic on this planet,

which is certainly the calmest and most patient creature that was ever seen.

As his physician friend, contemporary with us, the French monk who’s unknown to us

was interested in the “thinking” of God and he marked it simply by using a circle around the

head of the Single Character (who reminds more of Christ rather than the Old man with bear and

long white hair) - but this is a too strong water, which I miss .. but I do not know if I can have a

drink of it. In the circle below (just one and a half bigger than the circle of “thinking”) is our

Universe (as if the monk looked at Juan Miro when he drew the Universe), and if we induce

them a movement of expansion until each of them doubles, we find that they are perfectly

tangent into a immobile point and without attributes in which God is holding a compass, a point

which is also projected to “us”, in the middle of the Universe, a middle that makes us lose our

heads (woe is me), since we saw with our own eyes through the Hubble telescope that the middle

is everywhere, in every point ...

Not to say that in the middle of God’s “circle of thought” there is a point that is an “even

more immobile”, if my friend allows me, even if he’s not yet consenting with drinking the

water...

God as Geometer, French Gothic miniature, Bible Moralisee, XIIth century

And if we double the circles once again, we will resile from wonder and see the big

Universe (in pink – where life should be only this way) is tangent to the small circle and blue, of

God’s “thinking” from the Beginning. It is as if the small circle would spin the large and pink

Universe, in a vision that I wouldn’t venture in considering it only mechanistic...

Since if we descend on the small circle, the one of God’s “thinking”, four times with

a beam, we obtain a Sephirotic tree that enters slowly, with his inner circle, into the territory of

our Universe. What is the Sephirotic tree, of the heart of Kabala, doing in the illustrations of the

French monk? Without doubt he found out what Petre Ţuţea said that Jesus was born exactly in

Palestine! Continuing doubling the circles, we’ll have a last tangent of the series, in which the

extended circle of the halo is tangent to the median (green) circle of the expansion of the

Universe.

“Mirroring” the Sephirotic blue tree after a horizontal axis (also blue, that all the

cosmological doctrines named “the surface of the waters”, as if they were speaking to each

other!!) we obtain a (reversed) tree with four circles marked with black (a material mixture of all

the colours), which ends tangent to the green Universe, after the first expansion.

Somehow funny, but very serious, is the fact that God has rolled up also His sleeve to

the surface of water as not to soak with our water His holy garments, in His indicible and

magnificent action, whereof both the anonymous monk and the astrophysicist Stephen Hawkins

are talking about.