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The Matter of Timaeus
In the Socratic era of the Greek empire, a dialogue occurred between Plato and a Sicilian philosopher named Archtyas. Archytas was also a statesman familiar with the beliefs and ways of many of the ancient people in this cosmopolitan part of the ancient world and from the dialogue between these two minds; Plato created the fabled character Timaeus.
In our tale, we meet Archytas/Timaeus and join him on a fevered phantasmagoric journey. We speculate, that like many of the visionaries of the renaissance world, Timaeus encountered his inspiration of the platonic solids from an encounter with the akkadian noumens of inspired delirium.
In our tale, we walk with Timaeus as he encounters the Pythagorean daimons that inspired the platonic myth of the solids.
Join us …
As we encounter Being, Space and Becoming,
“ My verdict in short may be stated as follows. There were, before the world came into existence: being, space and becoming, three distinct realities”, The Timaeus.
As we walk to the wilderness with Hekate, the Chaldean cosmic nous
“Non natura inspicias Fatale nomen elos ”, The Chaldean Oracles.
As we are pierced with the pyramids of fire
“The figure that has the fewest faces must in nature be the most penetrating”, The Timaeus.
As we are oscillate with the octahedra of air
“ Since there is no void which the body can move, it follows that it does not move into a void but by a displacement of air”, The Timaeus.
As we are imbued with the icosahedra of water
“While similarly we assign the least mobile of the elements to water”, The Timaeus.
As we are calcified with the cube of earth
“For it is the most immobile of bodies and retentive of shape”, The Timaeus.
As we ascend with the dodecahedra of cosmos
“There still remained a fifth construction which the god used for embroidering the constellations on the whole of heaven”, The Timaeus.
and return to the ever present human condition of becoming…
“ For our world has now received its full compliment of living creatures, both mortal and immortal, it has become a visible living creature, it contains all creatures that are visible and is itself an image of the intelligible”, The Timaeus.
For Further Reading please consult:
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The Anunnaki Project http://www.anunnaki.org/library/ The Timaeus (quoted above)
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The Theology of Arithmetic Iamblichus or PseudoIamblichus Translated by Robin Waterfield Phanes Press, Grande Rapids ISBN 0-933999-72-1
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The Pentacles at the top of the page are from cuneiform sources dating to 2nd millennia B.C. The presence of a cuneiform geometrical figure bisecting a line at the golden ratio has led some scholars to suspect the origins of Pythagorean mathematics comes from the ritual magic of Babylonian astrologers.