The noun “gnosis” means gnosis, science, knowledge, in the Greek language. The word “gnosticism” also comes from “gnosis” and it does not mean an empirical knowledge of the real world but a mystic knowledge in an actual plain interpretation.
It
is far from me, as the author of these lines, the concern of soteriologic,
elitistic, esoteric or eschatological gnosis. I believe that the utterance
“gnosis” is a word that is or expresses something abstract in our conscience
and imagination, or a word that has various concrete interpretations. I have in
mind metastases between two nouns that appear in the same book, but with
different publishing houses.
I
know that “Gospel letter” is a sanctified thing especially in sacred books.
I was astonished at the very first verse I red in the first chapter of John’s
Gospel that I wished to read having two Bibles at hand, one printed abroad
(probably USA), bearing no apparition date, and the second edited by The
Institute of The Bible and of Orthodox Mission of Romanian Orthodox Church,
Bucharest, 1975.
The
first Bible’s version: “At the beginning there was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and The Word was God.”
The
second Bible’s version: “At the beginning there was the Word, and the Word
was at God and God was the Word.”
I
shall not stop over minor matters, the change of prepositions, punctuation, but
it is worth to linger a while over the metathesis between God and the Word. We
have a metathesis between subject and predicate, which makes all bear a
different interpretation. Which is our position towards the “Gospel letter”?
Since
we are analysing John’s Gospel, we are mentioning J. W. Goethe with his
masterpiece Faust, where, in the first
part, he started to translate from John’s Gospel, namely the verse 1.1: “At
the beginning there was the Word”. On the basis of a few pertinent deductions,
he reaches the following row of variants: “At the beginning there was the
Idea”; “At the beginning there was the Power”, and finally: “At the
beginning there was the Fact”. The great mathematician and logician D. Hilbert
had the following translation: “At the beginning there was the Sign”. And
me, the author of the first lines, have used the translation: “At the
beginning there was the Structure”. It is noticeable that inside the term
“At the beginning there was the Word”, the Word has very many synonymous and
very diverse expressions as semantic expressions. Consequently, this word is a gnosis.
One
of the greatest achievements of megaera biotica was the anthropic stage, man
namely. By means of intelligence, man tried on various ways to make his work
easier, in other words to perfect his handicrafts, to invent or to reinvent work
accessories. Man’s greatest invention was the wheel. Wheel made man tame wild
animals and teach them how to work, as many of them made proof of possessing
power and energy that might have helped man.
The
germ of new sciences sprouted, especially mechanics and technology. We can
mention here Archimedes, the genial engineer. If a Roman soldier had not killed
him in the year 212 B C, infinitesimal calculus would have already been (most of
it) discovered. Archimedes’ death caused a 19 centuries’ delay in
discovering infinitesimal calculus, which was finally given by Newton and
Leibnitz. He discovered lots of devices and equipment. If he hadn’t died
prematurely, then it would have been possible that the 100 years war (1337 –
1453) has lasted 100 weeks only and has been carried on with tanks, plains and
rockets.
The most famous men of science who fought for sciences reunification, especially physic sciences, were the following ones along history:
1.
Archimedes (c. 287 –212 B C),
2.
Biruni Abu Raihan Mohammed ibn Ahmed al (973 – 1048),
3.
Galileus Galileo (1564 – 1642),
4.
Newton sir Isaac (1642 – 1727),
5.
Faraday Michel (1791 – 1867),
6.
Heisenberg Werner Karl (1901 - …),
7.
Schrödinger Erwin (1887 – 1961),
8.
Einstein Albert (1879 – 1955).
Of the enumerated men of science, there are two of them who have the merit of being preoccupied in their works by the Universe, mostly by demonstrating the unity and the uniqueness of the Universe and less by the fundamental forces: they were Newton and Einstein.
Between Newton and Einstein and especially in the 20th century, there were many well-known physicians who have succeeded one the other – as a proof stays the great number of the Nobel prize winners – but none of them all was not preoccupied by “Universal” matters, by the Universe. In their fields of preoccupations many go on believing that they have found “ultima ratio”, that is they have already closed the problem between covers, believing that they have solved it for good. It is usually in Physics to be found the thing to demonstrate the contrary, if not the contradictory.
Our knowledge is a continuous act and negating anterior assertions is not scarce. We said the Earth had the shape of an apple pie, but it was proven that it is more like a sphere. It was believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, but it was proven that the Earth is just a planet (the third) of our solar system. It was believed that the heroin of Orléans, Jeanne d’Arc, fallen into English hands was a sorceress and was burnt alive on the 30th of May 1431. As centuries passed by, acts were checked and in 1909 she was sanctified by pope Pius 10th and in 1920 she was canonised by pope Benedict 15th as the saint Joan.
I have a special admiration for physicians Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, for their accomplished work in creating the electro-weak nuclear force, that is they gave one single formula for weak nuclear force and electromagnetic force. A big step forward wsa thus made towards the unity of the three forces: the electromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force and the hard nuclear force. The fourth force, the gravitational one namely, bears a different origin.
As I red St. Weinberg’s book The first three minutes of the Universe, I had a bitter taste in my mouth. I do not intent to verify calculus, deductions, purity and accuracy of the work. They are ab ovo impeccable. I am, so to speak, in front of a valid syllogist, except that the premises are false. The axiom taken into account was “The Universe includes everything (that is concrete and abstract) and has no neighbourhood”. According to this axiom, where would matter expand, since neighbourhood is missing? What was there before Big Bang had started, who provides time for the big explosion? Who provides Space? We can go on putting questions about the mentioned book, but we think they were enough.
The book The first three minutes of the Universe produced a lot of fuss, mainly among (pseudo)physicians. The book had come to be omniscient, all-embracing; moreover, it gave cosmogonic, cosmological and ontological solutions, in all, the Physics teacher had become a sort of a godly figure. What was written in the mentioned book had become a dogma. All the people who were (more or less) aware of this dogma considered themselves as learned, and the “preaching” in this book had become a dogma, a modern dogma.
Other (modern) gnoses that concern us and the scientific world as well, especially physicians, would be Space and Time. Almost everybody believes that they intuitively know what Space and Time are. However, paraphrasing Saint Augustus, we should answer: “If you asked me what Space and Time are, then I should answer that I don’t know; and if you did not ask me what they are, then I should answer that I know”.
If by convention we agreed to express in write SPACE for the abstract space, the gnosis of space, and we represented as TIME the abstract time, the gnosis of the time, then the following ideas would exist: SPACE does not exist. In order to become space, we need to attach something existent to SPACE. TIME does not exist. In order to become time, we should add two distinct, real events to TIME.
SPACE may is expanded only inside the whole Universe, having as contents (extent) all v and w qquantors.
TIME is expanded over all megaeras, biotic, terrestrial megaera and over all other megaeras of the other planets of the Sun and of other stars.
The contents of SPACE is made of v qquants and of existential, w qquantors. The contents based on v qquantors has the following properties:
1. The contents is inert, perfectly homogenous and izotropic, permeable, measurable, at a temperature of 0° K.
2. It is a good conductor for ray and radiation of different frequencies and intensities, without diminishing their power.
3. It is penetrable and transmissive for radiation of speed that exceeds the speed of light but is not unlimited, though.
The contents of SPACE based on w qquantors has the following properties:
1. Its contents is not homogenous, not izotropic, not penetrable, not varied, not measurable and has a temperature higher than 0° K.
2. Its rays and radiation are partially penetrable, but are absorbed according to their temperature (K>0).
3. The contents of SPACE and of w qquants is gravific, meaning that it manifests itself through universal attraction.
4. Rays and radiation that are not penetrable reflect themselves and thus create fields, the intensity of which diminishes as compared to distance from the source.
As for the gnosis of TIME, according to what we have above shown, it is necessary that we attach it to two distinct events, called “beginning” and “end”, if they refer to the terrestrial megaera biotica. It could be possible that on other megaeras, several distinctive limiting events might be needded.
TIME is to become “duration”, so it has two limits – an inferior one (birth) and a superior one (death) – and thus a direction of evolution. They must not be mistaken with other limits, two as well, that do not stick with megaeras, but with a cosmic existence which has a direction of evolution as well – passing from the stage of v qquants (warmness, existence, movement) to w qquants; from w qquants (annihilation, inertness, complete repose) to v qquants.
There are many more modern gnoses, but the author of the above lines thinks he has decrypted the ones that stick to the subject.