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Rho of justice and of the mystery of the divine Christ, the Logos Theou, the Word of God, who extends himself through all things in order to establish peace and harmony in the universe.149
Rho that also reflects, as if a hologram within holograms regressing to infinity’s wander, the ‘D’ of King David and of Dante’s Divina Commedia. Rho whose higher stem turns into a celestial ‘P,’ seemingly standing for the ‘P’ of Prophet and of Poet of Dante’s three cosmotheandric realms: Paradiso, Purgatorio and Inferno. Rho traced, lovingly, with Iota and semi-circle. Rho as ‘P’, too, of Plato and of the Olympian streams of his breathless Timaean150 anima mundi, world-spirit, world-soul, as a glowing mirror of the original and first of firsts Chi, transfigured from its modern 90-degree angle, formed by the ecliptic solar path and celestial equator, which, once crossing each other, become the magic letter chi.151 Chi of the rhythm of the cosmos, as pre-form of the Cross152 possibly signifying Didache or “sign of extension in heaven” as sēmeion ekpetaseōsen ouranō.153 Chi of the two heavenly spheres, equator and ecliptic, from whose spirit the dome of the heavens swings in a wondrous rhythm.154
Afterword.
Chi and Rho as One and Ten and Ten and One: the alpha and the omega and point of sixth quintessence: source of the five and six progenies of 500 10 5. Immortal prophecy there being and not being, seen and unseen, as the Mars-Heaven cross or the Chi Rho, as the mysterious Tetraktys and also as Dante’s Sphinx. Anubis as Christ and Christ as Anubis of the 2nd Advent: ever measuring, weighing in its scales a feather against the hearts and spirits of the Dead. Immortal prophecy ever aspiring to the universal and transcendent, written by Love just as Scripture,155 never departing from its own most nature. Diaphanous. Sigla and cipher, mirror of the universe, reflecting, from its myriad
149 Grigg, Robert. Symphōnian Aeidō tēs Basileias. An Image of Imperial Harmony on the Base of the Column of Arcadius. The Art Bulletin. 59.
150 Plato. Timaeus 8.36b and c
151 And thus, he exhausts the whole mixture out of which he cut these portions. This entire compound divided lengthways into two parts, which he joined to one another at the centre like the letter X, and bent them into a circular form, connecting them with themselves and each other at the point opposite to their original meeting- point; and, comprehending them in a uniform revolution upon the same axis, he made the one the outer and the other the inner circle." (Timaeus, Benjamin Jowett, translation.
152 Justin, Apologia 1.60.
153 Noted by Grigg 1977: 477, Note 42. This is deduced by 2nd century Christian apologist, Martyr.
154 Rahner. Greek Myths and Christian Mystery. Tr. B. Battershaw (New York) 1963:49f, noticed in Grigg 1977:477 and note 59.
155 Moev. The Metaphysics of Dante. Note 50. 79
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