Post by croatchessmaster on Dec 31, 2011 20:31:29 GMT -5
It is known that the game of chess originated in India. It was passed on to the medieval West through the intermediary of the Persians and the Arabs, a fact to which we owe, for example, the expression ‘checkmate’ (German Schachmatt) which is derived from the Persian shah: ‘king’ and the Arabic mat: ‘he is dead’.
At the time of the Renaissance some of the rules of the game were changed: the ‘queen’ and the two ‘bishops’ were given a greater mobility, and thenceforth the game acquired a more abstract and mathematical character; it departed from its concrete model, strategy, without however losing the essential features of its symbolism. In the original position of the chessmen, the ancient strategic model remains obvious; one can recognize two armies ranged according to the battle order that was customary in the ancient East: the light troops, represented by the pawns, form the first line; the bulk of the army consists of the heavy troops, the war chariots (‘castles’), the knights (‘cavalry’), and the war elephants (‘bishops’); the ‘king’ with his ‘lady’ or ‘counsellor’ is positioned at the centre of his troops.
The form of the chess-board corresponds to the ‘classical’ type of Vastu-mandala.
This diagram symbolizes existence as a ‘field of action’ of the divine powers.
The cyclical symbolism of the chess-board resides in the fact that it expresses the unfolding of space according to the quaternary and octonary of the principal directions (4 * 4 * 4 = 8 * 8) and that it synthesizes, in crystalline form, the two great complementary cycles of sun and moon: the duodenary of the zodiac and the 28 lunar mansions; furthermore, the number 64, the sum of the squares on the chess-board, is a sub-multiple of the fundamental cyclic number 25920, which measures the precession of the equinoxes. We have seen that each phase of a cycle, ‘fixed’ in the scheme of 8 * 8 squares, is ruled by a heavenly body and at the same time symbolizes a divine aspect, personified by a deva. It is thus that this mandala symbolizes at one and the same time the visible cosmos, the world of the Spirit, and the Divinity in its multiple aspects.
Conclusion? Croatia as a state/country/nation was built on the inigmatic obsession for power and the lust for the impossible.
The red/white checkered patter is widely known as being part and therefore unitary within the Vatican subjects, as well as masonry.
The black and white checkered floor has existed in temples since the times of ancient Egypt. More than simply decorative, the mosaic pavement bears a profound esoteric meaning. Today it is one of Freemasonry’s most recognizable symbols and is the ritualistic floor of all Masonic lodges. The pavement is the area on which initiations occur and is “emblematic of human life, checkered with good and evil.”
“The mosaic pavement in an old symbol of the Order. It is met with in the earliest rituals of the last century. It is classed among the ornaments of the lodge along with the indented tessel and the blazing star. Its party-colored stones of black and white have been readily and appropriately interpreted as symbols of the evil and good of human life.”
The red/white usually finds its' connection to the high-church or in a realer sense, high-bank. The Vatican Bank is one of the worlds most wealthiest insititutions.
More will discussed Balkan brothers. We Southern Slavs musn't allow trivial ways of getting in THE way.
At the time of the Renaissance some of the rules of the game were changed: the ‘queen’ and the two ‘bishops’ were given a greater mobility, and thenceforth the game acquired a more abstract and mathematical character; it departed from its concrete model, strategy, without however losing the essential features of its symbolism. In the original position of the chessmen, the ancient strategic model remains obvious; one can recognize two armies ranged according to the battle order that was customary in the ancient East: the light troops, represented by the pawns, form the first line; the bulk of the army consists of the heavy troops, the war chariots (‘castles’), the knights (‘cavalry’), and the war elephants (‘bishops’); the ‘king’ with his ‘lady’ or ‘counsellor’ is positioned at the centre of his troops.
The form of the chess-board corresponds to the ‘classical’ type of Vastu-mandala.
This diagram symbolizes existence as a ‘field of action’ of the divine powers.
The cyclical symbolism of the chess-board resides in the fact that it expresses the unfolding of space according to the quaternary and octonary of the principal directions (4 * 4 * 4 = 8 * 8) and that it synthesizes, in crystalline form, the two great complementary cycles of sun and moon: the duodenary of the zodiac and the 28 lunar mansions; furthermore, the number 64, the sum of the squares on the chess-board, is a sub-multiple of the fundamental cyclic number 25920, which measures the precession of the equinoxes. We have seen that each phase of a cycle, ‘fixed’ in the scheme of 8 * 8 squares, is ruled by a heavenly body and at the same time symbolizes a divine aspect, personified by a deva. It is thus that this mandala symbolizes at one and the same time the visible cosmos, the world of the Spirit, and the Divinity in its multiple aspects.
Conclusion? Croatia as a state/country/nation was built on the inigmatic obsession for power and the lust for the impossible.
The red/white checkered patter is widely known as being part and therefore unitary within the Vatican subjects, as well as masonry.
The black and white checkered floor has existed in temples since the times of ancient Egypt. More than simply decorative, the mosaic pavement bears a profound esoteric meaning. Today it is one of Freemasonry’s most recognizable symbols and is the ritualistic floor of all Masonic lodges. The pavement is the area on which initiations occur and is “emblematic of human life, checkered with good and evil.”
“The mosaic pavement in an old symbol of the Order. It is met with in the earliest rituals of the last century. It is classed among the ornaments of the lodge along with the indented tessel and the blazing star. Its party-colored stones of black and white have been readily and appropriately interpreted as symbols of the evil and good of human life.”
The red/white usually finds its' connection to the high-church or in a realer sense, high-bank. The Vatican Bank is one of the worlds most wealthiest insititutions.
More will discussed Balkan brothers. We Southern Slavs musn't allow trivial ways of getting in THE way.