Palma de Mallorca .( Spain )

Palma Carthedral Colours and Numbers

The metaphysical significance of the numbers in Palma Cathedral

The basis of many churches is sacry geometry and proportion. Numbers had a metaphysical significance, and were thought to have occult power. Every aspect of the medieval cathedral utilized that significace: the number of pillars in the choir, the ratio of the levels of in the triforium, etc. Rose windows are no exception to this rule. The triangle means stability trascending duality.Our rosewindow composed of twenty four triangles twelve of them represent the shape of six pointed star.

The most visual presence of the three in the cathedral is the one of its architectonic structure , it is a cathedral of three naves, the cathedral can be perceived like the conjunction of three churches.

1.The first that was constructed named Chapel of the Trinidad, there is above, to  where the pantheons of the mallorcan kings are located

2.Second , the  Royal Chapel, where it is now the altar and presbitery.

3.Third it arises when the construction is tripled and appeared the building of the three aisles.

There are three the rosewindows , entering by the greater vestibule.

There are three the most excellent lampadarios,

1.the one of the seven lamps on the episcopal chair,

2.the one of the octogonal crown of the baldaquino on the  greater altar and

3.the one of lucerna conical truncated in center of the central nave.

Number three is not absolutely strange to the cultural patrimony of the Church.

The Christians adore a trinitary God

1.Father,

2.Son and

3.holy Spirit

Three are three teologal virtues - faith, hope and charity.

Not only the Christian cultural patrimony has been constructed, partly, on the paradigm of the three. The old civilization celta counts on the three spirals of the Kristel, Dante divided in three parts the Divine Comedy, are famous the three laws of Newton.

The great reform that Obispo Campins proposed to the artis Antonio Gaud� formulated through a triple charge:

1. to obtain an altar for God,

2. a chair for the bishop and

3. a great space for the people.

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Escrito por visitapalma el 21/08/2007 21:44 | Comentarios (0)