| THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF
THE TEMPLE TO UNKNOWN GOD
If the present historical time defines the
globalisation of the political, social and economic categories
and factors with all their evilness and hopelesness, however
right such structuration of the planet happening actuates
the consciousness about the two border topics: 1.about the
world base, the cause of globalisation and 2. about its surplus
moment, thus the moment, which is however dictated by the
universality logic itself, namely about the moment of the
wider cosmological, metaphysical and eshatological dimensions.
Such conception of the definite element from
the class of the substatial agenses of the modern history
brutally fires the demand of creation of the definite re-sewing
point, in which will identitically thicken all the symbol
validity, assurance and value of this integral, world totality,
cosmical and transcendent manifesting embodiement.
Under the concept of this symbolic identitiy
embodiement we think about the physical construction of The
Temple to the Unknown God. We think about spirit ground redefinition
of our civilisational code. We think that such conception
of the Thing can bring into the present planet structuration
of the daily politics, economic processes and nihilistic trends
the higher element of the Norm, sense, extatic attitude.
The first altar to the Unknown God was here
in Athens. On the rock of Areopag, the Athens Supreme Court
of Justice under Akropolis, St. Paul has his famous speech
to the philosophers about the unknown God. The Apostole works
say so: »Then Paul stepped in the middle of Areopag
and began to speak: "The Athens men! By all I see, you
are very religious. I was walking through your capital town
and visited the holy objects. By that I noticed also the altar
with the inscription To the unknown God. What you honour,
not to know, I am announcing you...".
But what are the charateristics of that God,
with whom St. Paul is identifying, though He is of »Greek
origin«? What is this God, who should offer the basis
for all worldly and supernatural, who should cover the Whole
of human spirit? What philosophical contence can enable such
a consciousness, in which people would start their process
of conquering the elements of the bad in particular and reflecting
their individual in the power of the One?
To make an outline of what we are thinking under the conceptual
image of God, whose symbolic site will be set up in the small
altar or temple in Athens, we are presenting seven points,
which form the base for the whole understanding of our project.
1. If we limit the world with two basic cathegories
of Being and nothing, stands God beyond and above both.
For Him we cannot say whether He is or He is not. Therefore
infinitely more of this, that Earth is round, is God God.
Neither any fact of experience, nor any science can give
us anything more truthful than this, that God is God. He
is Non-term in Non-world with No-life and Non-logic.
2. The highest consistence, the last truth
must be completely unprovable and groundless in consistency.
Godness of God, his truthfulness criterion is right in that,
that for Him consistence and inconsistence is not. This
is that total Out of His.
3.When we speak of God, we say that the last
and the ultimate is standing right at the opposite end of
that, to that we have come the furthest. This last is right
opposition of that extremely of ours.
4. Therefore not even the position of uttering
as “null class of the denoting chain”, as undefined
materiality, isn’t that absolute place in subject,
which should be in this its extreme ireductibiliy connected
with God, but it would be only the last but one, where Outer
merely begins from. That Last, which is neither mentioned
nothing, nor that being, nor this last, nor that indefiniteness,
but the real Transcendence.
5.God is Non-thinkable. Therefore he is Non-God.
Absolute is thus that, what is neither element or class
of the universe nor the infinite of the other wolds, but
He-himself, who does not dwell.
6. Less than zero bases the World, drives
it and makes alive in endless variety of elements and classes
or it destroys it. Let’s be glad, we have found us
in front of the desperate object of consciousness, when
it is possible to think something, what is endless worse
than nothing. Because Outside, in the Over-nonexistence,
is All. The whole Being, truth and cognition. There is no
World, there is no truth, for they are all in God.
7. That God is God, it must be at first confirmed
and proved in its complete weakness, in the kingdom of the
immense evil. Only then, when we say “Here is the
end, we cannot go further anymore, not earlier than at the
bottom itself, only in the worst woe we can start to talk
about God as God. The Absolute is only so, that it first
subjects to the complete negation, but it is in the same,
when the negation seizes it and consumes it – when
at the end remains only that negation - still yet it itself,
the endless difference to negation. Where Absolute is denied,
is it its beginning.
According to these principles, which are implicated
in St. Paul's speech, we have to do with the God of all gods,
with the God as a cross-section of all godly and worldly,
with the global God, thus even with the ateists God, for also
its negation is already in Him himself and in whom all the
religions are one and the whole world is one. And the liberating
attitude of all the humanity is in His sight.
With Paul's speech to the people of Athens and
their altare to the Unknown God there is also one important
thing to be stated. I speak of the »corner stone«
of the most radical directions in the philosophy of religion
or in the theology itself. It concerns so called direction
of the apophatical, negative theology and mystic philosophy
which roots go back to Platon, but this mental orientation
reaches one of its »absolute phases« in the most
mysterious person of the European philosophy, in the name
of Pseudo Dionisius Areopagites. And here starts the enigma.
Among the audience who was listening to the Paul's speech
was also the Athenian judge Dionizij. He accepted the Christian
religion, he became the first Athenian bishop and as a St.
Dionizij also the protector of Athens. In the history of philosophy
exists thus the eternal question, if it isn't right that Paul's
scolar the author maybe of the most extreme theory about the
Absolute or there is some other person, hidden behind that
name and never to be identified.
We say, the first altar to such God had been
set up here, in Athens. Therefore the duty and the main aim
of our project at the Department of Pure and Practical Philosopy
at NSK is, that the point of the re-sewing of the world physics
and metaphysics, that small altar which presents the crucial
turnover in the thought about the Absolute and symbolically
embraces the globe, return it into the consciousness of the
planet community and bring it back to the Greeks, to Athens.
Like a gift of something what was once theirs, but is of all
now. But it is of all now in its world ethical orientation.
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