SPIRITUAL SPACES

Spiritual Spaces

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Spiritual Spaces

Introduction

Notion of spiritual space refers to the inspired space, space filler or a substantial part of some ideologies (religious, philosophical, mystical, political, folk-ethnographic, possible mixing of the components). Consequently, the concept of sacred space is fundamentally anthropological. The measure of sacred space is thought as a person (or group of people) Single or heterogeneous space may be subject to a hierarchy, the highest stratum of society cannot profess the values that dominate the rest of his thoughts. Consequently, within a single, unified space even religious, there may be heteronomy spiritual space.

One of the landmarks of sacred space is architecture. It can wear spiritual aspirations in the form (churches, mosques, synagogues, and stupas). Civilized forms (skyscraper, city hall, the Palace of the Soviets) and traditional forms (Kizhi) (Akkach, 2005, pp. 176-179). High architecture of the 20th century even serves the religious community, away from the specified methods and solves purely architectural, creative tasks. Architecture and philosophy is subject not only to history but also to metaphysics. The architecture, designed to neutralize the different levels of the hierarchy of spiritual values in society. The homogeneity of the space that is what observes architecture, especially sacred. The space of the Gothic cathedrals is a clear reflection of this conception of the world, whose main characteristics from the perspective at hand, are as follows:

Space is highly symbolic

The authoritative language of ritual consecration of a church related, though not confused, the vision of the Celestial City, as described in the Apocalypse of St. John, to erect the building, "Ecclesia significant spiritualism materialism" (Hanby-Robie, Strubel, 2004, pp. 87-92). Symbiotic relationship, that will reach the point that even outside the church, which had lost its importance in early Christian basilica, restored in the Gothic appearance of a city defended by towers and battlements.

The Symbolic Relationship exceeds the Empirical

The symbolic value of spatial relations is, in principle, independent of their reliable corroboration. We relate unequivocally the divinity and his works, although this would contradict the experience (Torgerson, 2007, pp. 211-217). For example, the statement contained by Leon Battista Alberti that the Ark of Noah "was made according to the figure of the man (Christ)" (4), is a considerable distortion of the proportions of the human figure for the relationship to be effective, as shown in the drawing of this idea of Benito Arias Montano.

Nested Space as a Divine Order

Following the Neoplatonic influence of Plotinus, the medieval posit that all beings in the universe emanate from the divine science and space ordered according to their morphology and spirituality. A more formal materiality and complexity spatial and principled position is more despicable. Principle embodied, for example, in the cosmology of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, the treaty Celestial Hierarchy of Pseudo-Areopagite and the many comments to this work (most notably that of St. Victor Hugo dedicated to Louis VII of France). In the constructed works reflect this principle in various ways, for example, in the south portal of the Cathedral of Chartres, in which "over the Last ...