Agora

Un film must see.... despre inceputurile crestinismului in Alexandria, pe atunci aflata in provincia romana Egipt, de la finele secolului IV d.C....

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Mai multe despre:

* patriarhul Cyril

* filozoafa Hypatia

* prefectul Oreste

Si pentru ca filmul m-a lasat aproape fara cuvinte, inchei cu un poem scris de un mistic numit Shabistari in "Gradina secreta de trandafiri":

THE idol's real being is not vain

Because God created it,

And all things from Him are good.

Being is pure good, if it contains evil

That comes from "other."

Truth is idol-worship,

If the Mussulman only knew;

But he sees in idols

Only the visible creature,

Not the Truth hidden in the idol.

Idol-worship is unification,

Since all things are the symbols of Being.

By counting beads, repeating prayers,

And reading the Koran,

The heathen becomes not a Mussulman.

The man to whom true infidelity becomes revealed

With pretended faith becomes disgusted.

Within every body a soul is hidden,

And true faith conceals infidelity.

Who adorned the face of the idol

With such beauty?

And who becomes an idol-worshipper

Unless God wills it?

In all things

See but One, say One, know One.