Vesica Piscis

Ce symbole, appelé le Vesica Piscis ou "Vessie de Poisson" ou encore "poisson de Jésus" a une histoire inhabituelle. Aujourd'hui utilisé presque exclusivement pour désigner l'appartenance à la religion chrétienne, le symbole, avait autrefois tenu un sens très différent (même pour les premiers chrétiens qui l'ont adopté).

Parfois, il y avait le mot IXOYE (Ichthus) inscrit à l'intérieur. Ce qui en grec signifie poisson. L'emblème est devenu important pour les chrétiens, après Saint Augustin, qui extrait le mot de la prophétie acrostiche de la Sibylle Erythrée, et a appliqué la technique kabbalistique de Notarikon (chaque première lettre d'un mot est prise pour l'initiale ou l'abréviation d'un autre mot) pour révéler le mot "Jésus-Christ, fils de Dieu, Sauveur."

IXOYE = Iesous (Jésus) Christos (Christ) Theou (Dieu) Yios (Fils de) Soter (Sauveur)

La graine de vie serait aussi une parabole des 7 jours de la création pendant lesquels dieu a créé la vie (Génèse 2:2-3, Exode 23:12, 31:16-17, Isaiah 56:6-8). Ainsi, au premier jour serait associé la création du poisson "Vesica", au second la création du tripode de la vie, et ainsi de suite, par l'ajout d'une sphère chaque jour suivant jusqu'à la construction de la graine de vie le sixième jour. Le septième jour étant celui du repos, (jour du Sabbat!).

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This symbol, called the vesica pisces (piscis) or “Jesus fish,” has an unusual history. Used almost exclusively today to denote membership in the Christian religion, the symbol once held a very different meaning (even to the early Christians who adopted it). The word usually found inscribed within, IXOYE (Ichthus), is Greek, meaning fish. The emblem became significant to Christians after St. Augustine, who extracted the word from the acrostic prophecy* of the Erythraean Sibyl, and applied the kabbalistic technique of notarikon (acrostic) to the word to reveal “Jesus Christ, God’s son, savior.”

The custom of early Christians to communicate by drawing a portion in the dust was carried over from the practice of the ancient Pythagoreans, who discovered the shape’s unique properties and made it an important part of their teachings. In Pagan times, this glyph was associated with the Goddess Venus, and represented female genitalia. Early depictions of Christ depict him as an infant within the vesica (In this context, it is usually referred to as a mandorla, meaning ‘almond shaped.’), which represented the womb of Mary,and often, the coming together of heaven and earth in the body of Jesus (part man, part god). As such, it is also a doorway or portal between worlds, and symbolizes the intersection between the heaven and the material plane.

To the Pythagoreans, the whole of creation was based on number, and by studying the properties of number, they believed one could achieve spiritual liberation. The vesica pisces was the symbol of the first manifestation, the dyad (reflection) that gaves birth to the entire manifest universe. Within the vesica can be found the triangle, the tetrad, the square, the pentacle, and many more polygons, making the vesica a true symbolic womb. Adding a third circle creates a triquetra representing the trinity; continuing the pattern generates an image of the “flower of life” or “fisherman’s net.”

Curiously, the New Testament story of the loaves and fishes secretly reveals the geometric formula for the fish shaped device, as does the story of the miraculous catch: “Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken. (John 21:11) ”

This is little remarked upon by Bible scholars and usually ignored by Christian bible interpreters. You can read more about the hidden biblical symbolism of the Vesica Pisces here. spacer

• According to St. Augustine: “the verses are twenty-seven, which is the cube of three. For three times three are nine, and nine itself, if tripled, so as to rise from the superficial square to the cube, comes to twenty-seven. But if you join the initial letters of the five Greek words which mean, ‘Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Saviour,’ they will make the word, that is, fish, in which word Christ is mystically understood, because he was able to live, that is, to exist, without sin in the abyss of this mortality as in the depth of waters.”