33 – The Passion, Death, and the Resurrection of Jesus
Christ
A Diptych of Magic Squares by Hans-Christian Solka
Mathematics possesses a special role in the sciences. Mathematics also has a spiritual dimension. People have always been fascinated by magic squares.
The oldest known magic square, Loh-Shu, with numbers 1 to 9 and the magic sum 15, comes from China. It is around 2,000 years old. At the same time, magic squares were created by Indians and a few hundred years later by Arab scholars.
One of the most famous magic squares can be found in Albrecht Dürer's engraving Melencolia I from 1514. It uses numbers 1 to 16, and the magic sum is 34.
There is another famous magical square at the Basilica de la Sagrada
Família, designed by the architect Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Spain. It
was created at the end of the 1980s by the Catalan sculptor Josep Maria
Subirachs i Sitjar.
Normally, a magic square means correlating whole numbers into the grid: for a 4×4 grid, the numbers are from 1 to 16. Their sum is 136. The magic sum cannot freely be chosen and depends on the sum of the numbers used. Those, the magic sum is 136/4 = 34.
However, the Sagrada Família magic square doesn't meet a sum of 34. On the one hand, it doesn't have all the numbers from 1 to 16 (it is missing the 12 and 16), and some numbers (14 and 10) are repeated.
If you add up the numbers, whether vertically,
horizontally, or diagonally, they always add up to 33, intended to
remind us of the age of Jesus Christ at his crucifixion.
Solka's
Diptych "33 - The Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus
Christ"
Inspired by the famous Sagrada Família magic square, German engineer Dr. Hans-Christian Solka created his diptych, The Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, in 2017.
The diptych consists of the magic squares The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ and The Resurrection of Jesus Christ. By combining Christian symbolism and mathematics, Solka created them with the symbolic sum of 33 without using duplicate numbers. That seemed impossible before.
Not only do the sums of each row, column, and diagonal add up to 33, but also the sum of the numbers of the cross. (The attentive observer is also given the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.)
In the center of the cross is the number 9, commemorating the hour of Jesus Christ's death.
The missing number 4 refers to the necessary study of the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in which the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminates in his death and resurrection.
Is it divine providence that only these two
magic squares with the cross could be found? Perhaps there are more than
39 or 43 successful summation patterns of the magic sum of 33 hidden in
both squares?
I - The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ
Mark 15,34; And at the
ninth hour, Jesus cried
with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means,
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
II - The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the central mystery of the Christian faith. God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion, starting – or restoring – his exalted life as Christ and Lord. This is what the 3 as the base of the cross indicates. The 3 symbolizes the divine Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit.
According to the New Testament writing, Jesus was firstborn from the dead, ushering in the Kingdom of God. He appeared to his
disciples, calling the apostles to the Great Commission of forgiving sin and baptizing repenters, and ascended to Heaven.
If you are an artist, you are welcome to contact me with
your idea for realizing The Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ in a sculpture or
another work of art.
German ebooks about magic squares by Dr. Solka:
https://www.lybrary.com
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