the circle symbol
Halil Bárcena
What I have called 'Sufi thought of circularity' is one of the most characteristic elements of Sufi spirituality. Such thinking is closely linked to ideas of return (the origin, center of being) and I remember (from the center), and has a practical translation in most Sufi practices, which follow a pattern mandala, as, for example, with sama 'dance turn used by the Mevlevi dervishes , místco Persian followers of Mawlana Rumi (d. 1273). The sama ' is a circle dance, as is the rotary motion Muslim pilgrim's black around the Ka'aba of Mecca, or the passage of the planets around the sun. The circular motion is the perfect movement, that of the spheres, the feedback, unlike the straight line, which represents the world of corruptible.
The circle is a complete unit, and displays at the same time, the unit's point of origin. It has no beginning or end, but it is finite and infinite at the same time. The circle is for the dervish space travel quintessential alchemical transmutation the interior. The circle can make the invisible visible. For its part, the point is the first of all geometric determinations in the same way as the first of the determinanciones math is unity. The unit and the point are the expression of being. Thus, the circle appears as irradiation point, which is the center. The point is, at the same time, the beginning, middle and end of things. The circular movement during dervish sama ' is done from the heart and refers precisely to the center of vibrant stillness. The dervish is semi-circle at a time. Sufi language, find the center, the only reason for living, is to taste the whole.
The Andalusian scholar Ibn 'Arabi (d. 1240), Qutb speculative Sufism, synthesized in this way the 'circularity Sufi thought' we have just discussed: "Consider that the world is spherical shape and so eager to return to its beginning, once it has reached its end, namely God, who first took us out of not being to being, to which we return, as he himself says in several places in their Book [Quran] (...) Everyone, everything, is a simple circle that becomes the one of whom took their beginning. "
also the ancestral wisdom of the American Red Indians, who showed us so well Frithjof Schuon, offers an invaluable testimony about the symbolic power of the circle. Says Black Elk, Oglala Sioux: "Everything the Power of the Universe do you do in a circle. The sky is round, and I heard that the earth is round like a ball, and the stars are round . The wind swirls at maximum strength. The birds make their nests in circles, they have the same religion as us. The sun rises and sets in círrculo, like the moon, and both are round. Even the seasons form a huge circle in their changing and always come back to where they were. Human life is a circle from childhood to childhood, and The same is true in everything where power resides. Our teepees were round like the nests of birds, and always available in a circle, the nation's hoop, a nest of many nests where the Great Spirit wanted us empollásemos our children. "
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