The picture is Charles William Mitchell's famous painting of Hypatia 1885.
The shamelessness of truth
The symptom of the bare-faced truthis that whenever it appears out in the open,
which is her main characteristic:
truth is openness, while everything concealed and hidden
has something improper and untenable to hide;
and the more flagrantly evident it shows
in liberal and generous exposure,
the more it risks vulnerability,
exposing bare-faced unarmed nakedness
to any base attack of envious viciousness.
Hypatia led a public life as teacher of philosophy,
exposing doubtful inconsistencies
and the unreasonable lack of sense and logic in Christianity
and caused an outrage among the fanatics
who could not accept a questioning of their infalliblity.
She was consequently lynched to death
and made a martyr of eternity for truth
as a remaining testimony for all times
for the untouchable integrity of truth,
no matter how much it’s assailed and beaten down,
the outrage only growing by the violence against it.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2024-03-01 at 00:10
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