Garden of Angels

The only goal of every person is to find his personal paradise. In order for someone to enter paradise, however, it is a condition that he has as a conscious purpose to be morally excellent with voluntary management of his passions.

An issue that was extensively dealt with by the ancient Greek philosophers Plato, Socrates and Aristotle.

They referred to the acquired ability to choose and seek virtues in our souls.

The famous 34-page, secret codex of Plato (Codex Clarkianus XI - Clarkian Codex or Plato of Clark) describes a Byzantine garden of the eastern Mediterranean and the characteristics of its plants are related to the virtues of the human soul.

The secret code of Plato is the oldest surviving work of Plato as it was copied and commented on by order of the scientific theologian and archbishop of Caesarea Aretha in 895 AD. and was kept in the monastery of St. John the Theologian on Patmos, from where it was stolen in October 1801 by the traveler Edward D. Clarke and sold by him to the Bodleian Library. University of Oxford, where it is located to this day. This copy on parchment is a famous sample of Greek calligraphy.

Based on this text, they created in the Holy Theological School of Halki, a few years ago, the path of virtues. A route, composed of 14 plants, turning the entrance of the School, as they say, into a street of contemplation and contemplation, introducing the visitor to the meaning that the space itself emits. Each plant symbolizes a specific virtue, plants that the visitor can get to know in the Garden of Angels in the Botanical Garden "Jealous Earth", to be informed about their symbolism with the virtues and why not? to be motivated to be led, through symbolism and the senses, to his personal psychic paradise. It is an approach to spirituality through the plant world and the senses.