Thread: Let's Study Sacred Geometry

I want this thread to be for those of us here who want to study Sacred Geometry. I've only been studying it for two months, so I am no guru. Please post here any information you know about Sacred Geometry, both its cultural history, the scientific or religious applications, or a more in depth how-to-find-this-form in Sacred Geometry. I also realize this is not the first thread, but I couldn't find anything complete. (unless search doesn't work)

Now most of us here know about the golden mean: the golden section: or golden ratio.



Fascinating and all, But so what? There are so many other aspects of nature that don't seem to follow the golden section at all. For most people, the golden section simply becomes a matter of aesthetics. Works of art and nothing more.

What most people don't know is, the golden section is derived from Sacred Geometry. It's just a tiny portion of the whole image.


So what is Sacred Geometry?

Sacred Geometry is the belief that everything that is, ALL OF EXISTENCE is based on Sacred Geometry. That's a very bold statement to make huh? It's why it caught my eye. Unlike the golden mean, which applications seem to fall short.

It seems almost....religious. Well technically yes, Sacred Geometry does have traditional spiritual beliefs with it. The egyptians believed Sacred Geometry was the key to achieve immortality. Mandalas are used as a form of meditation to achieve Oneness. It's permeated so many religions and spiritual beliefs in one form or another.

However, Sacred Geometry is a left and right brain practice. This makes the study of Sacred Geometry holistic. Anyone, theist, atheist, agnostic, christian, buddhist.....can appreciate it.

Where does it begin?

It begins with a Single Point

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The single point has symbolized: the absolute root mental concept, the simplest idea possible, Oneness, undivided Godmind, The First Dimension, beyond duality

In the short story, the Single Point divides and becomes two points. Or Duality. A lot of amazing things happens here with Duality, we now have relationships to talk about. Such as space. The Second Dimension is created!! (wow!)

Keep in mind, up until this point....All that exists are these two points. And from their duality movement we get the Radius and Arc! And something new and magical happens! The creation of the circle!!!! Or...as some put it, the Big Bang! BOOOOOOOOOM!!




Do you already see what's happening with Sacred Geometry? Patterns...patterns. Just as the Single Point was undivided oneness in the First Dimension, the Circle represents Oneness for the Second Dimension.

If you are new to Sacred Geometry, this webpage will show a quick and easy guide how Sacred Geometry forms Natures First Pattern. As well as another important form, the Vesica Piscis.

http://charlesgilchrist.com/SGEO/SGIntro.html

There are more important forms in Sacred Geometry. The Egg of Life. The Flower of Life and the Fruit of Life.

This is the Flower of Life.



What can I say about the Flower of Life? Or the Vesica Piscis? Or about the other most important forms of Sacred Geometry? The truth is, I don't know where to begin! There is a whole book, probably at least 1000 pages on the Flower of Life. Just on the Flower of Life.

How can anyone write so much about one silly little picture composed of overlapping circles?

Well theres a lot to say about the Flower of Life. If you're new to this, I'll give you some starting hints. The Platonic Solids.

on the Gilchrist website you can watch some good videos on how the Platonic Solids are formed from Sacred Geometry. Here's an index of videos.

http://www.charlesgilchrist.com/SGEO/index.html

So now that we know how it all starts from a single point, how it creates this pattern, from which we get the Platonic Solids.......now what?

The now what is really were a lot of people get stuck, where they turn a blind eye on Sacred Geometry and what it has to offer us. Or maybe the problem is they expect someone to spill the beans and tell them everything about Sacred Geometry and its applications in one go.

That is like asking to learn physics in day and expecting to magically understand it and how it can be applied.

So rather going in depth of the ABC list of Sacred Geometry, maybe someone else would like to, I would rather give you some advice when studying Sacred Geometry. You need to keep some perspectives in mind. You're not dealing with overlapping circles on a flat piece of paper.

For one, the pattern quickly becomes Three Dimensional, and you are dealing with Spheres overlapping to and fro in space infinitely, Spheres within Spheres, within Spheres. The truth is, the real pattern of life, is too complex for any man to draw.

Now some people might like to imagine "Oh, I know how everything is formed from Sacred Geometry! The spheres are as tiny as atoms!" Ah...Thats one way to look at it. If the spheres of Sacred Geometry were tiny, then it becomes very easy to imagine how these tiny spheres can form any shape.

But that's a very naive way of looking at it. Just as our old understanding of atoms is naive.

One guru has said, Sacred Geometry first forms thought. What does he mean? Well he meant what he meant, but if you don't like thought manifestation talks, you can see it as Sacred Geometry first describes energy before it describes matter. The picture is more complex than just little bubbles that form any shape.

Were dealing with the very geometry that created waves. Sound. Harmonics. Music.

What else? The list goes on. All from a single point. All from the circle. The sphere, the circle in motion.

This is the Fruit of Life



It's very important in Sacred Geometry. You can always easily recognize it with the seven circles. The seventh in the middle of the six. This is the Fruit of Life on its vertical axis, keep in mind it looks and feels different on the horizontal axis.

I found this image today! It's really exciting when you start finding Sacred Geometry in the real world. And I found the Fruit of Life on this video. And I think it's so important, but it's importance is entirely beyond me.

This is the video, another ted video
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/g...verything.html

I've attached the image. Recognize it? No no no no no. There are no coincidences in Sacred Geometry!! None!

What are the applications of Sacred Geometry?

The applications are as endless as it forms. But the implications.....wow. That's where it's really at.

I don't understand how it's sacred. You never really explain what sacred geometry is. You use the phrase in its definition.

Derive the golden ratio.

Go on.

If the applications really are as endless as you suggest, then what are some of them? The only thing that jumps to my mind is the Parthenon. I recall being taught that some parts of the Parthenon's construction utilized the Golden Ratio.

Originally Posted by Licity

If the applications really are as endless as you suggest, then what are some of them? The only thing that jumps to my mind is the Parthenon. I recall being taught that some parts of the Parthenon's construction utilized the Golden Ratio.

you're really asking the wrong person! thats like asking how to apply science? sure its one thing to study the natural world. its another to realize you can use what you have learned to create something new! I'm no genius

the problem is our schooling. It only taught us the golden stuff. And how its used in architecture and art.

to first understand how its applications are endless, you first need to understand that Sacred Geometry is in fact the geometry of everything that is.

as in...everything around you, in you, even your thoughts are mapped by this geometry. Even the forces of nature, gravitational fields. We first need to understand this knowledge before we can really apply it. Of course I expect everyone to be skeptical of this geometry describing everything that is!!

And if you are really skeptical of it, as anyone would be, maybe watching the video I posted can help you think differently. Which shows Sacred Geometry patterns in a talk about particles

You'll have to first learn the basics. how to get the platonic solids. Theres really no short hand learning to this stuff. Everyone who studies sacred geometry will tell you, its not enough that you look at these drawings. You have to draw it out yourself!

Its the same as math, you really need to do math yourself to understand. After all, this is still geometry.

Get a circle drawing tool, what ever its called, and draw your first pattern of life. Find the flower of life. find metatrons cube. find the harmonics of music. Who knows what else you'll find! Probably more than me, because I just suck at math.

Its really too early to start talking about the applications, it would just derail this thread

How about we find more examples of this geometry in nature? Because im sure everyone is rolling their eyes at the thought of this being the geometry of everything.

Let's take a step back.



This football shaped is reveered! Its been called the womb of life. Very fitting words. Again, its called the Vesica Piscis.

This is you....when you were tiny



And those two spheres are about to re-enact Sacred Geometry. They are going to overlap, and form a Vesica Piscis



You literally are the Vesica Piscis.


This Sacred Geometry pattern is called the Egg of Life...Do you know why?


Count the spheres. Seven, with one in the center.



Look familiar?

God likes patterns and harmony, what can I say.

QED.

I don't mean to interrupt an argument, but back to the original purpose of the post, thank you Juroara! I love sacred geometry ever since we began studying the golden ratio back in school and when I began to research it myself. It's fascinating how much of nature can relate to the divine. It IS in science, science doesn't go against religion at all, rather it complements it!

Just noticed another fun facticle... the number 42, which is the basis of "God" in many religions, Kaballah, Judaism, Buddhism, etc, is the "7 by 6" in the Fruit of Life, and the Sri Yantra is a single triangle surrounded by 42.

It's another number that was not only popularized by Hitchhiker's Guide, but also very related to religion. Egyptians also had 42 principles in the book of the dead, as well as 42 gods and goddesses to represent them.

Originally Posted by Souperman22

I don't understand how it's sacred. You never really explain what sacred geometry is. You use the phrase in its definition.

I'm not sure who first coined it 'Sacred Geometry'. My guess is the term comes from the 1800s?

It was called 'sacred' because this geometry was usually held as secret knowledge in ancient time. It was called sacred, because the ancient men who were fixated on it, were convinced this geometry was divine. That learning the secrets of this geometry, you could learn the secrets to how the gods or God created the universe.

In other words, this geometry was fully integrated into the religions of ancient men. Back then, religion and science were one and the same.

The knowledge, through esoteric sects, survived even onto early christianity

Here are some of examples

the flower of life in the temple of osiris



The Kabbalah Tree of Life, Derived from the Flower of Life



This design is also derived from the pattern, it's on a Knights of Templar tombstone



A 3D Flower of Life in the paws of a Chinese Fu dog dragon



From what I've been told the Mayan Calender is another example, but I can't find any good images showing it. Instead I have this.



Really, the depth and understanding of these images can't be expressed in a few posts. For a reason, the circle with multiple compartments has always expressed time, or rather the movement of the heavens.

I think this image might relate to the Mayan Calender for those in the know

Sacred Geometry never stopped being sacred! One of the most important forms are mandalas!



Or maybe this example will be more obvious



The lotus flower of the chakra, is not actually a flower. But sacred geometry! no surprise there!

wondering how to get the chakras from the pattern of life? maybe this tapestry makes it more clear



I'm attaching a few more examples. One of them is the Egyptian site corresponding to the golden mean. A detail of how the sphinx fits into it, the golden section I think? And then the author slapped it on top of another Sacred Geometry calender

does that help explain the sacredness of it? and did I also answer how to get the golden mean from it?

Testicles.

I give up.

Your thing.

Whatever.

Sacred - profane.

As is.

If you can't port ethics, have no ethics as round as all that... give it up.

Try: http://mises.org/etexts/hoppe5.pdf
Try: http://www.entrewave.com/freebooks/docs/a_pdfs/gnct.pdf

Leave me alone.


PQ

Originally Posted by Souperman22

I don't understand how it's sacred. You never really explain what sacred geometry is. You use the phrase in its definition.

Sacred is merely a word we have used to establish what the essence of it is. The Flower of Life has been found all over the world including: India, Turkey,Spain,China,Marrakesh,Lebanon,Egypt,Austria ,Denmark, the Louvre...etc. In China, the Forbidden City courtyard, guarding the temple are two lions, male and female, and under the males paw sits a three dimensional Flower of Life sphere. The profound wisdom in its nature was understood by the ancients, deeming it "Sacred". Metatron's Cube and the 5 platonic solids are the basis structure in our universe.

Proportions are an interesting thing to look at. Such as Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.

Originally Posted by juroara

In the short story, the Single Point divides and becomes two points. Or Duality. A lot of amazing things happens here with Duality, we now have relationships to talk about. Such as space. The Second Dimension is created!! (wow!)

Keep in mind, up until this point....All that exists are these two points. And from their duality movement we get the Radius and Arc! And something new and magical happens! The creation of the circle!!!! Or...as some put it, the Big Bang! BOOOOOOOOOM!!

What?

two points (and all the points between them) create a one dimensional region, not a two dimensional one.

Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned

two points (and all the points between them) create a one dimensional region, not a two dimensional one.

Hadn't even noticed that when I posted. :x

That happens to me all the time in this thread. It's like staring into the sun: You're gonna miss something.

Got to love it when ignorant people ramble on about things they have no idea about eh?

Plus, it really hammers home the point that some people, somewhere will believe anything.

Laymens Intro to SACRED GEOMETRY: "SACRED:THE SHAPE OF WHAT ALLOWS WAVES TO RE-CUR"GOOGLE DAN WINTER, AND AlSO YOUTUBE. THIS SHOULD CLARIFY THIS ENTIRE THREAD. FEEDBACK? PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO REALLY RETAIN WHAT IS BEING PRESENTED.