Sacred Geometry

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Sacred geometry involves sacred universal patterns used in the design of everything in
our reality, most often seen in sacred architecture and sacred art. The basic belief is
that geometry and mathematical ratios, harmonics and proportion are also found in
music, light, cosmology. This value system is seen as widespread even in prehistory, a
cultural universal of the human condition.

It is considered foundational to building sacred structures such as temples, mosques,

megaliths, monuments and churches; sacred spaces such as altars, temenoi and
tabernacles; meeting places such as sacred groves, village greens and holy wells and
the creation of religious art, iconography and using "divine" proportions.
Alternatively, sacred geometry based arts may be ephemeral, such as visualization,
sand painting and medicine wheels.
Sacred geometry may be understood as a worldview of pattern recognition, a complex
system of religious symbols and structures involving space, time and form. According
to this view the basic patterns of existence are perceived as sacred. By connecting
with these, a believer contemplates the Great Mysteries, and the Great Design. By
studying the nature of these patterns, forms and relationships and their connections,
insight may be gained into the mysteries - the laws and lore of the Universe.

Natural Forms
Many forms observed in nature can be related to geometry (for sound reasons of
resource optimization). For example, the chambered nautilus grows at a constant rate
and so its shell forms a logarithmic spiral to accommodate that growth without
changing shape. Also, honeybees construct hexagonal cells to hold their honey. These
and other correspondences are seen by believers in sacred geometry to be further
proof of the cosmic significance of geometric forms. But some scientists see such
phenomena as the logical outcome of natural principles.

Sunflower

Cutaway of a Chambered Nautilus

Bee Honeycomb

Naturally formed basalt columns

Galaxies

North polar hexagonal cloud on Saturn

Vitruvian Man

Art and Architecture

The golden ratio, geometric ratios, and geometric figures were often employed in the
design of Egyptian, ancient Indian, Greek and Roman architecture. Medieval
European cathedrals also incorporated symbolic geometry. Indian and Himalayan
spiritual communities often constructed temples and fortifications on design plans of
mandala and yantra. For examples of sacred geometry in art and architecture refer:

Labyrinth (an Eulerian path, as distinct from a maze)

Mandala

Parthenon

Taijitu (Yin-Yang)

Tree of Life

Rose Window

Celtic art such as the Book of Kells

Yantra

Swastika

Dharmacakra
M.C. Escher Art
Sacred Geometry of Crop Circles

Geometry of the Great Pyramid

Sacred Geometry - Library of Halexandria

Music
Pythagoras is often crediting for discovering that an oscillating string stopped halfway
along its length produces an octave relative to the string's fundamental, while a ratio
of 2:3 produces a perfect fifth and 3:4 produces a perfect fourth. However the Chinese
already had instruments that were thousands of years older, such as the Guqin that
also feature these tonal scales. Pythagoreans believed that these harmonic ratios gave
music powers of healing which could "harmonize" an out-of-balance body. This belief
has been revived in modern times.
Pythagoras is often crediting for discovering that an oscillating string stopped halfway
along its length produces an octave relative to the string's fundamental, while a ratio
of 2:3 produces a perfect fifth and 3:4 produces a perfect fourth. However the Chinese
already had instruments that were thousands of years older, such as the Guqin that
also feature these tonal scales. Pythagoreans believed that these harmonic ratios gave
music powers of healing which could "harmonize" an out-of-balance body. This belief
has been revived in modern times.

Cosmology

Closeup of inner section of the Kepler's Platonic solid model of planetary spacing in
the Solar system from Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596).
In the timeline of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), a belief in the geometric
underpinnings of the cosmos persisted among scientists. Kepler explored the ratios of
the planetary orbits, at first in two dimensions (having spotted that the ratio of the
orbits of Jupiter and Saturn approximate to the in-circle and out-circle of an
equilateral triangle). When this did not give him a neat enough outcome, he tried
using the Platonic solids. In fact, planetary orbits can be related using twodimensional geometric figures, but the figures do not occur in a particularly neat
order. Even in his own lifetime (with less accurate data than we now possess) Kepler
could see that the fit of the Platonic solids was imperfect. However, other geometric
configurations are possible.

Contemporary Usage
A contemporary usage of the term sacred geometry describes New Age and occult
assertions of a mathematical order to the intrinsic nature of the universe. Scientists see
the same geometric and mathematical patterns as arising directly from natural
principles. Some of the most prevalent traditional geometric forms ascribed to sacred
geometry include the sine wave, the sphere, the vesica pisces, the 5 platonic solids,
the torus (donut), the tesseract (4-dimensional cube), and the merkaba (2 oppositely
oriented and interpenetrating tetrahedrons), and the golden spiral/ratio. Some
believers of sacred geometry also see patterns in crop circles and in ancient
architecture.

Golden Spiral

Blocks - Grids
The golden ratio, also known as the god ratio, golden proportion, golden mean,
golden section, golden number, divine proportion or sectio divina, is an irrational
number, approximately 1.618 033 988 749 894 848, that possesses many interesting
properties. Shapes proportioned according to the golden ratio have long been
considered aesthetically pleasing in Western cultures, and the golden ratio is still used
frequently in art and design, suggesting a natural balance between symmetry and
asymmetry. The ancient Pythagoreans, who defined numbers as expressions of ratios
(and not as units as is common today), believed that reality is numerical and that the
golden ratio expressed an underlying truth about existence.

In the News ...

Golden Ratio Discovered in the Quantum World Epoch Times - January 20, 2010
The golden ratio, which is equal to approximately 1.618, can be found in various
aspects of our life, including biology, architecture, and the arts. But only recently was
it discovered that this special ratio is also reflected in nanoscale, thanks to researchers
from the U.K.'s Oxford University. Their research, published in the journal Science on
Jan. 8, examined chains of linked magnetic cobalt niobate (CoNb2O6) particles only
one particle wide to investigate the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. They applied a
magnetic field at right angles to an aligned spin of the magnetic chains to introduce
more quantum uncertainty. Following the changes in field direction, these small
magnets started to magnetically resonate.
Researcher explains mystery of golden ratio PhysOrg - December 21, 2009

The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The
architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard
symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel its mysteries in the novel The Da Vinci
Code. "It" is the golden ratio, a geometric proportion that has been theorized to be the
most aesthetically pleasing to the eye and has been the root of countless mysteries
over the centuries. Now, a Duke University engineer has found it to be a compelling
springboard to unify vision, thought and movement under a single law of nature's
design.

Sacred Geometry
by Ellie Crystal
Our reality is a geometric consciousness hologram. It is a science experiment in linear
time to experience, journal, film, and record emotions. The term "sacred geometry" is
often used by archaeologists, anthropologists, geometricians, and metaphysicians to
encompass the religious, philosophical, and spiritual beliefs that have sprung up
around this geometry in various cultures during the course of the human biogenetic
experiment.

12 Spiraling Cones Around 1 - Creation

Sacred Geometry is abbreviated SG referencing Stargate, the Wheel of Time or
Karma through which we experience and evolve. We are soul sparks of light having a
physical experience, our consciousness spiral down through the patterns of the golden
ratio the about to reverse the spiral (spin) and return to source consciousness and
light. To understand reality is to focus on the patterns that have repeated throughout
time, as if on a higher octave with each programmed experience for the souls.
Science and science fiction are merging in the twenty first century when all becomes
clear and the nature of reality, as based on a sacred geometric design, is explained and
understood. It's really not that complicated.

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