Sacred Geometry:
Flower of LifeIntroduction
Sacred geometry may be understood as a worldview of pattern recognition, a complex system of hallowed attribution and signification that may subsume religious and cultural values to the fundamental structures and relationships of such complexes as space, time and form. According to this discipline, the basic patterns of existence are perceived as sacred: for by contemplating and communing with them one is thereby contemplating the Mysterium Magnum, the patterning relationships of the Great Design. By studying the nature of these patterns, forms and relationships and their manifold intra- and interconnectivity one may gain insight into the scientific, philosophical, psychological, aesthetic and mystical continuum. That is, the laws and lore of the Universe.
The term sacred geometry is also used for geometry which is employed in the design of sacred architecture and sacred art. The underlying belief is that geometry and mathematical ratios, harmonics and proportionality discoverable from geometry also gird music, light, cosmology, and other observable and sensate features of the Universe. This value system has been held throughout the World from time immemorial to prehistory, a cultural universal endemic to the Human Condition. Sacred geometry is the foundation of the design, architecture, fabrication and construction of sacred structures such as temples, mosques, megaliths, monuments and churches; sacred space such as altars, temenos and tabernacles; places of congregation such as sacred groves, village greens and holy wells and the creation of religious art, iconography and divine proportionality. Sacred geometry, art, iconography and architecture need not be monolithic and enduring, but may be temporary and yielding, such as visualization and non-permanent sand-painting and medicine wheels
The "Flower of Life" can be found in all major religions of the world.
It contains the patterns of creation as they emerged from the "Great Void". Everything is made from the Creator's thought. After the creation of the Seed of Life the same vortex's motion was continued, creating the next structure known as the Egg of Life. This structure forms the basis for music, as the distances between the spheres is identical to the distances between the tones and the half tones in music. It is also identical to the cellular structure of the third embryonic division (The first cell divides into two cells, then to four cells then to eight). Thus this same structure as it is further developed, creates the human body and all of the energy systems including the ones used to create the Merkaba. If we continue creating more and more spheres we will end up with the structure called the Flower of Life.
The Flower of Life (left) and the Seed of Life (right).
The flower of life holds a secret symbol created by drawing 13 circles out of the Flower of Life. By doing this, one can discover the most important and sacred pattern in the universe. This is the source of all that exists; it's called the Fruit of Life. It contains 13 informational systems. Each one explains another aspect of reality. Thus these systems are able to give us access to everything ranging from the human body to the galaxies. In the first system, for example, it's possible to create any molecular structure and any living cellular structure that exists in the universe. In short every living creature.
The most common form of the "Flower of Life" is hexagonal pattern (where the center of each circle is on the circumference of six surrounding circles of the same diameter), made up of 19 complete circles and 36 partial circular arcs, enclosed by a large circle.
The "Seed of Life" is formed from seven circles being placed with sixfold symmetry, forming a pattern of circles and lenses, which acts as a basic component of the Flower of Life's design.
The Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt contains the oldest to date example. it is carved in granite and may possibly represent the Eye of Ra a symbol of the authority of the pharaoh. Other examples can be found in Phoenician, Assyrian, Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern, and medieval art.
Flower of Life - Turkey
Flower of Life - Amistar, India
Flower of Life - Amistar, India (close up)
Leonardo da Vinci has studied the Flower of Life's form and its mathematical properties. He has drawn the Flower of Life itself, as well as components therein, such as the Seed of Life. He has drawn geometric figures representing shapes such as the platonic solids, a sphere, a lotus, etc., and has also used the golden ratio of phi in his artwork; all of which may be derived from the Flower of Life design.
Flower of life made of intersecting spheres instead of circles.
Sacred Geometry - Flower of Life
By Andrew Monkman
I believe the complete ancient flower of life is an inter-dimensional tool, a portal, a stargate, a window into what some call the inter space plains. The original flower of life (found on several pillars within "the Osireion" at abydos in Egypt) is incomplete, because it is only the first layer of three (pic1+2).
1. Flower of Life carved on a temple wall
2. The Flower
of Life set in stone
at the Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
The complete flower has the other two layers added, making it three dimensional (pic3). If you relax (sit three feet away from the screen) and let the flower slowly draw your eyes out of focus, the flower will open. Try and not focus on any one point, blankly stare, take the flower in as a whole. You may get a headache and itchy eyes, this will quickly disappear. We do not see with our eyes, we see through our eyes. Let your mind focus, don't fight it.
3. Flower of life with two layers added.
What appears is a reptilian entity. This creature is very frightening and fierce looking, but i can assure you it can do you no harm. I know this sounds mad, but it is true and very real. After you get used to interacting with the reptilian, you can move on to the next entity. To interact with the second being you must rotate the flower by 30degrees and repeat the steps.
Flower of Life - Beijing, China
The second being is the Chinese
dragon (the fu dog). This creature is even more frightening than the first, so
be prepared. Again, this creature cannot harm you in anyway. Somehow these
entities are in suspended animation. They are real but they do not and cannot
move.
You may know that the complete flower contains the kabbalah`s tree of life, the fruit, the egg and the seed of life (pic. 4 & 5).
4. The Kabbalah Tree of Life derived from the Flower of Life.
5. The Kabbalah Tree of Life derived from the Flower of
Life.
The complete flower also contains the three dimensional metatron cube (pic6), which holds all the Platonic solids (pic7). Not just the building blocks of life, but the building blocks of creation itself.
6. Metatron Cube
7. Platonic Solids
I found this symbol on a
knights templar tombstone (pic. 9), found within the
St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney (pic. 8).
8. St Magnus cathedral in Kirkwall
9. Knights Templar tombstone from St Magnus cathedral in Kirkwall
I believe this symbol is a representation of the egg of life (pic.10),which is
the second rotation of the first layer of the complete flower of life (pic. 11).
10. The
egg of life (left)
11. The second rotation of the first layer of the complete flower of life
(right)
I was born and bred and now live back in Kirkwall. At no time did I ever get taught at school, that there was any Knights Templar who came from or to Orkney.
For whatever reason, the computer generated flower (pic. 12) does not work for the contemplation. It does contain all Freemasonry's sacred symbols.
12. A
computer generated version of the complete flower
I thought I'd add this picture as you will recognize the pattern (pic13).
13. Pattern of snake's skin
The complete flower of life does have another use. If you overlay a map (after
getting the correct scale) with the complete flower of life, all sacred sites,
standing stones etc, will sit at the centre of six points. This picture gives
you idea how the grid looks (pic.14).
14. If you overlay a map (after getting the correct scale) with the complete flower of life, all sacred sites, standing stones etc, will sit at the centre of six points.
©2007 Andrew
Monkman
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