pipul
12-28-2006, 12:11 AM
Hi friends, I think this is the most consise and elegant description
of sacred gemetry i read so far.
The forms of sacred geometry do not represent things. They represent
processes. Pictures and models of things, after all, are all frozen.
They are not at all alive. For sacred forms to be sacred, we must
see them as snapshots of the processes of life. A triangle is just a
triangle when it sits alone. When we see it as one snapshot in an
animation storyboard of snapshots that illustrates how a point
becomes a line, a triangle, a tetrahedron, and a hyper-tetrahedron
(a 5-cell) - which then becomes a new point which starts the whole
process over, we are looking at a model of life; we are looking at
the sacred.
When we can feel within ourselves the sacred path of a living point
(a seed) that transcends itself by becoming a line (a tree), a
surface (a leaf), a volume (a bud), and a hypersphere (a fruit with
new seed inside itself), these same feelings can enable us to taste
the transcendent for ourselves.
Among the many geometric forms that have been traditionally used as
snapshots of the sacred, the triangular forms are very important.
This is because we model wholes as circles, spheres, hyperspheres or
cycles. In two dimensions, it takes three points define a particular
circle. These three points take the form of a triangle. In three
dimensions, it takes four points to define a sphere (a hyper-
circle). These same four points also define a tetrahedron. In 4-D, a
hypersphere is specified by a hypertetrahedron (a 5-cell) of points.
The same rule, and the same "triangular" forms, are continued as we
go up in dimension. There is a triangle for every circle and a
tetrahedron for every sphere.
http://www.gaiamind.com/triangle.html
pipul
of sacred gemetry i read so far.
The forms of sacred geometry do not represent things. They represent
processes. Pictures and models of things, after all, are all frozen.
They are not at all alive. For sacred forms to be sacred, we must
see them as snapshots of the processes of life. A triangle is just a
triangle when it sits alone. When we see it as one snapshot in an
animation storyboard of snapshots that illustrates how a point
becomes a line, a triangle, a tetrahedron, and a hyper-tetrahedron
(a 5-cell) - which then becomes a new point which starts the whole
process over, we are looking at a model of life; we are looking at
the sacred.
When we can feel within ourselves the sacred path of a living point
(a seed) that transcends itself by becoming a line (a tree), a
surface (a leaf), a volume (a bud), and a hypersphere (a fruit with
new seed inside itself), these same feelings can enable us to taste
the transcendent for ourselves.
Among the many geometric forms that have been traditionally used as
snapshots of the sacred, the triangular forms are very important.
This is because we model wholes as circles, spheres, hyperspheres or
cycles. In two dimensions, it takes three points define a particular
circle. These three points take the form of a triangle. In three
dimensions, it takes four points to define a sphere (a hyper-
circle). These same four points also define a tetrahedron. In 4-D, a
hypersphere is specified by a hypertetrahedron (a 5-cell) of points.
The same rule, and the same "triangular" forms, are continued as we
go up in dimension. There is a triangle for every circle and a
tetrahedron for every sphere.
http://www.gaiamind.com/triangle.html
pipul