Sacred Geometry

Sacred geometry can be described as a belief system attributing a religious or cultural value to many of the fundamental forms of space and time. According to this belief system, the basic patterns of existence are perceived as sacred because in contemplating them one is contemplating the origin of all things. By studying the nature of these forms and their relationship to each other one may gain insight into the scientific, philosophical, psychological, aesthetic, and mystical laws of the universe.

The perfect and timeless realities of geometry are THE fundamental concepts of the universe. . . THE first archetypes. Sacred Geometry is literally The Architecture Of The Universe. Anywhere in this cosmos, the Circle, Triangle, Square, Hexagon, etc. remain the same unchanging archetypes. Sacred Geometry is pure universal truth springing directly from God Mind. Worlds turn in Sacred Geometry, and the galaxies spin because of it. The contemplation of God’s Sacred Geometry has been eternally observed as a legitimate path of enlightenment, both scientific and spiritual. Studying the natural unfolding of the geometric archetypes aligns our human consciousness to the infinite and the eternal. In these studies and meditations we begin to see the way of things . . . the true nature of the universe. At least as late as 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 two-dimensional geometric figures, but the figures do not occur in a particularly neat order [2]. 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 [3]. However, other geometric configurations are possible.

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. Scientists, on the other hand, see such phenomena as the logical outcome of natural principles.

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