Sacred Geometry

SACRED GEOMETRY RESEARCH IN RESPONSE TO FAITH47, PERSONAL WORK AND COPY OUTCOME

Sacred Geometry are a set of geometric shapes which can be found in many corners of the universe, from religious architecture, nature, mathematics, molecular and atomic structures, and also many other phenomena. On basic principle they summarise interconnectedness as each shape within sacred geometry either contains or can be appropriated into every other shape, just as the numbers and formulae used to create them can be found in many aspects of our everyday lives, whether we realise it or not.

This theory is also deeply connected to Fibonacci's work on sequences and their real world applications, and also commonly involves the Golden Ratio. This ratio, also known as Ø or 'phi' bares such resonance that it defines what humans find attractive or beautiful. 9 times out of 10 when asked to draw a triangle or rectangle, the average person will automatically create a golden triangle, or rectangle (see right), despite not consciously knowing what this is. When Fibonacci's sequence is then applied to this rectangle, the shape generated is recognisable as the textbook nautilus or snail shell shape that can be found in everything from flowers, hurricanes, fruit, galaxies and even our very DNA. When this shape is stripped back to just formulaic numbers the results are even more widespread; animal population growth, the length of the bones in your fingers, the number of petals on a flower, or leaves on a branch.

The Golden Ratio is so deeply entrenched into our subconscious that even plastic surgeons use it as a governing formula when making improvements to the human face, and the great pyramids of Giza are golden triangle based pyramids. I find this completely fascinating, as it is an instinct which not only has no real explanation, but also which transcends race, gender or creed and actually reconnects all people back to simple governing laws of nature.

Here is a link to all of the forms counted in Sacred Geometry however the ones of key interest to me are the Platonic Solids, Metatron's Cube and the Flower of Life.

To the Greeks, the Platonic Solids symbolised each of the elements however to modern technology their shapes appear in many crystalline structures of minerals, viruses and hydrocarbon molecules. They were named after Plato who devised them in their current form.

Metatron's Cube is a highly complex shape which contains two dimensional images of all of the Platonic Solids and many other forms in sacred geometry. Supposedly Metatron was one of God's archangels, the angel of Life, who controlled the flow of universal energy through this cube which contains all of the geometric shapes in the universe and the patterns which exist within all of God's creations.
 

The Flower of Life is the most complex of the shapes, from which can be drawn not only all of the Platonic Solids but also Metatron's Cube and therefore almost every other shape. It is drawn by creating a series of overlapping circles with a compass, each of which has it's central point on the circumference of at least one other circle. It appears in many places throughout histroy from about the 8th Century BC, ten times in the Temple of Osiris Egypt, at King Herod's Palace, Jereusalem, and regularly in Hindu and Islamic art among many others.

Although some of these concepts are unarguably very abstract, the fact that so many of these numbers and shapes crop up regularly in the tangible real world is something I find very interesting, and their aesthetic strengths and deep rooted appeal are also of great fascination to me to. They are also a great way of embedding hidden concepts into work and expressing deeper meaning.