Sacred Geometry - Symbolism, and "The Piscus"

[Asmus]

"Symbology" i lovingly call it; it's been the main focus of my minds efforts to understand subconscious magick for months now. The proper term, however, is Sacred Geometry. I'm sure everyone here is familiar with metatron's cube, so I'm not going to post anything on it. Instead, what I bring to the table today is your daily serving of deep meaning and symbols - PLUS THEIR USES! I stumbled on this site but a month ago; maybe it'll help newbzzz or even professionals to orchestrate their own rituals. According to Gurdjeff, we spend very little time in our conscious state. So controlling your subconscious is very important (or at least developing consciousness, but you still can't be conscious all the time, believe it or not!). Here's the site:

http://www.angelfire.com/ab6/imuhtuk/gdmans/poligrams.htm


It's been an incredible asset to me lately - so useful, i even put EVERY SYMBOL in my magick book. There's the reflected an non reflected form of each polygram, in multiple forms.


For anyone looking to draw perfect polygon's/grams, here's a youtube vid (requires a compass, every magician should have one): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBgIWQcC6lM

If you don't have a compass, get one. If i didn't have my compass and protractor, i would undoubtedly die. Plus my fountain pen. Don't get the cheap ones at wal-mart, get something that sticks. Nothing's more annoying than slipping making a simple circle and having to get a new piece of paper.


For more sacred geometry, check this out: http://www.constructingtheuniverse.com/ ... indow.html

It's the chartres window, but anyone who knows about sacred geometry will recognize the vesica piscus in it's construction. For this entities astounding prevalence in the six and twelve pointed polygrams and gons, I love it. It's also EXTREMELY prevalent in metatron's cube. You can make a vesica piscus yourself, but taking the radius of your circle, and placing the pointed end of a compas on a point on your paper. Then, trace it to the point where the pencil intersects two points on a piece of paper. Repeat for each new point until you get a six-pointed star (hexagram), formed from the vesica piscus! The geometric profoundness of this is astounding; this six-pointed figure can also be broken down to two celtic crosses.



Seriously, I love "symbology". Haven't seen much for it on this forum, so hopefully I'm introducing something fairly new. Stuff like this makes for great sigil magick, and is flexible enough to allow for rune-geometry hybrids. If anyone has sacred geometry links to share, please do!

[Asmus]

Awww... no one interested in sacred geometry? [crymore] Can an admin delete this topic, please?

[Calerioth]

That's unfortunate no one finds this so fascinating.

I've been interested in symbology/sacred geometry for a while now, and even have an encyclopedia on the topic, but there's nothing like the information presented in the first website. Usually with things that lengthy I just skim over the info, but I actually read it and took it in, and I'm thinking of doing the same thing you did: Copying them all down for future reference. I happen to be a noob who is intent on collecting information about... everything, so I'm really grateful for this post. [yay]

[Nahemah]

It's hardly something new on the forum,lol. [grin]

I have an active interest as do many others here and there are posts and topics on the subject,just elsewhere on the forum,not in this folder.

This may be why there is a lack of responses?

I posted a video on the Metatrons cube in a topic a while back,but again in another folder.

Perhaps moving this elsewhere might be useful?

I recommend Reason and Unreason,or Visual folders.
I can move it if you wish,Asmus.

In the interim,here's a rather cool site;
http://www.goldennumber.net/

[Nahemah]

I'm going to go ahead and move it anyway,for now.

Here's that vid I posted also,enjoy:

http://youtu.be/ONZX9GeeygY

Side note,Asmus,are you familiar with the term Sub Rosa?

[Asmus]

I happen to be a noob who is intent on collecting information about... everything, so I'm really grateful for this post. [yay]

I'm glad you find it useful! =) I guess i saw the number of views and thought: "Damn. Dead topic." Overreaction is mine. [shh]

Nahemah, I was not familiar with that term until today. I know all about the golden ratio and the Fibonacci spiral, and it's good you brought those topics up. I didn't know you made that video, i watched it quite a bit. I like how you incorporated the fibonacci spiral in the creation of the circles, and how the image is three dimensional. I have some favorite videos on youtube regarding the fibonacci spiral/golden ratio, and they're listed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOqg5bPZ0HE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12m1FPhe ... re=related



Here's the most informative article on the golden ratio; provided generously by wikipedia! Correlations with Phi, pi, the fibonacci sequence, and of course pentagons/grams is included! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

^ Above, the lengthiest wikipedia article I've ever seen!

The real meat of that article doesn't begin until somewhere towards the middle. Enjoy!

[Nahemah]

I didn't make the video,I just posted it ,lol.Wish I could claim I had,it is rather cool. [grin] The maker has a lot more similar vids on the sidebar too,check them out.I enjoy watching them,from time to time.The Cube 3d one is very mentally soothing,I find it conducive for light trance.

I also Like your new avatar. [thumbup]

[Calerioth]

Wow, that video with Metatron's Cube was spifftacular. Thanks for posting it here Nahemah. [thumbup]
As for that article on the golden ratio... that is in fact a very long wikipedia article. At this point in time I haven't actually finished reading it, but so far it's been quite informative, especially since I had never read much about it before. Also, the Fibonacci sequence... I knew as much about that as I did the golden ratio, though it intrigued me more. Thanks for that Asmus. [smile]
So, has anyone noticed that (If you don't include zero) five is the fifth number in the sequence? I know I'm not the only one. [eek]

[Asmus]

I also Like your new avatar. [thumbup]

Thought you might like it. I've been trying every day to get my avitar working, until finally I just googled for the cube with a 200x200 aspect ratio. hehe. Thanks for the approval.

Yes, it's a common observation that 5 is the fifth number in the sequence. Five's an important number, but i think six is much more important (even though it doesn't occur in the sequence). For instance, did you know that six is the first perfect number (add all the factors: 1+2+3=6)? Twelve is also a perfect number(1+2+3+6). And twelve is the limit of named polygons/grams (past twelve they become n-gon's).

5 if is a different story altogether; not only is it the fifth in the Fibonacci sequence, it's also the total number of platonic solids! Which, by the way, are all outlined nearly perfectly in metatron's cube. It's also, conveniently, the number of sides on a pentagon; and we all know about [regular] pentagons (And grams) and the golden ratio! It is also pretty important to christian text, as it represents the five wounds of christ. The next time an ignorant (not all christians are ignorant) christian makes fun of your pentagram, tell him why he's a hypocrite!

Also, if you know anything about discordianism, you'd know about the law of five. It's pretty ridiculous (there are also laws of three... [bummed] ), so I wouldn't give it too much credit. Still, five, along with two (the only even prime, and another beautiful number!) is one of the few numbers that doesn't produce infinite decimal places when you divide by it, so maybe there is a little bit of truth somewhere in that nonsense. [rofl]

[Aleilius]

Oh oh oh!

Sacred geometry is a favorite of mine.ill I w have to gather up some of my own work on this subject, and post it here. Might be a day or two. [thumbup]