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Sacred Geometry – Flower of Life

By ANDREW MONKMAN [a.monkman@btinternet.com]

Flower of Life

Flower of Life

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 complete flower has the other two layers added, making it three dimensional. 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.

Flower of Life - Davinci
Flower of Life – Davinci

 

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.

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 torus, 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.

metatron cube

metatron cube

The complete flower also contains the three dimensional metatron cube, which holds all the Platonic solids. Not just the building blocks of life, but the building blocks of creation itself.

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Sacred Geometry – levels

Plato considered geometry and number as the most reduced and essential, and therefore the ideal, philosophical language. But it is only by virtue of functioning at a certain ‘level’ of reality  that geometry and number can become a vehicle for philosophic contemplation. Greek philosophy  defined this notion of levels, so useful in our thinking,  distinguishing the ‘typal‘ and the ‘archtypal‘.  Following the indication given by Egyptian wall reliefs, which are laid out in three registers, an upper, a middle and a lower, we can define a third level, the ‘ectypal‘, situated between the archtypal and typal.

To see how these operate, let us take an example of a tangible thing, such as the bridle of a horse. This bridal can have a number of forms, materials, sizes, colours, uses, all of which are bridals. The bridal considered in this way, is typal; it is existing, diverse and variable. But on another level there is the idea or the form of the bridal, the guiding model of all bridals. This is an unmanifest, pure, formal idea and its level is ectypal. But yet above this there is an archtypal level which is that of the principal or power-activity, that is a process which the ectypal form and typal example of the bridal only represent. The archtypal is concerned with universal processes or dynamic patterns which can be considered independently of any structure or material form