Sacred Geometry

To begin, let's understand that Sacred Geometry literally means "earth measure" essentially...thus it correlates to the sacred measurements and proportions of the Earth itself and all the relationships within and without her. All through the ages, all over the planet, Sacred Geometry has been taught as a special understanding about the process of Creation. However, as with many powerful spiritual teachings, this information was often kept occult (hidden), passing from initiate to initiate within secret societies. Sacred Geometry involves sacred universal patterns used in the design of everything in our reality, most often seen in sacred architecture and sacred art. Sacred Geometry is the belief that fundamental properties of the universe can be quantified into simple shapes and patterns. The basic understanding is that geometry and mathematical ratios, harmonics and proportion are also found in music, light, cosmology. This value system is seen as  widespread even in prehistory, a cultural universal of the human condition.

  It is considered foundational to building sacred structures such as  temples, mosques, megaliths, monuments and churches; sacred spaces such  as altars, temenoi and tabernacles; meeting places such as sacred  groves, village greens and holy wells and the creation of religious art,  iconography and using "divine" proportions. Alternatively, sacred  geometry based arts may be ephemeral, such as visualization, sand  painting and medicine wheels. Sacred Geometry may be understood as a worldview of pattern recognition,  a complex system of religious symbols and structures involving space,  time and form. According to this view the basic patterns of existence  are perceived as sacred. By connecting with these, a believer  contemplates the Great Mysteries, and the Great Design. By studying the nature of these patterns, forms and relationships and their connections,  insight may be gained into the mysteries - the laws and lore of the Universe. Geometry is frozen music, thus the same principles applied within sacred geometry is precisely those that make up the ebb and flow of music itself.  

Goethe is reputed to have said, “Geometry is frozen music.”  When time  is included in the picture, as in Cycles, then we have music which  becomes a geometrical collection of frequencies or Vibrations -- all of  which can be shown to be a series of trigonometric “sine” waves.   Harmonies become mathematical ratios which can occur in everything from  the Harmony of the Spheres to separate instruments or voices combining  the soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and base notes; all meshing coherently and feeling divinely aligned.

Every musical pulse consists of numerous sine-wave tones.  Even a “square wave” is made up of a large number of odd harmonics, and thus by  extrapolation, a truly infinite pulse (e.g. the Big Bang or first  Ommmmm... of creation) would consist of all possible pure tones. The  manner in which musicians examine a spectrum of musical harmonies is, in fact, exactly the same procedure mathematicians call a Fourier Transform.  The sum of all musical frequencies thus constitutes the whole of the universe.

Many creation myths (including the one we are most familiar with from the Hebrew bible) state unequivocally that Spirit (God) created the manifested (wave-form) universes out of Nothingness (also known as the Great Void).  By what process does formless and eternal Spirit create the myriad, changeful forms that we experience as manifested Creation? 

According to Sacred Geometry, Spirit "moved" or "projected itself" in certain very simple geometric patterns based on the sphere.  From these "movements", certain geometric relationships were established that served as the "template" from which all forms, all dynamics, all processes, all mathematical relationship, even consciousness itself could be "derived".  We are forced here to use concepts (words) for a mysterious and ultimately ineffable process that cannot be fully captured by our conceptions; nevertheless, the left-brain knowing (words) combined with the right-brain knowing (the images themselves) can enable us to understand, in a profound way, this process. 

Sacred Geometry can be practiced as a science through which we learn to "see" how the manifested universe reflects patterns which are "hidden" within the initial geometry of creation, much as a child creates the image "hidden" in a series of numbered dots by connecting them with a pencil.  Through studying the initial creation geometries, we can find ALL of the relationship upon which nature and consciousness are based. 

"Sacred Geometry is the morphogenic structure behind reality, the emblem of reality throughout  the cosmos, underlying even mathematics. Most physicists and mathematicians feel that numbers  are the prime language of reality, but it is shape that generates all the laws of physics. It is sometimes called the "language of light" and sometimes the "language of silence".  Sacred geometry is a language, a language through which everything was created. The nature of sacred geometry is that it is absolutely flawless, there are no accidents.  It continues to unfold until the entire universe is created. Every single part of it is  interlinked with everything else. You can start at any point and generate the whole language  of creation." - Drunvalo Melchizedek