Sacred Numbers And Sacred Geometry - Sacred Geometry Symbols

_____________________________________________________________________________________

By Niol Lirt - http://sacredgeometrysymbols.net/

Just as Creation begins with Unity before evolving into Multiplicity, so numbers begin with One. One represents the principle of absolute unity, Sacred geometry symbols God, the source of Creation, prior to and pervading all things. It is symbolized in geometry by a 'Point'. Like God, a point has no material substantiality (we are not speaking of a dot on a page used to represent a point, but of a true geometric point), it has no dimensions, it cannot be seen or touched. It is Everything (everything lies nascent within the One) and Nothing (for nothing as yet is differentiated) simultaneously. It is the Beginning from which all will come (the 'First'), and the End to which all will return (the 'Last'). For Plato, 'One' symbolized the transcendent level of the 'Good'.

Two marks the appearance of Duality: the first inkling of Multiplicity, the potential for 'the Many' that will come. Two is not the 'sum of two ones': there is only one One. Rather, Two issues from One, from the Creator, in much the same way that a single cell divides itself into two cells the One becomes Two

of its own Will, by reflecting on Itself. Thus the One experiences dichotomy, it perceives and it isperceived, and thereby self-generates into Two. With this Duality the idea of Opposites makes its first appearance: above and below, male and female, day and night, all the Taoist distinctions between Yin and Yang. But this is only at the level of abstract archetypal Ideas. Two is represented in geometry by a 'Line', the distance between two points. A line has a dimension but only one. Thus, like a point, it still has no substantiality in the material sense: it cannot be seen or touched. The mind knows that it exists, but it is invisible to the eyes. For Plato, 'Two' represents the level of the eternal Forms.

Three, a number endowed with exquisite symbolic meaning, appears next. Three is represented by a 'Triangle', the geometric form that is created from three invisible points and the three invisible lines that connect them. A Triangle combines two dimensions (left/right and up/down), and this gives it a unique, peculiar, and immensely significant quality. Like any flat surface, it can be seen if it is facing you in its upright position. But if a triangle is flipped horizontally so that its side is facing you, then there is only a line facing you and a line is totally insubstantial and invisible. This means that a Triangle can 'appear' in the Sensible world and then 'disappear' out of it. In other words, the ephemeral number Three lies curiously in between the Intelligible world of Spirit and the Sensible world of Matter. Three represents a 'Threshold' between them, a passageway that links the manifest with the transcendent. This 'Threshold' is the locus of the soul. It may also be though t of as the dwelling place of angels and demons, beings that are partly of the earth and partly of the heavens and

traverse between them. For Plato, this is the level of Dianoia, the level of abstract principles, mathematics, and pure reason (which is higher than matter but lower than divinity). Four, representing our Sensible world of change and Becoming, is next. Consider: If we start with a triangle made of three points, and now add a fourth point (not within the plane of the triangle, but somewhere in front or behind it), then each of the three corners of the triangle can be connected to this fourth point and this creates a geometric figure called a 'tetrahedron' (looking rather like a pyramid, made of three triangular walls and a triangular base). The significance of this is that we now have a three-dimensional solid figure (so it turns out that four points are required for three dimensions to be created). And because the tetrahedron exists in three dimensions, it exists in our tangible, sensible, visible world Plato's Pistis. Four is therefore the number of material manifestation, and it also thereby symbolizes the four instinctive components of material nature (earth, water, air, and fire, or, stated in modern terminology, solid, liquid, gas, and energy).

So Whats Next ?
To learn more about Sacred geometry symbols, Click Here: http://sacredgeometrysymbols.net/