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The Introduction to this website (Sacred Geometry Introductory Tutorial) begins with a geometric symbol that is perhaps the simplest and yet most profound – the circle. Circular patterns and archetypes appear in countless variations in nature, art, architecture, engineering, and just about every area of life we can imagine. Here are a few familiar examples; I’m sure you can think of countless others, both microscopic, macroscopic (telescopic) and in between, in all dimensions of space, time, metaphor, and thought. We touched on the sphere (Music of the Spheres – The Planets) in a recent post; the 2-dimensional counterpart to the sphere is the ubiquitous circle and provides the foundation for it’s rotation into spheres of any number of dimensions – the quintessential template for polytopes beyond our imagination. Rather than getting boggled or bogged down with those mind-warping ideas, let’s return to the simplicity of the circle.

All of these visual examples are reflections of a form reflecting an ideal; here is what appears in the Introduction to this website (slightly edited from the original):

The Sphere

(charcoal sketch of a sphere by Nancy Bolton-Rawles)

Starting with what may be the simplest and most perfect of forms, the sphere is an ultimate expression of unity, completeness, and integrity. No point of view is given greater or lesser importance; all points on the surface are equally accessible and regarded by the center from which all originate. All atoms, cells, seeds, planets, and globular star systems echo the spherical paradigm of total inclusion, acceptance, simultaneous potential and fruition, the macrocosm and microcosm.

The Circle

The circle is a two-dimensional shadow of the sphere, regarded throughout cultural history as an icon of the ineffable oneness; the indivisible fulfillment of the Universe. All other symbols and geometries reflect various aspects of the profound and consummate perfection of the circle, sphere, and other higher dimensional forms of these we might imagine.

The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, Pi, is the original transcendental and irrational number. (Pi equals about 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937511…) It cannot be expressed in terms of the ratio of two whole numbers, or in the language of sacred symbolism, the essence of the circle exists in a dimension that transcends linear rationality. Our holistic perspectives, feelings, and intuitions encompass the finite elements of the ideas within them, yet have a greater wisdom than can be expressed by those ideas alone.

When I was writing my first book (Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook – Universal Dimensional Patterns), the cover art as well as a majority of the 1300 images (including corner “thumbnail” variations) feature circles, either directly or indirectly, so I made a graphical index, rather than a text-oriented one; the dots that dominate the first column (circles and spheres) in these 2 pages hint at the importance of these primal, archetypal, quintessential symbols: circles and spheres.

When I was writing my second book (The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation) I also used a “Fruit of Life” symbol (6 circles around an inner circle) to represent the interconnectedness and inseparability of all aspects of what is eternally true, reflected in the 7 Hermetic Laws of antiquity. These 7 circle-framed images (along with the other supporting graphics) are all set within a circle which intuitively reminds us of the infinite and eternal in our minds.

On page 62 of the Geometry Code book, I shared an idea that I find increasingly more helpful in both pragmatic and profound ways. Here is the graphic and supporting text for this portion of the chapter “Mentalism: 1st of the 7 Hermetic Laws”:

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