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0:07Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: So most of us are here for the entire week.
0:09A few people are here just for the weekend, and the binder is of the material just
0:15for this weekend.
0:16There's going to be a lot more handouts coming for the five days that follow.
0:21So I want to just point out some of the basic structure of the handout.
0:25The first thing you'll notice if you turn past the title page is a little diagram
0:31that shows you six circles around a central circle.
0:34This is one of the fundamental diagrams of sacred geometry, that you can perfectly
0:39nest six equally sized circles around a central circle.
0:43It's the fundamental harmonic of seven, like the seven days of creation, and you'll
0:48be exploring this with Jane later on.
0:51And in putting together the course this time, we haven't done this course since the
0:56summer of 2004.
0:57And so last time we did it, we taped the initial weekend, and that's what some of
1:03you have seen as the DVD set of sacred geometry we have available.
1:07It's the opening weekend from 2004.
1:09Some of the material from that we're also going to be doing this weekend.
1:14Some of the material is new.
1:16And I've restructured the opening weekend from how we did it last time according to
1:21this particular diagram.
1:23Because what I realized after doing the course in 2004 is that the term sacred
1:28geometry is being used today in a variety of different contexts.
1:32And so depending on what book you read or person you talk to or class you attend,
1:37you could have sacred geometry discussed in very different ways.
1:42And so this is a collection of some of the different contexts that sacred geometry
1:47is discussed today.
1:48So in the center, you see the central circle that everything else comes out of,
1:53thought forms in the mind of God.
1:55And then with the six-pointed star of the six circles around it, we have the pattern
2:01language and pattern recognition, which is related to the divine alphabet of
2:06creation.
2:06Every letter in sacred geometry is the shapes that create everything in our world.
2:12So that just as we learn as school children to speak an earthly language by learning
2:17one letter at a time and then putting those letters together to form words that have
2:23meaning, so when we understand nature's language, we learn one shape at a time.
2:28And we see the way that that shape is used for a function in nature and that
2:33multiple shapes or functions are brought together for all natural activities.
2:38So we begin with sacred geometry to be able to recognize hidden patterns behind
2:43things and find hidden relationships between things that we thought to begin with
2:48had no connection between them.
2:50We find that they are actually very closely connected in some cases because of the
2:56hidden patterns that are revealed.
2:58And so this idea of the alphabet of creation is very important.
3:02Next, spiritual initiation, masters of the net.
3:05One of the major aspects of sacred geometry that makes it sacred is the spiritual
3:11initiation aspect.
3:12And there is a lineage, particularly in the West, that was known as the masters of
3:17the net, of people being initiated into the mysteries of sacred geometry.
3:22And in fact, for what we're going to be covering today, on Saturday, in my lecture
3:27and slideshow, is going to be primarily connected to these first three pieces,
3:32thought forms in the mind of God, pattern recognition, and spiritual initiation of
3:38the masters of the net.
3:39Then, the next four topics are going to be covered tomorrow, on Sunday, the union of
3:45spirit and science.
3:46Sacred geometry is remarkable because the same patterns that were taught in the
3:51ancient spiritual schools have now been rediscovered in modern science and
3:56technology.
3:57And so what we really have today in modern science is a rediscovery of the old
4:02temple science knowledge, but without the holistic context that the temple science
4:07operated in.
4:08So we're going to be going over a bit of these concepts about how, through sacred
4:13geometry, we can have a healthy merger of spiritual and scientific knowledge,
4:18because there are patterns common to both. Next is the hidden energy science.
4:23I sometimes call this the temple science, because when you get down to the
4:28application of sacred geometry, every form in sacred geometry, as I mentioned, has a
4:33function. It has an energy quality to it.
4:36And so there is a long tradition that has primarily been hidden for most of human
4:41history of how these patterns can be applied for specific energetic effects.
4:46Next is holistic health and healing, because one of the ways that we're going to
4:52apply these energies and these forms is for health and healing.
4:56And this has been done for thousands of years.
4:59And finally, sacred design, the masters of the compass.
5:02One of the primary fields that is brought forward to the public very often with
5:08sacred geometry is sacred architecture.
5:10And so again, you will find some courses, some books, that deal with sacred geometry
5:16only in terms of design and architecture.
5:18So we'll be looking at that tomorrow as well.
5:21If you then turn to the table of contents, then we've broken down the handouts here
5:27for the weekend according to these different topics.
5:30Thought forms, the mind of God, the pattern language, etc. And some of the handouts
5:35here relate to things I'm going to be discussing in the slideshow and lecture.
5:41And some of them we're not going to be discussing just because of time, but are here
5:46for you to pursue through reading.
5:48And then finally, at the end, there is a very long handout.
5:52It's got a colored page separator, and then you find the sacred geometry resource
5:57list.
5:58One of the things that I've sometimes been frustrated by in attending courses and
6:03trainings is that the instructor will often talk about different pieces of
6:08information that it's not always clear where they got that information from.
6:13Did they discover it themselves? Did it come from a particular source?
6:17And so one of the things I think that we need today in modern Western metaphysics is
6:23we need to start developing a cumulative body of knowledge.
6:27Because to be honest, there are quite a few pathologies in modern Western
6:31metaphysics.
6:32There's a great tendency to want to have one's own isolated group that one is the
6:38guru of and one is the unquestioned teacher for that group.
6:41And this then leads to a lot of fragmentation of information.
6:45And I think we're at the point now in Western metaphysics that we can and should get
6:51beyond that.
6:52We need to be able to accumulate the different pieces of knowledge held by different
6:57groups, teachers, etc., and bring them together to a central core body of knowledge
7:03that can be taught and communicated in a clear, concise form.
7:07In the same way that we have today with modern external science.
7:11In external science, you don't find conversations between people where they say
7:16things like, you know, I heard something about some guy named Einstein in Germany
7:21back a hundred years ago and he found out something.
7:25And it's in some book in German, but I've never really seen it.
7:29But I know some guy that read it and said it was really incredible.
7:33Everybody in physics knows what Einstein taught.
7:36It becomes part of a cumulative body of knowledge.
7:40So every year new information gets brought into the central focus of every
7:44discipline, biology, chemistry, physics, until there's really a cumulative knowledge
7:50that people can be trained in.
7:52And starting from that in their education, then what they do from that point on adds
7:57in the next piece of the puzzle for everybody.
8:00And we then have this forward development of our knowledge base.
8:04And I think we really need that right now.
8:07So one of the things that we need to do is to appreciate the life work of all the
8:13people that have come before us who have sacrificed really their entire life of time
8:18and energy into finding different pieces of the puzzle.
8:22And so we've worked on this resource list, which is still very far from complete,
8:27but nonetheless it still runs over 60 pages.
8:30And it goes through the different topic areas we just discussed.
8:34And I've listed a number of texts in these different areas.
8:38And we've tried to get a good selection of books here for this training related to
8:43some of these pieces of knowledge.
8:45Because I find that many of the books that have the most important pieces of
8:50knowledge are quite hard to find.
8:53You don't often find them at your average bookstore.
8:56And also if you do see them, you can have the problem that you don't know which ones
9:01have what information.
9:03Because it could be that the first half of the book really has nothing very exciting
9:08or interesting, but there on page 87 there is like this amazing revelation the
9:13person had.
9:14And so with this we want to give you some sense of the resources that are available
9:20and some of the important things that are held in some of these resources.
9:24Now again, another aspect of this is that we want to make sure that a tragedy that
9:30I've seen recurring multiple times in modern Western metaphysics ceases to be the
9:35case.
9:35And that is that you will often find that people spend years of research and work
9:41sometimes recreating the wheel or doing work that's already been done.
9:45But because we don't know what work's already been done, there is no cumulative
9:50knowledge base, there is no resource guide, we don't know someone else has already
9:56done that body of work.
9:57And so if we can start from the current state of the art and travel forward from
10:02there, then we can accomplish a lot more and not waste our time and effort.
10:07Because that's very important.
10:09One of the background concepts that I work with all the time, and that is going to
10:15be a background concept for us at this course, is that I personally feel that all of
10:20us have a particular spiritual calling.
10:23We have a particular task, a particular mission in life.
10:26And so what I do with sacred geometry knowledge might be very, very different from
10:32what you do. One person's going to apply it for health and healing.
10:36Another person's going to apply it to spiritual initiation.
10:40Another person's going to apply it for actually building buildings and designs and
10:45forms.
10:46And so the same body of knowledge is essential for all of us, but how we apply it is
10:51going to change from person to person.
10:54And so what we've done in this course is I've tried to bring together a lot of the
10:59pieces of the puzzle of this divine language of sacred geometry, so that in seven
11:04days you can get a concise overview and move from there.
11:08So we're going to be covering a lot of material in these seven days.
11:12And what I'm going to request of you is that, because we're going to be really
11:18compressing a lot of information over these seven days, I'm going to ask you to
11:23please not interrupt the lecture and slideshow portion with questions.
11:27We will take questions at the end of every day.
11:30And I know that sometimes you're afraid, well, I'll forget the question if I don't
11:36ask it now.
11:36But the way that we're doing this, we're going to cover so many pieces of the puzzle
11:42that we're going to, in a sense, using a Rosicrucian metaphor, we're going to walk a
11:47circle around a particular topic and see it from multiple perspectives.
11:52And if we stop too long to go down side roads, we're going to lose the vision of how
11:58it's all getting linked together, because that's one of our main missions here in
12:03this concise overview course, is how the pieces link together.
12:07Could I get the lights turned out? Whoever knows where the lights are?
12:11And we're going to start with our slideshow. Elizabeth, okay, great.
12:16And how about the wall sconces?
12:18So in this course, I'm going to be starting from the very beginning, the very
12:23basics.
12:23Some of you already have a strong background in sacred geometry, some of you do not.
12:29So we're going to start at the very beginning and build up bit by bit.
12:33Also, some of you are here for the first time working with us.
12:38Others of you have done multiple trainings with us in the past.
12:42So at times, I am going to make side notes for those of you that have trained with
12:47us in the past in other topics, including Egyptian biogeometry, to link particular
12:52topics in sacred geometry directly to things that we've discussed before.
12:57And if you haven't taken those trainings with us, you might find it interesting as
13:02well. So let's start with the basic concept of sacred geometry itself.
13:07The actual name sacred geometry literally means the sacred measure of the earth,
13:12geometry.
13:13And so from one perspective, sacred geometry, the sacred measure of the earth, has
13:18to do with the literal creation of the physical earth itself, what we have in
13:23religious doctrines such as Genesis, with the actual process by which non-physical
13:29spiritual forces manifest the material world through specific forms.
13:33But also, the sacred measure of the earth also refers to the way that earth becomes
13:38a metaphor for the material plane itself.
13:41So the sacred measure of the earth is something we also see related to things we'll
13:47discuss later today from the Egyptian mysteries, for example, in which particular
13:52activities in sacred geometry are literal recreations of how spirit moves to
13:57manifest within three-dimensional reality, not just on the earth, but for all of
14:02three-dimensional creation in the entire universe of the three-dimensional world.
14:07Sacred geometry also refers to how spirit manifests life and consciousness through
14:13specific shapes and patterns.
14:15So one part of sacred geometry is very specifically geometry, its shapes and its
14:20patterns.
14:20So we're going to, in the last five days of the course, go piece by piece through
14:26specific patterns and shapes used in sacred geometry.
14:29Fibonacci ratio, phi ratio, platonic solids, the vesica, the three sacred roots of
14:35the Pythagoreans, all these sorts of things, and you'll be exploring those hands-on
14:40with Jane.
14:41But also, when we deal with patterns, patterns is not only geometry in a literal
14:46sense, but patterns relates to all patterns, and that includes things like music.
14:51Music has a pattern to it. All manifested life has a pattern. Time is a pattern.
14:56And so that also is part of the study of sacred geometry, is the study of all
15:01patterns that are used to manifest life and activity.
15:05And another important point here, if you take a look at classical illustrations of
15:10the godhead creating the world, then in many cases you will see the godhead holding
15:16the compass.
15:16And the reason for this is that the compass allows you to create a stable center
15:22that then gives you a perfect rotation around a stable central point, which is the
15:27first movement of creation.
15:29The first letter of the divine alphabet of sacred geometry is the circle and the
15:34sphere, which we're going to get to on Monday as we start going through the literal
15:39shapes and patterns of creation.
15:42I want to then make a connection with that for those of you who have done the
15:47biogeometry course, where we find there that in Egyptian biogeometry we use the
15:52phrase, this center is a transcendental gateway beyond space and time.
15:56And we find that that is actually quite literally true, that the actual energy
16:01coming from the center of a defined space has three specific energy qualities.
16:06And for those of you that have not done that course, we'll do a quick summary of
16:12that tomorrow with the energy science of sacred geometry.
16:15But this use of the compass to create a rotational movement around a center is very
16:21important for us, because what it does is it allows us to create a boundary.
16:26And for all shapes in sacred geometry, the boundary principle is very important.
16:31You have created a defined space by creating that boundary, and the first primal
16:36boundary is that of a perfect circle or sphere, because in that case the boundary is
16:42completely uniform in distance from the center. It's a completely uniform surface.
16:47And so one of the primal concepts here is that the Godhead is the undifferentiated
16:52source of all existence.
16:54And so as you see here in this depiction of Walter Russell's at the top, with the
16:59One coming from the central sphere and radiating out all of creation.
17:04In the Greek tradition, they use the literal term the One, with One in all capital
17:09letters, for their representation of the Godhead.
17:12It's from the One that we then create what the Chinese call the Ten Thousand Things.
17:18The One becomes the Two, the Two becomes the Four, the Four becomes the Eight.
17:23And this multiplication process then gives rise to everything and manifests
17:28creation.
17:28We're looking at that more on Monday, as we go into principles like the Chinese I
17:34Ching, and going from unity to polarity to multiplicity.
17:37But the core of everything, the One, is what we access through that central point.
17:43And so again we see these forms of the circle, or the circle with the point in the
17:48center.
17:49And we'll see that circle with the point in the center in different traditions,
17:54called the emblem of the sun, or the emblem of the Godhead, or the emblem of gold.
17:59And from an energy perspective, that dot in the center of the circle is what we
18:04might refer to as a circuit diagram.
18:07The same as if you're going to wire up an electrical device, you're going to have a
18:12circuit diagram for how the energy is going to flow in that device.
18:16And so by showing you the point in the center of the circle, it's showing you
18:21something related to how they're calling this the form of the Godhead, or the sun,
18:27or of gold.
18:28Accessing that central point of the circle or the sphere, or even of a rotational
18:33movement, you can access the One.
18:35A very important concept here is that once we have defined a boundary, we have two
18:40movements.
18:41We have the movement from the center to the periphery, and from the periphery back
18:46to the center.
18:47This particular breathing from inside oneself to the outside, and from the outside
18:53to the inside, is a primal movement of creation that you'll be exploring with
18:58Elizabeth later today, with urithmy and movement.
19:01And we'll see multiple manifestations of this in the course.
19:05Now let's go to a deeper level of this concept of sacred geometry originating from
19:10the One, from the Godhead.
19:12And in many traditions, it is described as originating from thoughts in the mind of
19:17God. And so to understand this concept of thoughts in the mind of God, there is the
19:23understanding, again, from many different traditions around the world, that the One,
19:28the Godhead, the unified source of all things, creates the manifest world first as
19:34an activity of thought.
19:35And you then find in these traditions that they will then show the way that the
19:40human being is a manifestation of the Godhead in a unique, individualized form.
19:45And so the activity of the human mind is a kind of a spark from an ocean of divine
19:51fire, from the mind of the Godhead.
19:53And so we find various disciplines today in metaphysics that emphasize the power of
19:58the human mind, whether it's silver mind control, or whether it's science of mind,
20:04or Christian science, many different disciplines emphasizing the power of the mind
20:09itself.
20:10And again, this comes from the way that our mind is a detachment from the unified
20:15source of the mind of the thoughts of God.
20:18So when you see this concept in multiple traditions, it has multiple manifestations
20:23within that tradition for the practices that they do, for the things they actually
20:28teach their initiates in their closed groups.
20:31So that one aspect of this is that when we deal with pure sacred geometric forms, if
20:37we deal with the pure form of a circle, for instance, the Greeks would talk about
20:42this as an ideal form that lives in the spiritual world.
20:46It does not live in the physical world.
20:48The Greeks would talk about these ideal forms as archetypes that stand behind
20:53everything in manifest creation, because every circle in the manifest world will
20:59have a specific shape and size and color, but the archetype of the circle is beyond
21:04specific size, color, etc. It is the thought from the mind of God that gave rise to
21:09everything here.
21:11And at first, this can seem like somewhat of an abstract philosophy, but the deeper
21:16we go into sacred geometry, we find that things that are often taught that actually
21:21devolved over time to being simply an abstract philosophy began as very powerful
21:27concepts that were directly applied for specific purposes within the great spiritual
21:32traditions of the world.
21:34And so using this concept, the sacred geometric forms themselves are thought forms
21:39from the mind of God that hold tremendous amounts of embedded content.
21:44One term that we'll be using in this course, some of you are familiar with from
21:49previous courses with us, is the term of a packed thought form.
21:53This is a term that I picked up from the French medical doctor Samuel Sagan at the
21:58Clairvision School of Australia.
22:00And one of the concepts they use there is that these packed thought forms is
22:05something that we've all experienced.
22:08At some point in everyone's life, you've been working on a particular question or a
22:13problem over a period of time, and then very often you stop thinking about it, your
22:19mind moves away, you're doing something else, and in an instant you get a type of a
22:24download or a vision where you get a tremendous amount of packed information in a
22:29second.
22:30And to try to unpack that concentrated information you got in that instantaneous
22:35transmission could take you days, weeks, trying to unpack it word after word,
22:40concept after concept to another person, but you got it as one whole in the moment
22:45that it was transmitted.
22:47And so this concept of a packed thought form is very important because what we're
22:52going to see, particularly once we get into the week and looking at different
22:57manifestations of these letters of the divine alphabet, of these sacred geometric
23:03forms, is that these particular sacred geometric forms can in fact manifest
23:07themselves in many, many different ways.
23:10So when we have that idea of a sacred geometric form being a packed thought form, it
23:16becomes something related to the concept of a proteus in ancient traditions.
23:20A proteus is something that can take many different manifestations.
23:25And so one manifestation that they can take is that actual sacred geometric forms
23:30can become the blueprint for actual living beings.
23:33This becomes a somewhat complex topic.
23:36I'll just touch it very briefly right now, and then we'll move on and come back to
23:41it later.
23:42And that is, if you look, let's say, at Western metaphysics, if you look at the
23:47names of spiritual beings in Western metaphysics, the names of the angels that we
23:52have, for instance, in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the names themselves
23:57describe the function of the being. Raphael is God heals. Mikael is who is as God.
24:03The names of the archangels describe the function of God that is administered
24:08through that being.
24:09And so you will find in different traditions that there can be specific geometric
24:14patterns associated with these high spiritual beings.
24:18For instance, in the Hindu tradition, you have the form of the yantras.
24:22There will be a specific yantra for the being Ganesh, for example.
24:27Why is there a specific sacred geometric form associated with that being?
24:31And on Monday, I'll show you one way that this manifests, where you have the vesica,
24:37two overlapping circles, that this duality with a perfect balance in the center
24:42actually manifests itself through specific spiritual beings.
24:46And the same thing is true for activities in the physical world.
24:50These archetypal forms of sacred geometry I'll be showing you in the coming days can
24:56manifest themselves in energy patterns in the human body.
24:59They can manifest themselves as activities in nature and, once again, as actual
25:05spiritual beings themselves.
25:06So the sacred geometric form as a thought form in the mind of God becomes an
25:11archetypal blueprint of a pattern of an activity or a function that can manifest in
25:17many different ways.
25:18Now, one of the extensions of this idea for us is that this is also linked to the
25:23human being developing the capacity to directly perceive packed thought forms and
25:29being able to directly perceive geometric blueprints and archetypes.
25:33This is described by many different traditions.
25:36And in many of the illustrations that might accompany this concept, particularly in
25:42the East, if you look, particularly in the Tibetan or the Himalayan tradition, is
25:47they will often show the central column of energy in the person's energy field and
25:52specific placements of energy centers above the head at which it's possible to
25:57develop the capacity to perceive these spiritual packed thought forms and to
26:02perceive geometric blueprint archetypes.
26:05And, again, many of you have already experienced this.
26:08After any course I do of this kind, people always come up to me and say, you know,
26:14that pattern that you showed us, I was given that pattern by a particular teacher
26:19from the Vedic tradition.
26:21Or someone will say, I actually saw that pattern in my meditation.
26:25Or I got that pattern in a dream. So we can access those forms all the time.
26:30But we can also develop the centers of potential in our energy field that the
26:35stronger they get, the more we can begin to focus in and perceive these types of
26:40geometric blueprints or thought forms.
26:43Now, because of this, in schools like the Greek Pythagorean school of initiation,
26:48which actually comes out of information that Pythagoras was taught in the Egyptian
26:53temples and in Babylon, in that particular Pythagorean school, they considered it to
26:59be impossible to have full initiation without an understanding of geometry.
27:04Because it was that geometry that provided the blueprint to understand how all the
27:09functions of spirit manifest our world.
27:12And so sacred geometry, from this perspective, becomes the blueprint for how
27:17everything manifests.
27:18Now, in the classical world, and I'll take the next slide, this leads to a couple of
27:24consequences.
27:24One consequence is that once you understand how something works and you can affect
27:30its structure, then you have to be very careful that you only try to manipulate that
27:35for positive outcomes.
27:37And so because of the concern about this knowledge being used to manipulate people
27:42or natural events for negative purposes, a concern about black magic, this
27:47information was never taught to the public.
27:50Information was always taught in closed circles.
27:53However, with the fullness of time, many of the patterns of creation that we're
27:58going to see were taught in the old spiritual schools, as I mentioned before, have
28:03now been rediscovered in modern science and technology, which means that information
28:09is already coming out, and it's being, to be honest, in many cases, terribly
28:14misused.
28:14I'll be showing you patterns later on related to biology, chemistry, physics, etc.,
28:20and we're having a tremendous destabilization of the Earth's natural energetic web
28:25by this application of these patterns discovered in modern science and technology
28:30without an understanding of the effects that's going to happen with these types of
28:36applications.
28:37And so some of you might have read the article that we send out in our newsletter in
28:42which I said that from my perspective, one reason why sacred geometry not only can
28:47be taught now publicly, but it should and must be taught, is because we are so
28:53rapidly destabilizing the natural environment through the science and technology
28:58that if the people that want to use it for good are not given the core information,
29:03then the outcome is not going to be positive at all.
29:07Once we understand the structure of something, we can affect it energetically.
29:12So we're going to be looking at structures during this week.
29:16Now, a classical concept of the relationship between the creative spiritual forces
29:21and the manifestation of the material plane is that of macrocosm and microcosm, the
29:26hermetic maxim of as above, so below, as within, so without.
29:30Often represented like this, where you'd have something like the Star of David, the
29:36six-pointed star, one triangle up, one triangle down, showing this relationship
29:41between the macrocosm and the microcosm with the idea that everything in this world
29:46is a kind of a condensation, a lower vibratory rate of a reflection of something
29:52from higher worlds.
29:53And understanding this relationship, this link between the higher worlds and this
29:58world, we come to the concepts of sacred geometry where what we do in sacred
30:03geometry is a recreation of what the Godhead and higher spiritual beings did in
30:08creating this world in the first place.
30:11So here we see William Blake's painting of the Godhead, the Ancient of Days, holding
30:16the compass, and here we see a medieval representation of the sacred geometry
30:21holding the compass and creating the circular movement with the triangle holding the
30:27square, holding the circle, with the creation of the human being inside of it.
30:32And this is something that Jane is going to emphasize for you in doing the actual
30:37sacred geometry drafting, is this idea from classical times that the work that we
30:42are doing in the drafting is not just drawing little pictures.
30:47The actual movements that we are making are literally the same movements made by
30:52higher spiritual forces in creating things in this world.
30:55And by doing this type of work, we move beyond the level of seeing the external
31:01appearance of things in this world and see the actual, again, blueprint or the
31:06mechanics of how everything in this world actually operates.
31:10And this was an idea that then got brought into modern science.
31:14So you'll see pictures like this also for the dawn of modern science, of being able
31:19to understand the actual machinery of the physical world in chemistry, biology, and
31:25physics.
31:25But this had been pursued for thousands of years previous to that, but never made
31:30public in spiritual schools around the world.
31:33So some of you have seen this particular demonstration before, and for those of you
31:39that haven't, we'll go through it now.
31:41This is a particular blueprint pattern for something in the manifest world.
31:46And it's going to illustrate our concept of pattern recognition.
31:50Once we get a basic level of knowledge in sacred geometry, we develop the capacity
31:56to perceive the patterns behind everything in our world.
31:59And so we can then, through pattern recognition, find hidden links between things in
32:05manifest creation.
32:06So what we see here is one particular geometric outline, and there's a six-sided
32:11enclosure, and there's a five-pointed star coming downward and another five-pointed
32:17star going upward, and other forms inside of it.
32:20The little calculations at the bottom have to do with the relationship to the phi
32:25ratio, but we're not going to talk about phi and Fibonacci and the sacred roots and
32:31things of that kind until we get to the week when we can start doing the drafting
32:36practices and make it very straightforward.
32:39But just look at the pure pattern and just silently ask yourself the question, if
32:44this pattern was to manifest into something in the material world, what would it be?
32:49And I'll take the next slide. And it's the geometric blueprint of this woman's face.
32:55This is from a book called The Geometry of Art and Life.
32:59And the thing about this particular analysis is that human faces are similar to
33:04snowflakes in the sense that every snowflake is a crystallized water that has a
33:09hexagonal form, but every snowflake has a different geometry.
33:13It's all based on the same core pattern of geometry, but the way it crystallizes is
33:18always unique, just like human fingerprints.
33:21And by the same token, the human face is crystallized spirit that is based on all
33:26faces having the same core geometry, but every one is unique.
33:30And they've done tests, for instance, with young babies where they'll show babies
33:36different faces, and if the eyes and the nose and the mouth and the ears are in the
33:41right place, then the baby smiles.
33:43But you put the mouth where the eyes should be, something of that kind, then the
33:49child cries.
33:49There's an intuitive sense of the human being of how things should be arranged, and
33:55they're based on these types of blueprints.
33:58Now, once we understand these types of geometric blueprints that stand behind
34:03things, then we can start looking at, I'll take the next slide, seemingly unrelated
34:08phenomena and find these hidden links.
34:11So what we have here is from a book called The Temple at Jerusalem by John Michel.
34:16And the people that did this work knew nothing about the pattern I just showed you,
34:21and vice versa, completely separate bodies of work that didn't know each other's
34:27material. And what they found here is that they were studying the sacred geometry of
34:32Jerusalem, and what you see at the left is the way that Jerusalem is laid out as a
34:37six-sided enclosure with a five-pointed star going up and a five-pointed star going
34:43down. It's the same basic pattern as the human face itself.
34:47Now, from our normal, logical, linear thinking, that doesn't compute.
34:51Why would the geometry of the human face be the same as the geometry of Jerusalem?
34:57But it has to do, from my meditation upon it, one aspect of it has to do with the
35:02way that spirit expresses itself in matter.
35:05If you want to understand the nature of a person, you don't tend to look at their
35:10knee or their elbow or their left shoulder blade. You look at their face.
35:15By looking at their face, you get a sense of who that person is, because the face is
35:20where spirit expresses itself in flesh.
35:23And by the same token, Jerusalem is a holy site, and it's where spirit expresses
35:28itself on the flesh of the planet.
35:30And so there's a particular relationship here with the six-sided enclosure and the
35:36five-pointed star form.
35:37And we'll be talking more about what this all means with the nature of the six and
35:42the nature of the five and how nature uses that to manifest things.
35:47I just wanted to show this right now to give you a sense of pattern recognition,
35:52that once you can see the geometric blueprint behind things and you find these
35:57hidden linkages, you're beginning to see the way that spirit works in the world and
36:03lays down these blueprints and that there are these hidden connections between
36:08things.
36:08It's the same thing we talked about for those of you that did the biogeometry
36:13course, where we began to talk about linkages between phenomena that, to begin with,
36:19we don't think of as being linked, such as the nature of the BG3 energies, blessing
36:24and prayer, positive states of thought and emotion, connecting to the center of a
36:29circle, a specific angle, things of that kind.
36:32All these things linked to the same energetic.
36:35So this brings us to our concept that we looked at just a moment ago, where we have
36:41thought forms in the mind of God and then around it we have different expressions of
36:46the sacred geometric mystery, different contexts at which people in modern circles
36:52will look at sacred geometry to try to understand it.
36:55And it's interesting to note that, to be honest, in the very recent past, sacred
37:00geometry was a very obscure topic.
37:03If you talked to most people even in metaphysical circles in the 1970s, people
37:08didn't know what sacred geometry was.
37:10It really wasn't until the mid-1980s that there began to be talk of sacred geometry.
37:16And today it's a bit of a buzzword and you see a lot of books with sacred geometry
37:21in the title or talking about one aspect of sacred geometry.
37:25So there are a lot of bits and pieces of sacred geometry knowledge out today, but
37:30what's hard to find is the context that links all the pieces together.
37:35So that's what we're going to try to look at here.
37:38So what we've come to now is looking at the idea of sacred geometry as a divine
37:43language, the alphabet of creation.
37:45As I mentioned before, one way I'd like you to think about it is that it is
37:50literally a divine language and literally actually an angelic language that all the
37:56shapes that make up our world, all those shapes that are blueprints from the mind of
38:01God, the archetypes that the Greeks talked about, every one of those is like a
38:06letter of an alphabet.
38:08And if you study a person's energy field or you study the construction of a flower
38:13in nature, really to study any living energy system or even the structure of things
38:19that are inanimate like minerals, you will find that they are composites of specific
38:24shapes that have specific functions being brought together to be the energy totality
38:30of that thing that you're looking at.
38:32Now this is related to some concepts that some of you have heard me talk about
38:37before related to the Egyptian mysteries.
38:40This summer at our Vesica summer intensive, we looked at the different subtle bodies
38:45from the Egyptian perspective, from the old Egyptian temple science, and we found
38:50that one of the subtle body layers that the Egyptians discussed was something called
38:56the ren, the name.
38:57And the name has to do with something that in later times in the Jewish Kabbalistic
39:03world is going to be called the mystery of the Kabbalistic word, with the idea that
39:08every sound that we have in creation, every sound, what they would call a seed
39:13syllable in the Himalayan tradition, has a particular sound, it has a particular
39:18energy function.
39:19And so a literal name, when it's the true Kabbalistic word, the true Kabbalistic
39:25name, is the set of sounds, each of which has a specific energy quality, that in
39:30their composite gives you the energy blueprint, the construction diagram of the
39:35thing itself.
39:36And that can be true either with sound, with the Kabbalistic word, or it can be true
39:41with patterns of actual geometry.
39:43And this is related also to the structure of the human energy field.
39:48People have different structures in their energy field that give them different
39:53capacities, and different traditions will work with their initiates to do particular
39:59practices so that they will structure their subtle bodies to be capable of specific
40:04things.
40:04That's why it's only half true to say that all spiritual traditions lead to the same
40:10goal. They all lead to spirit, because there's no other place to go.
40:14But that doesn't mean that you get your subtle body structured the same in different
40:20traditions, because everything you do with your awareness and your attention
40:25structures your subtle body.
40:27So that any practice that you do on a regular basis, you are reinforcing a specific
40:32pattern in your subtle body that will give you a specific ability over time, based
40:37on how you're using your awareness and your attention.
40:41So a very important background concept for us.
40:44So getting back to this core idea of sacred geometry as a divine alphabet, every
40:49shape has a specific purpose in nature.
40:52And again, what we're going to do in the final five days of the course is go through
40:57some of the most important shapes, some of the most important letters, that we find
41:03at every scale, from the subatomic up to the galactic, in Manifest Creation, because
41:08they're some of the primary functions that nature uses.
41:12Now, if you take a look at the illustration I have to the right here, this is an
41:17illustration of the cover of General Chemistry by Linus Pauling.
41:21And many of you have heard me give talks before where I talked about my background
41:27with this, in which I first became involved with sacred geometry in the U.S.
41:31Marine Corps as an instructor in the nuclear, biological, chemical warfare.
41:36And looking at physics, biology, and chemistry, I simply found that there are
41:41specific geometric patterns that have been empirically discovered, really
41:46empirically rediscovered, by modern science and technology that show you all the
41:51different functions in physics, biology, and chemistry.
41:55And so this is simply an illustration of that with this textbook by Linus Pauling.
42:00This is a particular chemical compound that's shown with the form in the center that
42:06we're going to be introduced to later. It's the form of the octahedron.
42:11And then around it is the form that's called the stella octangula, and later renamed
42:16by Leonardo da Vinci as the star tetrahedron.
42:19And so these classical sacred geometric forms taught in the old spiritual
42:24traditions, again being empirically rediscovered as the literal basis of everything
42:29in creation in biology, chemistry, and physics today.
42:33So again, these are the letters of the divine alphabet.
42:36And this also leads to a couple of consequences.
42:39One is that I have seen spiritual initiates from different traditions unable to
42:44communicate to each other in an earthly language, but able to communicate to each
42:50other through specific geometric patterns or forms that they've both been taught in
42:55their traditions and they both recognize.
42:58And by the same token, what is sometimes taught in these classical traditions is
43:03that by learning this language of shape, form, geometry, because this is a creative
43:09language of the higher spiritual hierarchies, it is a literal angelic language, so
43:14that in communication with higher realms we are given downloads that are purely
43:19geometric in nature. And we have to be able to analyze those and understand it.
43:24And so to communicate with higher beings, to do so in a geometric language, is a
43:29much easier form of communication for them than in an earthly language.
43:34It's a language they already speak, a language they already use to create our world.
43:40Now let's go one level deeper.
43:42A moment ago we talked about this form often being discussed, and that's a true
43:47principle of creation, but it can also be a simplification.
43:51So there's another layer we can go to here.
43:53Because what you'll find sometimes is that, for instance, in this particular diagram
43:59that comes from the work of the Rosicrucian adept Rudolf Steiner, you have the
44:04microcosm, which is linked to a five-pointed star, the macrocosm to a six-pointed
44:09star, and we'll get into the mystery of the five- and six-pointed star later.
44:14You have the Godhead.
44:16And so now you have three levels, microcosm, macrocosm, and the Godhead.
44:20And so if you look at something like this classic painting by Raphael, you see that
44:26there's a representation of three levels.
44:28So here's the level at which the human beings are.
44:32Then's the level of the saints with the Christ.
44:35And above it, the level of the Godhead.
44:37So a very important aspect of Western esotericism today, Christian esotericism, is
44:43understanding this particular format where there are actually three layers.
44:48Now, this is understood by particular traditions in different ways.
44:52And to keep it simple, I'll just talk about one way right now.
44:56And that is one part of macrocosm and microcosm is that we have reflected in the
45:01form of the human physical body and subtle bodies things that come from higher
45:06worlds. And I'll give you illustrations of that later this weekend.
45:11And many of you are familiar with this already, that the different energy centers of
45:16the human body come, for instance, with the chakras' connection to the planets or to
45:22the different acupuncture channels connected to the signs of the zodiac in some of
45:27the Asian teachings, that essentially there are things that we can see out in
45:32physical space as a physical macrocosm that's reflected in our structure in the
45:37physical and subtle body microcosm.
45:40But beyond that is something that is purely spiritual.
45:43And that's a very important concept, that we might have reflections of things that
45:48also exist in the physical world, but behind those things are always the spiritual
45:54level itself that is nonphysical.
45:56If you go back to the early teachings in esoteric Christianity, back to the first
46:01few centuries after the appearance of Christ, where they were still trying to figure
46:07out this mystery of what is the solar logos, what is the Christos, you will find
46:12writings such as those of the great church father Origen, writing from Egypt.
46:17And in Origen's writing, he has a wonderful book called On First Principles.
46:22And in On First Principles he says, the nature of the Christ is such that the
46:27Godhead is so vast in all of creation that the human being cannot directly interact
46:32with a being of that vastness.
46:34So what the Christ being is, the solar logos, is all the attributes of the Godhead
46:40reduced in scale to the level there is a being that we can now interact with
46:45directly.
46:45And so this is also related to this concept later coming out here in this painting
46:51of Raphael's of this intermediary level where the Christ becomes the intermediary
46:56between the one, the Godhead, and humanity.
46:59But all three being of the same nature, the same qualities in this stepping down
47:04process from the one to the macrocosm to the microcosm is being present.
47:09And so this is going to be important because in this course we're going to be going
47:14into some of the macrocosmic sources of things here in the microcosm.
47:19But always beyond it is that third level, the purely spiritual.
47:23Which means that literally our physical body is made as a detachment from the
47:28material plane.
47:29The food we take in as physical substance gets converted into the physical body
47:34itself.
47:34Then from the ambient etheric life energy we take in the etheric energy to become
47:40our body of life energy, which again in the West is often called the etheric, and in
47:45the East could be called chi, ki, prana, things of that kind.
47:49Again, it's a physical body and though it's detachment from a force from the higher
47:55world, that I individualize in this lifetime and make it a vehicle for my activity.
48:00And except for the part that I individualize, it will break up after death and go
48:05back to its source.
48:06This is the physical body breaks up after death and goes back to the earth.
48:11Then the next level in some parts of the Western tradition will be called the
48:16astral, and when it's simply the astral as a whole it refers to the consciousness of
48:22the human being.
48:23And then the ego with a capital E refers to the spiritual core of the human being.
48:28So all of these are considered to be detachments from higher realms.
48:33Again, we'll go into more detail in this model tomorrow, and Jane is also going to
48:38do a drafting practice with you that shows how this model relates to the tree of
48:43life.
48:44So it's a core concern of every spiritual tradition, every major spiritual tradition
48:49on the planet, that talks about the context of not only the physical body of the
48:54human being with the subtle bodies and the energetic context around us and spiritual
49:00context, but also the context for the actual physical world that we live in with the
49:05planets and the constellations and the greater world outside of us.
49:10So if you study Taoist yoga or you study Hindu yoga or many other types of energetic
49:15systems, there'll be particular things that you do to connect energetically to the
49:21forces of specific planets, constellations, etc. So particular aspects of this are
49:26our local geometric context for life on Earth.
49:29So we have the Earth, which is in its position within the solar system, which has a
49:34position within the galaxy.
49:36Actually, it's on one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy, which is
49:41part of a local group of galaxies, which is within a larger cluster, etc., etc., all
49:47the way up to the observable universe.
49:49Directly around the Earth itself, we have a projection of the Earth's equator
49:54outward, which becomes the celestial equator.
49:57And then we have the plane of the ecliptic, where we can actually trace the movement
50:03of the sun against the background.
50:05And this becomes a very important concept for many spiritual traditions so that when
50:10we trace out the sun's movement against the background in the heavens, then that
50:16gives us the plane of the ecliptic, which, out of all of the stars around us,
50:21isolates a particular band of 12 groups of stars, which become the zodiac.
50:26And so it's that relationship of the sun's apparent movement as we see it against
50:31the background that isolates these particular energetic forces around us in cosmic
50:36space.
50:37And from that, we then move to the concept of the precession of the equinox, a very
50:42important concept that is central not only in the Western tradition, but many parts
50:47of the East as well.
50:49Everyone's heard about the concept of the age of Pisces, the age of Aquarius that
50:54we're supposed to be moving into, etc., and it has to do with particular time
50:59rhythms on the Earth.
51:00So, when we start dealing with concepts common to many spiritual traditions, it has
51:06to do with the way that time and space move together.
51:09And so, the way that the Earth has a particular tilt on its axis 23 degrees and some
51:15change, and then the way it's then rotating on its axis and it's moving around the
51:20sun leads to particular constants.
51:22And one of these is the way that at the time of the vernal equinox, there's a
51:27pointing to a particular part of the constellations in the heavens.
51:32And this pointing to a part of the zodiac at a particular time of the year actually
51:37moves backward a little bit every year.
51:40So it's not procession, which would be a forward movement, it's precession, which is
51:45a backward movement. That's how come we are currently in the age of Pisces.
51:50And if we were going forward, the next would be the age of Aries.
51:54But it's precession, so it's actually going backwards.
51:58So now the next age is the age of Aquarius.
52:01So that connection to that particular zodiacal sign, that particular constellation
52:06connects us to certain types of energies.
52:09And so what we see here is just a demonstration of that, where at a particular time
52:14period, we then would look out to the heavens and where we would see the connection
52:20at the vernal equinox is in this particular sign here, around Taurus the bull.
52:25And this will actually change over time.
52:27So again, over time, we've continued to move backwards, so that in old mythology,
52:33they talked about the quest for the golden fleece, connected to the age of Aries.
52:38Then we had the time of the Christ, which was the age of the fish, and the fish
52:43symbol of Christianity.
52:45And now moving to the age of Aquarius, with this backward movement.
52:49And as we move to these different ages, certain types of spiritual development on
52:54the planet change over time.
52:56But it's important to understand that this is related to the geometry of time and
53:01space.
53:02So that when you get down to the core of it, much of the background concepts of why
53:07things happen at the time and place that they do, taught by different spiritual
53:12traditions, has to do with the geometry of time and space.
53:16In fact, the entire mystery of astrology is really a mystery of the geometry of
53:21time. Because over time, different planets will move into different positions.
53:26And those positions are then marked by specific geometric relationships.
53:31We say that it's sextile, or it's conjunct, or whatever is a particular angle that
53:37these planets are at.
53:38And then the forces of those two planets, depending on the angle, gives a certain
53:43energetic effect. So it's a geometric mystery that changes over time.
53:48The angle changes, and the energetic effect changes with the angle.
53:52This is also something that is part of a universal mystery of the energy science,
53:57which means that we can also work with variable angles energetically.
54:02And one person might need a specific angle in their energy field at a particular
54:07time that will balance energy functions in their body.
54:11Or if you're building in sacred architecture, a particular angle will have a
54:16specific energy quality.
54:17A different angle will have a different energy quality for that location.
54:22But the basic concept we're dealing with now, I'm just trying to tie a few dots
54:27together, is this idea of the context and cosmic space around us.
54:31And this then gives way to our understanding that not only is our movement with the
54:37precession of the equinox, which lasts 25,920 years, and all of these types of years
54:42and days, types of counts that are kept by different traditions, with the Hindus
54:47keeping the count of the four ages of Kali Yuga and other ages, with the Mayans
54:53keeping the count related to Venus and Galactic Center, with the Egyptians keeping a
54:58count connected to the star Sirius, all these counts are related to certain numbers
55:04that are constants and have energy effects.
55:06We then move to the level of the planets.
55:09And in fact, even the names of the days of the week, for us to keep track of our
55:14time with one solar cycle after the next solar cycle, the sun rises and the sun
55:19sets, every day is related to one of the planets of the solar system.
55:24Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus give us Saturday, Sunday,
55:29Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
55:32And actually, what stands behind this, which is too much to get into at the moment,
55:38but taught in Rosicrucianism, is that these particular names not only stand for
55:43things in our solar system currently, they also stand for particular stages of
55:48cosmic evolution of the Earth in earlier time periods.
55:51So that old Saturn is the time period that the current orbit of the planet Saturn
55:57covers a certain range of cosmic space.
55:59And in a very early period of our solar system being formed, there is simply a globe
56:05of heat that expanded to fill the space that is now marked by the actual orbital
56:10range, diameter of the orbit of the planet Saturn.
56:13So there's many mysteries within mysteries embedded in this, but the main concept I
56:19want you to take away right now is that our fundamental concepts of understanding
56:24time and space on the planet are related to our cosmic context with the
56:28constellations and to the planets.
56:31So that it was understood in classical traditions that around the Earth itself we
56:36had all of the different planets of the solar system.
56:39Now often today we talk about the way that the ancients didn't understand celestial
56:45dynamics because they put the Earth at the center rather than the Sun.
56:49But we live on the Earth, so that is our center.
56:53And so there's a validity to what they saw at the time.
56:56It's not true that everything revolves around us, but it is true that as a human
57:01being living on what Buckminster Fuller called Spaceship Earth, as we move through
57:07the cosmos, from our perspective we are the center and we see things outside of us.
57:12And so we then have the different spheres of the planets arranged outside of us.
57:17And initiation in the ancient world, when you would go through stages, at the first
57:23stage of initiation you would be the Raven.
57:26And so in the Old Testament they have stories of Elijah lost in the wilderness and
57:31his encounter with the Raven, showing that's the first stage of initiation for him.
57:36And then moving to connect to these different planetary spheres.
57:41So again, connection to the local context in space, related to our understanding of
57:46time, related to spiritual initiation, to all of these different functions.
57:51But also with this idea that around the Earth, arranged outside of us, are these
57:56spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the fixed stars,
58:01etc. This was a core concept for the Greeks and other traditions.
58:06Because when they actually got to the stage where they could experience out-of-body
58:11travel, or conscious travel out of the body, past the Earth itself, they knew they
58:17moved through certain spheres in higher worlds.
58:20And this became a teaching that was passed down to the priesthood to help people
58:25after death.
58:26And so because of that, this becomes a teaching that you find in text such as the
58:31Egyptian Book of the Dead.
58:33The actual name of the book is better called the Book of Coming Forth by Day.
58:38But in this illustration from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, you'll see that there
58:43are seven gateways that have to be passed through.
58:46Now that's because as you pass through, the spiritual aspect behind this movement
58:52out through the solar system, what the Greeks would describe as these planetary
58:57spheres, you could experience it purely as a series of portals to move through, as
59:02gateways to go through.
59:04You might not even be aware that they're related in the physical world to the
59:09spheres of the planets.
59:10But again, this is related to our concept of microcosm, macrocosm, and then the
59:15spiritual world beyond.
59:17The spiritual aspect beyond the physical planets, and this journey that can be taken
59:22by everyone after death, or by the initiates while they're still incarnated.
59:27They needed to know in the Egyptian tradition the nature of the gateways and the
59:32names and functions of their gatekeepers.
59:35So when we're talking about the construction of the solar system around us, there's
59:41been the understanding for as long as we have recorded history of spiritual
59:45traditions, particularly getting back to Egypt, of the understanding that these
59:51particular planetary spheres have their positions and their activities according to
59:56a subtle blueprint of geometry behind them.
59:59And many people are familiar with the work of Kepler, where Kepler talked about the
1:00:04way that the planets are spaced out according to constants of particular geometric
1:00:10forms.
1:00:10So you have the dodecahedron, icosahedron, tetrahedron, cube, etc. And you can find
1:00:15a lot of references today to Kepler's work on these harmonics of space and how the
1:00:21actual position of the planets are related to these geometric forms.
1:00:25And in saying this, Kepler was actually giving out publicly the type of material
1:00:30that had been talked about privately in spiritual traditions for thousands of years.
1:00:36Now again, don't worry too much about the names of these shapes if you're not
1:00:41familiar with them yet.
1:00:42Later on in the course you're going to be building these shapes.
1:00:47We'll go into them in quite some detail.
1:00:49But the idea right now is understanding this concept of the geometric forms giving
1:00:55the blueprint that's related to the actual spacing of the orbits of the planets.
1:01:00And this is understood often as the harmony of the spheres, that the actual movement
1:01:05of the planets in their given orbits have a musical harmonic relationship one with
1:01:11the other.
1:01:11And so if you get into the esotericism of music, you'll find many, many references
1:01:17from many different traditions having to do with the way that the solar system and
1:01:22the constellations are a celestial choir. And it's all based on musical principles.
1:01:27And so Kepler also talked about this.
1:01:30This is Kepler's Heavenly Harmonies, where he made relationships to particular
1:01:35constants in the musical scale related to the forces of the planets.
1:01:39So I want to give you some illustrations now from a modern work, which is really a
1:01:45wonderful book, called A Little Book of Coincidence by John Martineau.
1:01:49And he calls it A Little Book of Coincidence because in research done by some people
1:01:55before him and then further work done by John Martineau, they found that there were
1:02:00all of these exquisite geometric relationships that with modern calculations could
1:02:06be shown to exist to where it's very clearly the case that there are these pure
1:02:11geometric archetypes that give the positions of the planets and validate these
1:02:16ancient concepts.
1:02:17And every time that he would show this to scientists and mathematicians, they'd say,
1:02:23well, isn't that a strange coincidence that these geometric forms give the exact
1:02:28placement of the planets and orbits and these types of things?
1:02:32So that was always their excuse. They'd say, well, it's just a coincidence.
1:02:37So he calls this A Little Book of Coincidence and he collects these things together.
1:02:42So I want to show you a few of these.
1:02:45One is he gives this wonderful diagram of the dances of the planets as seen from the
1:02:50Earth.
1:02:50If you were to see the actual way that these planets move one with the other, they
1:02:56make these beautiful movements in the heavens.
1:02:59So if you had like a time-lapse photography, you could see these geometric patterns
1:03:04being made with their movements with each other.
1:03:07They're literally the dances that these planets make with one another seen and acted
1:03:13in cosmic space. But it goes well beyond this.
1:03:16And so one of the best-known illustrations of this that's even spoken of in the Da
1:03:21Vinci Code and other very popular works that only go to a superficial level with
1:03:26this type of inquiry is the way that the movement of Venus as seen from the Earth
1:03:32gives you the form of a pentagram.
1:03:34Now for this diagram and the others I'm about to go into, for time purposes, I'm not
1:03:39going to go into all of the description of the harmonics and shapes and things of
1:03:45that kind. I just want you to get the general idea.
1:03:48And those of you that are interested in looking into it further, then please look up
1:03:54this book, A Little Book of Coincidence.
1:03:56The basic idea is that as seen from the Earth, with the Earth rotating and moving
1:04:02around the Sun, and with Venus rotating and moving around the Sun, that Venus makes
1:04:07this five-pointed star movement as seen from the Earth.
1:04:11And interestingly enough, if we then get that form of the five-pointed star and make
1:04:16around it another five-pointed star, because there's this beautiful geometry as a
1:04:21pure thought form of the Godhead, that inside of every five-pointed star is a
1:04:26pentagon that's upside down.
1:04:28And inside that upside-down pentagon is a perfect upside-down pentagram.
1:04:33But inside that upside-down pentagram is a right-side-up pentagon.
1:04:37And inside that right-side-up pentagon is a right-side-up pentagram.
1:04:42So it's this perfect fractal form. One fits inside of the other.
1:04:46That's part of cosmic creation.
1:04:48And so if around that five-pointed star related to the movement of Venus, we then
1:04:53create the larger five-pointed star that it fits inside, we could then take a
1:04:58compass and around the Sun make a circle, and it would show us the exact movement
1:05:03that's accurate in physical space as far as the range of the closest point of Venus
1:05:09in its orbit and the farthest part of Venus in its orbit from the Earth.
1:05:14And these types of relationships are over 99% mathematically accurate.
1:05:18So we see in this case the perfect relationship of Venus's movement in cosmic space
1:05:24related to the Earth related to the form of the pentagram.
1:05:27Now if we get the form of the pentagon and we nest pentagons inside one another,
1:05:33there are particular harmonics that we get with distance according to the pure shape
1:05:38and then create a circle around it.
1:05:40Two nested pentagons define the distance of empty space between Mercury and Venus,
1:05:46between Mars and Ceres, and relative mean orbits of Earth and Mars from this
1:05:51particular relationship.
1:05:52Three nested pentagons define the space between Venus and Mars in their orbits.
1:05:57The accuracy of these relationships is greater than 99%. Here's one for Jupiter.
1:06:03Jupiter has two asteroid clusters called the Trojans that follow its orbit at
1:06:08exactly 60 degrees in front and 60 degrees behind.
1:06:11That gives you perfect points of a hexagram with Jupiter.
1:06:15Now the thing is if you then create two hexagrams, because just like the pentagon,
1:06:20the hexagon holds inside of it a rotated hexagram holding inside of it a hexagon
1:06:25with a right-side-up hexagram, et cetera, et cetera. It's a constant cycle.
1:06:30If you have two hexagrams perfectly nested in the outer hexagram, it gives you an
1:06:35internal circle of the innermost hexagon.
1:06:38And that circle gives you Earth's mean orbit vis-à-vis Jupiter.
1:06:42And this is 99.8% accurate.
1:06:44So what you get here by putting the hexagon and the hexagon and the hexagon, when
1:06:49you get to here, this is the almost exactly perfect distance between the orbit of
1:06:55Jupiter and that of Earth. So this shows you these incredible constants.
1:06:59A sphere holding the size of Jupiter's orbit can hold three perfectly nested forms
1:07:05that are platonic solids we'll be talking about later, the cube and the octahedra.
1:07:10Everybody knows what a cube is.
1:07:12An octahedra is just two pyramids connected base to base.
1:07:16The sphere touching the center of the faces of the inmost form, and you can do it
1:07:21with a cube inside of its octahedra, inside of its cube, or you can do it with an
1:07:26octahedra inside of its cube, inside of its octahedra. It doesn't matter.
1:07:31It works either way.
1:07:32The sphere touching the center of the faces of the inmost form gives the correct
1:07:38size of the Earth's orbit when the outer sphere is the size of Jupiter's orbit.
1:07:43Again, perfect geometry. And one more. This gets a little bit more complex.
1:07:48I'm not going to go into detail on it. It's in the book.
1:07:51But there are two very important forms we'll be talking about later with the
1:07:56platonic solids, or perfect three-dimensional forms.
1:08:00One's an icosahedron, which has 20 triangular faces, and one's a dodecahedron with
1:08:0512 pentagonal faces.
1:08:06And essentially, if you use these forms of creation and combine them with the form
1:08:12of the sphere, the first form of creation, without going into all the details right
1:08:17now, the upshot of it is that they will, by creating the sphere the diameter of
1:08:22Mars' orbit, depending on the form you put inside and working with the spheres, a
1:08:28sphere placed inside the dodecahedron will give you the correct diameter of Venus'
1:08:33orbit, 99.98% accurate.
1:08:34And the center of the spheres creating an icosahedron create a sphere with the
1:08:40correct diameter of Earth's orbit vis-à-vis Mars, and that's 99.9% accurate.
1:08:45So this leads us to an important concept in sacred geometry, which is squaring the
1:08:50circle.
1:08:50Squaring the circle relates to the basic concept of how spirit manifests into form.
1:08:56And so classical traditions talking about squaring the circle in the largest idea
1:09:01that they're discussing is the way that non-physical spirit manifests the physical
1:09:06world. And so the sphere, the first form of creation, represents spirit.
1:09:11It's the perfect boundary. It's the container for all of creation.
1:09:15And then the square, or the cube, represents actual materialization, the creation of
1:09:21the material plane.
1:09:22And I say that it represents it, so part of this is philosophical.
1:09:27But as we'll see later on in the course, there's a lot of this that actually relates
1:09:32to literal processes as well.
1:09:34And so when you square the circle, you do an operation where if you were to take a
1:09:39string and put it outside on the boundary of the cube and get how far the string
1:09:44goes on the boundary, and then you did the same thing with the form of the circle,
1:09:50it would be the exact same length of string.
1:09:53So that squaring the circle is, in a sense, connecting and rectifying the form of
1:09:58materialization with the square or cube and the form of spirit with the sphere or
1:10:03the circle.
1:10:04And of course the classical representation of this is Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian
1:10:09Man picture, where he's showing that the form of the human being is related to the
1:10:15geometric harmonics on the one hand of the circle and on the other hand the form of
1:10:20the square, meaning that the human being is both spirit and matter, and in the form
1:10:26of our body and its dimensions, we bring together both the form of spirit and matter
1:10:31with the circle and square.
1:10:33Now this form of the squared circle is related to the alchemical mystery that's
1:10:38known as solve et coagula.
1:10:40And this basically just means dissolving and materializing or coagulating, and often
1:10:45represented as this type of serpent or dragon eating its own tail.
1:10:50So there's a lot of embedded stuff here in this particular diagram related to
1:10:55alchemy.
1:10:55But the basic idea here is that this solve et coagula is the process by which the
1:11:00spiritual essence will coagulate to become something in the physical plane, the
1:11:06literal process of manifestation that everything in the physical plane went through
1:11:11to get here.
1:11:12And solva is the process by which it then dissolves and goes back up to spirit.
1:11:17So it's a philosophical concept only at its most abstract form.
1:11:21It's related to very, very specific activities that allow materialization and
1:11:26dissolving to take place. So squaring the circle is related to this whole mystery.
1:11:31How does spirit manifest in the physical world, and how do we go from the physical
1:11:37world back to spirit? This mystery is related very directly to the form of the cube.
1:11:42So we saw a minute ago that the square with the squared circle represented physical
1:11:48manifestation.
1:11:49Now, in a very literal sense, the cube is the representation of the material world,
1:11:54because the material world that we live in has three axes.
1:11:58And if you take electrical engineering courses, they'll have you put your thumb
1:12:03straight up, your index finger straight ahead, and your middle finger pointing to
1:12:08the side. And these are the three axes of physical space.
1:12:12That's why we say we live in a three-dimensional world.
1:12:16There are three 90-degree shifts that define our world.
1:12:19That's why when people talk about higher dimensions, the question is, well, where's
1:12:25the higher dimension?
1:12:26You can't show the fourth dimension in the physical world, not when the fourth
1:12:31dimension is a spatial dimension, because our world is based on the form of a cube.
1:12:37That means that there are only three 90-degree angles.
1:12:40Now, one of the things that academia does, which is not very nice, is that they try
1:12:45to alienate the public by using a lot of jargon to represent terms that they could
1:12:51describe in plain language if they felt like it.
1:12:54And so that makes them feel special, and it justifies your spending $150,000 for
1:12:59your PhD in something. So only you understand it, because only you know the jargon.
1:13:05One of those terms that you shouldn't let people get past you is the term orthogonal
1:13:10rotation. Orthogonal rotation just means a 90-degree shift.
1:13:14It's the simplest thing in the world.
1:13:16So if you see in technical materials when somebody talks about an orthogonal
1:13:21rotation, it's just a 90-degree shift in two axes.
1:13:25So there's orthogonal rotation here with the 90-degree shifts in the three axes of
1:13:30space.
1:13:30And if you were then to put a wall at the end of all three axes, you literally get
1:13:36the form of the cube.
1:13:37It's also related to the mystery of the three mother letters in the Jewish Kabbalah,
1:13:43Aleph, Mem, and Shin, which we'll talk a little bit more about tomorrow.
1:13:47But this idea of forming a form in the three-dimensional world that human beings can
1:13:53incarnate in and that creation takes place in, it's understood in sacred geometry
1:13:58that that form represents it, and is quite literally the form of the cube.
1:14:03And this is that whole mystery of how did I get here?
1:14:06Because I am a spiritual being that is essentially non-physical, but I'm living in a
1:14:12physical body.
1:14:13And so spiritual traditions will talk about the entire context for this.
1:14:17That, as part of a particular education process, in the way that many of these
1:14:23traditions describe it, at the time of incarnation we're given what they call the
1:14:28draft of forgetfulness.
1:14:29And so this draft of forgetfulness that's described, particularly in the Western
1:14:35tradition and older texts, is where you have to forget who you are, and you get
1:14:40incarnated in a young child's body.
1:14:42Very innocent, but you don't have intellectual capacities.
1:14:46Everything is bright and new and trying to figure stuff out.
1:14:50And with that draft of forgetfulness, you've got to start from the beginnings and
1:14:55learn certain lessons on Earth until you get to that point where once again you die,
1:15:01you go back to spirit.
1:15:02And the whole thing continues, and it creates this form of a helix.
1:15:06So you go through a circuit every time, but every time you go through it, you move
1:15:12up to the next higher octave. And so you're moving in the spiral form of creation.
1:15:17And so this idea of how is it that I ended up here, in the box of the physical
1:15:22world, got treated differently by different traditions.
1:15:26Some treated it as something that needed to happen, because it's part of an
1:15:31education process.
1:15:32Other traditions treat it as something that happened either because of detrimental
1:15:37beings that tricked us, and that leads to the teaching of the Gnostics related to
1:15:42the Demiurge, where the Demiurge is the lord of this world, and he kind of stuck us
1:15:48in the box, and we've got to figure out how to get out of the box.
1:15:52And then you have the teachings in the East that talk about this world is Maya, it's
1:15:58an illusion. Don't buy into the illusion, just get out of here.
1:16:02So this mystery of the squared circle, and of the cube of the physical world, and of
1:16:07the draft of forgetfulness where we get stuck in the cube, and we have to go through
1:16:13our process, again, is related to many of these very important mysteries discussed
1:16:18by different traditions.
1:16:20And what it comes down to, that everybody has to make their own mind up, is, was
1:16:25there a purpose for it, and what is that purpose, or was it just all a mistake and I
1:16:30should get out of here? And that leads to different types of ascension concepts.
1:16:36Is it an ascension where it's all a mistake and I just want to get out of here as
1:16:41quickly as possible, or is it an ascension that's only possible after I go through
1:16:46certain stages of development, and I alchemically transmute myself until I get to
1:16:52the final end product, and then I naturally go?
1:16:55It's different concepts and different traditions.
1:16:58You've got to make up your own mind.
1:17:00Now, this is a particular picture by Walter Russell.
1:17:04We're looking at more of Russell's work later in this course.
1:17:08Great painter and esotericist in the first part of the last century.
1:17:12And in The Secret of Light, he has this depiction here, and this is from his direct
1:17:17spiritual visions.
1:17:19He says, the cube and sphere are one, being two opposite phases of the same thing.
1:17:24The cube is the sphere extended to black coldness, while the sphere is the cube
1:17:29contracted to white incandescence. It's an interesting perspective on this mystery.
1:17:35And if we take a look at the way it manifests in different traditions, then we can
1:17:40begin to understand what stands behind things like the great black cube of the Kaaba
1:17:45at Mecca.
1:17:46The Kaaba, the cube, at Mecca, this huge black cube, this is the most holy site for
1:17:51Islam. In fact, Mecca itself was a holy site for the entire planet before Islam ever
1:17:57existed.
1:17:57But with the advance of Islam today, you cannot go to Mecca unless you are Muslim.
1:18:03And this is the place that every Muslim is supposed to go one time in their life, on
1:18:08the Hajj, the pilgrimage.
1:18:10And so there's a great black cube in the center of Mecca that they go to.
1:18:15And so, now you have a little bit of background of what is the black cube?
1:18:20Why is the center of the Islamic mystery, the journey to the black cube?
1:18:24You find other aspects of the black cube mystery in things like Judaism, where
1:18:29Orthodox Jews will put the form of the black cube on their body, and they will do
1:18:35spiral windings around it, in particular types of religious ritual.
1:18:39Now, I also want to bring out something else here, and that is, let's make a
1:18:44connection to this idea of the circle and the square with the forms of the Masons.
1:18:49And we'll talk more about the Masons tomorrow when we talk about sacred
1:18:54architecture. But the compass and square is the classic sign of the Masons.
1:18:59What the compass allows you to do is to make the circle.
1:19:03What the square allows you to do is to make the square.
1:19:06So one level of meaning of the circle and square of the Masons is this connection
1:19:11that they have understood the mystery of the squared circle, which at its deeper
1:19:17level means understanding how spirit created the material plane and how the material
1:19:22plane can reconnect to spirit.
1:19:24There's another layer of this, too, that I'll also mention again tomorrow, but I'll
1:19:30just say it in passing right now.
1:19:32For those of you that did the biogeometry course, then one of the things that we saw
1:19:37at that time is that any circular movement, any rotational circular movement,
1:19:42creates a center.
1:19:43And that center will give you the energies that we called at that time the BG3.
1:19:48So what the compass is is an instrument to create a connection to the BG3 energy
1:19:54when you're working energetically with structures and design.
1:19:58The square with that 90 degree angle is related to what we talked about in the
1:20:03biogeometry course, where the right angle, the 90 degree angle in a room, gives you
1:20:08what we called a negative green or a spiritual carrier wave energy function from
1:20:13that right angle. So these are also energy tools.
1:20:17One of these tools allows the designer to design something that creates the BG3.
1:20:22That's the compass.
1:20:23The square allows you to design something that gives you the negative green carrier
1:20:29wave.
1:20:29And for those of you that didn't take the biogeometry course, I'll clarify this a
1:20:34little bit more tomorrow.
1:20:36Here's another interesting thing, another little cosmic epiphany having to do with
1:20:41the squared circle. And this is also from a little book of coincidence.
1:20:46There's the amazing thing that the cosmos has been so perfectly set up that as seen
1:20:51from the Earth, the moon and the sun are exactly the same size.
1:20:55So at the time of a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse, the two perfectly cover each
1:21:01other up. Whereas in reality, the moon is fractionally the size of the sun.
1:21:06The sun is so much larger, but they are so perfectly positioned in cosmic space that
1:21:11they are exactly the same size.
1:21:13And that leads to the alchemical effect of sun and moon on the human race.
1:21:18And so you find in virtually every advanced spiritual tradition they will talk about
1:21:23the alchemy of sun and moon and those forces in the human energy body.
1:21:28Perfectly balanced. Now let's take it a little bit further.
1:21:32If we take the actual size of the moon and the size of the Earth and we put the moon
1:21:37in the correct size on top of the Earth and we actually create the form of the
1:21:42squared circle.
1:21:43We put a square around the Earth and then we draw a circle going around with the
1:21:49compass point in the center of the circle and the lead touching the center of the
1:21:54moon. It perfectly squares the circle.
1:21:56So once again, perfect movement in cosmic space. Yes. That's okay.
1:22:01So while we're exploring these fundamental topics, there's another thing we should
1:22:06talk about which is higher dimensions.
1:22:09Now when people talk about higher dimensions, they often are talking about different
1:22:14things. Sometimes they mean time as a higher dimension.
1:22:18If you read like Einstein's works, the fourth dimension is time.
1:22:22But if we deal with higher dimensions as actually higher dimensions of space that we
1:22:27can't see or interact with directly in our three-dimensional box, the cube of the
1:22:33physical world, then this becomes a very important idea in metaphysical circles.
1:22:38And it has particular manifestations for us in geometry.
1:22:42At the end of the course, Thursday, Friday, we're going to get into a little bit
1:22:47more on hyperdimensional geometries and have you create some three-dimensional
1:22:52shadows of fourth-dimensional objects. Very important idea.
1:22:56The way this is often referred to is with the concept of flatland.
1:23:00There's a book written named Flatland in the 1800s that was basically a metaphor for
1:23:05the way that a being that lived in a purely flat surface, and that was its pure
1:23:11reality, our three-dimensional world would seem magical to it because we could just
1:23:16pop into existence and pop back out in the third dimension that it didn't have.
1:23:21And following that concept, you then had the theosophists and other spiritual groups
1:23:27in the late 1800s work with the concept of how this fourth dimension can relate to
1:23:32things like the apparitions that they had in spiritual seances, where things would
1:23:37pop out of the ethers into physical existence and pop back out.
1:23:42And they describe it in terms of the fourth dimension.
1:23:45Again, they'd use the metaphor for how it would appear to a two-dimensional being
1:23:50seeing a three-dimensional object just pop into existence and pop back out by moving
1:23:56through the extra dimension. So they would talk about things like this.
1:24:01In the physical world, you can't get these two solid rings to go one inside of the
1:24:06other. But in the fourth dimension, they could link up together.
1:24:10And these kinds of things would happen in some of these spiritualistic seances.
1:24:15So they began to work with this concept of the fourth dimension.
1:24:19Again, we're going to mostly deal with this concept at the end of the course.
1:24:24I just want to mention a couple things about it right now.
1:24:28One is I want you to understand the basic idea of movement through dimensions.
1:24:33The point is said to have zero dimensionality.
1:24:36The point can be considered to be similar to the center in biogeometry, the
1:24:41transcendental gateway beyond space and time.
1:24:44But an actual point is considered to have no extent in physical space and to be
1:24:49zero-dimensional. Then a line has one dimensionality.
1:24:53It just has one dimension of movement. Then the form of, let's say, a square.
1:24:58It could be a triangle, etc. But this form that can actually enclose space in a flat
1:25:03two-dimensional form, this form is two-dimensional.
1:25:07And for the first time you can enclose space, but only two-dimensional space.
1:25:12Then a three-dimensional form in three dimensions can enclose three-dimensional
1:25:17space.
1:25:17So what we've done is we've actually moved here through a particular series where
1:25:23you multiplied from point to point and you made a line.
1:25:26Then line to line, connected it up, you made a square.
1:25:30Square to square, connected it up, you got a cube.
1:25:33And then to make a fourth-dimensional object, a hypercube, you get one cube, then
1:25:38the next cube, and then connect them up with other cubes.
1:25:42And so this is a two-dimensional representation of a fourth-dimensional object.
1:25:47And we'll have you build one of these three-dimensionally at the end of the course.
1:25:53But I want to point out to you a couple of things here, just so you're clear on it.
1:25:58One is this whole idea of moving from zero dimensions with the point, to one
1:26:03dimension with the line, to two dimensions with the plane, to three dimensions with
1:26:08the solid, to the fourth dimension with what's known as a hypersolid, or a
1:26:13hyperdimensional form.
1:26:15The other thing I want you to see is that what I have here is a three-dimensional
1:26:20object represented on a two-dimensional surface.
1:26:23This is a fourth-dimensional object represented on a two-dimensional surface.
1:26:28So again, this is encoding information about a higher structure.
1:26:32I can actually build one of these in three-dimensional space and show it to you, and
1:26:38you'd say, oh, okay, that is a shadow of the three-dimensional form itself.
1:26:43But the same thing is true here.
1:26:45This is a two-dimensional shadow of a fourth-dimensional object.
1:26:49And I want you to notice that it makes a particular form here.
1:26:53It makes the form of a rotated square.
1:26:55Some of you might recognize this idea from biogeometry.
1:26:59Here's a square here, here's another square rotated on it.
1:27:03It gives you an eight-pointed form, an eight-pointed star.
1:27:07And so there's the idea that some forms we see in sacred geometry are simply a
1:27:12lower-dimensional representation of a higher-dimensional object as much as we can
1:27:17see of it here in our dimensional projection. We could do the same thing.
1:27:22We could add dimensions by adding in axes. I have one axis. Now I've got two axes.
1:27:27Now I've got the three axes, which actually make the form of an octahedron, two
1:27:32pyramids base to base.
1:27:34But if I see it projected, not three-dimensional but two-dimensional, it can look to
1:27:39me like a six-pointed star.
1:27:41And then if I go ahead and add another axis in the fourth dimension, then I get this
1:27:46form here. So now I've got, once again, an eight-pointed star form.
1:27:51And finally, I could do the same thing just by adding points.
1:27:55I've got a point, I add another point, I make a line, add another point, and I get
1:28:00the simplest two-dimensional form, which is a triangle.
1:28:04It's the simplest form you can make to enclosed space with straight lines.
1:28:09I add another point, and I get the simplest three-dimensional form with straight
1:28:14lines, which is a tetrahedron.
1:28:16Triangular base, another point above it, all connected up, it has four triangular
1:28:21sides. If I add a fifth point and I connect it up, I get a fourth-dimensional form.
1:28:27But if I see it projected into two-dimensional space, it becomes a five-pointed
1:28:32star.
1:28:32So what I want you to take away from is this idea of movement through dimensions,
1:28:37and that a higher-dimensional object in its projection in a lower-dimensional space
1:28:43might look like another shape that you're familiar with.
1:28:46This brings us to Spiritual Initiation, the Masters of the Net.
1:28:50So we started with Thought Forms the Mind of God, moved to Patterns, the Divine
1:28:56Alphabet of Creation, and now we've come to Spiritual Initiation, the Masters of the
1:29:01Net.
1:29:01And what we want to do here is we've got about 15 minutes before we go to lunch, is
1:29:07we're going to start this conversation about the way that this knowledge of Sacred
1:29:12Geometry was then taught and transmitted in Closed Initiation groups.
1:29:17And we're particularly going to look at this Western lineage of the Masters of the
1:29:22Net.
1:29:22Now to begin with, if we study modern science and physics, there's the understanding
1:29:28that what we call the Big Bang is often misunderstood by the general public because
1:29:33the way the public tends to understand the Big Bang theory is that there's already
1:29:39an existing space that the Big Bang then filled up with all the stuff from the
1:29:44explosion, the movement from the center of the Big Bang.
1:29:47But scientists say, no, no, no, that's not what we mean at all.
1:29:51There is no already existing space. There is no space or time before the Big Bang.
1:29:57Those of you that took the Biogeometry course remember that we talked about this in
1:30:02part of the Philosophy of Biogeometry.
1:30:05What the scientists say is that actually space and time did not come into existence
1:30:10until after the Big Bang.
1:30:12Along with all the stuff that filled up the world was the actual space and time that
1:30:17goes with it. So that, in other words, before this there is no space or time.
1:30:22Space and time expands outward along with all the stuff inside of it.
1:30:27It's not already existing. Now, for us, this is very hard to conceive of.
1:30:32In our normal consciousness, we can't really think of things very well outside of
1:30:37space and time. We are so conditioned to space and time.
1:30:41But virtually every spiritual tradition assures us that there are conditions of
1:30:46existence beyond space and time.
1:30:48And so one of the ways that we deal with this concept of space and time is that
1:30:53space and time create a type of a net, or an envelope, shown here in the scientific
1:30:58illustration. It creates from a point. It moves to the form of a sphere.
1:31:03And that sphere has a grid to it.
1:31:05And this then, in modern science, is referred to as the matrix of space-time.
1:31:10Space-time is then shown as a kind of a grid structure that can be warped according
1:31:16to things that have mass.
1:31:17A planet, the sun, etc. So anything that has mass actually warps space-time.
1:31:22So in other words, the basis of all existence is space-time, which is based on
1:31:27geometry.
1:31:28So if you study the work of Einstein in modern physics, everything is based on the
1:31:33geometry of space-time.
1:31:35And instead of matter being the essential nature of everything in our world, matter,
1:31:40because it has mass, actually creates distortions in space-time.
1:31:44Now what stands behind this at a deeper level is you can actually engineer
1:31:49space-time with geometry, because space-time is geometry.
1:31:53And so when you get into deeper levels of some stuff going on today in physics,
1:31:58etc., we're talking about engineering space-time through geometry, through shape,
1:32:04because it is itself geometry.
1:32:05But I want you to take that concept we just saw where they showed this.
1:32:10Space-time is commonly showed in physics text as a type of a flexible net, a
1:32:15malleable net that gets distorted and that creates all existence inside of it.
1:32:20It's literally the blueprint of creation that everything gets formed in.
1:32:25And we find that same concept pre-existing modern physics by thousands of years.
1:32:30In the Jewish Kabbalah, we see the form of a net being formed by the 22 letters of
1:32:35the Hebrew alphabet arrayed around the outside of a sphere, and their
1:32:40interconnections make the grid, the matrix, of all of creation.
1:32:44And the same thing for the Greeks.
1:32:46They use this hexagonal form to show that matrix of the net.
1:32:50So let's start with ancient Egypt, which is where the Jewish and Greek traditions
1:32:56came out of. Ancient Egypt actually had a tradition called the Masters of the Net.
1:33:01And these two pictures are from a great work by the great Egyptologist Schwaller de
1:33:06Lubitz in his masterwork called The Temple of Man.
1:33:10And what it shows here is that Thoth, better known to the Egyptians as Tehouti or
1:33:15Jehouti, is shown stretching the cord.
1:33:17And the title that goes with this is Thoth, Master of the Net at Karnak.
1:33:22And this idea of the stretching of the cord, in my analysis of it, my understanding
1:33:27of it, is that when you first hold the cord, you're holding it at a point.
1:33:32It's zero-dimensional. When you then stretch the cord, you're creating sacred space.
1:33:38Spirit is moving into the first dimension of space, into matter.
1:33:42And so this ritual that's shown time and time again in ancient Egypt, of the
1:33:47stretching of the cord, is the consciousness of spirit moving into matter with the
1:33:52first axis, the first dimension of space. And then the other axes come in.
1:33:57And this one shows you the background grid behind it.
1:34:01Egyptologists are very aware that many of these forms that we see on the Egyptian
1:34:06temple walls, etc., actually were based on a background grid the Egyptians used,
1:34:11where they would literally create this matrix, or this net, to pattern what they
1:34:16were going to put on the temple walls.
1:34:19Also remember that what's on the temple walls in Egypt was not seen by the public.
1:34:24The public in ancient Egypt were not allowed into the temples.
1:34:28It was only for the initiates.
1:34:30This particular illustration from an Egyptian temple wall has hieroglyphs
1:34:35accompanying it that basically say that these initiates are being taught how to
1:34:40catch and cast magic in their nets.
1:34:42As I've described to some of you before, this idea of them catching and casting
1:34:48magic in the nets is related, I think, to this idea of Arthur C.
1:34:52Clarke's, where he says that any sufficiently advanced form of technology that you
1:34:57don't understand will appear to you to be magic.
1:35:00But it's not necessarily magic to them. They had different words in Egypt for it.
1:35:06They understood that these nets are representing this matrix of space-time, this
1:35:11matrix of sacred geometry, that they're being taught how to master.
1:35:15And so, in ancient Egypt, you find these direct references to the initiation of the
1:35:21masters of the net, and direct references to the net of creation.
1:35:25If you look in chapter 153 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, they go through every
1:35:30part of the net, and the person after death, to not get caught in the net, has to
1:35:35identify every part of it. So this is a major part of the Egyptian initiation.
1:35:41So what we're going to do is we're going to go into a little bit of detail on the
1:35:46different masters of the net lineages in the West, starting with Egypt.
1:35:51This is from the textbook of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and their meanings.
1:35:56And what they show here is that the Egyptians had multiple names in hieroglyphs.
1:36:01It says, this is the hieroglyph for the name of a part of the magical net.
1:36:06This is a hieroglyph for a different part of the magical net.
1:36:10This is the name of two different parts, not these two parts, but two other parts,
1:36:15of the net of specific spiritual beings.
1:36:18So they have all of these specific references to the net and its functions.
1:36:23But the thing is that modern Egyptologists only know that they refer to the net.
1:36:28They don't understand the specific functions.
1:36:31And because of this, it's very important if you read any ancient Egyptian text, that
1:36:36you get a text that actually shows you the pictures of the original hieroglyphic
1:36:41text, because otherwise you're going to get somebody's interpretation.
1:36:46And there have been books published that will compare five different translations of
1:36:51old Egyptian texts, and they likely came from totally different books.
1:36:56They're so wide-ranging in their interpretation, you're going to miss the main
1:37:01points.
1:37:02Now here's another interesting thing, which is that the old Egyptian ruler has
1:37:07divisions on it that have different spiritual concepts for every division.
1:37:12The point in the center of the circle is the first one.
1:37:15The feather of Ma'at, which is truth, and connecting to spirit through truth is the
1:37:21next one.
1:37:21So whenever they measured something in physical space, they also were reminded of
1:37:26the spiritual quality behind the creation of the world in the first place.
1:37:31So we talked about the importance in many different traditions of understanding the
1:37:37local context for Earth, because it's our local spiritual context, too.
1:37:41The energies that we have moving through our energy body and through our
1:37:46consciousness are coming from our local context of the planets and the
1:37:51constellations.
1:37:52Spiritual movement from the Earth outward is going to pass through the planetary
1:37:57spheres and the constellations. So same thing in Egypt.
1:38:00Here is the very famous Zodiac of Dendara, which shows the signs of the Zodiac in a
1:38:06beautiful spiral pattern.
1:38:07And these are then represented in the work of Schwaller de Lubetz, where he shows
1:38:13the link between the modern forms of these signs of the Zodiac and the ways they
1:38:18were represented directly in ancient Egypt.
1:38:21And we can see clear foundations for the modern representations of the signs of the
1:38:26Zodiac in the ancient Egyptian temples.
1:38:29So here we see them again, but what's shown here is that there are specific beings
1:38:34called Neters to the Egyptians, representing Venus, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter,
1:38:40etc. And for those of you that took the biogeometry course, we talked a little bit
1:38:45there about the concept of Neter, because if you read an English translation of the
1:38:50Egyptian text, they will always translate the word Neter as being a god or a
1:38:55goddess.
1:38:56But the term Neter is actually the foundation of the modern English term nature.
1:39:01So a Neter is actually a principle of nature. It's a force of nature.
1:39:06But it's a conscious force of nature.
1:39:08What for us is a dichotomy between a conscious being and a force of nature did not
1:39:13exist for the Egyptians. Everything in the world is conscious.
1:39:17Everything can be interacted with.
1:39:20It's the classic shamanic understanding of the world that all traditional peoples
1:39:25have.
1:39:25And so what they understood is that there are specific forces, beings connected to
1:39:31the planets they could connect with, and they had an archetypal nature to them.
1:39:36Now this concept of Neter is important because understanding what they meant by
1:39:41Neter and how that's different from the way we think of god or goddess, it's a force
1:39:46of nature that is conscious, leads to an understanding also of some things that
1:39:52happen in later Western esotericism, where once again we find that in Judaism,
1:39:57Islam, and Christianity the names of the higher spiritual beings are a description
1:40:02of their function. They are forces of nature. Mikael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel.
1:40:07These are conscious spiritual beings that we can interact with.
1:40:11But they are also forces of nature that have a specific function.
1:40:15And that then leads to the question of how do you communicate to the Neters?
1:40:20And I have seen the Egyptians that I've worked with do amazing things, and they
1:40:26never do this stuff publicly.
1:40:27But privately I've seen them do incredible things, and when they do it, working with
1:40:33natural forces, they say, I simply talked to the Neters and I requested it.
1:40:38And there's a particular way of talking to the Neters.
1:40:41You have to use their language. It's not necessarily the English language.
1:40:46But part of the sacred geometric language is their language to connect to them.
1:40:51So, again, there's something behind this that's very important.
1:40:56Understanding that all the forces of nature are conscious and can be interacted
1:41:01with. And we need to know their language to be able to communicate.
1:41:05What we see here is another form of creating a sacred space when you lay the
1:41:10foundation of a temple. It's a stretching of the cord ceremony.
1:41:14And often represented as the leader of the project, sometimes the pharaoh, holding
1:41:20one stick and pulling the cord from one side to create the sacred space.
1:41:24And on the other side was a particular Neter known as Sashat.
1:41:28And Sashat, very interestingly, is shown in connection to a particular quality of
1:41:33number.
1:41:34And in the vast majority of cases, she's shown having the seven-pointed form on the
1:41:39top of her head.
1:41:40Now, one of the things we're going to talk about tomorrow with the energy science of
1:41:46sacred geometry is the idea we deal with in biogeometry of the quality of number.
1:41:51Numbers have functions. Numbers have energy qualities.
1:41:55In biogeometry, we talked about the way that the quality of the number seven, by
1:42:00having seven repetitions of something, you can create a negative green carrier wave.
1:42:05It actually is a form to send energy.
1:42:08Later tomorrow, we'll look at other qualities of the number seven, including seven
1:42:13as a quality of time.
1:42:15But these numbers have functions connected to them, and it shows very clearly that
1:42:20the function of this Neter is connected also to the function of the seven.
1:42:25And I'll just give you one other side comment here for some of you that have done
1:42:30research in particular areas, and that is there have been scientific topological
1:42:35studies that look at what happens to a fourth-dimensional circle when you flatten a
1:42:41fourth-dimensional circle into a circle in the physical world.
1:42:45And they find that topologically that higher-dimensional circle flattened down to a
1:42:50two-dimensional circle has to have seven cuts in it. It has seven divisions.
1:42:55When you move this higher-dimensional form down to the circle in two dimensions, it
1:43:01has seven divisions in it.
1:43:02So here's more representations of Shashat with her headdress, really emphasizing
1:43:08this. And here's an interesting thing.
1:43:10She's known as Shashat the Great, Lady of the Archives, Lady of Writings.
1:43:15And also she's shown represented with a form of the hieroglyph that was the
1:43:20hieroglyph for a plan or a foundation to create a sacred space.
1:43:24She's always shown involved with the creation of a sacred space.
1:43:28Quality of the number seven, the function, the netter function of that.
1:43:33And this is the hieroglyph for the plan or foundation.
1:43:36And then later when we get into form drawing, Elizabeth is going to explore your
1:43:41actually drawing out this hieroglyph, because there's a quite remarkable energy
1:43:47movement pattern involved there.
1:43:49So when we explore the idea of the master builders of ancient Egypt, we come to the
1:43:54concept of the forerunners of what will later come as the European Masonic
1:43:59tradition. And that's where we're going to pick it up when we come back from lunch.
1:44:04It's time for lunch right now.
1:44:06Jane, do you know if Elizabeth's gone to check on lunch? Is the fellow here?
1:44:11Okay, will you just check quickly? Because if he's not here yet, I'll keep going.
1:44:17But he wanted us to end right at 1230 so we still get the food hot.
1:44:21So I'll tell you a little more about the Masons until we find out for sure the guy's
1:44:26here. So what this is, is from a wonderful book by Alexander Bottaway.
1:44:31This book is very, very hard to find, and when you can find it, it usually costs
1:44:36$150, $200. It's very hard to find.
1:44:38It's a book on the analysis of harmonic design in ancient Egypt.
1:44:43And we actually make it available through Vesica.
1:44:46We make copies of it and we make it available. We have a couple of copies here.
1:44:51I found out about this book through a videotape, actually, by John Anthony West, who
1:44:56is a fellow who does a lot of Egyptological studies and particularly works with the
1:45:02work of Schwaller de Lubetz.
1:45:04But West was saying that this was one of the great academic studies that validated
1:45:09the esoteric concepts of de Lubetz and showed the sacred designs of ancient Egypt
1:45:14beyond the level that other academics were willing to do.
1:45:18This is actually an academic study done by a fellow from the University of Southern
1:45:24California.
1:45:24And so one of the things in this book is this analysis where he finds the particular
1:45:30Masonic insignia, these emblems, that the different master builders in ancient Egypt
1:45:35left behind from this particular site and from the time of Akhenaten at Amarna.
1:45:40And he then compares them to the later Byzantine and Gothic Mason's marks.
1:45:45Because as we're going to see later, the Masons would use particular geometric
1:45:50templates, some of which you'll be creating yourself later in this course.
1:45:55And the geometric templates that they were taught in a secret initiation to become
1:46:01literal builders. I'm not talking about modern Masons.
1:46:04I'm talking about the original Masons that built the cathedrals of Europe.
1:46:09Five minutes? Is that correct? Okay. That should be right then.
1:46:13So they would be taught these original Masons that are known as operative Masons.
1:46:18They're operative Masons because they actually build things.
1:46:22That they would use these particular blueprint patterns, these matrices, these net
1:46:28patterns as part of their basic training.
1:46:30Again, connected to the stuff that you're going to do starting today with Jane in
1:46:36this course.
1:46:36And once they were taught these patterns, the average person wouldn't know them.
1:46:42So every one of the Masons would choose their own insignia by making an outline,
1:46:47making a form on some of these basic blueprint patterns that would fit on the
1:46:52blueprint so that in those days there was no central registry.
1:46:56If you'd actually been initiated by the Masons or not to know how to build the
1:47:01temples, there was no place you could call up and say, Hey, did Joe actually train
1:47:06as a Mason? Instead, you would have an insignia.
1:47:09And the true Masons could recognize if your form actually fit on one of the
1:47:14blueprints or not. And that's what you see right here.
1:47:18These forms being related to the blueprints.
1:47:21They would learn to know how to create the temples, how to create the cathedrals of
1:47:26Europe, etc. And these being the basic forms created by the Egyptian Masons that ran
1:47:32before them.
1:47:32This is very interesting because if you look at Masonic lore, they always say that
1:47:38we go back to Ancient Egypt.
1:47:40We got our knowledge in how to do this from Ancient Egypt.
1:47:43And then they connect to the Temple of Solomon.
1:47:47So in the building of these temples, in the building of these structures, we see
1:47:52that there's a particular link here.
1:47:54So you'll see these statues like this, where the form of the pharaoh is striding
1:47:59forward. It's a position of power, and he's moving forward.
1:48:03And so there's a particular position of the body.
1:48:06And then in the work of de Lubitzsch, he showed that actually that positioning is
1:48:12then modeled on the actual form of things like the Temple of Luxor, the Temple of
1:48:17Karnak, and other temples in Ancient Egypt, particularly Luxor in his studies.
1:48:22And so if you look at the form of the temple, it has this straight structure coming
1:48:27straight down, but then it angles at the bottom.
1:48:31And he says this is the same form of the human being in motion, put into the form of
1:48:36the temple.
1:48:37And then he goes into tremendous analysis of all the parts of the Temple of Luxor,
1:48:42and shows how it's connected to the actual energetic blueprint of a human being,
1:48:47being replicated in the temple. And this wasn't just the Egyptians.
1:48:52The Indians did the same thing.
1:48:54They would create the form of the temple being based on the energy analysis of the
1:48:59human being.
1:49:00So that at the upper part of one of the temples, you might have this particular
1:49:05structure.
1:49:06And de Lubitzsch would show how that structure then correlates to one of the other
1:49:11forms you could find at the same temple where they showed you the outline of a human
1:49:17head, and one imprints on the other.
1:49:19So the actual positions of the rooms would correlate to certain functions of energy
1:49:24centers in the human being.
1:49:26And it would actually be used for a function related to that energy function of the
1:49:32human being, related to things like the pineal gland, the pituitary gland, other
1:49:37spiritual functions of the human being, then being enacted in that space in the
1:49:42temple.
1:49:42So where we left off, we were going through a bit of background on the initiation in
1:49:48the western tradition into sacred geometry, and the masters of the net.
1:49:53And so looking at the Egyptian tradition, we come to the way that in the Egyptian
1:49:58tradition there is a highly advanced form of directly applicable mathematics and
1:50:03geometry, directly connected to their design concepts.
1:50:07I'll just give you a couple of examples of this.
1:50:10One is that most people are familiar with this Eye of Horus type of design.
1:50:15And one of the things that's not as generally known is that the actual hieroglyphs
1:50:20that represent certain fractions in the Old Egyptian actually make up parts of the
1:50:25Old Egyptian Eye of Horus hieroglyph.
1:50:28And they're actually all fractions of 64, which is interesting if you have a
1:50:33background with the I Ching, and with basic binary numbers.
1:50:37So where you have the yin and the yang, and you have two possibilities, and then you
1:50:42go through a particular progression to where in the I Ching with the hexagrams,
1:50:47there are 64 different hexagrams.
1:50:49So that actual fractions and their forms in Ancient Egyptian actually are related to
1:50:55particular numerals that then make up the actual form itself.
1:50:59So again, the form itself is a composite of the hieroglyphs for the numerical
1:51:04fractions.
1:51:05Now, one interesting part of this that sometimes is brought out is that certain
1:51:10parts of this, basically the pupil of the eye and these underlined forms, that in
1:51:15the Egyptology text, they usually compare this to the actual forms you see
1:51:20underneath the eye of a hawk.
1:51:22They have particular designs on their body underneath the eye of a hawk.
1:51:26That these particular forms, if you look at the fractions connected to them, that
1:51:32they actually, from one perspective, they are fractions related to 64.
1:51:36But from another perspective, if you use the 1 over 64 as a base, then the 1 over 32
1:51:42gives you a value of 2, if 1 over 64 is 1, and 1 over 4 is 16.
1:51:46Interestingly enough then, this particular hieroglyphic set gives you the equivalent
1:51:51number of 19.
1:51:52And that might be interesting for those of you who remember in the Biogeometry
1:51:57course, we discussed the way that the quality of the number 19 is to create an
1:52:02emanation of these three energy-balancing qualities that in Biogeometry is called
1:52:08the BG3.
1:52:08And we mentioned in the Biogeometry course that we use the number 16, 16 repetitions
1:52:14of a design element, or 16 in proportions, like the golden proportion, to create
1:52:19these BG3 energies in Egyptian design.
1:52:21And the 19 creates a more powerful emanation of these energies and is reserved for
1:52:27sacred sites.
1:52:28We also mentioned in the Biogeometry course, if you recall, for those of you that
1:52:33were present, that the number 19 is a sacred number that it's hard to get a lot of
1:52:38information on in most spiritual traditions.
1:52:41But one tradition that really specializes in it is the Islamic tradition.
1:52:46And the number 19 is considered to be a very holy number that's connected to the
1:52:51Bismillah, which is a mantric phrase that's a summary of the meaning of the Quran.
1:52:56And the number 19 appears as a sacred number multiple times in Islamic esotericism.
1:53:02And one reason for that is that the Islamic esotericism is coming out of the culture
1:53:07area that before that had the Egyptian mysteries.
1:53:11So that knowledge then gets brought into the later time.
1:53:14But the basic idea here is that certain forms that you might be familiar with seeing
1:53:20in the Egyptian mysteries actually have behind them this mathematical and
1:53:25geometrical reference. So it's part of a larger system.
1:53:28And to give you another example of that, if you see this type of form, like here's
1:53:33Ramses IX, and in this particular hieroglyphic set it shows him with the serpent
1:53:39behind him and he stretches beyond the serpent.
1:53:42But what it's actually connected to is it's a representation of the 3-4-5
1:53:47Pythagorean triangle that we'll be dealing with later in the course that was
1:53:52fundamental in sacred design in Egypt and elsewhere.
1:53:55And also particular harmonics related to the phi ratio.
1:53:59So that what you don't see brought out in this is that encoded in it is particular
1:54:04knowledge of geometry and numerical constants that are hidden inside the form.
1:54:09Now what this shows is that out of cuneiform comes the Egyptian hieroglyphs and out
1:54:14of that then come Phoenician, which then gives rise to Greek and the Old Hebrew, and
1:54:20then to Aramaic, and then the post-Aramaic scripts that include Arabic.
1:54:25So essentially from the roots in the Egyptian time, if we trace the language, it
1:54:30then gives rise to the Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc. And that's going to be important
1:54:35for us because where we're going to go next is looking at the way that the Egyptian
1:54:41mystery knowledge and mystery culture at the time that the Egyptian high culture
1:54:46began to decline, the time of the Greeks and the Romans coming in, and the Roman
1:54:51conquest, you then had some of the knowledge from the Egyptian temples moving into
1:54:56Greece and Israel.
1:54:58And there's an interesting statement from the Rosicrucian teacher Rudolf Steiner
1:55:03where he says that what went from Egypt into Greece were the mysteries of space, and
1:55:08what went from Egypt into Israel were the mysteries of time.
1:55:12And so you find the Greeks then preserve knowledge of things like the Platonic
1:55:17solids, the perfect three-dimensional geometries, which you don't see as prominent
1:55:23in the Hebrew tradition.
1:55:24But the Hebrew texts are full of references to time cycles, and so a lot of
1:55:29knowledge coming out from the Egyptian tradition.
1:55:32So let's look at the Hebrew tradition first.
1:55:35Many of you are familiar with the form of the Tree of Life.
1:55:39And you might find that in different texts they will give you slightly different
1:55:44forms of the Tree of Life as a literal glyph of a background pattern of creation.
1:55:50It's related both to multiple worlds of manifestation and their linkage, and also a
1:55:55background blueprint for the human energy body itself.
1:55:59Now the thing is that there are different patterns here, and within the deeper
1:56:04levels of the Jewish Kabbalah, there are descriptions of the way that one is the
1:56:09actual Tree of Life of emanation, and the other is the Tree of Return.
1:56:13And so there's a difference here that both of them actually have 22 paths connecting
1:56:19the 10 spheres on the Tree of Life.
1:56:21But the one on the Tree of Emanation does not connect to what's sometimes referred
1:56:27to as the 11th or the hidden sephirah or sphere, the one of Da'ath, and instead
1:56:32there are lines connecting here and here.
1:56:34Whereas on the Tree of Return, in this form of the glyph, you then have lines
1:56:40connecting to this hidden sephirah here, and you don't have the lines connecting
1:56:45here. There's very deep knowledge related to this construction glyph.
1:56:49This is a geometric pattern of creation that appears in multiple places, and that we
1:56:55tend to associate with the Hebrew mysteries, but in texts like the work of Enel.
1:57:00Enel was a writer who wrote a series of texts in the first part of the last century
1:57:05connecting the Jewish Kabbalah with the Egyptian mysteries.
1:57:09And he showed at that time that there was a direct connection between the spheres or
1:57:15the points of the Tree of Life and teachings within the Egyptian temples themselves,
1:57:20with particular triads of netters, and then triads of centers on the Tree of Life.
1:57:26So again, much of this knowledge is coming from Egypt.
1:57:29It takes a slightly different form, but there's very clear connections from the
1:57:34Egyptian mysteries and the beginning of the Hebrew mysteries in the Old Testament
1:57:40with a description of the way that Moses was initiated in the Egyptian temples and
1:57:45learned their skills.
1:57:46As a background pattern, there are particular matrices or nets that are hidden
1:57:51within the Jewish Kabbalah that within those nets you can actually construct
1:57:56patterns like the Tree of Life or the form of the Menorah.
1:58:00So these are the background grids.
1:58:02This is actually from a very interesting work by a woman named Leonora Leet, and the
1:58:08book is called The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah.
1:58:11And what I find very interesting about this book, The Secret Doctrine of the
1:58:16Kabbalah, by Leonora Leet, is that with these fascinating sacred geometric mysteries
1:58:22of the Kabbalah that she's revealing, she actually had studied both with a great
1:58:27Kabbalist named Arya Kaplan, who wrote some fantastic works on the Jewish Kabbalah,
1:58:32and she had also studied sacred geometry with Robert Lawler, who has written one of
1:58:38the most prominent books on sacred geometry.
1:58:41So she has studied both Kabbalistic and sacred geometric mysteries.
1:58:45And in her book, The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah, she goes into really
1:58:50fascinating things that had not really been made public before about the geometric
1:58:55mysteries encoded in the Kabbalah.
1:58:57And what tickles me about it is that in classical very strict Kabbalah, it's only
1:59:03taught to married men above the age of 40 or 42, depending on the group and the
1:59:08time. And classically it was never taught to women.
1:59:11You might remember there was a movie with Barbra Streisand called A Yentl, where she
1:59:17has to dress up like a man so she will be taught in the yeshiva these Kabbalistic
1:59:22mysteries, because they wouldn't teach a woman.
1:59:25So the interesting thing is that many of these Kabbalistic rabbis that would not
1:59:30teach Leonora Leet actually didn't know the things that she revealed in her text.
1:59:36They had to learn it from her, which I think is kind of ironic and amusing.
1:59:40Laughter Laughter So we showed this in the outset here, a very interesting pattern
1:59:46that's known as the 231 gates of the Kabbalah, where you have the 22 letters of the
1:59:51Hebrew alphabet, and every one of the letters is a nodal point of energy on the
1:59:56perimeter of a circle or a sphere.
1:59:59And every one connects to every other one, creating this harmonious matrix of energy
2:00:04pattern within the sphere of creation.
2:00:07One of the great mysteries of the Kabbalah that we're going to talk about in more
2:00:12detail tomorrow, because it directly relates to the construction of the human energy
2:00:17bodies and the coding system of the human energy bodies, is the information in a
2:00:23text called the Sefir Yetzirah.
2:00:25The Sefir Yetzirah means literally the book of formation.
2:00:28Yetzirah is one of the four worlds of emanation of the Kabbalah, from the high
2:00:33godhead up all the way down to the level of the manifest world.
2:00:38And in the Sefir Yetzirah, it makes very clear that the 22 letters of the Hebrew
2:00:43alphabet divide into three groups.
2:00:45It says there are three mother letters, Aleph, Mem, and Shin.
2:00:49There are seven double letters, and there are 12 elemental letters.
2:00:53So there's a particular coding sequence here of sacred numbers, 3, 7, and 12, that
2:00:59we'll see tomorrow are actually the coding system behind the human subtle bodies.
2:01:04But interestingly enough, in the Jewish Kabbalah, the 3, 7, and 12 numbers, and what
2:01:09they relate to, that again we'll look at tomorrow, is so important that they've also
2:01:15been encoded into the form of the Tree of Life.
2:01:18Now the Tree of Life has 10 different spheres of different qualities, and all those
2:01:23spheres are connected up with pathways, and there are 22 pathways exactly that
2:01:29connect up the 10 spheres.
2:01:30Every one of those pathways is then connected to a letter of the Hebrew alphabet in
2:01:36classical esotericism.
2:01:37But one of the interesting things about it is that the 3, 7, 12, if you didn't read
2:01:43the Sefir Yetzirah and you didn't understand that the 22 letters divide into 3, 7,
2:01:48and 12, because there's something very important about the 3, 7, 12 coding pattern,
2:01:53you could pick it up if all that had remained to you was the form of the Tree of
2:01:59Life.
2:01:59Because the form of the Tree of Life has 3 horizontal paths, 7 vertical paths, and
2:02:0412 diagonal paths. So again in its form it has encoded the same information.
2:02:093, 7, and 12. 3 horizontal, 7 vertical, and 12 diagonal.
2:02:13Now another thing about this is that sometimes the 10 spheres on the Tree of Life,
2:02:18with the 22 paths, are referred to as the 32 paths of the Tree of Life.
2:02:23The 10 spheres plus the 22 paths, sometimes referred to as the 32 paths.
2:02:28Now the significance of that is that Arya Kaplan, again this great Jewish Kabbalist
2:02:33who had taught Leonore Elite and wrote some fantastic books on the Kabbalah,
2:02:38particularly has a great book on the Sefir Yetzirah.
2:02:41He says in his book on the Sefir Yetzirah, his Kabbalistic commentary, he says if
2:02:47you take a look at the pattern on higher dimensional forms, if you look at the form
2:02:52of a cube, a cube has 8 corners or vertices, and then the form of a hypercube has
2:02:57double that.
2:02:58It has 16 corners or vertices on a 4th dimensional cube that we can only show the
2:03:03shadows of in 3-dimensional or 2-dimensional space.
2:03:07But that means that you double it again to get a 5th dimensional hypercube.
2:03:12And so a 5th dimensional hypercube has 32 corners or vertices.
2:03:16And Arya Kaplan in his work then connects the 32 corners or vertices on a 5th
2:03:21dimensional cube to the 32 paths on the Tree of Life.
2:03:24And this is a projection, 2-dimensionally, of a 5th dimensional hypercube.
2:03:29And in fact, right down here, we'll get into this in more detail later, but this is
2:03:34actually a 3-dimensional projection of a 5th dimensional hypercube.
2:03:39So we'll look at that in more detail later on.
2:03:42But it's interesting that here you have one of the leading Kabbalistic scholars of
2:03:47his time saying that the form of the Tree of Life is actually connected to this
2:03:52higher dimensional cube form.
2:03:54And we also then have models of this Tree of Life that are 3-dimensional in nature,
2:04:00instead of just a flat glyph.
2:04:02Groups like the Golden Dawn in Britain would work with a 3-dimensional form of the
2:04:07Tree of Life.
2:04:08And then, particular authors then developed the idea that the Tree of Life itself
2:04:13was a constantly expanding and connecting form, with one world connecting to the
2:04:18next to the next, so that from a central matrix, it extends out in all directions,
2:04:243-dimensionally, so that the Tree of Life itself actually creates a matrix of energy
2:04:29where itself replicates time and time again at multiple scales of creation.
2:04:34And a very important aspect of the Tree of Life that I mentioned before is the idea
2:04:39that the Tree of Life actually exists within the human energy field itself.
2:04:44That there are groups that I know of that are, some are Jewish Kabbalistic and some
2:04:50are actually Greek Esoteric Christian, that work with the form of the Tree of Life
2:04:55in the energy field, with the idea being that the Tree of Life is literally that.
2:05:00It is the geometric blueprint or template for the human energy bodies to form
2:05:06around, so that in working with this, they can actually develop a form that is
2:05:11connected to doing work out of the body in higher worlds, and to being able to
2:05:16actually manifest a physical form out of the ethers.
2:05:19It's related to some very deep levels of the Kabbalah, and again, there are both
2:05:24Greek Christians and Jewish Kabbalists that work with this mystery of the Tree of
2:05:30Life in the energy field.
2:05:31Some of you know my friend Joey Korn, who is a Jewish Kabbalistic dowser, who has
2:05:37done a lot of work in recent years in learning how to douse the Tree of Life in any
2:05:42person's energy field, and when he finds particular problems in a particular center
2:05:47in the field or in a particular pathway, he can identify certain things that are
2:05:53going on physiologically or emotionally, psychologically with the person that's
2:05:58leading to distortions in the person's Tree of Life pattern.
2:06:02So it's a very fascinating field of study.
2:06:04Again, some of the deeper knowledge of it in the classical traditions is fairly
2:06:10hidden, because they consider it one of their secrets.
2:06:13The Tree of Life is something you work with practically.
2:06:17This is also related to some of the Jewish Kabbalistic work in which the centers can
2:06:22be activated in a particular pattern that's sometimes referred to as a serpent's
2:06:28path or as a lightning strike, where the lightning comes and it activates the first
2:06:33center and then moves in a particular sequence to activate them in a series.
2:06:38The beginning of the Book of Genesis is normally translated as in the beginning.
2:06:43The actual Hebrew terms for it are Bereshit.
2:06:46Bereshit is the beginning of the very beginning of the Old Testament, the beginning
2:06:51of the Book of Genesis.
2:06:53Now, Bereshit can actually be translated different ways, depending on how you break
2:06:58up the letters, because in the original text of the Old Testament, there aren't
2:07:04periods at the end of a sentence.
2:07:06You have to figure out at what letter to break it up into a word.
2:07:10So there's a lot of interpretation involved.
2:07:13So one way you can read it is Bereshit means in the beginning.
2:07:17But there's a Kabbalistic interpretation, which is also accurate according to the
2:07:22original Hebrew, which says that the terms Bereshit actually stand for He created
2:07:27six.
2:07:28So instead of in the beginning, being the beginning of Genesis, He created six comes
2:07:33at the beginning. Why would it say He created six?
2:07:36And so then in Leonar Elite and other Kabbalistic works, they look at this meaning
2:07:42of He created six, that six is the archetypal pattern that you just explored.
2:07:47Around the central circle, you can perfectly get six other circles around it,
2:07:52creating this form of the flower pattern.
2:07:55And that then gives you the template for the hexagon and the hexagram, which is
2:08:00itself the emblem of Judaism.
2:08:02So the six-pointed star itself is actually indicated from the very beginning of the
2:08:07very first part of the text of Genesis.
2:08:10So once you get into the deeper levels of the Kabbalah, you find that in fact there
2:08:15are multiple references to sacred geometry.
2:08:18And here it's actually describing the sacred geometry of creation with the harmonic
2:08:23of seven, which is very important, and also with the way that you can perfectly nest
2:08:29six equally sized circles or spheres around a central one, which is a topic we'll be
2:08:34pursuing in more depth later on.
2:08:36One of the classical mysteries of the Jewish Kabbalah has to do with the name of
2:08:42God, which is sometimes referred to as Tetragrammaton, simply meaning the
2:08:46four-letter word. And it essentially is Yod-Heh-Vow-Heh.
2:08:50And so it has a form in English often of being given as Jehovah, or in some
2:08:55renderings of it from the original language as something closer to Yahweh.
2:09:00There are some indications from the Kabbalistic text that the true pronunciation of
2:09:05it actually is all vowel sounds.
2:09:07And so one of the aspects of the Yod-Heh-Vow-Heh mystery is related to the idea that
2:09:13every one of the Hebrew letters actually in its geometry holds embedded information.
2:09:18And the Hebrew letters are referred to as flame letters.
2:09:22And they're perceived spiritually as literal letters of flame holding a particular
2:09:27geometric form.
2:09:28And so one of the Kabbalistic mysteries related to it is that this Kabbalistic name
2:09:34of God, Yod-Heh-Vow-Heh, is also the structure for creating a human being, so that
2:09:39the Yod becomes the head at the top.
2:09:41The Heh becomes the shoulders and the arms and the trunk.
2:09:45And then the center of the body becomes the Vow, and then the last Heh becomes the
2:09:50base of the body and the legs.
2:09:52So it literally becomes a glyph for the outline of the body.
2:09:56Another one of the major mysteries in the Jewish Kabbalah, which is also true for
2:10:02the Greeks, is a mystery known as Gematria.
2:10:04Gematria has to do with the way that in sacred languages, including Hebrew, Greek,
2:10:10Sanskrit, Arabic, etc., there is a system of one-to-one correlation between the
2:10:15letters of the alphabet and a particular number.
2:10:18Now, this has particular consequences.
2:10:21What it means is that you can hide a name by giving a number, and that number will
2:10:26translate into a name. Or you can give a name that will translate into a number.
2:10:31Or you can give either a number or a name that will then translate into the length
2:10:36that you put into something like a building or a temple.
2:10:40So this whole mystery of how letters and numbers intertwine is this mystery of
2:10:45Gematria.
2:10:46And some of the encoded information that you find in the Old and New Testament can
2:10:51only be understood through understanding Gematria and how to convert letters to
2:10:56numbers and vice versa.
2:10:58One of the best-known examples of this, and one that is unfortunately not better
2:11:03known amongst conventional Christian circles, is the mystery of the 666.
2:11:08And in the Book of Revelation, it says that he who hath understanding reckon the
2:11:13number of the beast, because it is the number of a man, and it is the number 666.
2:11:18Now, in some text, they will solve this according to modern academics, where they
2:11:24say that 666 is actually the rendering in Gematria of the name Nero, Nero Caesar.
2:11:29And it was actually, from that perspective, supposed to be a commentary on the fact
2:11:34that the Jews at that time didn't like the Romans, who had occupied their country.
2:11:40But in fact, that is a false solution to the mystery of the 666.
2:11:44That is not the accurate solution.
2:11:46The accurate solution is well-known to Jewish and Greek Kabbalists, which is that
2:11:51there is a classical system in which there are magical squares.
2:11:55A magical square is a square that has sets of different numbers running from one
2:12:01number up to another number in the series. None of the numbers is ever repeated.
2:12:06But the numbers are placed in different locations, blocks within the overall square,
2:12:11so that you get the same number no matter what direction you add it up.
2:12:16Side to side, top to bottom, et cetera, all adds up to the same number.
2:12:21And the system of magic squares has been known to most traditions around the world.
2:12:26There's clear indications of it in the Indian tradition, as well as the Greek,
2:12:31Hebrew, et cetera.
2:12:32Now, the significance of this is that some of these magical squares were understood
2:12:38in classical times to connect directly to forces of the planets.
2:12:42And they had a system.
2:12:43They understood that the netters behind the planets, the spiritual forces that are
2:12:49conscious, the spiritual beings that are behind the forces of the planets, had
2:12:54particular vibrations to them.
2:12:56And those vibrations are a combination of particular sounds.
2:13:00And those sounds can be reduced to particular numerals that are connected to those
2:13:05sounds or letters in Gamatria.
2:13:07And so, in their system, the positive netter, the positive being behind a particular
2:13:13planet would be called the intelligence.
2:13:15So this is the square of the sun, also known as the Kamea of Sol, which means the
2:13:20square of the sun.
2:13:22And so, the intelligence or the beneficial being of that planet has a name, Nachael.
2:13:27And to get this glyph, and often you won't get any of this information, you'll just
2:13:33see a glyph in some type of magical text from the Kabbalist that says that this is
2:13:38the glyph for Nachael.
2:13:39It's related to this particular system here, in which on the overall square, you
2:13:45would then find the name, the letters correlating to the name Nachael, N-K-I-A-L.
2:13:50They're related to particular numbers, and they add up to a particular number set.
2:13:55And you would then find, N equals 50, it reduces to 5. I've got to 5 there.
2:14:00Then I pattern, there's 20, okay, there's 10, etc. And what you do is you then
2:14:05connect the locations on the square, and that gives you the form of the glyph that
2:14:11is connected, the sigil, connected to that particular being.
2:14:15And so, if you understand the mystery of Gematria, and of the magic square, then
2:14:20you'll understand where these geometric glyphs come from that you find in the
2:14:25magical text.
2:14:26Along the same lines, the detrimental being, the opposing being, the hindering
2:14:31being, the evil being, that's connected to a planetary force, and there's one for
2:14:36all of the classical planets, is called the spirit in this case.
2:14:40Now, of course, spirit doesn't always refer to something negative, but in this
2:14:45system, intelligence was the term they used for the beneficial and spirit for the
2:14:51detrimental spiritual forces of a particular planet.
2:14:54And so this particular name and this glyph actually is the solving of the riddle of
2:14:59the 666.
2:15:00If you were to break this name down into its component, Gematria, letters, and then
2:15:05pattern it out on the magic square, this is what you would get.
2:15:09That's the true solution of the 666.
2:15:12It has to do with the counterforce of the sun, this opposing force of the sun, the
2:15:17force that is against the good solar powers, that is against the solar logos.
2:15:22This will later, in post-Christian times, be referred to as connected to the force
2:15:28of Antichrist, this opposing force of the sun, which is why it appears in the book
2:15:33of Revelation the way that it does.
2:15:35And this shows you here that all of the classical planets are related to a
2:15:40particular square.
2:15:41And for the square of Saturn, then there are nine component squares in the overall
2:15:47square.
2:15:47For Jupiter, it's 16, etc. And it builds up through the different planetary forces.
2:15:52And then showing you here that we had just looked at Nachael, and there are various
2:15:58glyphs related to those different planetary forces.
2:16:01So once you have this as a background, you can start to understand some of the
2:16:06things in the sacred texts, and understand some of the sigils that they use in their
2:16:12Kabbalistic manuscripts.
2:16:13These are various sigils related to the forces of the planets, and to the
2:16:18archangels, Raphael, Gabriel, Samael, Mikael, etc. Next.
2:16:22And that then brings us to the use of amulets and medallions, for spiritual
2:16:27connection and spiritual protection.
2:16:29The system of using amulets, something that you wear that has specific geometric
2:16:34shapes to it, and often particular words or letters from a sacred alphabet with
2:16:39particular meanings on it, is one that is common throughout the ancient world.
2:16:45You find it in both the East and the West.
2:16:47So here's one example from ancient Israel, have the six-pointed star, and two
2:16:52circles and various names in Hebrew.
2:16:55And this one here is composed primarily of glyphs.
2:16:58These particular glyphs that are related to that knowledge in the Kabbalah that I
2:17:03talked about before. These are referred to as secret scripts.
2:17:07Every one of them is connected to a particular energy, every one of these shapes,
2:17:12and has a meaning of a particular spiritual being in most cases.
2:17:17Now when you understand that, you can begin to understand other things too, such as
2:17:22in the medieval painting called Virgin and Child.
2:17:25If you look at the sleeve of the Madonna, it has particular patterns, and this is a
2:17:31close-up of it.
2:17:32So that on the actual medieval painting, they don't explain to you, they actually
2:17:37show some of these patterns.
2:17:39And these patterns are part of the old Jewish Kabbalistic secret scripts, being
2:17:44handed down in this case through the art, as well as in many cases through
2:17:49architecture and things of that kind.
2:17:51So that's just a quick overview of some of the knowledge of the Masters of the Net
2:17:57tradition in ancient Israel, and with the Jewish Kabbalist.
2:18:00Now let's take a look at what part of this came into Greece.
2:18:04The Masters of the Net in Greece was a very prominent part of the Greek Mysteries.
2:18:10As we mentioned a moment ago, from a Rosicrucian perspective, it was the Mysteries
2:18:15of Time that went to the Jewish Kabbalah, although some of space as well, as we just
2:18:21showed you.
2:18:21But as far as the public release of the shapes, it really went to the Greeks, the
2:18:27knowledge of space.
2:18:28There was actually an old Greek text that was called, literally, the Net.
2:18:33And the form that accompanied that text was this form here.
2:18:36And again, it shows you this matrix form, again within a hexagon.
2:18:41Remember the form that we just saw from the Kabbalah, which is this Genesis form, of
2:18:46the six around the one creating the flower pattern, and which also creates the
2:18:51hexagon, which also contains the Star of David.
2:18:54So in this case, the Greeks taught this hexagon form.
2:18:58And one of the things that's embedded in this Greek form of the Net is that it
2:19:03actually is the form of a cube seen from one corner forward.
2:19:07So if we look at a form of a cube right here, and it's tilted in such a way that you
2:19:12have a corner of the cube pointing toward you, what it gives you is a six-sided
2:19:17hexagonal outline. And that's what you see here.
2:19:21So encoded in this form of the Greek Net, if you look at where I'm pointing to right
2:19:26here, as the outer corner of the cube pointing forward, then this defines two lines,
2:19:32and this is a face, and here's another two lines, and here's another face, and
2:19:37there's the other two lines, and there's the face.
2:19:40So embedded within this two-dimensional projection, with the information of the Net,
2:19:45the matrix, the blueprint of creation, is also the information that this is the
2:19:51matrix within the cube.
2:19:52This is the matrix within this black cube, like the Kaba that we described before,
2:19:57because our world is the cube.
2:19:59We live in the box, the cube of the three-dimensional world.
2:20:03Now this form of the Net also appears elsewhere in ancient Greece.
2:20:08I got this picture here of the foundation stone, the Omphalos stone, at the great
2:20:13oracle site of Delphi in Greece, for a particular text.
2:20:17And in the book where it had this illustration, it said that no one today
2:20:21understands what the meaning is of this strange pattern on the foundation stone of
2:20:27Delphi.
2:20:27Well, if they looked into it a little more deeply, they would have known what it
2:20:32was. It was a part of this Net matrix pattern.
2:20:35And we not only see it on the foundation stone at Delphi, but if you take a look at
2:20:41this old Greek coin, it shows the foundation stone of Delphi with this Net matrix on
2:20:46it. And sitting on top of it is Apollo.
2:20:49Now Apollo is the representation of the spiritual force of the sun, which will come
2:20:54in the development of the Greek mysteries later in the New Testament for the solar
2:21:00logos and the crystals. Now there's something else embedded here too.
2:21:04When you have the sun sitting on top of the foundation stone creating this matrix,
2:21:09and we're going to be getting to this later in the course, as part of the energy
2:21:15science and part of the earth grid information we'll be dealing with at the end of
2:21:20the course.
2:21:21What we're going to find out then is that modern bodies of work, there's one body of
2:21:26work from Australia by a man named Bruce Cathy that shows that the sun's position
2:21:32vis-a-vis the earth grid creates particular energy patterns on the earth.
2:21:36And we can also remember this in terms of what we learned, for those of you that
2:21:42took the biogeometry course, where we found that the French researchers found that
2:21:47on the surface of a three-dimensional sphere, the energy patterns of the different
2:21:52energy qualities kept moving over the surface of the sphere following the
2:21:57progression of the sun's placement vis-a-vis the sphere, whether it's a planet or a
2:22:02sphere you hold in your hands.
2:22:04So also with the French they found that the actual energetics on the planet earth or
2:22:10on forms you hold in your hand are affected by the actual geometric angle of the sun
2:22:15to the earth or to the object.
2:22:17Now the Greeks are the ones that we actually owe a lot of our basic esoteric
2:22:22knowledge in the West today to.
2:22:24So that our knowledge of Atlantis comes directly from the Greeks.
2:22:29It's from the writings of Plato.
2:22:31It's in Plato's writing that he says that Solon learned from the Egyptian priest
2:22:36that the period of time before our current civilization was referred to as Atlantis.
2:22:41And this wasn't like some wild theory to them, this was just simply straightforward
2:22:47history.
2:22:47So our knowledge of the Atlantis period that preceded ours and of the great flood,
2:22:53which is actually testified to by archaeological and literary evidence all over the
2:22:58planet, actually comes today from the Greeks, including the term Atlantis itself.
2:23:03Now also with the Greeks we have the particular leader of their mystery culture
2:23:09being called Thoth Hermes Trismegistus or Thrice Great Hermes.
2:23:13And it is a reappearance of Thoth or Jehuty from the Egyptian tradition, now brought
2:23:18into the Greek tradition.
2:23:20So Hermes is directly called Thoth Hermes Trismegistus Thrice Great Hermes as
2:23:25another appearance of the leader of the Egyptian culture, now brought into Greece
2:23:30itself.
2:23:31And the Greeks also worked with the form of the Tree of Life, and in fact there was
2:23:36a lot of interchange between the Jewish and Greek cultures, which is very clear if
2:23:41you study the New Testament history and the way that there's this interchange
2:23:46between the Hebrew and the Greek culture, including the writing of the New Testament
2:23:52in the Greek language.
2:23:53Although there is evidence that for some of the books of the New Testament, they
2:23:59were actually originally written in Aramaic or Hebrew.
2:24:02But those earlier versions have been lost and it's the Greek that remain.
2:24:07But this Greek version of the Tree of Life was then connected as a glyph to give us
2:24:12the different planets in the solar system and was actually one of these traveling
2:24:18glyphs to be able to make that journey through the heavenly halls through the
2:24:23planetary spheres by moving on the Tree of Life.
2:24:26Now this is a modern Greek-Christian-Hermetic Tree of Life.
2:24:30And some of you that have done work with me in the past, like came to the summer
2:24:35course, for example, we talked quite a bit then about this particular body of work.
2:24:40This comes from a Greek-Christian-Hermetic teacher and healer who was only revealed
2:24:46to the public in the late 1980s. And there were a series of books written about him.
2:24:51The first was called The Magus of Stravolos.
2:24:54And then there was another called Homage to the Sun, and one called Fire in the
2:24:59Heart.
2:25:00And they talked about this Greek-Christian teacher who they called Daskalos, because
2:25:05Daskalos is the Greek word for teacher. And they didn't give you his true name.
2:25:10Everyone's names in those books actually are pseudonyms.
2:25:14The actual name of this person they referred to as Daskalos, or teacher, was
2:25:19Stylianos Ateslas. He lived on the island of Cyprus and was just a really amazing
2:25:24Greek-Christian-Hermetic healer and master.
2:25:27And he wrote a number of books about his esoteric system.
2:25:31And in one of them, called The Symbol of Life, he gives this particular pattern.
2:25:36And he says that there is a Greek-Christian version of the Tree of Life that is
2:25:41different from the Jewish-Kabbalistic version.
2:25:44He says that this version actually was developed in the school of Akhenaten in
2:25:49Egypt.
2:25:50And one of the interesting things about the work of this fellow, Stylianos Ateslas,
2:25:55or Daskalos, is that he was known for being able, without ever having studied it, to
2:26:00be able to fluently write Old Egyptian hieroglyphs and to speak Ancient Egyptian.
2:26:06He was also fluent in Sanskrit, although he had never studied it in this lifetime.
2:26:11He was a really amazing fellow.
2:26:13And so in this book, Symbol of Life, that's a big book you have to order directly
2:26:18from Cyprus, they tell you about this whole story of the development of the
2:26:23Greek-Christian-Hermetic Tree of Life in the school of Akhenaten.
2:26:28And you see here this triangular form connected to the school of Akhenaten that is
2:26:33then superimposed above the place of the head.
2:26:36And that all these other positions come in for them working with the Tree of Life.
2:26:41And every part of the Tree of Life is also connected to particular geometric forms
2:26:47and even has multiple layers to it, dealing with different layers of the body,
2:26:52whether it's the etheric energy level or the astral level or the spiritual level.
2:26:57What is their website again?
2:26:59Their website is researchers-of-truth.org is their website in Cyprus.
2:27:03And I highly recommend the works by Stylianos of Teslas.
2:27:07So the Greeks also worked with Gematria, as did the Jewish Kabbalist.
2:27:12And there's a very direct relationship between the Greek language and the Hebrew.
2:27:17Alpha and Aleph, Beta and Beta, Gamma and Gimel, Delta and Dalet.
2:27:21Again, a very similar form of Gematria.
2:27:24So there is very deep work in the Greek Gematria having to do with their
2:27:28understanding of spiritual beings and forces, similar to what defined the Jewish
2:27:34Kabbalah.
2:27:34And in fact, it's really not possible to understand some of the mysteries of the New
2:27:40Testament and the Book of Revelation without understanding the Greek and Hebrew
2:27:45Gematria.
2:27:45One part of their work was that the different letters of the Greek alphabet was
2:27:51understood in their mystery culture to be connected to particular forces.
2:27:55So one would connect to the Earth, another to water, another to ether, another to
2:28:01fire, or it would be connected to a particular planet of the solar system, things of
2:28:06that kind. So once again, they considered it to be a sacred language.
2:28:11Every one of those letters and their sound was connected to a divine source.
2:28:16Now this was also connected to the work that they did with what's known as the
2:28:21Platonic Solids.
2:28:22We're not going to spend much time on it here because we're going to spend quite a
2:28:27bit of time on it.
2:28:28We're going to spend a full day on it later on in the course, and we're going to
2:28:33have you build these.
2:28:35But basically, the Greeks worked with the system of the perfect divisions of a
2:28:40sphere. There's only five perfect ways to divide a sphere so that every face of that
2:28:45division is exactly the same shape and size and angle as all the others.
2:28:50And they only taught four of them publicly.
2:28:53This was coming from the work of Pythagoras.
2:28:56Pythagoras trained in the Egyptian temples, and he brought that knowledge back in
2:29:01the Pythagorean teaching in Greece, and Plato learned from him.
2:29:05So we call them the Platonic Solids because even though they existed before Plato
2:29:11and before the Greeks, in fact, there's evidence of these exact same forms from the
2:29:16area of the world that is the present-day Scotland from thousands of years before
2:29:21this Greek work. So they've been around for a long time.
2:29:25The ancient Egyptians also had these forms.
2:29:28But they made them public, and out of the five forms, they made these four public.
2:29:33There was a fifth form they did not make public, and we'll discuss that tomorrow.
2:29:38But they really talked about these forms and how they connected to the various
2:29:43elements.
2:29:44So one of the forms, one of the five perfect forms is the form of the cube.
2:29:49We've looked at the cube already.
2:29:51And so when you look at a cube of a particular size, it'll have a volume of a
2:29:56particular number of cubic units, a surface area of a particular number of cubic
2:30:01units, and a surface area of each side.
2:30:04Those numbers will actually correlate directly to things like Alpha and Omega and
2:30:09the god Apollo.
2:30:10Again, this would simply break down so that the letters of Alpha, Omega, or the god
2:30:16Apollo would then add up to this number in Gematria.
2:30:19And so this also is showing the relationship of the form of the cube is related to
2:30:24Alpha and Omega. In other words, the beginning and the end of creation.
2:30:29With this form of the cube, the way we've already described.
2:30:33And then the god Apollo, or the force of the sun, they actually taught a way that on
2:30:38the eighth point of the cube, there is a radiation to the other seven points.
2:30:43And with the spiritual sun being at the eighth point, that is related to the actual
2:30:49creation and sustaining of the three-dimensional world of the cube from the force of
2:30:54the sun itself and from the force of the solar logos and the spiritual forces behind
2:31:00it.
2:31:00So again, very deep levels of their spiritual mysteries connected to this knowledge
2:31:05of Gematria and to the geometries involved.
2:31:08If you were to take it even further, you would find that there is an overtone
2:31:13series. In fact, our modern knowledge of musical harmonics in the West comes from
2:31:19Pythagoras.
2:31:19And so, there's an overtone series and there is a particular vibrational frequency
2:31:25that will then correlate to particular numbers in the Greek.
2:31:29And again, things like the God Apollo or Hermes or things of this kind.
2:31:33So it's all part of a unified system in this case also with music and musical
2:31:38harmonics.
2:31:39And this can then be put together to actually give you blueprints for things like
2:31:44temples. So this is the form of the Parthenon or the Temple of Athena in Athens.
2:31:49And according to the way that it's constructed, the actual size of the circles and
2:31:55the circle that contains the interior circles that encloses the entire form of the
2:32:00Parthenon and the other forms that enclose it, when you take that measurement, that
2:32:06gives you a number.
2:32:07And that number then gives you letters which become names like Hermes, Apollo.
2:32:12And finally, for the circle that encloses the entire blueprint form behind the
2:32:17Parthenon, it gives you the net. Bring us back to the masters of the net.
2:32:22So to understand some of the sacred architecture in these cultures also demands that
2:32:27we understand sacred measurements and the gematria.
2:32:31Now this brings us to the New Testament times because it's out of this matrix of the
2:32:36Hebrew and Greek mysteries that the New Testament comes about.
2:32:40Now one of the direct connections here to the masters of the net are direct
2:32:45references to the net in the New Testament.
2:32:48So there's this particular scene where Christ tells the disciples to throw their
2:32:53nets into the sea and to catch these fish.
2:32:56Now there are scenes on the Egyptian temple walls that I have not shown you pictures
2:33:01of where it shows the beings that are called the baboons of Thoth.
2:33:06And these are literal baboons that represent spiritual beings or forces.
2:33:10And they are holding nets and they are catching human souls in the afterlife in the
2:33:16net represented as fish.
2:33:17So this is something from the Egyptian mysteries directly when he says to cast the
2:33:23nets in the ocean and to catch the fish, it's a direct reference back to the same
2:33:28type of temple teaching of the masters of the net in ancient Egypt.
2:33:32And then there are direct references in the New Testament to things like the 153
2:33:38fish caught in the net because in these Greek geometric mysteries by which they
2:33:43understood the spiritual world and how it created this world, there is the way that
2:33:48if you have a form of a vesica which we'll talk about on Monday, that form of the
2:33:53vesica that you get by overlapping the two circles, that the measurement on this
2:33:59axis is 153 and the measurement on this one is 265.
2:34:02So when it said there are 153 fish caught in the net, that was a cue to the people
2:34:07that had been trained in these mysteries to the 153 measurement within the vesica
2:34:13itself. In fact, there's a great book by John Michel that's called The Dimensions of
2:34:18Paradise, where he takes the story of 153 fish caught in the net and he shows you
2:34:23the geometric blueprint that stands behind that story in the New Testament which
2:34:29gives you this pattern.
2:34:30Now in the old mysteries, the way I talked about earlier today, there was an
2:34:35understanding that our local context of energetic forces affects everything here on
2:34:41the planet.
2:34:41We started out today by talking about the first form of creation being the circle or
2:34:47the sphere and then the center within that, with that drafting that the Godhead
2:34:52does, represented by the compass.
2:34:54And we talked about the way that you have a relationship between the center and the
2:35:00periphery, with the radiation out from the center to periphery and from the
2:35:04periphery toward the center.
2:35:06That means that the zodiacal forces that surround us, if we're here in the center,
2:35:12these forces are constantly raying into us from the periphery to the center.
2:35:17And in some of the work that Elizabeth will do with you later with Eurythmy, we also
2:35:22work with the energies that come from the peripheral forces into the center, these
2:35:27etheric life forces.
2:35:29So these forces of the zodiac surround us in the circle and radiate into the center.
2:35:34Now in classical times, it was understood that there is actually a great cross in
2:35:40the heavens and that great cross in the heavens actually connects particular nodal
2:35:45points in the heavens so that there are particular stars in Scorpio and Taurus and
2:35:50Aquarius and Leo that are perfectly 180 degrees apart from each other.
2:35:55In Scorpio and Taurus, these two particular stars of Aldebaran and Antares are 180
2:36:00degrees away from each other and they make a line or an axis in the sky.
2:36:05The same is true for two other stars of Regulus and Fomalhaut between Aquarius and
2:36:10Leo.
2:36:10And that creates a literal cross in the heavens that was an anchor point for these
2:36:16forces as studied in Babylon, Egypt and elsewhere.
2:36:19Now the knowledge of those four forces then comes in to the Christian esotericism.
2:36:24When you go to somewhere like Chartres Cathedral or other cathedrals in Europe and
2:36:30you see the form of the vesica holding the Christ within it and he's surrounded by
2:36:35the four holy animals. So you have the bull and the lion and the eagle.
2:36:40The bull is Taurus. The lion is Leo.
2:36:42The eagle is the higher form of Scorpio and then the ringed man pouring the water is
2:36:48Aquarius.
2:36:48So these representations are directly going back to the knowledge of the heavens and
2:36:54then they are represented as well in the forms of the four writers of the Gospels.
2:36:59The winged man of Matthew, the lion of Mark, the winged ox of Luke and the eagle of
2:37:05John.
2:37:05So once again that actual cross in the heaven taught much earlier in history in the
2:37:10Babylonian star wisdom which is the foundation for the later holy grail tradition of
2:37:16following the stars. Actually comes down and is represented in the New Testament.
2:37:21So it's a terrible misunderstanding in certain conservative Christian sects where
2:37:26they throw out all types of esotericism and they say it's non-biblical because the
2:37:32Bible is full of these direct references and they're there for a purpose.
2:37:36They're there to reconnect us to the mystery knowledge to begin with and we cannot
2:37:42understand the text without the understanding of the frame of reference.
2:37:47And all of the symbology is significant. For example, the eagle of John.
2:37:51There's a reason why John is connected to the forces of Scorpio or the eagle.
2:37:56Scorpio is the sign classically known as the sign of death and resurrection.
2:38:01It's also the sign of spiritual initiation.
2:38:04And by far the most esoteric of the four gospels is the gospel of John.
2:38:09It's the one that has the incredible prelude to the gospel of John.
2:38:13About in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.
2:38:18This entire prelude to the gospel of John is the main place in the New Testament
2:38:24that we have references to the cosmic aspect of the Christ.
2:38:28Of the solar logos aspect.
2:38:29Not just the Jesus aspect but the solar logos cosmic aspect.
2:38:33Because John is the eagle.
2:38:35It is the sign of initiation and the John gospel is the initiation gospel.
2:38:40It also talks about the seven healing miracles and the seven I am sayings.
2:38:45Which are integral part of Christian initiation.
2:38:48Now the eagle is also related to the actual function of the eagle.
2:38:52Because what the eagle can do is it can soar up above the earth and see things from
2:38:57a distance.
2:38:58And so if I'm standing on a river, I can only see that one place of the river that
2:39:03I'm standing at at this moment.
2:39:06But if I soar high above it and I look down, I can see the entire river as one
2:39:11pattern from beginning to end.
2:39:13And that's part of the initiation process with John the eagle.
2:39:17Because what he writes in the book of Revelation is rising above the stream of time
2:39:22and saying what will happen from the beginning to the end of time.
2:39:26So again this knowledge of the eagle is directly connected to it.
2:39:31So all of these things are interwoven and unfortunately today we've lost these
2:39:36interconnections but we need to reclaim them.
2:39:39We also have the aspect of the actual name as you might expect with the Gematria
2:39:44that the name of Jesus Christ itself would be significant in Gematria.
2:39:48And so if you get Iesos and you add up the letters in the Greek Gematria you get the
2:39:54number 888.
2:39:55Now this is part of a larger matrix that I'll just show you very briefly.
2:39:59This is from a wonderful book called Jesus Christ Son of God and sun is spelled
2:40:05S-U-N like the sun in the sky.
2:40:07Jesus Christ Son of God is the best guide to the Greek Gematria and early Christian
2:40:12mysteries.
2:40:13So Christos is 1480, Iesos is 888 and their actual geometric constructions with
2:40:18three circles of a trinity held inside another circle that are related to Iesos and
2:40:23the square within the circle within the vesica whose measurements are related to the
2:40:29Christos.
2:40:29But I want to show you a particular pattern here where they actually all fit into a
2:40:35particular matrix.
2:40:36Now this is the pattern that's shown to you in the book Jesus Christ Son of God and
2:40:41again it's a wonderful book but he leaves something out.
2:40:45What he shows you which is entirely accurate is that the name Jesus Christ is
2:40:50actually derived from the same square of the sun that we talked about before so that
2:40:55the actual value of the square of the sun the total value of the square is 666 but
2:41:01there are particular numbers on the square of the sun.
2:41:04Symmetrical group of 4 gives you 74 and then you get multiples of 74.
2:41:09So 1 times 74 2 times 74.
2:41:11The base number of the square is 74 in other words and then you keep getting
2:41:15multiples so you not only get 666 as the physical aspect of the sun in other words
2:41:21the physical not the spiritual aspect related to the force of Antichrist and later
2:41:26Christian mysteries but also then when you get up to 888 and you get the spiritual
2:41:32sun or the solar logos it is also 12 times 74 and then you get up to Christos 1480
2:41:37it is 20 times 74 and so Iesos Christos is 32 times 74 32 being also related to the
2:41:4232 paths on the tree of life.
2:41:44Now this is what you have in the book Jesus Christ Son of God.
2:41:48What they don't give you is another very important piece to understand what stands
2:41:54behind the whole thing.
2:41:55This is all multiples of 74 but if you divide 74 in half you come to the number 37
2:42:01well what's the significance of that?
2:42:03The significance of that is in the Hebrew Kabbalah.
2:42:06There is a particular word in Hebrew that is the name for Keter or the highest
2:42:11center on the tree of life which in the human energy field is a point directly above
2:42:17the head that is the same point that becomes a flame above the head of the disciples
2:42:22at Pentecost and that particular location which is actually a detachment of one
2:42:27flame from the ocean of fire that is the God head that becomes the ignition of the
2:42:33point of energy above the human head for the reception of packed thought forms for
2:42:38the direct recognition of these geometric archetypes that center of activity is
2:42:43related to Keter on the tree of life and to this particular term in Hebrew which
2:42:49designates that location and in Gematria it gives you 37.
2:42:52So basically what it's saying is that this location on the tree of life and in the
2:42:58human energy field that is the place that our spirit connects to the God head is the
2:43:0337 that then you get the multiples of to get Jesus Christ.
2:43:07It's all part of the same mystery because the Christos as we described earlier today
2:43:12with the word coming from origin in the early Christian mysteries, the Christos is
2:43:18the God head reduced in scale for human beings to interact with it and the Christos
2:43:23has the same essential nature as both the God head and the human race.
2:43:28So as we move forward into the later Christian mysteries we come to a time that we
2:43:33find represented in art, particular geometric forms.
2:43:37In the lighting here you can't hardly see it but here in later Christian art you see
2:43:42this form of a triangle around the head of God and this form of a hexagon or a
2:43:47square or a cube around the head of this is the Pope and this is actually a saint.
2:43:52And so it's showing particular geometric blueprints around the body of energy that
2:43:58structure consciousness in certain ways because as I mentioned before everything
2:44:03that is related to your feelings, your awareness, your consciousness is related to
2:44:08geometric energy patterns in your energy blueprint of your subtle body.
2:44:13That's a very important part of initiation.
2:44:16So you're actually seeing that represented in the actual Christian art.
2:44:21Now what we have then at a later time in around the 7th century A.D. is the rise of
2:44:26Islam and the story that Islam tells is of Archangel Gabriel going to Mohammed and
2:44:31activating Mohammed to take a certain spiritual task into the world and to found
2:44:37Islam.
2:44:37And what you find is that Islam, although all we hear about it in the West today is
2:44:42the worst, most fundamentalist and aggressive form of Islam.
2:44:46Islam actually holds within it extremely deep spiritual mysteries because it's of
2:44:52the same area that the old Egyptian mysteries and these other great cultures were a
2:44:57part of. So where's that knowledge going to go today?
2:45:00It goes into the deeper parts of Islamic esoteric knowledge that we never hear about
2:45:06in the West today, hardly ever. But Arabic also has Gamatria.
2:45:10And so again the different letters of the Arabic alphabet relate to numbers and they
2:45:15also have an advanced form of Gamatria.
2:45:18And they have these particular glyphs where they understand all the spiritual forces
2:45:23of the world, in particular construction patterns.
2:45:27We're not going to go into detail on it now, but on the outer edge of this you have
2:45:32the different signs of the zodiac.
2:45:34They divide into particular columns where there are names in Arabic and particular
2:45:40scripts that are connected to these divine forces.
2:45:43And it develops to the point of becoming the 99 divine names, the 99 holy names of
2:45:48God in the Sufi system. Every great spiritual tradition has an esoteric branch.
2:45:54Every great spiritual tradition has a group within it that holds the deeper esoteric
2:45:59mysteries. So in Buddhism you have the Vajrayana Buddhists.
2:46:03In Christianity you have groups like the Rosicrucians.
2:46:06In Islam you have groups like the Sufis.
2:46:09And it's within these esoteric groups that you need to look for the esoteric
2:46:14knowledge of that particular tradition.
2:46:17And what we have here is this form of the actual patterns that you will see on
2:46:22temple walls in Islamic architecture where they're related to particular spiritual
2:46:27concepts.
2:46:28So expansion and contraction are particular forms that come together on the wall,
2:46:33understood as the actual breath of the compassionate, which is the literal life
2:46:38breath of the Godhead moving in and out of all existence and in and out of the
2:46:43sacred building.
2:46:44And again they also preserve this knowledge that was held by the earlier traditions.
2:46:50It's an integral part of Islam as well of the movement through the planetary
2:46:55spheres.
2:46:55Again, there's a lot more that we could do with that, a lot further we could take
2:47:00that, but for time purposes we're going to move forward to the next development
2:47:06which is the European Holy Grail tradition.
2:47:08And within the Holy Grail tradition, this develops really around the 9th century.
2:47:14So this is after Islam.
2:47:15And in fact the earliest documents of the Holy Grail tradition say that they got
2:47:20their mysteries from the Arabs.
2:47:22If you read the book Parsifal, which is an initiation document for the Holy Grail
2:47:28tradition, in the very beginning it says that he learned how to read the starry
2:47:33script and he learned the science of the Grail from an Arab named Kiot, and that the
2:47:38story of the Grail comes from that.
2:47:41So a lot of things are coming from these Middle Eastern sources.
2:47:45And in the Holy Grail tradition, the leader of the Grail stream is the Fisher King.
2:47:50And again, this connection with the Fisher King and the net is a very direct link.
2:47:56Now this brings us to the European Rosicrucian tradition.
2:47:59And what you see here are representations of particular geometric constructions of
2:48:05creation that were common in the early Rosicrucian works.
2:48:08The Rosicrucian material really becomes public around the early 1600s.
2:48:13Before that there's a kind of murmur about some type of Christian adepts that are
2:48:18existing in Europe. In the early 1600s there are books that come forward.
2:48:23In one of those books called Fama Fraternitatis, around 1604, it says that Christian
2:48:29Rosenkreutz is a Christian adept who was initiated in the Middle East.
2:48:33And then he came back to found this esoteric Christian group.
2:48:37And so what you find in European Rosicrucianism are these types of glyphs showing
2:48:42you the construction of the world in a geometric format. Here's the human being.
2:48:48Here's the four elements. Here's the planetary spheres.
2:48:51And here are the nine levels of the spiritual hierarchies.
2:48:55Because there's not just angels and archangels.
2:48:58There's actually nine levels in the classical teaching.
2:49:02Now there's a lot of hidden embedded information within the Rosicrucian tradition.
2:49:07And again in the workshop we're doing in January we're going to be focusing on the
2:49:12actual inner development practices from the Rosicrucian tradition. Let's see.
2:49:17Where's Elizabeth? Okay. How are we doing on time?
2:49:21Should I go ahead and break here for the next... Okay.
2:49:24We're going to go ahead and break here.
2:49:27And when we come back at the very end of the day, I've just got a few more slides.
2:49:32We'll wrap up after we do our work with Elizabeth and with Jane.
2:49:36And we'll finish out the last slides then.
2:49:39I wanted to ask Elizabeth when she comes back up for some of the titles because
2:49:44Elizabeth has actually done the majority of research in this field.
2:49:49But there are very direct references to the goddess of the old Jewish tradition, to
2:49:54Asherah.
2:49:55And there's also a very strong aspect in the Jewish tradition of a feminine aspect
2:50:00of God, which is the Shekhinah.
2:50:02The Shekhinah being essentially the active force of God, which is somewhat related
2:50:07to the Shakti in the Indian tradition.
2:50:10So you find in the Indian tradition and in the Jewish tradition, the Shakti and
2:50:15Shekhinah, that the actual active force of the Godhead is itself feminine.
2:50:20And so one thing we looked at this summer in the Besica summer intensive was the
2:50:25Kabbalistic word, the Kabbalistic sound, that connects Shekhinah and Shakti and also
2:50:30Sekhmet in the old Egyptian tradition.
2:50:33And these sounds of sh and ch are connected to this divine feminine force.
2:50:38And actually at that time Elizabeth spoke a bit about some of the Urimi aspects and
2:50:43some of the Kabbalistic word aspects of those sounds.
2:50:47And so the way that it's that divine feminine force that actually brings the force
2:50:52of God into active manifestation that then also connects to the representation of
2:50:57the Sophia in medieval times.
2:50:59With the Sophia the matrix itself, matrix being related to mater, mother, matrix is
2:51:05itself a feminine term because the matrix of creation is itself feminine just as all
2:51:10life comes into the world through the feminine.
2:51:13So all of these ideas I think are linked together.
2:51:16Shekhinah, Shakti, Sekhmet, and the Sophia with the matrix being essentially
2:51:21feminine for the place of birth.
2:51:24Again at the highest level it is beyond gender differentiation.
2:51:28When it comes down into gender activities in the ancient tradition it was always the
2:51:33feminine that was the active aspect.
2:51:37Speaker 2: Could we put the microphone on or would you prefer not?
2:51:43Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: No, we'll just leave it as it is for now.
2:51:45Speaker 2: I think it's recording off the camera. Should we leave it on like that?
2:51:49Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: That's fine. Yes, please.
2:51:53Speaker 2: It's more of ramblings and musings. Okay. You refer to blueprint patterns. Yes.
2:52:02You refer to packed thought forms.
2:52:07You have referred to energetic recognition of matter.
2:52:13Are there classic packed thought forms that are in fact blueprint patterns and are
2:52:24never energetic patterns? Can we use the term there with blueprint patterns?
2:52:33Are they related? Are they kind of first cousins?
2:52:39Or are they entirely different energetic patterns?
2:52:46Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: They're all related.
2:52:47They all have to do with the particular blueprint of energy that gives rise to
2:52:52something.
2:52:52So for every human being there's a set of blueprint energy patterns that makes up
2:52:58the totality of their being. The same thing is true for netters.
2:53:02They have a particular blueprint pattern for their particular construction as
2:53:07individual energy systems. Packed thought forms can contain any content.
2:53:11It might be the actual content of the blueprint for a living being, whether it's a
2:53:16spiritual being, human being, whatever it might be.
2:53:20Or it could be some other type of content.
2:53:22It could be something on an archetypal level that doesn't necessarily manifest as a
2:53:28specific being, but manifests somewhere else in creation.
2:53:31So packed thought forms are really that capacity that we have to download tremendous
2:53:37amounts of information in short periods of time that is a part of the classical
2:53:42system of energetic and information transmission from master to student in most
2:53:47traditions where they really make a big deal of this idea of transmission and
2:53:52picking up the packed thought forms.
2:53:54This is also again related to developing particular centers in the energetic bobbin,
2:53:59particularly in the central column of energy, classically the first platform above
2:54:04the head and some of the higher platforms as well.
2:54:08So again the basic thing is that everything is related to a blueprint of energy.
2:54:13A packed thought form can contain virtually anything including blueprints of energy,
2:54:18but is not restricted to it.
2:54:20And again the blueprints for the netters is the same as the blueprint for any other
2:54:25living energy system.
2:54:26It's a unique set of particular patterns, each of which is linked to particular
2:54:31qualities and particular functions.
2:54:34And so again what we need to bear in mind is that everything that we do with our
2:54:39consciousness and our awareness and also our subconscious is actually developing
2:54:44energy patterns in our subtle bodies.
2:54:46And those energy patterns have a geometric basis to them when they manifest in space
2:54:52and in time.
2:54:52Also at the archetypal level, even before space and time, there is a blueprint
2:54:57pattern to it that will later manifest in space and time.
2:55:01But just as we talked about earlier the circle, the circle at the archetypal level
2:55:06is not individualized into a specific size, color, etc. It is a pure archetype.
2:55:11And the same thing is true the higher we go up to the different spiritual levels.
2:55:16So that different traditions will talk about different spiritual planes and they
2:55:21will in fact divide up the spiritual cosmos into different numerical systems.
2:55:26And one of the tricks of this is that how you divide a system for analysis will
2:55:31reveal or obscure particular aspects of that reality.
2:55:35So for instance, one of the things that we've given you a handout on, I'm not sure
2:55:40if it's in the weekend handouts or during the week, but one of the handouts is
2:55:45related to the way that in healing, there are different healing modalities that are
2:55:50based on dividing the system into different levels.
2:55:54And so in that particular document I talk about if you're going to work with looking
2:55:59at the unity, the one, for healing, one of the best systems for explaining that is
2:56:04biogeometry. Because it talks about the connection to center.
2:56:08And that the connection to center has those three aspects, the BG3, but essentially
2:56:13it is the energy quality that's before polarization.
2:56:17You're not bringing something one direction or the other, you're bringing it simply
2:56:22straight to center.
2:56:23And then if we move to polarized systems, there are all types of polarized systems.
2:56:28So polarity healing, per se, like the work of Randolph Stone, that's a polarity
2:56:33system that's based on two polarities and balancing them so that if you're working
2:56:39with, let's say, color healing, and the energy is underactive, you'll apply a
2:56:44warming color, try to make it more active and bring it to center.
2:56:48If it's overactive, you'll apply a cooling color, blue, indigo, violet, and use that
2:56:53to bring it back to center. But it works with the polarity basis.
2:56:57Also, I Ching, Yin-Yang, all these are polarity-based systems.
2:57:01All of manifest creation in the physical world as it moves from the Godhead to the
2:57:06manifestation of the world in front of us is based on polarity, which is why you
2:57:11have acid and base and chemicals, you have positive and negative polarities and
2:57:16electricity and magnetism. It's all a polarity system.
2:57:20If you look at it from a polarity perspective, you'll see some phenomena and not see
2:57:25others.
2:57:26Then if you look at it from a three-fold aspect, then you have Ayurveda and the
2:57:31three gunas in Ayurveda of Tamas, Sattva, Ravas.
2:57:34There's particular qualities to these.
2:57:36Then if you go to the four, then you find systems using, let's say, the four
2:57:41elements and dividing up earth, air, fire, and water.
2:57:44You go to the five, and then you have the five-element systems, like the Chinese
2:57:50system, etc. You can even go up to higher levels, like with the Neogram, you divide
2:57:55it into nine levels.
2:57:56According to how you divide the system, certain things will be revealed or they'll
2:58:01be obscured. This is part of the power of number.
2:58:04The number then has a type of cleaving or dissolving effect on the phenomena, and it
2:58:10will then break it up into particular discrete parts based on the power of the
2:58:15number.
2:58:15If you have a particular system in which the human being is revealed as a four-fold
2:58:21being, certain things are revealed by the four-fullness.
2:58:24Other things are revealed by a seven-fold understanding of the human being, or a
2:58:29nine-fold understanding. The same thing for the spiritual planes.
2:58:33Depending on how you divide it up, certain things are revealed, certain things are
2:58:39obscured.
2:58:39This is part of the way that we approach understanding blueprints by applying the
2:58:44analytical lens of the different powers of number, because the blueprints themselves
2:58:50are matrices upon matrices, nets upon nets upon nets upon nets, which is why you go
2:58:55to different traditions around the world, and they have different pieces of valid
2:59:00knowledge of the whole, but sometimes they're completely different pieces.
2:59:05A classic one is that you train with somebody in Himalayas and they only teach you
2:59:10for 40 years that you're there with them about chakras, and there's never one
2:59:15mention of acupuncture meridians or points.
2:59:18Or you can train with somebody in China and there's never a mention of the chakra
2:59:23system the way it's described in the Hindu tradition.
2:59:26It's all acupuncture meridians and points.
2:59:29All valid knowledge, and they're all different layers of this particular energy
2:59:34system.
2:59:34So just as different traditions have different ways of analyzing it, so one aspect
2:59:40of the power of number is applying it to the blueprints to begin to make it
2:59:44different discrete parts.
2:59:46And so you can bring out the different functions that are innate within it.
2:59:51Yes, please.
2:59:53Speaker 2: Okay, when you're talking about blueprint of energy manifest in space and time
2:59:57through geometry.
3:00:00Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Yes.
3:00:00Speaker 2: So if I look at the BT3 energy and I say there's an illness and that to me means
3:00:06that there's an aberration in the geometry of the function of that system, whatever
3:00:13it could be. Okay, the nervous system as an example or the pineal gland or whatever.
3:00:20So if you apply the BG3 energy to the pineal gland, that's where your focus is, as
3:00:26an example. Or the nerve root that's going to the thumb or whatever.
3:00:32BG3 energy to that point.
3:00:34Is the quality of the BG3, the geometry of it, the perfect healing combination, like
3:00:41the 3, 7, and 12, like the three primary letters of the Hebrew, the division of the
3:00:47letters. Is that what we're talking about here? Is that related in any way?
3:00:53I'm trying to understand how the BG3 is healing energy if you're looking at it that
3:01:00the geometry determines the function in space and time and if that's aberrated, how
3:01:07does BG3 affect it?
3:01:10Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: It's a deep question because what we come down to is that when we analyze particular
3:01:15aspects of geometry, we can see that particular geometries will give us particular
3:01:20energy qualities.
3:01:21The energy quality that comes from analyzing the center of the circle or the center
3:01:26of any rotation is BG3.
3:01:27Its energy quality and function is to bring something to the point of perfect
3:01:32balance.
3:01:33There's also the other layer of this, and when we did the biogeometry course, I
3:01:38mentioned that the more I work with the Egyptians, the more that one veil after
3:01:42another comes off.
3:01:44So one part of it is that this energy quality that's worked with in biogeometry is
3:01:49bringing things to center, to perfect balance.
3:01:52But the center is also a transcendental gateway beyond space and time.
3:01:56What we get to in more advanced levels of biogeometry is that Dr. Kareem will often
3:02:01emphasize that what we're actually doing is we're actually opening a door, and we're
3:02:06opening a door to spirit when we work with the BG3.
3:02:09And when you open that door, it's like an invitation for something to happen or
3:02:14something to come through.
3:02:16But it's also doing it in a way that is balanced and is connected to center, is
3:02:21connected to the One.
3:02:22And because of that, there are deeper streams in the evolution of any energy system
3:02:27that although it might appear in certain cases like we would like for something
3:02:32that's a problem to be resolved right now, in some cases when you work with the BG3,
3:02:37you open that door.
3:02:39If there is something in what the Egyptians called the plane of divine wisdom that
3:02:44has something else in mind, that it could even be that an illness is actually meant
3:02:49to evolve alchemically to another stage.
3:02:51And in dealing with that illness, the person actually generates a force inside of
3:02:56themselves that alchemically will transmute a part of their energy body or will
3:03:01transmute a part of their consciousness or in time can lead to a particular
3:03:06evolution of the disease itself. Because the disease is also an energy system.
3:03:11So there's many, many layers to this.
3:03:13This is why the Egyptians say that when you apply the BG3, it will never affect what
3:03:18they refer to as the divine plan. It will not change the divine plan.
3:03:22Sometimes there seems to be a miraculous healing.
3:03:25Other times there appears to be no effect because it is bringing things both to
3:03:30balance but also to that gateway so that things will play out normally.
3:03:35Now this is different than if you do certain types of very strong interventions.
3:03:40So with some types of modern medicine, you can keep a person alive beyond their time
3:03:45of normal death by putting them in a machine that will make them breathe or that
3:03:50will make their heart beat.
3:03:52The body itself would normally stop but the machine's doing it for them and they're
3:03:57being held in a state of suspended animation.
3:04:00They can no longer function but their body can't die either.
3:04:03So their soul gets trapped in between.
3:04:06So with this, working with the BG3, it has this aspect, again, opening the doorway
3:04:11and seeing what happens.
3:04:12So the Egyptians have kind of a, I'm going to connect it to the BG3 and then I'm
3:04:17going to let things take their course.
3:04:19But there's also the aspect with this that we described in the biogeometry course.
3:04:25That when you look at particular biogeometry tools, it's always a combination that
3:04:30they have the BG3 as a foundation. They all have BG3.
3:04:33But then they also have specific energy patterns that provide specific functions as
3:04:38well.
3:04:38And so depending on what the particular purpose of the device is, it'll have not
3:04:43only a BG3 field but particular biosignatures or particular shapes that will provide
3:04:49specific sets of functions. And so that's another aspect of it.
3:04:52That from the biogeometry perspective, we always want to have the BG3 present.
3:04:57But we can then also bring in specialized energy functions that are needed.
3:05:02Whether they're biosignatures or whether they're particular shapes, angles, etc. We
3:05:07can create any energy effect within the spectrum of possible energy by working with
3:05:12things like different proportions, or different angles, or different color
3:05:17qualities, or different sound qualities.
3:05:19And so we can really pick then what is the specific energy quality I want to bring
3:05:24in in addition to the BG3.
3:05:26But the Egyptians never do it without the BG3 as a foundation basis.
3:05:30And this then links us up to our background concept that when we test the energy
3:05:35quality of BG3, we find it not only in the center of the circle and other specific
3:05:40geometries, but also found innately in the healthy human immune system, in
3:05:45connection to beneficial spiritual beings, and in beneficial states of thought and
3:05:50emotion within the human being. So it's part of a larger complex.
3:05:54It's a larger matrix.
3:05:55So we have both BG3 as a connection to center, and then we have specific energy
3:06:00functions of other patterns that can be brought in as well.
3:06:04I'll take one more, and then we're going to have to wrap up. Yes, please.
3:06:08You spoke earlier today about squaring the circle in the context of looking at how
3:06:13perimeters related to each other.
3:06:17Speaker 2: Yes.
3:06:17Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: The perimeter of the square and the circumference of the circle.
3:06:20Speaker 2: Yes.
3:06:20Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: And I was wondering, are there any traditions that look at how the circle and the
3:06:25square relate to each other as it relates to area, or keeping the sphere as it
3:06:30relates to volume? Yes, absolutely. I'll let Jane go first on the area question.
3:06:36Speaker 2: Yes.
3:06:38Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Do you have an example or a citation?
3:06:43Speaker 2: Actually, if we have time, we're going to do the drawing of the density of squares.
3:06:49It's a big surprise.
3:06:54Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: So yes, there is work having to do with the actual area, and then also with volume,
3:06:59three dimensions with the Cuban sphere.
3:07:01And this is actually something we're getting to on Monday.
3:07:05I know you might not be here on Monday, so what I would refer you to there is a book
3:07:11called Homage to Pythagoras.
3:07:13And there's an article of the book Homage to Pythagoras that's about the number 19
3:07:18by Robert Lawler.
3:07:19And one thing that you find is that when you start looking at working with these
3:07:24volumes of the cube and the sphere, it relates to the quality of the number 19.
3:07:29So when Robert Lawler wrote this article, he's doing it from this Islamic
3:07:34perspective of the holy divine number 19.
3:07:37But from a biogeography perspective, 19 also generates this BG3 energy at a pretty
3:07:42intense octave related to spiritual activities.
3:07:45But actually see the citation and the formula related to the volume.
3:07:50We've run a little bit over time today, so we're going to go ahead and wrap up.
3:07:55We're going to start at 10 o'clock Charlotte tomorrow.
3:07:58And basically we won't be ending any days before 5 o'clock, and we won't go past 6
3:08:04o'clock. So every day we're going to end somewhere between 5 and 6.
3:08:08So that's going to be our ballpark.
3:08:10And when we come back tomorrow, in addition to taking the drafting and the rhythmic
3:08:16practices further, we're also going to do an energy exercise with me in the morning.
3:08:21And then we have a lot more to cover with our foundations.
3:08:25We're going to look at the question of sacred geometry with health, with the union
3:08:30of spirit and science as an energy science, and then with the masters of the compass
3:08:36and sacred design. So I'll see you here at 10 o'clock.

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