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0:05Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Let's get started.
0:06And before we get to the slides, let's take a quick look at our handout for the next
0:12five days.
0:13So everybody should have this set of handouts that you can add to your binder after
0:19the part one. If you don't, then please see Karen in the front room.
0:24And it ended up running to more pages than I expected, so don't say I never gave you
0:30nothing.
0:34Speaker 4: You want them back?
0:37Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: And it's laid out, as you might see from the table of contents, according to the
0:42progression of topics we're going to be looking at over the next five days.
0:46The opening weekend was to give us a context for our exploration of sacred geometry,
0:52looking at different aspects or fields within sacred geometry itself.
0:56And now here at the table of contents, we see that for the next five days, we're
1:02going to go into actual letters of the divine alphabet, the actual shapes that
1:07create functions in the world.
1:08And so to begin with, there's just one page about an overview of this divine
1:13alphabet that we talked about on Saturday.
1:16And then the next section is on the circle and the sphere.
1:20That's going to be our topic for today.
1:22The first letter of the divine alphabet is the circle and the sphere, which is
1:27nature's form for containing energy and consciousness.
1:31It's the primeval perfect form.
1:33And then the torus, the vesica pisces and the three sacred roots, which we're going
1:38to deal with later today, polarity and the I Ching, then projective geometry and
1:43form drawing.
1:44Then the spiral and the vortex is going to come in tomorrow, leading to Fibonacci
1:49and the golden proportion and 2D shapes.
1:52And 2D shapes include the shapes connected in various traditions to the elements of
1:57nature, called the tatvas in the Indian tradition, and to the Rosicrucian system of
2:03the shapes corresponding to the four different layers of the etheric life force.
2:08Then 3D shapes, platonic solids, Archimedean solids, and a variety of topics
2:13connected with this, then leading to our final day in dealing with the earth grid
2:18itself and the concept of a modern temple science of earth healing.
2:22There is then a section, if you look at where you have a colored page insert, after
2:28these numbered pages, there's an unnumbered insert that we've been working on and
2:33hadn't gotten to numbering yet, but want to make sure you got it, that at the front
2:38says the five forms which create the physical world, the platonic solids.
2:43Again, this is not listed on the front table of contents.
2:47This is a separate handout.
2:48And we constructed this to give you visual references to the platonic solids and
2:53some of the forms coming out of it, and also connected to the earth grid.
2:58So this is multiple pages showing different forms related to the platonic solids and
3:04their interrelationships.
3:05And then discussions of the earth grid that we're going to be getting into on our
3:10final day.
3:11There's also one thing I want to point out is that on the last page of that section,
3:16on the back of a page, you see an article that at the top says recipe for pure
3:21water.
3:22Again, this is at the end of this section on the platonic solids and such, before
3:27you get to Jane's section we haven't talked about yet.
3:31And this recipe for pure water is the article that I'm going to be referencing on
3:36Thursday that many people have asked me for a copy of in previous courses that we've
3:41done, that have to do with the way that we can alchemically transmute toxins out of
3:47water, in particular.
3:48But generally, any toxin can be transmuted in a particular process involving the
3:53metal palladium.
3:54Because we're going to be showing you how the metal palladium is connected to the
3:59form of the dodecahedron.
4:01And so when we address that on Thursday, people often ask for the article.
4:06And this is the actual article that is derived from New Scientist magazine.
4:11Then there is a handout by Jane with some of the information that she has and will
4:16be covering for you on squaring the circle, Gamotria and Leparthinon, and some other
4:21topics that we have yet to address.
4:23Jane has a lot to be doing with you in the next few days in actually being able to
4:29know how to directly draft and construct some of the fundamental forms and constants
4:34in nature and sacred design that I'm going to be discussing and illustrating for you
4:40in the slideshows over the next few days.
4:42And then as we get further on in the week, we're going to increasingly work more
4:47with the Zome Tool Kit to construct things in three dimensions.
4:51So was anything I left out there, Jane, that should be OK?
4:55So at this point, we'll go ahead and start on our slides for the day on our first
5:00letter of the divine alphabet, the circle and the sphere.
5:04So if I could get the lights turned out, that would be great.
5:08Our first illustration is one that we actually started with on the beginning of the
5:13day on Saturday because it's absolutely fundamental for us.
5:17We're starting now from the beginning of the divine alphabet of sacred geometric
5:22shapes and forms that create the world and create the functions in the world.
5:27And so the form of the circle and the sphere is that primeval form, the primal
5:32container of energy and consciousness.
5:35So here in William Blake's painting of the Ancient of Days, the godhead is
5:40represented in this initial sphere of creation and then reaching down with the
5:45compass to create the movement, to create the next circle or sphere for life to be
5:50created within.
5:51So what we're going to be seeing in this set of slides is going to be the way that
5:56the form of the circle and the sphere manifest in nature at multiple scales to be
6:01the primal container of energy and consciousness.
6:04And one of the things that makes the fundamental forms of sacred geometry, the
6:10primal letters of the divine alphabet, the fundamental letters that they are is the
6:15fact that you can find that exact shape being used in nature at every scale of
6:20creation from the subatomic up to the galactic.
6:23If you can't find it from the subatomic all the way up to the manifest realm that we
6:28normally experience at our scale up to the grand scale of the cosmos, then it's not
6:34one of the fundamental letters of the divine alphabet.
6:37So most of the forms we're looking at in the next few days are these fundamental
6:42forms.
6:43And we've seen that the compass that the Godhead is using is once again connected to
6:48our very important concept of you find and establish a fixed center first.
6:53And from that fixed center, you then make the rotational movement that creates the
6:58enclosure, that creates the boundary, that something can be created within, whether
7:04it's a world like in the four worlds of the Jewish Kabbalah or whether it is the egg
7:09in the mother's womb that the new life will be created within.
7:13And so just as the Godhead works in creating these circles and spheres, so we also
7:18find that in various initiation systems, there will be particular trainings where
7:23one learns how to create stabilized energy forms and thought forms.
7:28So that, for instance, in the Greek Christian Hermetic school that I mentioned the
7:33other day, the work of Daskalos in Cyprus, one of the exercises they would teach you
7:38in that school is to create, in the beginning of your healing work with thought
7:44forms, to create balls of colored light.
7:46And the colored light would correspond to the particular energy quality needed by a
7:51person for a particular spiritual or emotional or psychological or physical
7:56challenge that they have. In other words, the vibration of it.
8:00And that sphere form is the primal form to create as that energetic thought form.
8:06Again, it could be created in other forms, but the sphere is the most fundamental.
8:11And the illustration here comes from the work of Mantak Chia.
8:15Mantak Chia is the gentleman from Thailand who really popularized the Chinese Daoist
8:20yoga system in the West.
8:22Before the work of Mantak Chia in the 1980s, it was hard to get a lot of the deeper
8:27information about various Chinese medical qigong and esoteric Daoist internal
8:32alchemy systems.
8:33So he trained with a number of masters, made that information more public than it
8:38had been in the past.
8:40And today we have an unprecedented release of information about Eastern internal
8:45alchemy systems from that beginning.
8:47And so it's illustrating that again, creating this particular sphere, this ball of
8:52energy, which can be created either externally from the body or created inside of
8:58the body. And there are multiple practices that come from that.
9:02So as I said, the primal forms of sacred geometry are found from the subatomic level
9:07all the way up to the galactic and are also transcendental.
9:11They also occur as spiritual archetypes, as well as forms in the physical world.
9:16So starting at the very small scale, the atomic scale, molecular scale, we actually
9:21find very interesting cutting edge models today describing things in atomic and
9:26nuclear physics and having to do with electromagnetic technology that are using the
9:32form of the sphere to illustrate the actual patterns that are there.
9:36Now we need to bear in mind that our modern approaches of reductionistic,
9:41instrumental, empirical research in modern science is a very new initiative.
9:46It's only a couple of hundred years old really.
9:49And in the form it's currently taking, it's really just over a hundred years old.
9:54So that many of the models that we have in modern science to try to depict
9:59particular things that are going on might not yet be complete.
10:03So to give an illustration of this, the way that we normally illustrate the idea of
10:08electromagnetic waveforms is as something, as you see in the upper right hand corner
10:14here, of sine waves.
10:15And Elizabeth, could I ask you to bring me my pointer from the briefcase in the
10:20other room? It's in the very front of the briefcase. Thank you.
10:24So if you look at the upper right hand corner, there is a sine wave, which is the
10:29normal way that we represent electromagnetic energies, and has both the positive and
10:35negative polarities in different parts of the wave.
10:38There is a gentleman named Larry Spring who has written a very interesting book
10:43called Common Sense Physics, which is a little bit hard to find, but if you do a
10:48search on the internet, you can find it.
10:51And I list it in your resource guide from the initial weekend. Thank you.
10:55And Larry Spring is an electrical engineer.
10:58He's now pretty well advanced in age, but he's still around. He lives in California.
11:04And in the book Common Sense Physics, he describes research that he did for decades.
11:09And at one time he worked with the group, the International Tesla Society, which at
11:14this point no longer exists, but various people from the society are still active.
11:20And in this book, Common Sense Physics, he describes his experiments to establish
11:25what is the form and the geometric basis of electromagnetic waves.
11:29And again, he's someone who really understands electromagnetism.
11:33So what he shows is that in particular experiments that he did, particularly in
11:38bouncing electromagnetic waves off of various shaped objects, parabolic dishes,
11:43things of that kind, he was able to establish that by far the most logical
11:48candidate, the one that using Occam's razor of the simplest explanation for the
11:53observed phenomena, that would be the actual form of the electromagnetic energies he
11:59was working with is the form of a sphere.
12:01So where we normally represent this as a sine wave, he says that sine wave is simply
12:07the curled outline of the movement of these electromagnetic spheres.
12:11So electromagnetic energy is actually in a spherical form.
12:15And when we talk about the different frequencies of electromagnetic energies, eight
12:20gigahertz, 16 gigahertz, et cetera, that the actual size of the wavelength is
12:25related to the actual size of the spheres that you emanate.
12:29So eight gigahertz equals eight billion cycles per second, and it gives you a
12:34wavelength of approximately one and a half inches.
12:37So the movement of these spheres would be around that particular size.
12:42And he then goes on to demonstrate that the use of these electromagnetic spheres
12:47relates to our things like creating different types of electromagnetic technology.
12:52So the type of conductor that we use for the energy, the shape of it will interact
12:57with the spherical shape of the electromagnetic energy itself in particular ways.
13:03And so he shows that certain forms will keep the sphere from rotating, so it will
13:08not change polarity.
13:09Others will allow it to continue to reverse and to change polarity.
13:14So this very interesting model shows that electromagnetic energy, the foundation of
13:19our modern science and technology, is in fact based on the form of the sphere
13:24itself.
13:24Now, a very important concept we discussed the other day having to do with the form
13:30of creating the circle or the sphere is that this primal movement that we show with
13:35God with the compass of creating the initial point and then creating the rotation of
13:40the circle around it is also related to the movement from the center to the
13:45periphery, which we might call explosive forces.
13:48When you have something explode, it goes from a center and blows up to the
13:53periphery.
13:54But then there's also implosion, and that's the type of technology we'll talk about
13:59tomorrow with the work of Victor Schauberger, where implosion technology does not
14:04explode from a center outward, but rather the energies go from the periphery to the
14:10center.
14:10That's what you get with a form like the vortex that we'll talk about tomorrow.
14:15And so we have the movement from center to periphery and periphery to center.
14:20And various bodies of work such as arrhythmia and Rosicrucian science, Rudolf
14:25Steiner, et cetera, they emphasize this movement of etheric life forces from the
14:30periphery around us coming into the center, which is also going to be related to
14:35some of the explorations that we do with projective geometry, which show this
14:40movement from the periphery to the center.
14:43But both of these energetic forces, center to periphery, periphery to center, are
14:48happening all the time.
14:50So another model of things happening at the atomic scale comes from a physicist
14:55named Milo Wolf, and this is also in your resource guide.
14:59If you take a look at your resource guide, you'll see that it's set up according to
15:04the topics that we covered on the weekend, and then according to the topics we'll be
15:09covering over the next five days.
15:11So you look at the section for the circle and the sphere, you'll see the references
15:17for Larry Spring and for Milo Wolf.
15:19Milo Wolf is a physicist who wrote a very interesting book and has an interesting
15:24website that talks about his model from just the observed realities of atomic
15:29structures that we know from modern research that shows that what's actually
15:34happening with the proton, with the neutron, and particularly in his work with the
15:39electron, is that there is a movement of energy from the center to the periphery and
15:45from the periphery to the center.
15:47So the things that are happening at the atomic scale can be understood as this
15:52constant movement of implosion and explosion pulsing in and out of the center, which
15:57is a very interesting model for what stands at the basis of all existence, because
16:03according to modern science, which is a reductionist model, which means to
16:07understand something, you don't go to a greater scale to understand holes, you go to
16:13a smaller scale to understand the discrete parts, that in the reductionist model,
16:18then, to understand something, you have to go to the atom and then to the quarks and
16:24then to all the subatomic particles.
16:26But of course, what happens at that point is things tend to somewhat philosophically
16:31fall apart, because what appears to us to be solid matter, like a solid table,
16:36analyzed according to its actual atomic constituents, the atomic constituents of the
16:42proton, neutron, electron are comparatively in scale, football fields apart, most of
16:47it's empty space.
16:48It has to do with vibratory rates that it appears to have a solid nature to it.
16:53So that if we look at what is at the essence of this scientific model, if Milo Wolf
16:59is right in his idea, that it's all based on the energetics of things moving to the
17:04center and moving out to the center.
17:06And related to our ideas of biogeometry that we described before, with the
17:11importance of the center being a transcendental gateway beyond space and time, that
17:16opens up some very interesting ideas.
17:19But I just wanted to show you this particular slide from Milo Wolf's work, and that
17:24idea that what we're actually observing in particle physics, et cetera, has to do
17:29with this constant movement from center to periphery and periphery back to center,
17:35what he calls spherical waves.
17:37And then one of the great projects today in modern science is how do we unify these
17:42different models of science so that we have the basic forces of the world, the weak
17:47and strong nuclear force, electricity and magnetism, and gravity, which need to come
17:53into some type of unified field theory, and then what's called the grand unified
17:58theory.
17:58And one interesting body of work today basically shows that it's all connected in a
18:04form that is related to the ancient mystical teaching of the serpent swallowing its
18:09own tail, and that all these forces are actually connected in a particular type of
18:14circuit, then creating this complete circle or enclosure where all the forces feed
18:20into one another.
18:21Because at the moment, because it's been done in a reductionistic fashion, it's all
18:26broken up. I don't see how all the parts relate yet.
18:29So when we start looking at it from the subatomic level, we then move up to the
18:34level of looking at it as it manifests in the physical world around us at a scale
18:40that we can more easily relate to.
18:42So one of the clearest images we can have of this is the process of embryogenesis,
18:47the process of the egg in the mother's womb becoming fertilized and leading to the
18:52new life in the world. And so the egg in the mother's womb is what else?
18:57It's the form of a sphere.
18:59And the sperm come into the sphere, and the sperm take on more of a linear form.
19:04So the line or the square then meets the circle or the sphere, and it creates new
19:09life with the interaction between the linear and the circular.
19:13So this is something that happens in a literal way in the way that nature has
19:18created these procreative forces.
19:20So we start with that form of the egg in the mother's womb becoming fertilized.
19:25What then happens is that the genetic components that are being contributed by
19:30mother and father then organize themselves into two other circles of genetic
19:35material that are known as pronuclei.
19:38Now as a little side note here, these two pronuclei also being formed in these two
19:43perfect circles, one beside the other, within the overall egg form of the sphere,
19:48the pronuclei each have exactly 23 pairs of chromosomes.
19:52And we've already looked at this number 23 in a hidden way yesterday, where we
19:57talked about the cabalistic code of the human subtle bodies.
20:01Because we mentioned then that the cabalistic code is three, seven, and 12.
20:05Three mother letters, seven double letters, 12 elemental letters of the Hebrew
20:11alphabet.
20:11And those become the coding patterns for the anchor points for the human physical,
20:16etheric, and astral bodies.
20:18But I mentioned to you that in the Kabbalah, they are still blinding one particular
20:23aspect of it, which is the final part of the series, which relates to the holy of
20:29holies, the spiritual core, which is the one.
20:32And so if we add those parts together, the 12, the seven, the three, and the one,
20:37then we come to the number 23.
20:39Normally we talk about the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet because the one is held
20:44out.
20:44But if we add the one back in for the complete series of one, three, seven, 12, that
20:50becomes the coding system in the Kabbalah for the creation of the human being and
20:55its anchor points, we then find that this is mirrored in the chromosome pairs with
21:0023 pairs of chromosomes.
21:02So what we find in all these natural systems are these particular types of harmonic
21:07constants where we can find relationships between the teachings of the great
21:12schools, of the archetypes behind things, and then their manifestation in the
21:17physical world.
21:18Because of course, it was only very recently in human history that we knew there
21:23were 23 chromosomes.
21:24They did not know that in ancient Israel with the Kabbalistic rabbis, but they knew
21:30the archetype. And the archetype is what creates all these manifestations.
21:35Then of course, we come to the point that we have cell division, where the one
21:40becomes the two and the two becomes the four, and this continues to become the
21:4510,000 things.
21:46And with that split process, when we first have that movement of the split of the
21:51one into the two with cell division, then we get this very interesting form where
21:56the two overlap.
21:57And we have one circle overlapping the other circle, creating this almond-shaped
22:02form between them called the vesica.
22:05And we'll be dealing with the vesica more later today, both in my talks and in the
22:10work that you do with drafting with Jane.
22:12And then of course, it goes from this overlapping with the vesica to becoming the
22:18two become four, et cetera, and it gives you the four nodal points of a tetrahedron
22:23inside the replicating cell, and it continues on the outward process from there.
22:28And during this particular process, as the cells begin to form and they begin to
22:33organize into the living being, and this is always a sticky wicket for materialistic
22:39scientists because they have to explain why the second law of thermodynamics is the
22:44law of entropy, where energetic systems lose energy and become more disorganized,
22:49but somehow, magically, things self-organize.
22:52They don't explain how it happens, but somehow it self-organizes, and it has this
22:57perfect geometry to it, and it becomes a living being.
23:01So they self-organize, and they have particular patterns of energy that then form as
23:06the cells replicate.
23:08It becomes a backbone, it becomes a matrix, and then particular energy circuits
23:13appear in it.
23:14If you study Chinese medical qi context, they can be very specific about the process
23:19in the evolution of the egg within the womb and creating the fetus, where the
23:24different acupuncture channels develop at different time periods.
23:28And one of the primal energy circuits is the central energy channel in the body,
23:33what is referred to as the thrusting channel in Taoist yoga, for example.
23:38And that is also then connected to the opening at the top of the head.
23:42But the central energy with the spine and the energy that runs in this vertical
23:48circuit will then be connected to the energy that we find in a human being as that
23:53energy of the thrusting channel, or the Sushumna channel of energy in the body,
23:58which connects us in energy straight down to the earth and straight up to the
24:03heavens, and this vertical column is one of the most important columns of geometric
24:08energy in the body to use for initiation purposes, and we'll do a little bit more
24:13with it as the course goes on.
24:15And of course, as this process continues and the full fetus is formed, then we come
24:21to the point that the infant is formed, and once again, although now it has
24:26differentiated, its original form was the pure geometry of the cell, just like the
24:31pure form of the virus is an icosahedron.
24:34But as beings become more complex, they lose the simple, pure form of the geometry
24:39and take on a more differentiated form.
24:41But nonetheless, as the form of the human being differentiates and becomes the form
24:47that we recognize as a human being, it is once again held within the form of the
24:52egg, or the spherical form, in this case, the amniotic sac.
24:56So once again, as we are infants, fetuses in the room, we are once again held within
25:01the sphere as we move toward birth.
25:03Again, this illustrates the concept that the sphere is nature's primal container of
25:09energy and consciousness.
25:10So along these lines, this illustrates ideas for why the scarab beetle was used in
25:16the Egyptian mysteries to illustrate certain cosmic processes.
25:20Because one aspect of the scarab beetle that people living in Egypt would observe is
25:25that the scarab beetle rolls a ball of dung, creating a sphere, and lays its eggs
25:30inside of it.
25:31So what they would observe is that this beetle creates a sphere and rolls it, the
25:36way the godhead creates spheres and manifests it.
25:39And then from that sphere of dung, new life would emerge.
25:43And so again, it became a perfect representation in nature of the process of
25:48creating spheres and life emerging from it.
25:51And then when you see the scarab beetle illustrated in the Egyptian iconography,
25:56they would associate with it this particular process.
25:59So we also have a particular process that I have some comments about later in your
26:05handout that you got today.
26:06That's more for the stuff later in the week when we deal with this.
26:11But in one part of Rudolf Steiner's work, he describes the way that certain cosmic
26:16forces ray in and they create different geometries in human bodies and the bodies of
26:21other living beings.
26:23And one of those processes is to create these hollowed out pockets or invagination
26:28in the body. And then in many cases to create a form that will fit in the pocket.
26:33So for instance, in the head, there are forces that come and hollow out the place
26:38that we have as the eye sockets.
26:40And then other forces come in to create the form of the sphere of the eyes that will
26:46fit within the pocket.
26:47And so the eye itself is the form of a sphere, the form that we actually use to
26:52perceive the world around us.
26:54Nature has given the form of a sphere and it is the organ of vision.
26:59I threw this picture in because I've always really liked it.
27:02There's a great book that I think has been out of print for a long time.
27:07The version I have is from the 70s. It was called Behold Man.
27:11And it's, again, listed in your resource guide.
27:14Behold Man is a series of medical photographs taken by, I believe they're
27:19Scandinavian researchers.
27:20When they first began to create these fiber optic camera links, where they get very
27:26tiny fiber optic cameras and put it into parts of the human body you couldn't get
27:31into before, into a living body and take photographs of it.
27:35So they got a fiber optic camera in behind a living person's eyeball.
27:39So it's behind their eyeball looking out.
27:42So what you see the person is looking at, this is the upside down image of their
27:47daughter talking on the telephone.
27:49Because the image is actually inverted within the eye itself.
27:53So now they're actually able to take the actual picture of what it would be like if
27:58you could be behind a person's eyeball and see the image in the sphere itself.
28:04Speaker 4: Then does the brain flip it?
28:07Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Yes, it does.
28:07So following these same principles, as we move from the subatomic to the scale that
28:13we normally interact with in the world, then up to great levels of creation, we find
28:18many models connected to the circle and the sphere.
28:21We talked about the four worlds of the Kabbalah before.
28:25This is a classic Indian model of the cosmic human being and creating the cosmos and
28:30all the constellations and things within it.
28:33Where the feet move back up to the head and create this circular movement.
28:37And there are many models of this kind with different traditions.
28:41Now this is a very interesting bit of information from a body of work by a man named
28:47Itzhak Bentov. And some of you might be familiar with Bentov's work.
28:51Itzhak Bentov was a great scientist and researcher who died, I believe in the late
28:5670s, in a tragic plane crash.
28:58And Bentov wrote a couple of books which are in your resource guide, which I highly
29:03recommend.
29:04One is called A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness, which used to have a different
29:09title, which I'm having a hard time remembering it.
29:12It used to be called A Cosmic Book.
29:14But somehow they didn't like that title, they changed it to A Brief Tour of Higher
29:20Consciousness. And that's where this illustration comes from.
29:23He also has another very good book on the mechanics of creation called Stalking the
29:29Wild Pendulum, which only has a little bit to do with pendulum.
29:33It's not really about dowsing.
29:35It's about particular processes of mechanics of creation.
29:38But in this book, A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness, which I highly recommend,
29:43he's basically giving out particular spiritual visions that he has had over time.
29:48And there's an interesting story about Itzhak Bentov, which is that as he was
29:53working with his spiritual scientific work and developing his spiritual visions, he
29:58got to the point that he needed to test out what he had found.
30:02And I found by talking to someone who knew him that he had a particular spiritual
30:07master that he consulted.
30:09And what I thought was very amusing is that his spiritual master was an Irish cop in
30:14New York City.
30:15He was very highly spiritually developed, but no one on the force knew what the guy
30:20really was.
30:21But I love that idea of your spiritual master being an Irish cop in New York City.
30:26So in this book, A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness, he gives these remarkable
30:31geometric images of what he's seen about the structures of higher realms because
30:36he's using a process taught in the Himalayan tradition where you move your awareness
30:42up to greater and greater scales of consciousness.
30:45The same thing was done by the theosophist in the opposite direction of moving
30:50attention down to smaller and smaller scales to observe the geometries of atomic
30:55particles, the work of Besant and Leadbeater.
30:58But in this Indian work, one would also move one's awareness out to greater and
31:03greater scales until your awareness is not just your body, but of the city, of the
31:08entire planet Earth, of the entire solar system, of the galaxy, of the universe and
31:13beyond. It's a classical practice in the Indian tradition.
31:17And so in doing this practice over years, and Bentov was a very evolved soul, he saw
31:22a particular image as he moved out past the sphere of creation that we are a part of
31:27here.
31:28And he says what he saw was this void of pure consciousness surrounding the sphere.
31:33And as he examined the form of the sphere that contained everything in our world,
31:38what we think of as our universe of creation, then he began to see that there were
31:43forms on the outside of the sphere that were rotating.
31:46And they appeared to him to be like rotating disks.
31:50And then as he moved his awareness back down to the surface, to these rotating
31:55disks, and then examined their structure, he saw that what appeared to be rotating
32:00disks were actually forms that are the same thing that you see at the top of the
32:05Sanskrit letters. And that beneath it, there were these other forms.
32:09And that essentially what they were are the same geometric forms one finds in the
32:14Sanskrit alphabet.
32:15That the Sanskrit letters are actually these three-dimensional geometric forms on
32:20the surface of the sphere of creation that are rotating.
32:24And the rotation, the movement of these forms on the surface is then bringing this
32:29void of pure consciousness into movement and into a sound, which is the sound of the
32:34seed syllables talked about in the Indian tradition.
32:38And that that then creates the forces of the manifest world beneath it.
32:42So that the Sanskrit alphabet, as a holy alphabet, are the actual geometric forms on
32:47the surface of the sphere of creation.
32:50Which I thought is a very beautiful image to have of why is this a sacred alphabet
32:55and what do the forms relate to.
32:57So we also have the idea of the spheres, of course, on the tree of life.
33:02This is probably the most fundamental geometric glyph of life forms in the Western
33:07tradition. Coming, of course, from the Jewish Kabbalah.
33:10But according to some Greeks, actually having its origin in the school of Akhenaten
33:15in Egypt. So different theories regarding it.
33:18But again, what we find with it is that we have 10 spheres connected on 22 paths.
33:23And as we spoke about before, the 22 paths divide up into our classic 3-7-12
33:28divisions of three horizontal lines, seven vertical lines, and 12 diagonal lines.
33:33And that this form is understood as being superimposed over the human energy body.
33:39So sometimes we hear stories from the Eastern tradition about great Maha avatars,
33:44such as Babaji, that have the capacity to actually manifest from the ethers a
33:48physical body and incarnate at will at any time.
33:51From the perspective of some of these Kabbalistic schools, both Jewish and Greek and
33:57Rosicrucian and various hidden schools throughout Europe, one of the great secrets
34:02of these schools is that one of the forms that can be used to manifest a physical
34:07form, a body, whether in this world or in higher worlds, is by manifesting the form
34:12of the tree of life.
34:14It becomes the energetic blueprint that the body then forms around.
34:18And every one of the spheres has a particular activity or function that's
34:22interconnected in the net or the matrix of the lines connecting the sephira.
34:27For most schools, they will not talk about this publicly.
34:31They consider it to be one of the highest secrets of their form of work, as they
34:36develop the tree of life in the field and then do higher esoteric work with it.
34:41But I can assure you that for many of these schools, that's exactly the way that
34:46they consider this form.
34:47There's a very interesting text, also referenced in your resource guide, that's
34:52called The Kabbalah, the Mystical Heritage of the Children of Abraham.
34:57There's a lot of books about the Kabbalah out.
35:00To be honest, just like with feng shui, most of them say the same thing.
35:04But as in feng shui, there are also particular texts that really give some
35:09remarkable information you don't see elsewhere.
35:12And so for the Kabbalah, this particular text on the Mystical Heritage of the
35:17Children of Abraham comes from a particular group based in California called the
35:22Work of the Chariot Trust.
35:23And without going into all the details about this group, this book was the first
35:28time that their work had been made public.
35:31And in this book, they talk about particular aspects of the Tree of Life and its use
35:36for initiation work. That, again, is hard to find in other material.
35:41So one of the aspects of it is that there's a way of working with the sequence of
35:46the spheres in the Tree of Life for initiation, and that according to the direction
35:51that you go in connecting those spheres energetically and activating them in a
35:56circuit, it will lead to different results in spiritual evolution.
36:00Again, there's some real deep waters here.
36:03I'll just give you the upshot of it, which is they call one way the way of the
36:08wizard and the other the way of the saint, the basic idea being that according to
36:13what is called the lightning flash pattern of connection, one is moving from here to
36:18here, the other starts from here to here.
36:21It's also related to the concept of a left-hand path versus a right-hand path.
36:26And again, without going into all the esotericism of it, one of the ideas there is
36:31that according to the way that we develop ourselves, we can end up with one of two
36:36types of development.
36:37One, the way of the wizard, is that one becomes a type of occultist that has access
36:42to powers, but does not develop necessarily a deeper level of wisdom in the process.
36:48And the other one is the way of the saint, where the powers come later as a result
36:53of the wisdom that is gained, rather than being pursued on their own.
36:57And this is something that you actually find described in many different traditions,
37:03including in the Indian tradition, where they talk about, we don't try to achieve
37:08the siddhas, the powers in and of themselves, they will come naturally of the growth
37:13of our wisdom and our consciousness.
37:15I wanted to throw this in because there are particular relationships at the
37:20archetypal level between geometric forms that illustrate particular hidden
37:25phenomena.
37:25And so one of those has to do with looking at the volume between a cube and a
37:30sphere.
37:31When you have a cube that completely covers up the sphere, and you look at the
37:35volume of each of them, then they have a particular, very interesting relationship
37:41to them.
37:41And that is that the relationship of one to the other, if you give the sphere the
37:46value of 10, then the volume value of the cube is 19 and change.
37:50So I found this very interesting because most of the particular phenomena that I
37:55have found taught by different teachers and traditions having to do with the power
38:00of particular forms or particular numbers are usually related to one particular
38:05archetypal form, an archetype and the thought forms in the mind of God.
38:10And so we've talked in the biogeometry course about the power of the number 19 and
38:15about the way that 19 is this tremendously holy number in the Islamic tradition that
38:20is really emphasized in Islam in a way you don't really find in other traditions.
38:25And so one aspect of that number 19 has to do with the relationship between the
38:30sphere and the cube, which we could also think of as being related to the
38:35relationship between the circle and the square.
38:38So that the cube with the materialization force completely surrounding the divine
38:43sphere of creation that's inside of it has this relationship to the number 19.
38:48So that might be a clue to us of how come we get the effect that we get in
38:53biogeometry when we use the number 19.
38:5519 of a particular thing in an identifiable grouping and we get this BG3 energy
39:00quality we described before.
39:02This could be one of the geometric resonance aspects to it in a higher world that
39:07gives it that energy quality here in this world.
39:10Now, when we deal with the concept of the circle or the sphere, classical models
39:15constantly show us the act of creation as circles within circles or as spheres
39:20within spheres.
39:21And so here's one from the Rosicrucian tradition with the Holy Divine Sophia and the
39:26world.
39:27And it's made up of spheres within spheres connected to the spheres of the planets
39:32and to the elements, things of that kind.
39:34And then with the divine spiritual beings and forces on the outer spheres.
39:39But you will find versions of this in multiple traditions in Buddhism, Hinduism, et
39:44cetera.
39:45And interestingly enough, one of the most common models of the human energy field is
39:50based on this where we have a form of the spheres within spheres within our physical
39:55body and then with the etheric, emotional, mental, et cetera, and higher bodies as
40:00these concentric envelopes around the physical body.
40:04So again, these envelopes are modified from a purely spherical form to match the
40:09outline of the human being.
40:10But nonetheless, it's the same concept of spheres within spheres and the boundary
40:16layers between them actually become the boundary layers of the auric sheath for the
40:21different higher bodies.
40:22Interestingly enough, if you study the work of Plato, where he's describing the
40:27teachings from the Egyptian mystery school given to the Greek Solon, it talks about
40:33the actual city of Atlantis as being this form of circles within circles, that there
40:38are these concentric circles of water and then land, water and then land, water and
40:43then land. And at the very center was the great solar temple of Atlantis.
40:48And so if we think of why is it represented that way, either it actually was that
40:53way based on a model of the circles within circles, spheres within spheres, or it's
40:58been brought into their teaching to help illustrate that concept.
41:02Now, another way that we can see this idea of the circles within circles is in the
41:07classical form of a labyrinth, which is basically the form of a circle within a
41:12circle within a form that you can walk it and move through the circuit.
41:17And there are many different energetic aspects to the labyrinth, most of which could
41:22be analyzed using concepts from biogeometry that make it effective.
41:26And of course, classically, we think of the labyrinth in terms of things like the
41:31classical seven circuit labyrinth, the ones in Crete, and with the larger labyrinth
41:37form that we find in places like Chartres Cathedral in France.
41:40But interestingly enough, if we take a look at the actual, what's known as the seed
41:46pattern of these circles within circles or spheres within spheres, one way that you
41:51can actually construct it is by starting with a seed pattern that is based on the
41:56form of a cross. And of course, the cross is also related to our form of the square.
42:01So here we have the square and the circle again.
42:04So with the cross, and then with these right angles, and then a point here, it's
42:09just a matter of connecting up the points.
42:12And at that point, you get the complete outline for the labyrinth you're going to
42:17construct.
42:18So this is known as the seed pattern for the classical seven circuit labyrinth.
42:23And then you could create more involved seed patterns to get a labyrinth with higher
42:28numbers of circuits.
42:29For a seven circuit labyrinth, it's the basic cross with the right angles.
42:34Then you add in more of the right angles and points for an 11, 15, or 19 circuit
42:39labyrinth. There's also the form known as the meander pattern, which is like two
42:44counter-rotating spirals.
42:46And that can then be elaborated also to create the form of a labyrinth.
42:50So I want to give you the sense that for some of these forms, there are deeper
42:55relationships to other seed patterns that they can grow out of, and that are
43:00classically used to help construct these patterns.
43:03For the Chartres Cathedral, it's an 11 circuit round form.
43:07And this shows you the actual seed pattern for it.
43:10Because what we do is we move from a symmetrical pattern, or the purely form of the
43:15cross here, to where now we move one arm of the cross up, and we begin to stagger it
43:20a bit.
43:21And then we develop it further and further as we see here with the 11 circuit.
43:26So it's based on the same idea, but now it's getting more evolved, it's getting more
43:31elaborate.
43:32And we're starting to shift the points a bit, but it still gives us the seed pattern
43:37for the form of the Chartres type of labyrinth.
43:40Also, if we take a look at the Indian tradition, we find that, of course, they use
43:45the form of the circle, the sphere, et cetera, with their healing patterns, with
43:50their diagrams, with their sigils of various types that are used for spiritual or
43:55for medicinal purposes.
43:57This is from a wonderful text called Yantra, that I highly recommend for those
44:02interested in the Indian work with this type of material.
44:05And again, it's in your resource guide.
44:08It says, this is an occult yantra believed to cure diseases when worshiped
44:12ceremonially for 45 days. Now, this one here, I found very interesting.
44:17It's also depicted in this text.
44:19They said that this is a particular diagram classically used in India, given to
44:24women to ease the pain and difficulties in childbirth, that by them meditating on
44:29this pattern, which is very similar to a labyrinth pattern, that it really helped
44:34them in the process of childbirth itself.
44:37Speaker 2: Yes.
44:45Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: So, with this understanding of the circles within circles and spheres within
44:49spheres, we can see that when we take the form of the circle within the circle, if
44:55we were to elaborate that out, that those circles within circles would actually
45:00become these guidelines of circles staggered at different heights that then, when
45:05connected up, would become the form of a sphere.
45:08So, basically, it's a matter of these circles within circles, when they're solved
45:13topologically to become a three-dimensional form, then they give us the form of the
45:18sphere itself. So, one is a two-dimensional projection of the other, in other words.
45:24This is from an interesting book by Bruce Rawls, where the whole book is like this.
45:29He calls it the Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook.
45:32It also is a little hard to find, but you can find it on the internet.
45:37And it shows 144 overlapping circles with a common edge point.
45:41So, all this is is one circle after the next, slightly staggered, and all of them
45:46meeting at the center here.
45:47And so, when you see these types of designs, which have a kind of a flashing effect,
45:53and are very energetically powerful, they're often made by this pure circular
45:58movement of one circle after the other within a circular diagram, all meeting at a
46:03central point. This is a pattern of the ancient Temple of Minerva.
46:07So, this Temple for the Divine Feminine in Greece, as you saw earlier today, in
46:12working with the construct of the Parthenon, that so many vital concepts went into
46:17it.
46:18And with the Gematria, the linkage between the numbers related to the names, with
46:23the idea of the Kabbalistic name or the Kabbalistic word, being a type of formula, a
46:28energy template of the sounds that make up the nature of the being itself, that
46:33those names and numbers, when they were put together in the form of the Parthenon,
46:38created a beautiful, harmonious structure with a superimposition of one on the next
46:44in a complete form.
46:45And so, the building itself has to have within its design the particular bases that
46:50will resonate with the being that the temple is being made for.
46:54Because classically, in the ancient world, if you built a sacred site, a temple, it
46:59was meant to be the living space, in a sense, the actual body for a higher being,
47:05which is one reason why we saw that in ancient Egypt, they would design temples
47:10based on the template of a human body and its energy functions, and find the same
47:15thing in India and other cultures, because the temple is meant to be the actual body
47:20for the higher being.
47:22That's also one reason why we then, as we described yesterday, tie in the actual
47:27structure itself to the Earth energy grid, because the building, as it's becoming a
47:32kind of physical body for the higher spiritual being to move within and to live
47:37within, has to have this vital energy within it, just like a living body has vital
47:42energy.
47:43And so, we connect it to the Earth's own vital energy the same way that our energy
47:48body is connected to the Earth.
47:50Now, you might be aware of the fact that in the space program, they found that for
47:55people to stay healthy in space, they had to provide a particular energy resonance
48:00within their living environments that's known as the Schumann resonance.
48:05It's around 7.82 Hertz.
48:06And this is actually a background frequency of the Earth itself, and it's also
48:11connected to a core brain frequency in the human being.
48:15So we have a particular type of vibrational energetic environment linked to the
48:20Earth that they're now finding need to be taken with the astronauts into space to
48:25make them feel grounded.
48:27And so, in creating the temple, there are all these different aspects to making it
48:32in the correct form that the being it's intended for can live within it.
48:36So here, for this divine feminine netter of Minerva, we have this purely circular
48:42form with the forms around it being circles on the perimeter, and then the opening
48:47in the center being itself this semi-circular form that can be entered into the
48:52center.
48:52We find something similar in other traditions around the world, such as the Native
48:57Americans in the Southwest Desert with some of the large Kiva-type structures that
49:03are actually built into the Earth.
49:05And so, these are very, very large, purely circular in nature, and they're creating
49:10a similar type of energy effect.
49:12And so, in connecting this to the form of the circle and the sphere, we can also
49:17remember that in biogeometry, we talked about the way that a circular movement or a
49:23spherical movement has a center that then has a BG3 type of effect.
49:27And so, you find many traditions using the circular form for a sacred space.
49:32And the Knights Templar would use either the form of a circle for their, a round
49:37building for their temple, or the Knights Templar would use the form of a octagon,
49:42which is the same as you find for the Dome of the Rock and many other temples,
49:47because the octagon has the principle that we describe in biogeometry as virtual
49:52rotation.
49:53Although it's a stable structure, it energetically acts as if it's rotating, and it
49:58creates a BG3 emanation from its center.
50:01So, then we come to the idea of the propagation of energy on the sphere itself.
50:06In the work done by the French researchers that we described the other day, when
50:11their energy research having to do with shapes and forms, where they discovered the
50:16existence of what we called shape-caused waves, they found that the energy on the
50:21surface of a sphere, whether it was a sphere you held in your hands or whether it
50:26was the sphere of the Earth itself, constantly moved, the different energy qualities
50:32would move in a regular pattern over the surface of the sphere according to the
50:37position of the sun. And this is a very interesting concept.
50:40When you have a three-dimensional object or a three-dimensional sphere, to have the
50:46placement of the energy qualities on its surface, that is determined by what is the
50:51primary energy determinator for that local system.
50:54And for the three-dimensional object, and we look into three-dimensional space, what
51:00is the primary energy determinator for the Earth as a local system?
51:04And it is the sun.
51:05The sun is by far the most powerful energy source for our local system.
51:10And so they found that it was the sun's position vis-a-vis the Earth itself that led
51:15to the shifting and activation of the energies on different locations as they moved
51:20one to the other.
51:21We're also going to see this principle coming out at the end of the week when we
51:26deal with concepts of the Earth grid, and particularly the work of Bruce Cathy from
51:32Australia, where he found that the sun's position vis-a-vis the Earth would
51:36activate, at particular times and places, parts of the Earth grid.
51:41What we just described with the primary determinator of the sun creating energy
51:46effects on the three-dimensional form of the sphere, with the French research, is
51:51true for the three-dimensional object.
51:53But for a two-dimensional object, when you move it down dimensionally, from three
51:58dimensions to two dimensions, and it becomes a flat object, they found that for
52:03that, the thing that determined the placement of the energies was actually the
52:08Earth's north-south magnetic lines.
52:11Now, this is the same concept that the feng shui specialists in ancient China
52:16discovered when they developed their compass school, where they would set up the
52:21bagua of the eight basic energy qualities of the eight basic trigrams of the I Ching
52:26on the bagua, according to the energy determinator of the Earth's north-south
52:31magnetic line. And they knew that the energy is propagated from there.
52:35So the Earth's magnetics are also involved in this process for the form of a circle.
52:41So for a sphere, connection to the sun.
52:43For the circle, connection to the Earth's own magnetic lines.
52:47That if they simply cut the sphere in half and made the form of a hemisphere, or a
52:52dome, that then they would get this emission of that energy of the carrier wave out
52:58of the base of it.
52:59And they also discovered that the form of the pyramid was essentially energetically
53:04identical, that from the base of the pyramid, you got an emanation of that same
53:09energy quality.
53:10And this explains why in the ancient world, they used the form of the pyramid as a
53:15place of initiation to access that energy quality, that spiritual carrier wave,
53:20which sends energy and information from one place to another place, whether it's
53:25done from one place to another place on the physical Earth, or between higher worlds
53:31and the Earth itself, they used the pyramid as the place of initiation.
53:35And then as the Greeks and Romans began to master the use of the copula and the dome
53:41shape, then it became more common to see the use of the dome being put over the
53:46place of worship, rather than the pyramid.
53:48And so you then find that the mosque, the synagogue, the cathedral, et cetera, in
53:54the West, will then commonly have the dome over the top to give you that emanation
53:59of that energy quality. So the half-sphere is what comes into it.
54:03And just to connect it to the idea we mentioned yesterday, when we analyze the
54:08energetics of that pyramid or that half-sphere form of the dome, what we then find
54:13is that not only does it emanate from its base the spiritual carrier wave, which the
54:18French called negative green, but that also what we're talking about with these
54:24different energy bands that they discovered, they identified 12 different energy
54:29bands, which once again were transcendental.
54:31You find those same energy bands in all quality scales, whether they are sound
54:36scales or color scales or the scales of shape, et cetera.
54:40These are the energy qualities that make up everything in the world.
54:44They found that these were simply simplified bands by cutting the whole spectrum
54:49into 12 different bands. And within each band, there were multiple sub-bands.
54:54And to be honest, because much of the French research was really cut dead by World
55:00War II and the German invasion and the chaos of World War II and was never fully
55:05picked up again, a lot of identification of these energetics and these sub-bands has
55:10never been continued.
55:11And so one thing we're hoping from with teaching people about this and particularly
55:17teaching the biogeometry course is that people will get the basic concepts and
55:22skills to start identifying more of the sub-bands and their particular functions.
55:27Because this individual known as Anell, whose real name was Kerner-Skerioton, wrote
55:32in the 1950s about his discovery that within that band of what's called negative
55:37green or the spiritual carrier wave that the French identified was a particular
55:42sweet spot, a sub-band within it, that he called the pi wave or the omega wave,
55:47about six degrees, 15 minutes off of center.
55:50And that explained why, because he lived in Egypt, he found that that was the
55:55position of the sarcophagus in the king's chamber, that they specifically positioned
56:00the sarcophagus in the internal location of the pyramid to get the correct energetic
56:06ray that was the sweet spot, the optimal carrier wave function within that overall
56:11band. So again, it's not only the overall shape we're working with but particular
56:16sub-locations within the shape have particular energy qualities.
56:20The basic harmonics working with the form of the circle and the sphere are related
56:25to six, in a sense, seven, and 12.
56:28And by that, I mean what you've already found, which is if you get, let's say, seven
56:33pennies and you put one penny in the center as a circle, you'll find that you can
56:38perfectly nest six equally sized pennies around it with no space in between.
56:43This is a perfect form.
56:44Same thing as if you're working with a compass with the same radius for all of the
56:50circles that you draw.
56:51And that then gives you this hexagonal enclosure form as we see here.
56:55And this can continue outward after you have the six around the one, which gives you
57:01the basic seven days of creation.
57:03Then you can add more and more layers and it just keeps going out and out from
57:08there. The next layer, you get another six and now you've got 12 around the one.
57:13Then you get another six, and if you add in the center point, then you have 19
57:18total. And then you add more and more on the outside.
57:21So this is a basic construction pattern working with the circles.
57:25Of course, it's also true if we were to use it working with spheres.
57:30I can perfectly get six spheres around a central sphere of an equal size.
57:34But then if I want to completely cover the sphere the way we talked about the other
57:40day with the harmonic of 12, 12 is the foundation in the cabalistic coding system of
57:45the physical body, I can find that I can perfectly get three spheres on top above
57:50the central sphere and three at the bottom.
57:53Six around, three at top, three at the bottom gives me perfectly 12 spheres around
57:58the one, which we described yesterday as being related to the 12 perspectives around
58:04a central subject that allows you to understand it fully.
58:0712 disciples around Christ, 12 arhats of Buddha, et cetera.
58:11Now, if I was to then connect up the center of all those 12 different spheres, then
58:16what I would get is this form that's known as the cube octahedron and that
58:21Buckminster Fuller named the vector equilibrium because every one of the nodal
58:26points of it are exactly the same length from the center, all exactly the same
58:31length from center, creating this form.
58:33And it's called a cube octahedron because it has the same number of square faces as
58:39a cube and the same number of triangular faces as an octahedron.
58:43So we're gonna be dealing with that later on with platonic solids and Archimedean
58:48solids.
58:48But for right now, I want you to understand the 12 spheres around the one because
58:54we're working with this primal form of creation, the form of the circle and the
58:59sphere. It's our first letter of the divine alphabet.
59:02So we've seen some of the ways that it manifests.
59:05And what we wanna take a look at now is the very important form that we get when we
59:10begin to overlap one circle or sphere with another and they create a perfect portal
59:16between the two of them, known as the vesica pisces.
59:19Do we know if lunch is ready or if they're not here yet? Oh, yeah.
59:23Oh, they are ready? When it will arrive.
59:26Okay, so they are downstairs waiting for us? Okay.
59:29Well, they asked us to please stop at 12.30 and it's now 12.30.
59:33So we'll pick this up this afternoon, working with the vesica and you'll also be
59:38doing drafting with Jane where you use this form to create the classical, very
59:43important patterns of classical sacred geometry used by the masters of the compass.
59:48So in your work today with Jane, you explored the creation of the vesica.
59:53Let's take a look at some of the core principles involved here.
59:57Let's remember what we looked at this morning with the creation of life through the
1:00:02sphere, that the sphere was the egg in the mother's womb and when it became
1:00:07fertilized, it split in two.
1:00:09And we showed you that that split in two then created a vesica pattern.
1:00:13So one way to think of this vesica pattern is that when you have that split of the
1:00:19unity, the one into the two, the first movement into polarity and into creation,
1:00:24that the place that we're looking at the vesica is the center of the vesica that's
1:00:29actually the place of the original sphere.
1:00:32So if you're looking for the center of this form, it's in the center of the vesica.
1:00:37And in fact, when you draft the vesica, you can easily create a straight line down
1:00:42the center of the vesica and one that connects the two centers of the circles,
1:00:47creating a cross in the center of the vesica.
1:00:50And it's the center of that cross that would be the center of the original circle
1:00:55before the split into polarity. That's one thing to bear into mind.
1:00:59The next thing to bear into mind is that when you actually did the drafting of the
1:01:05vesica itself, you put the point of your compass down here and then with the lead of
1:01:10your compass, you drew the perimeter of the first circle.
1:01:14Then you moved to the perimeter of that first circle and made that the center of
1:01:19drawing your second circle.
1:01:20And this gave you two circles perfectly harmonically overlapped, which gave you then
1:01:26that the outer boundary, the periphery of one circle perfectly touches the center of
1:01:31the other. So it's a perfect balance between center and periphery for both circles.
1:01:36And then in their overlapping, they create the form of the vesica, which is a
1:01:41perfectly balanced portal in a sense for unity between polarity.
1:01:45And it's often looked as a portal between the worlds.
1:01:49And so you will see in different traditions, Buddha coming through that portal or
1:01:54Mary or Christ, basically beings that hold a balance between two complementary
1:01:59polarities.
1:02:00And so the vesica has to do with that whole principle of unity moving into polarity
1:02:05and the act of creation.
1:02:06And we have the form of the vesica represented in many different sacred contexts.
1:02:12One of the best known is on the lid of Chalice Well at Glastonbury, a famous grail
1:02:17site in Britain.
1:02:18So in working with these two polarities that are coming together, the basic idea is
1:02:23that the balance between the two polarities comes from particular spiritual forces
1:02:28that can balance the polarities of the manifest world.
1:02:32And we see this pattern of the vesica in a number of different contexts used as a
1:02:37grid or a matrix.
1:02:38For instance, in Britain, there have been studies done of the stone circles in
1:02:43Britain and they found that many of these stone circles which do not have a perfect
1:02:48circular form, that the actual form that is behind them in the creation of the
1:02:53circles in the first place, when these things were analyzed in books like Keith
1:02:58Critchlow's Time Stands Still and in other work done in Britain, they have found
1:03:03that the background grid behind it is based on the form of the vesica.
1:03:08And then through particular methods, they created the overall shape of the stone
1:03:13circle. And this also becomes a grid or a matrix for various types of art.
1:03:18So here in the Bible of Charles the Bald, the king and his court, the background
1:03:23matrix behind the construction of this piece of art is this vesica form.
1:03:27And the same thing for the famous Diet of Mantua painting, it has to do with these
1:03:33overlapping forms creating multiple forms of the vesica in the way that it's
1:03:37actually laid out.
1:03:39And even the form of the arch at the top is part of one of the circles creating the
1:03:44vesica. So in understanding various types of sacred art and sacred architecture,
1:03:49understanding these core patterns of creation is vital to know where the patterns
1:03:54came from.
1:03:55So for instance, in many of the cathedrals of Europe, you will very often see a
1:04:00matrix that is based on the form of a vesica as you have here.
1:04:04And so what is actually a very common form in cathedrals in Europe is that you have
1:04:09these forms of the vesica one inside of the other.
1:04:12And the basic matrix that the Masons used to draft it was a full form of a vesica,
1:04:18but they only use the top part of it.
1:04:20And then the bottom part, which has to be based on the earth and with the opening
1:04:25into the structure, then has a more rectangular form.
1:04:28But the original matrix behind it, which then comes down to the point at the base of
1:04:34the door, at the top of the steps, is that place of the completed vesica.
1:04:38So it's still there energetically, even though all it's represented physically is
1:04:44the top part of the vesica.
1:04:45And these are often represented as a kind of a fractal form of one vesica inside
1:04:50another. You can stay here.
1:04:52And so sometimes you don't see the entire form of the vesica the way that I just
1:04:57showed you, even to the extent of the last illustration, but just a partial form
1:05:02such as this, where here even less of the vesica is presented.
1:05:06But once again, it's a fractal form of one vesica form inside another, inside
1:05:11another, inside another.
1:05:13For those of you that took the biogeometry training, you might remember that we said
1:05:18at that time that one way to correct the form of an arch, because the arch has a
1:05:23particular form connected to the form of a dome.
1:05:26And so it has both aspects, both the beneficial and detrimental energy aspects of
1:05:31the spiritual carrier wave, also known as negative green.
1:05:35And so one way that that is classically balanced is by making a particular mark at
1:05:40the top. So on a dome, this is a spire or a spike on the top of the dome.
1:05:45In the form of an arch in sacred architecture, it can become a line at the very top
1:05:50of the arch.
1:05:51So that in Islamic architecture, what this would become is a kind of a spiked top to
1:05:56a doorway. But in the form that you see in Western Europe, it's like this.
1:06:01It's using the vesica to create a point toward the top of the arc.
1:06:05And then by having multiple forms, one inside of the other, not only does that
1:06:10create a specific type of energetic, having these forms nested one inside of the
1:06:15other, but you could also then bring in other principles, such as the principle of
1:06:21the quality of number, according to the number of these forms that are one inside of
1:06:26the other.
1:06:27As we've mentioned before, having a specific number of repetitions of a pattern will
1:06:32create specific energetics, such as the quality of the number seven can give you the
1:06:37quality of the spiritual carrier wave. 16 or 19 can give you the BG3.
1:06:42So here, what we see is that within this form of the vesica, it's very common to see
1:06:47in European cathedrals that not only do you have the external form of part of the
1:06:52vesica in this arch above the doorway, but then you have the complete form of the
1:06:57vesica inside those multiple vesica partial forms.
1:07:01So here's a complete form of the vesica with Christ inside of it.
1:07:05In Western Europe, you'll often also see this with the Virgin Mary inside of it.
1:07:10And you notice that around it, you then have the four heavenly creatures that we
1:07:15talked about before, which are related to the four anchor points of the great cross
1:07:20in the heavens with the zodiacal signs of Scorpio and Taurus and Leo and Aquarius
1:07:25shown around the Christ coming through the vesica. Yes.
1:07:29What does the spike represent? The spike is actually an energy correction form.
1:07:34If you simply test the quality of the energy from a pure dome or a pure arch, this
1:07:39is also true for architectural vaults, that it has both types of the spiritual
1:07:44carrier wave, or the technical name is negative green from the French.
1:07:49And by making this correction, it gets rid of the detrimental energy component and
1:07:54amplifies the beneficial aspect when you actually directly energetically test it.
1:07:59And this is similar to what we do in the biogeometry course, where we have you build
1:08:04a pyramid form and then make that correction that is equal to the half a degree
1:08:09indentation in the center of all four faces on the pyramids of Giza Plateau.
1:08:14It changes the energy quality.
1:08:16So when we take a look at the iconography related to the vesica, once again, we
1:08:21start off with the overlapping of the two circles.
1:08:24And classically in Western Europe, in the Christian ages, we then see the Christ
1:08:29within the vesica, as you will sometimes see Buddha or other beings inside the
1:08:34vesica in the East.
1:08:36So what we see here is that that form of the Christ inside the vesica is also
1:08:40related to a particular construction that was known to the sacred geometers, the
1:08:46masters of the net, the masters of the compass, in which you have particular form of
1:08:51a root rectangle that you all have been working with.
1:08:54That inside of it, you get the form of a vesica.
1:08:57And according to a particular division of it, you then are given a particular anchor
1:09:03point for the eye of the fish.
1:09:05And so one aspect of the fish symbol of Christianity is that the fish symbol is the
1:09:10vesica itself.
1:09:11And the eye in the fish is related to a particular part of geometric construction of
1:09:16the root rectangles.
1:09:17You also find the use of the vesica as a matrix for various cathedrals, things of
1:09:23that kind, particularly in Britain.
1:09:25You will see cathedrals laid out according to patterns like this.
1:09:29So within that overall form of the vesica, they don't make it in the rounded form of
1:09:34the vesica, rather they make the cathedral based on the form of the lines connecting
1:09:40the two side anchor points and the top and the bottom.
1:09:43So it becomes more of a rhombic diamond type of form.
1:09:47Now there's another aspect of this rhombic diamond we're gonna talk about later in
1:09:52the course when we get into higher dimensions, because these rhombic diamond forms
1:09:57are a form that you get when a lower dimensional form is under dimensional stress.
1:10:02And I'll clarify that for you later, but just bear that in mind.
1:10:06And so we see that there's a variety of different forms related to the vesica that
1:10:12come about in the sacred architecture.
1:10:14There's a deeper spiritual teaching associated with this that has to do with the
1:10:19thought forms in the mind of God.
1:10:21And that is that when things manifest into our world, they can either have a
1:10:26perfectly balanced nature between spirit and matter, or they can tend toward the
1:10:31side of spirit and away from matter, or they can tend toward the side of matter and
1:10:36away from spirit.
1:10:37Now what this basically means for us is that this is also true for spiritual beings.
1:10:43There are certain spiritual beings that hold a perfect balance between spirit and
1:10:48matter, an understanding of spiritual processes and the necessities and purposes of
1:10:53earthly physical incarnation and earthly life.
1:10:56These are the beings that in the Western tradition are referred to as Michaelic
1:11:01beings, following the Archangel Michael.
1:11:04It's interesting if you actually study the sacred documents of Judaism, Islam, and
1:11:09Christianity, the spiritual being who is referred to the most in the documents of
1:11:14the three monotheistic traditions is the Archangel Michael.
1:11:18He is the angelic being who is most commonly referenced.
1:11:22And so one of the things that stands behind that is that Michael represents that
1:11:27perfect balance point, that vesica, that center of perfect connection between spirit
1:11:32and matter. Both are perfectly balanced together. And those are the two circles.
1:11:37So the two circles of the vesica would be that one then represents spirit and one
1:11:42represents matter.
1:11:43And it's where the two perfectly overlap in the vesica that you have a perfect
1:11:48balancing of spirit and matter.
1:11:50And so the being that is coming through the vesica, Christ, Mary, Buddha, et cetera,
1:11:56is a being connected to the perfect balance of spirit and matter.
1:12:00This is represented by Rudolf Steiner in one of his sculptural pieces that's known
1:12:05as the Representative of Humanity.
1:12:07The basic idea in Rosicrucianism is that the Christ being is the literal
1:12:12representative of humanity, that the nature of the Christ being and the spiritual
1:12:17essence of the Christ being is the same as that for the human being.
1:12:21And so that all the stories in the New Testament of the life of Christ are actually
1:12:27a type of mystery drama, a depiction of every stage that a human being needs to go
1:12:32through in the process of human evolution.
1:12:35And before reaching that stage of ascension, you actually have the stage of
1:12:39crucifixion in matter and the descent into hell that then leads to a resurrection
1:12:44and the ascension as occurs in the Christ story.
1:12:48This is why in classical forms of medieval Christian initiation, there would be a
1:12:53particular stage after stage of spiritual development related to the seven stages of
1:12:58the passion of Christ, because they are representing a particular story of human
1:13:03evolution.
1:13:04And this is sometimes represented as Christ holding the balance between two opposing
1:13:09spiritual beings.
1:13:10And the two opposing spiritual beings that Christ holds a balance between are those
1:13:16spiritual beings on the one side that represent unbalanced spirituality.
1:13:20In other words, spiritual beings that are very connected to spirit, but they don't
1:13:25really have an understanding of matter in the physical world.
1:13:29They have different names and different traditions, but in the classical medieval
1:13:34Christian tradition, they are referred to as Luciferic beings.
1:13:38Lucifer means light bringer.
1:13:40And so these are beings that have spiritual wisdom and spiritual light.
1:13:45These are not the same as satanic beings, although in later Christian history, the
1:13:50difference between Luciferic and satanic beings was completely lost.
1:13:54And they were just treated as one type of being.
1:13:57At that point, it was impossible to be able to accurately identify opposing
1:14:02spiritual beings that one encountered in direct spiritual activity, because that
1:14:07differentiation was lost between their two natures.
1:14:10Particular groups in esoteric Christianity still maintain a knowledge of the two
1:14:15different types of spiritual beings, and they are referenced in earlier works.
1:14:20And you can still find references by groups like the Jesuits today that say, oh,
1:14:26yes, these are indeed two different beings, although they don't go to much trouble
1:14:31to make that clear to the public.
1:14:33It's simpler just to say, these are the bad guys, these are the good guys, and don't
1:14:38go with the bad guys.
1:14:40Part of that is that you can then create a simple polarity, but understanding a
1:14:45simple polarity will lead you off track spiritually, because things are not always
1:14:50simply good and bad in a polarity system.
1:14:52Is positive poles of a electrical system good and negative bad, or the same for
1:14:58magnetic systems? How about for polarity in genders?
1:15:01Who is good between men and women?
1:15:03It is not a question in polarity systems of one necessarily being good and one being
1:15:08bad.
1:15:09Rather, it is a question that opposed polarities need a balance in the center, which
1:15:14is why you get the medieval representation of the divine hermaphrodite, and they
1:15:19will show you a picture of a human being that is half female and half male.
1:15:24And so this teaching within the vesica is of that perfect balance between the
1:15:29spiritual and the material, and between the two polarities, however they manifest in
1:15:34the world.
1:15:35We have to balance many different polarities in our life, breathing in, breathing
1:15:40out, hot and cold, light and dark, male and female.
1:15:43And so that position of balance is represented geometrically by the vesica.
1:15:48This also means that one of the thought forms in the mind of God that one can access
1:15:53through meditation is the form of the vesica as the blueprint for the creation of
1:15:58those spiritual beings that are spiritual beings of light, but do not understand the
1:16:04materialization process or why that is necessary.
1:16:07On the one side, with the one sphere, and with the other sphere, those spiritual
1:16:12beings that tend to drag humanity down to a lower level.
1:16:16These are the beings that were referred to as Aramonic in the old Persian
1:16:20Zoroastrian system. They then were referred to as Set in the Egyptian system.
1:16:25They then were referred to as Ha-Satan in the Hebrew system, which later became
1:16:30Satan, and also related to the principle of the beast in the book of Revelation.
1:16:35It's the same group of spiritual beings, which although they are spiritual in
1:16:40nature, they are actually part of the divine process through which the archetypes in
1:16:46the mind of God materialize into the physical plane.
1:16:49And you find references to these beings all through the various traditions,
1:16:54particularly in the West.
1:16:55And so that these beings related to the materialization process can actually lead
1:17:00human beings away from believing that they are spiritual in nature to begin with.
1:17:06And on the earth in the last couple of hundred years, this process has reached a
1:17:11culmination point to where modern science, et cetera, does not accept any
1:17:15metaphysical concepts or any concept of the human being as being spiritual in
1:17:20nature. We are a biological accident.
1:17:23We came about through some random pairings of nucleotides and proteins, and when we
1:17:28die, that's it, you're gone. There is no spirit, it's purely physical.
1:17:32So that there's an understanding, once again, of those beings that hold a balance
1:17:38between these two types of beings.
1:17:40In esoteric Rosicrucianism, they use the terms Luciferic for those beings that tend
1:17:45towards spirit and do not understand matter, and Aramonic for those who tend toward
1:17:50matter and draw human beings away from spirit.
1:17:53There's very, very deep esoteric teachings in multiple traditions for thousands of
1:17:58years related to the nature of these beings, and the nature of the two groups are
1:18:04very, very different.
1:18:05But at the moment, we need to understand that balance between the two.
1:18:09So one archetype of that is the vesica.
1:18:12The vesica represents the balance of the two.
1:18:15This is also represented in forms such as the middle path or the middle way of
1:18:20Tibetan Buddhism. Why do they emphasize the middle path?
1:18:23Because they know there are two polarities, and the only way to move forward is to
1:18:29balance the two polarities.
1:18:30Why do we have the form of the Tree of Life in the Jewish Kabbalah, where you have
1:18:35three pillars on the Tree of Life?
1:18:38One pillar, the middle pillar, goes all the way up to the top sephirah of Keter and
1:18:43all the way down to the lowest sephirah, or sphere, of Malkuth.
1:18:47The left-hand pillar and the right-hand pillar, if you look at the form of the Tree
1:18:52of Life, do not go all the way to the top or all the way to the bottom.
1:18:57And they are referred to in some Western systems as the pillar of mercy and the
1:19:02pillar of severity.
1:19:03And so there is a particular balance of two polarities with the two side pillars,
1:19:08and then perfect balance with the middle pillar, the only one that connects all the
1:19:13way perfectly between heaven and earth.
1:19:16So working with this archetype, this then becomes a representation in Western
1:19:21spiritual history for the passion play that is depicted in the initiation document
1:19:26of the New Testament, describing the stages of the passion of Christ, which have to
1:19:31do with initiation process that in the school of hard knocks in the physical world,
1:19:37every human being goes through, culminating in the crucifixion.
1:19:41If you read old Greek documents from pre-Christian times, Plato describes that the
1:19:46world soul is crucified on the world cross and on the world tree.
1:19:50There's a common image to many different traditions.
1:19:53And so this crucifixion of the world soul on the world cross has to do with the way
1:19:59that the cross is an emblem of the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water.
1:20:04Every human being is crucified on the cross of the four elements in taking on a
1:20:09physical body.
1:20:10By taking on a physical body, we open ourselves up to great possible suffering.
1:20:15And so in some Eastern traditions, they focus on the physical plane as simply a
1:20:20Maya. It's an illusion. So get out of here as quickly as possible.
1:20:24This particularly began to crystallize around the beginning of the age that we refer
1:20:29to as Kali Yuga in the old Indian documents, often dated in some old Indian
1:20:34documents to around the year 3101 BC and connected to particular stellar events.
1:20:39The spiritual beings that were associated with that initiative of this is a place of
1:20:44suffering, don't buy into the illusion, don't incarnate and discarnate permanently
1:20:50were again these luciferic beings.
1:20:52If you study certain types of Russian theology, there's a specific word in Russian
1:20:57which means a type of condescending pity.
1:21:00And it is the word that they use to refer to the state of awareness of these
1:21:04luciferic beings when they are considering the plight of humanity.
1:21:09They look upon us as children who are being tortured in a type of abattoir, a type
1:21:14of killing ground. And so why allow these young spirits to suffer in this school?
1:21:19Whereas other beings, the Micaelic stream, look at it as they need to go through a
1:21:24particular education by being here.
1:21:27There are portions and bits and pieces and different perspectives on this mystery
1:21:32all through the Western tradition, particularly once you start to read Gnostic text
1:21:37and you start to read what they say about the Demiurge.
1:21:41Gnostic texts refer to the Demiurge which is the same being that was referred to by
1:21:46the Persians as Ahriman.
1:21:47Then later the Egyptians referring to Set and then Hasatan meaning the adversary,
1:21:53later Satan for the Hebrew tradition.
1:21:55These are actual groups of spiritual beings but they're all related to the archetype
1:22:00of the Vesica.
1:22:01One group is that understands and appreciates spirit and denies matter.
1:22:06The other are drawn toward matter and are literally a part of the condensation
1:22:11process.
1:22:11That is why in the Gnostic text they say that the Demiurge is the lord of this world
1:22:16because the spiritual blueprint, it was understood in these groups, that was created
1:22:22by the spirits of form which is the spiritual hierarchy, the rank among the nine
1:22:27ranks of the angels taught in the Kabbalah and in the hidden tradition in the West,
1:22:32the particular rank known as the Elohim who in the Greeks called the exousiai are
1:22:37known as the spirits of form.
1:22:39They lay down the blueprint for the physical world which is why it says in the book
1:22:45of Genesis, in the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
1:22:49The beings that actually work with the final concretization process are the beings
1:22:54referred to by the Gnostics as the Demiurge, by the Egyptians as the Set principle
1:22:59and again this Ahriman principle for the old Persians or Astrians.
1:23:04So one way that this manifests is in that crucifixion of Christ on the cross.
1:23:09It is an act of unity between the solar logos and the human race.
1:23:13Every human being is crucified on the cross of the four elements by taking on a
1:23:18physical body, going through suffering and going through the gate of death and so
1:23:23this was then done by a high spiritual being, the solar logos in the understanding
1:23:28of the event in the early Christian centuries in esoteric groups and then the way
1:23:33it's commonly depicted is that you see Christ crucified on the cross and to either
1:23:39side there are two thieves and this actually makes the form of a vesica with a
1:23:43circle around one thief of one polarity, a very different polarity represented in
1:23:49the other thief and then holding a perfect balance in the center is the form of the
1:23:54cross holding the Christ and if you read the story that accompanies this in the New
1:23:59Testament, it says that one thief said to the other that you and I deserve to be
1:24:04crucified, deserve to suffer but this man, referring to Jesus, is blameless and does
1:24:10not deserve this fate and he inclines his head, as you see here on the painting,
1:24:15toward the Christ and in the story he asked Christ to be taken with him into his
1:24:20father's kingdom and Christ inclines his head to him and says you will be with me in
1:24:25my father's kingdom tonight whereas the other thief is represented as being
1:24:30completely materialistic and turns his face away from the Christ and rebukes him.
1:24:35So that's being represented here.
1:24:37Now this is then also a representation in spiritual history on the earth, a
1:24:42dramatization of the same concept in the Jewish Kabbalah of the three pillars on the
1:24:47tree of life then actually created in physical space and so to understand this event
1:24:53and the two polarities of the two thieves, they are representing these two spiritual
1:24:58polarities of spirit and matter and then of Christ holding the balance in the
1:25:03center. You will also notice that the foot of the cross is a skull.
1:25:07That skull is the reason why the Mount of Golgotha is called Golgotha because the
1:25:12name Golgotha means the place of the skull and that skull is the skull of Adam, the
1:25:18first man and you can go ahead and switch to the next set of slides.
1:25:22In the original story coming out of the Old Testament into the New Testament, the
1:25:27first human being to fully incarnate with intact faculties is Adam and so at the
1:25:32time of Adam's death, his bones are interred at the Mount of Golgotha and then so at
1:25:38the time that the solar logos, the representative of humanity, this higher spiritual
1:25:43being that has already attained the state that humanity is meant to attain at a
1:25:48later state of spiritual evolution, the attainment of the Christ consciousness of
1:25:53the perfect understanding of the balance of spirit and matter, that being actually
1:25:59incarnates and the crucifixion of that being takes place on the literal spot of the
1:26:04interment of the bones of the first human being, the karma of humans incarnating on
1:26:09the earth and so the cross is then established at that Mount place at Golgotha.
1:26:14You might also recall that in the beginning of Saturday, I showed you a particular
1:26:19diagram in which it was a study of the sacred geometry of Jerusalem and I showed you
1:26:25it was the same geometry as studies of the human face.
1:26:28There's a six-sided enclosure and five pointed stars inside of it, one going up, one
1:26:34going down and that there are then a spiral pattern of five pointed stars going into
1:26:39the center with its anchor at the Mount of Golgotha.
1:26:42So all of these are related to particular activities in spiritual history that
1:26:47relate to the human being and they are related to this principle of the vesica as a
1:26:52thought form in the mind of God and the use of the vesica both for energetic
1:26:57spiritual purposes and for something in sacred design and sacred architecture.
1:27:02It is a perfect balance point and with it being a balance point between two opposed
1:27:08complementary polarities, it then becomes a portal between the worlds.
1:27:12One way that you see this in pre-Christian times and in pagan traditions in Europe
1:27:17is the vesica as the portal of the female womb and you will see these pictures in
1:27:22old churches in England of the woman holding her womb apart into a vesica pattern so
1:27:28that life can pass through.
1:27:29So this is also one of the mysteries of the stream of the divine feminine.
1:27:34This is then connected to the way that there are three women at the foot of the
1:27:39cross.
1:27:40To hold open a triangular portal requires three anchor points and so there are three
1:27:45female initiates holding that portal to the underworld at the foot of the cross.
1:27:50There are three female initiates that are sufficiently advanced to be present at the
1:27:55crucifixion of Christ in the story in the New Testament.
1:27:59There is only one man who is advanced enough but three women.
1:28:03The man who is advanced enough is John, later to be the writer of the Gospel of John
1:28:08and the Book of Revelation according to the esoteric tradition.
1:28:12Elizabeth has actually done a lot of research in this field in the Jewish and
1:28:17Christian aspects of the divine feminine and how these things all work out.
1:28:22But at this point, we'll move forward and take a look at how the vesica then becomes
1:28:27a template in the sacred geometric archetypes for creating the forms in the manifest
1:28:33world.
1:28:33So that today with Jane, what you looked at was the way that in the overlapping of
1:28:38the two circles of the vesica, you have a matrix provided that by following certain
1:28:44very simple principles, you can then easily create a cross in the center of the
1:28:49vesica, which then becomes connected to the form of a rectangle, which is perfectly
1:28:54the size of two squares.
1:28:55And then when you look at particular numbers that are generated by this form, if you
1:29:01take the baseline as one and then you take the diagonal of one of the squares, that
1:29:06square, that diagonal gives you the square root of two.
1:29:10That's the number that is generated vis-a-vis one as a baseline here for one side of
1:29:15the square.
1:29:16For the diagonal of both squares, using the form of a double square, that gives you
1:29:21the square root of five.
1:29:22And taking the actual vertical line that connects the top and the bottom of the
1:29:27vesica itself gives you the square root of three.
1:29:31And in some aspects of the Masters of the Compass tradition, they will talk about
1:29:36the square root of two as being related to the faculty of generating physical
1:29:41two-dimensional space, because it has to do with that diagonal in the square in two
1:29:46dimensions.
1:29:47The square root of three, they will sometimes say, is related to the generation of
1:29:52three-dimensional space.
1:29:53And the reason for that is if you were to turn this form of the square into a cube
1:29:59and make a baseline of the cube one, and then drew a diagonal line within the form
1:30:04of the cube, diagonal from one corner to the other, this would be the square root of
1:30:09three compared to this as one.
1:30:11And so this becomes then the generation of the square root of three, the same way as
1:30:16the diagonal of the square is the generation of the square root of two and
1:30:21two-dimensional space. Two dimensions, square root of two.
1:30:25Three dimensions, square root of three.
1:30:27And then square root of five is sometimes said to be connected to regeneration and
1:30:33to the generation of life function, because five, the square root of five is
1:30:37directly connected to the phi ratio.
1:30:40And in the next couple of days, we're gonna go into a lot of detail about the
1:30:45Fibonacci and the phi ratio, which are the particular universal harmonics that are
1:30:50related to animating the forms in the world with life energy.
1:30:54And so the living forms in the world are based around Fibonacci numbers and around
1:30:59the phi ratio.
1:31:00And those numbers are directly connected to the form of a five-pointed star.
1:31:05And the five-pointed star is a literal form of the energy circuits of the human
1:31:10etheric life body.
1:31:11We're gonna look at that a little bit later, but I wanna just draw some connections
1:31:16for you right now.
1:31:17So square root of two, three, and five are very important transcendental functions,
1:31:23all of which are generated by the vesica.
1:31:25Now, one thing that we could also see inside the vesica, and I think you did this
1:31:30with Jane, is that in the form of the vesica, you can also create easily the form of
1:31:36a triangle.
1:31:36And that triangle can be broken down into four component triangles through a
1:31:41particular process, which I hope Jane did with you, and if she did not, she can do
1:31:47it on a later day.
1:31:48And that form of the triangle inside the vesica, subdivided into the four, actually
1:31:53provides not only the basis of the triangle in creation, because the triangle is the
1:31:58simplest form to enclose space with straight lines.
1:32:02You can't have a simpler balanced form with straight lines to enclose physical
1:32:07space.
1:32:07And then when you subdivide it into four triangles, overall triangle subdivided into
1:32:12four, if you were to fold up this side, and this side, and this side, and they all
1:32:18met at the top, that would give you the form of a tetrahedron.
1:32:22And so it becomes what's known as the net pattern.
1:32:25That's the actual term they use in geometry, the net pattern, that if you were to
1:32:30fold it up along its edges, would create the simplest form to enclose space in three
1:32:35dimensions, the form of the tetrahedron.
1:32:38Again, looking at the way that the vesica becomes the generator of the universal
1:32:43harmonics of the creation of the physical world and of life itself.
1:32:47Then you worked with Jane on working with the root rectangles.
1:32:51And a very interesting principle of creating the root rectangles is that starting
1:32:56with that initial square of creation, and let me just mention right now, in case
1:33:01Jane didn't mention it, that if you look at the geometry of the Temple of Solomon,
1:33:07as described in the Book of Kings in the Old Testament, this perfect structure, that
1:33:12the holy place, the hall that led to the Holy of Holies, is a double square, whereas
1:33:17the form of the Holy of Holies is itself one square, or actually it is a perfect
1:33:22cube.
1:33:23So starting with the basis of the square, you get your compass and put it along this
1:33:28diagonal, and you simply draw down an arc, and that gives you the length, with this
1:33:33as one, that gives you then the length of the square root of two.
1:33:37And it would then give you, if you took it as a separate rectangle, it would give
1:33:43you a square root of two rectangle, which is used in sacred design.
1:33:47Using this diagonal here, going now from the corner of the original square to the
1:33:52upper edge diagonally of the square root of two rectangle, and drawing the arc
1:33:57downward with the compass, you then get the square root of three.
1:34:01Do the same procedure, and you get the square root of four.
1:34:05Do the same procedure, you get the square root of five.
1:34:08And so these root rectangles, square roots of two, three, four, and five, are used
1:34:14throughout sacred architecture. Very important principles.
1:34:17And let me just bring out for you the very important idea here, that what you have
1:34:23is the combination of the square and the circle, that not only does the vesica
1:34:28generate these core harmonic principles of these three square roots that were
1:34:33referred to by Pythagoras under the idea that they were the three sacred roots, or
1:34:38the three divine roots of all existence, but also by simply working with the
1:34:43straight lines of the square and the circular forms of the compass, these things are
1:34:48all naturally generated.
1:34:49So this is also connected to the mystery of the squared circle, because it's through
1:34:55the union of circular movement and a square base that you get every one of these
1:35:00rectangles created in a perfect harmonic fashion.
1:35:03This is a diagram of part of the Temple of Luxor in Egypt.
1:35:07And in the fantastic analysis of Schwaller de Lubitz in his masterwork, The Temple
1:35:12of Man, he shows that there are particular links that were part of the design
1:35:17process of the Temple of Luxor that are related directly with this as the base of
1:35:22one, to the square root of two, square root of three, and here to the square root of
1:35:27five.
1:35:28So the actual creation of the areas within this part of the Temple of Luxor, the
1:35:33southern sanctuary, is based on the Egyptians directly applying the entire series of
1:35:38these root rectangles from the base of one all the way up to the square root of
1:35:43five.
1:35:44And this is one example of how you would use the root rectangles in the construction
1:35:49of a sacred space.
1:35:50Now there's an aspect of this that's also related to the mystery of the three, four,
1:35:55and five.
1:35:56Now if I look at one as either a number of points or a number of lines, then I can't
1:36:01enclose space with the one. And I can't do it with the two either.
1:36:06If I have two points or two lines, I can't get it to close with straight lines to
1:36:11enclose space. No, the minimum form that I need is the trinity.
1:36:15I need a three to be able to enclose space.
1:36:17And that's what I get with the form of a triangle.
1:36:21Then the next form I naturally come to is the four.
1:36:24And now I can enclose space not in a triangle but within a square.
1:36:28And the next I come to is the five. And then I create a pentagon.
1:36:32Interestingly enough, when we come to the work with the platonic solids later on,
1:36:37the five perfect divisions of the sphere, all of these perfect divisions of the
1:36:42sphere are based either on triangular faces, square faces, or pentagonal faces.
1:36:47Also, if we take this a little bit further, we'll find that the three, four, and
1:36:53five, the triangle, the square, and the pentagon, are the foundation for all form
1:36:58that can enclose space.
1:36:59What I mean by that is before I got to the three, I couldn't enclose space.
1:37:04And once I get past the five, all I need to do is to start adding these forms
1:37:09together and I can create any space.
1:37:11So if I want to go to the six, I can just use two triangles and I can create the six
1:37:17of a hexagon or a star of David.
1:37:19If I want to use a seven, I'll use a square and a triangle.
1:37:22An eight, I'll simply rotate a square on a square.
1:37:26So the foundations of structure are the triangle, square, and pentagon, or the
1:37:30three, four, five, when understood as a pure numerical or geometric archetype.
1:37:35And so the square root of two and the square root of three and the square root of
1:37:41five are directly related to these patterns.
1:37:43And as I'll show you in a moment, the square root of two generates square patterns
1:37:49and different patterns coming off of that.
1:37:51Square root of three generates triangular patterns and patterns coming off of that
1:37:57matrix. And the square root of five is just a bit off of the form that generates the
1:38:02pentagon, the pentagram, and all these types of patterns.
1:38:06As I believe Jane mentioned to at least one of the groups, that the square root of
1:38:11five is very close to the phi ratio, which is the generator of the pentagon and the
1:38:16pentagram.
1:38:17And that there's a numerical equation that's often spoken of in sacred geometry,
1:38:22where the square root of five plus one divided by two gives you the perfect phi
1:38:27ratio. They're very closely related.
1:38:29But understand that the square roots of two, three, and five, these three sacred
1:38:34roots, are related to the generation of these shapes and all the shapes that come
1:38:39from them as matrices. So I want to give you some examples of that.
1:38:44So one way that you can think in terms of this when it's applied to sacred
1:38:48architecture or sacred design of any type, including of energetic systems, is that
1:38:54if you work the square root of two, because the diagonal of the square, you can then
1:38:59use that to generate these types of forms that either appear square or that appear
1:39:04octagonal by rotating a square in a square.
1:39:07So when you see these types of patterns, square or octagonal forms, they are
1:39:12generated by the square root of two function.
1:39:15This particular illustration from the Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook by Bruce
1:39:20Rawls shows you the way that you can create a root two series of these fractal
1:39:25squares one inside of the other.
1:39:27But if you look at this pattern, you should from this point on then be able to say
1:39:32this is a root two pattern with these types of squares upon squares and one square
1:39:37rotated on the other creating an eight-sided structure, a classic root two pattern.
1:39:43And if you took this further with the rotated square on the square, then that would
1:39:48give you the basis to create various types of matrices.
1:39:51So what I'm about to show you are some illustrations coming from a book about
1:39:56Islamic design.
1:39:57So you might look on the ornate temple wall of an Islamic mosque, for example, and
1:40:02you would see this particular pattern.
1:40:05And when you'd see this pattern, now you can recognize that this is a pattern that
1:40:10is in fact generated by the function of the square root of two.
1:40:14Because what you're actually seeing here, if you were to count these points, is one,
1:40:19two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
1:40:22And you can see that this is in fact the form of a square rotated on a square.
1:40:27And so square root of two functions, this is a background matrix, is how they
1:40:32generated this pattern. So you can recognize that as a square root of two function.
1:40:37Same thing here.
1:40:38I've got the exact same basic matrix, but all I've done is I've connected up
1:40:43different lines.
1:40:44And so by using these matrix patterns that Jane is exposing you to and you're
1:40:49learning how to work with, you can then use those by connecting up different parts
1:40:54of the matrix into all types of different designs.
1:40:57Here's another one that you would see in Islamic design, also based on root two.
1:41:03Simply a matter of your choosing which of the lines to connect together.
1:41:07There's also the aspect of it that there is sometimes the use of the root two as a
1:41:12spiral form.
1:41:13And in the construction of the root two spiral, basically you've got these root two
1:41:18rectangles, one next to the other, in a constant diminishing series.
1:41:23Although they're all actually in and of themselves a root two rectangle.
1:41:27And then you're simply connecting the points up that creates a spiral form.
1:41:32And later on we're going to be seeing this with the phi ratio as a very important
1:41:37phi ratio spiral in sacred geometry.
1:41:40So the square root of three is the next function we need to be aware of.
1:41:44And what the square root of three generates is triangular forms and with the two
1:41:49triangles together, six pointed star and hexagonal forms.
1:41:53So when you see these types of forms, you can think this is a root three function.
1:41:58And this becomes a common language by people that do sacred architecture and design
1:42:03of any tradition.
1:42:05Someone from one tradition in one part of the world will recognize the design of
1:42:10someone somewhere else and they will understand the root two, three and five basis
1:42:15of the patterns.
1:42:16Again, from this as a matrix, this might be a pattern that you would see then in
1:42:21Islamic art or some other variety of sacred art or architecture.
1:42:25And again, you would look at it and say, okay, I see the six pointed star inside of
1:42:30it and I've got a basic matrix that this whole pattern was generated from.
1:42:35That is square root of three.
1:42:37This is another one that is based on a square root of three pattern.
1:42:41And again, at this point, it's beginning to get more abstract.
1:42:45But the more you work with them, the more you can begin to identify these different
1:42:51shapes as coming from these base matrices.
1:42:53And again, this is also connected to the way that the two triangles are generated by
1:42:59the flower pattern that you worked with on the very first day.
1:43:02The classic flower pattern of creation.
1:43:05And I should make a quick comment about this that Jane may have already commented on
1:43:10for you, which is that this pattern has been popularized, particularly as you go out
1:43:16to the next series of circles, as the flower of life.
1:43:19But that is not a term that is universally accepted in sacred geometry circles.
1:43:24It is universally accepted that it is a flower pattern because the overlapping of
1:43:29the circles creates these leaves on the flower. It creates the petals of the flower.
1:43:35However, as it turns out, a flower of life would have to be connected to the
1:43:39geometry of life, which is actually five-sided or pentagonal.
1:43:43So a flower of life pattern would be a pattern like this that was actually
1:43:48pentagonal and not hexagonal because the hexagonal structure is the structure that
1:43:53one sees in mineral nature. Minerals are six-sided.
1:43:57And so some groups will call it not the flower of life, which is reserved for
1:44:01five-sided structures related to the phi ratio and to life functions, but rather
1:44:07they will call it the flower of creation because of the hexagonal aspect.
1:44:11Here's another one that could be generated from the basic matrix of the square root
1:44:17of three.
1:44:17Just so you start freeing up your thought process to see how the parts of the matrix
1:44:22could be connected together. In this case, one connects them with these wave lines.
1:44:28And if you then take away the matrix and just leave the wave lines that you use to
1:44:33connect up parts of the base diagram, you would get patterns such as this.
1:44:38But if you step back from it a little bit and began to examine it, you would still
1:44:43see that you had a base of one, two, three, four, five, six sides.
1:44:47It's simply an elaboration of a root three relationship.
1:44:51And patterns for the square root of five have to be based on the square root of
1:44:56five, which is the diagonal line on the double square that you examined earlier.
1:45:01And the thing I want to bring out for that about, for you right now, is that very
1:45:06often when you examine square root five relationships, which I mentioned to you
1:45:11before, it's just a little bit off the form of the pentagram or the pentagon.
1:45:16When you then see it laid out as a root five rectangle, what you commonly see are
1:45:21things like this.
1:45:22So you can actually identify in it very often the form of the pentagram, but it's
1:45:27not a perfectly balanced pentagram. It's like a slightly squashed pentagram.
1:45:32And this is usually a sign that you're looking at a root five relationship.
1:45:37It's close enough to the phi ratio to give you a pentagram of five-pointed star
1:45:42form, but not yet close enough to the phi ratio to give you a perfectly balanced
1:45:47five-pointed star.
1:45:48So these type of squashed five-pointed stars are one sign of these root five
1:45:53relationships.
1:45:54And this is commonly used in the ancient world for architecture and for creating
1:45:59design such as pottery and various types of objects.
1:46:02There are many texts available that talk about this as the matrix for a lot of
1:46:07design in the ancient world.
1:46:09And so this would be one matrix related to the square root of five that is related
1:46:14to creating a facade of a particular part of architecture.
1:46:18And again, also related to the form of the pentagram, but you have to bring other
1:46:23functions in as well.
1:46:25Here to really generate the full form of the pentagram, you have to bring in the
1:46:30function of one because the square root of five plus one divided by two gives you
1:46:35the phi ratio.
1:46:36Now, an interesting thing about the square root of five is that there's a way that
1:46:41you can work with generating it in which, let's say I've got a square and I've
1:46:46divided the square up into four component squares, all equally sized.
1:46:50Now I'm going to use two of those squares as my root five angle, like you would see
1:46:56right here.
1:46:56And I'm going to then draw a compass line with it so that I'm going to then draw the
1:47:02arc down to the same baseline as I started with my double square.
1:47:06And then I'm going to continue past up to the top, up above the top set of double
1:47:11squares. And if I connected that up, that would give me a larger square form.
1:47:16And this would be a series of what's referred to as nomens.
1:47:20And this particular form is actually one that you see related to in a hidden way in
1:47:25a number of things in ancient Egypt.
1:47:27This way of working with the square root of five and the energetics of that, and the
1:47:33way it's related to creation forces is that, for instance, if you see the cubical
1:47:38stone on which the pharaoh is sitting, it's related to this relationship of the
1:47:43squares within the form.
1:47:44And then it has this particular edge on the outside, the same as you have that edge
1:47:50created by the arc in the square root of five geometric drawing.
1:47:54Interestingly enough, this is very similar to what you find if you were to get the
1:47:59actual area of the bases of the three pyramids at Giza Plateau, and you were to get
1:48:04their accurately sized bases, one on top of the other, you would then find that they
1:48:10were in a relationship the same as this.
1:48:12The smallest part of the three pyramids at Giza Plateau, the smallest of the three
1:48:17pyramids would become this form here.
1:48:20Then this form here would give you the form of the Pyramid of Khafre, which then, at
1:48:25the latest stage of the Pyramid of Khufu, or the Great Pyramid, is this form here.
1:48:30So their actual areas that they cover in being three different sizes, when you
1:48:35superimpose them, actually gives you this diagram.
1:48:38So all types of hidden relationships here that were known to the masters of the
1:48:43compass and the masters of the net in Egypt in creating their sacred sites.
1:48:48A very common form that I believe that you constructed with Jane the other day is
1:48:53working with the construction of the vesica on two axes, and the two axes are then
1:48:59pointing toward the four cardinal directions.
1:49:02And then you can also create lines going to the cross corners.
1:49:05And then you have the eight directions of space.
1:49:09And this is classically used in creating the foundation of a temple or a sacred
1:49:14space in the classical ancient world, outside of doing the compass and straight line
1:49:19drawing.
1:49:19In laying the foundations, they would usually have a central post, and they would
1:49:25have a rope from it, and their particular constructions and laying out positions
1:49:30with the rope.
1:49:31But the basic idea of this being the matrix for laying out a temple is common to
1:49:36many traditions, particularly in India.
1:49:38Most Indian sacred geometry and laying out a temple has this as its fundamental
1:49:43structure.
1:49:44There's a further process that one can do with the vesica, where just as you saw
1:49:49today with the vesica, you can generate a triangle here, and you can generate a
1:49:54square there. You can actually take it much further.
1:49:57You could continue to work with the form of the vesica, and it will provide you with
1:50:03the energetic information that you need to go from the triangle, which is the three,
1:50:08to the square, which is the four, to then go to the form of the pentagon, which is
1:50:13the five.
1:50:14It will actually generate a pentagon, and then it'll generate a hexagon, which is
1:50:19the six.
1:50:19So three, four, five, and six sided enclosures can all be generated from the vesica
1:50:25as a base. Seven is not, but eight is, so the octagon is two.
1:50:29Then also 10 and 12 can be generated.
1:50:31So all these forms can be generated from the form of the vesica in sacred
1:50:36architecture.
1:50:38Speaker 4: Is there a name for that?
1:50:42Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Not that comes to mind immediately.
1:50:44Now this idea of the superimposition of multiple circles, one on top of the other,
1:50:49and using that as matrices for creation is something that's also been identified by
1:50:54people checking out the sacred geometry of the south of France.
1:50:58And there's been a tremendous amount of publicity in the last 15 years to
1:51:03Rennes-le-Chateau, a particular location in the south of France.
1:51:07But other books that have examined this and examined the particular sacred aspect of
1:51:12places in the south of France have found that major locations in the south of France
1:51:18actually all fall on points along a set of overlapping circles creating vesicas
1:51:23overlaid on the landscape of the south of France.
1:51:26And so this is showing you where various points on this pattern are existing,
1:51:31including Rennes-le-Chateau.
1:51:33Speaker 2: Are those towns?
1:51:35Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Those are towns.
1:51:37Speaker 2: And the answer for rivers is the generation of the basic polygons.
1:51:42Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: The generation of the basic polygons.
1:51:44And one place that that pattern you were asking about rivers is contained is in the
1:51:49book Order in Space by Keith Critchlow.
1:51:52So again, this is what we were working with before, the overlapping of the circles
1:51:57creating our basic pattern of the flower pattern.
1:52:00And that flower pattern is something that's been understood and worked with with
1:52:06many traditions for a very, very, very long time.
1:52:09And you can find many types of magical amulets and things in the ancient world that
1:52:14are a part of spiritual protection or for healing that have this pattern.
1:52:19You can find this in ancient Egypt.
1:52:21You can find it in Ethiopia, particularly throughout the Middle East and the Near
1:52:27East. There are many examples of this.
1:52:29So again, these are ways that this pattern, which is primarily a hidden pattern for
1:52:34the use of the Masters of the Compass and the Masters of the Net, was brought out to
1:52:40the public in a particular form within the amulets.
1:52:43Well, there's an aspect here too, if you go to a deeper level of it, getting away
1:52:49from the pure form of the vesica, that the vesica is related to the idea and the
1:52:54application of the polarity and the balancing of polarity in the center.
1:52:58So a very important concept in sacred geometry is this movement from unity to
1:53:03polarity to balance within the trinity.
1:53:06And so within the pure polarity aspect, many traditions have a study of the
1:53:11polarities of creation and how they can be used, how they transform, and how they
1:53:16can be balanced. This is a Central American version.
1:53:20And of course, this is the famous Yin-Yang of the Chinese.
1:53:23So that a very, very important body of knowledge for the entire world comes from the
1:53:29Chinese system of the I Ching.
1:53:31The I Ching is based on a particular type of binary progression.
1:53:35As we go from the unity to the polarity of the Yin and the Yang, then using these
1:53:40aspects of Yin and Yang and their possible combinations in two, you then get the
1:53:45next set of what are known as diagrams, where there are two lines.
1:53:50So the Yin line is a broken line. The Yang line is a solid line.
1:53:54So one way that one could think of the difference and remember it is that the Yin is
1:53:59the receptive aspect.
1:54:01And so instead of being an unbroken line, the Yin is broken in the center so that it
1:54:06can receive something into it.
1:54:08And so possible combinations of these basic polarities give you four.
1:54:13And then if you add one more to it, going from a diagram to a trigram, then you have
1:54:18eight possibilities.
1:54:19If you were to put two sets of trigrams together, creating these hexagrams that are
1:54:25often used today in I Ching studies, then it would be eight times eight
1:54:29possibilities, giving you 64 hexagrams of the I Ching.
1:54:33Now, in some of the original studies of the I Ching, the studies were broken down to
1:54:38the basic diagrams.
1:54:40But what is more common today is the study of the trigrams as the foundation.
1:54:45And so they have particular names related to qualities of energy and manifestation
1:54:50in the world.
1:54:51Now, it's important to understand that the I Ching is referred to as the Book of
1:54:56Changes.
1:54:57The name means the Book of Changes because these are not 64 different static states
1:55:02in nature.
1:55:03These are particular states that are constantly dynamically moving and flowing from
1:55:08one state to the next.
1:55:10I worked with one particular Qigong master of a system of shamanic Qigong from Wu
1:55:15Mountain in China, and he was saying that, you know, many parts of the Chinese
1:55:20knowledge in America today are only partial because they look at frozen aspects of
1:55:25the I Ching.
1:55:26They don't look at the moving aspect and how it transforms from one part to another.
1:55:32He said from their perspective, in his particular school, that if you're looking at
1:55:37Chinese astrology, you cannot understand it without understanding the transformation
1:55:42of the energies one into the next. So it's not just a static birth chart.
1:55:47It's a constant dynamic transformative process in the person's lifetime.
1:55:52And the same thing for feng shui.
1:55:54That's constantly changing with the moving and the evolution of the hexagrams from
1:55:59one form to another.
1:56:01Well, this basic form of the I Ching then becomes a master study of 64 possible
1:56:06states of manifestation in a constant dynamic process that are possible on this
1:56:11planet. So this has numerous applications in esotericism.
1:56:15So it's a very valuable study for someone from any system to start looking into the
1:56:20deeper waters of the I Ching.
1:56:22Now there's another part of this too because it relates to the basic manifestation
1:56:27process of polarity and how those polarities manifest in this particular process.
1:56:33One very obvious application of it is in any type of binary code process.
1:56:37So if you go to buy memory for your computer, it's all based on the same binary
1:56:42system.
1:56:43And so if you take this idea that the one becomes the two, that becomes the four,
1:56:48that becomes the eight, eight times eight gives you 64, then you'll come to 128,
1:56:53256, 512.
1:56:54These are the numbers that you buy your memory modules for that go into your
1:56:59computer.
1:57:00If you notice they're in these particular numbers, like 512K, that sort of thing,
1:57:05512 megabytes these days.
1:57:06And that's because it's all based on these binary progressions.
1:57:11So that same logic, that same binary logic is the foundation of computer programs
1:57:16and computer memory today.
1:57:18One very interesting aspect of this work that's come forward in the last 20 years
1:57:23have been studies by scientists that compare the system of the 64 hexagrams of the I
1:57:28Ching to the creation of the 64 sets of the codons in the DNA.
1:57:32And so the 64 codons of DNA are then analyzed according to the 64 forms of the I
1:57:38Ching.
1:57:38Now, interesting thing about it is that as we go from the polarity of yin and yang,
1:57:43and then we create the four out of that, and then we create the eight out of that by
1:57:49going from one line to two lines to three lines, that it's understood that those
1:57:54eight lines of the I Ching can then become the anchor points for a cube.
1:57:59And then that cube form that is anchored at its eight points by the eight trigrams
1:58:04of the I Ching can then be created a larger cube that contains books like this,
1:58:09Johnson's, Yan's book on DNA and the I Ching has on its cover an actual pattern that
1:58:15he patented on the relationship between the I Ching and the particular building
1:58:20blocks of life itself with the 64 codons of DNA.
1:58:23There are a few other books available on this topic as well and I list them in your
1:58:28handout. But this is one of the most prominent ones, DNA and the I Ching.
1:58:33And so as it comes together, they then are able to identify all of the different 64
1:58:39hexagrams and the particular triplicate sets in the DNA process that give rise to
1:58:44the different amino acids. And so there's all types of embedded information in this.
1:58:49Now there's also a very wonderful book that I'd like to recommend that came out
1:58:54recently that's called Minerals for the Genetic Code.
1:58:58And this particular book is published by Acres USA.
1:59:01We had some copies out here, I don't know if we still do or not.
1:59:05But this book came out very recently and Minerals for the Genetic Code has some
1:59:11fascinating observations about work that's been done very recently about the
1:59:16relationship of particular minerals. And today we are mineral starved.
1:59:20We have driven the minerals out of our soil so we don't get them from the food the
1:59:25way we used to.
1:59:26But the minerals are the building blocks that actually correct problems in the DNA
1:59:32itself and in genetic structures.
1:59:34And there's a lot of incredible stuff in this book on Minerals for the Genetic Code
1:59:39beyond what you would think from the title. But very important information in there.
1:59:45And I might speak more about it at various other topics we get to along the course.
1:59:50Now this idea of working with polarities, as I mentioned before, it is the absolute
1:59:56basis of life in this world.
1:59:57Our life in the manifest world is based on polarities of yin and yang, masculine and
2:00:03feminine.
2:00:03To bring new life in the world, there has to be the merging of masculine and
2:00:08feminine, yin and yang together. Either one alone can't do it.
2:00:12Then you have positive and negative poles in electricity and magnetism.
2:00:17And in fact, electricity and magnetism are like a polarity pair in and of
2:00:22themselves. They come together. When one is generated, the other comes too.
2:00:27You have acid and base and chemical systems.
2:00:30So these are the foundations of all the energetic processes in life.
2:00:34And so this simply demonstrates the way that you have the two polarities of magnets
2:00:39and that the energies come together in particular ways.
2:00:43They either attract with the opposite poles or they repel with the field lines
2:00:48coming from the similar poles.
2:00:50In your handout, for those of you that are interested in healing modalities, I've
2:00:55given you an upshot in the beginning of your handout for these next five days that
2:01:01have to do with using polarities for healing from the perspective of different
2:01:06systems.
2:01:06And one of those handouts deals with research into the application of magnetic poles
2:01:12for healing from the work of Davis and Rawls.
2:01:15Davis and Rawls probably have done the best set of work or the most complete set of
2:01:20work in examining magnetic healing.
2:01:22And there's a lot of detail about their work and how it can be applied in that
2:01:27handout.
2:01:28Again, you'd want to read their books to get the full story, but the handout does
2:01:33make clear things about the way that we normally designate the two parts of a
2:01:38compass needle is actually opposite.
2:01:41We call the north part of the compass needle the part that points to the north.
2:01:46But in fact, the part that would point to the north has to be the south part.
2:01:51So in biomagnetic studies, they actually use the exact opposite terms for north and
2:01:56south on the needle that you'll use with a compass that you buy at a store that you
2:02:02use out in the woods somewhere.
2:02:04So you need to know basic things like that if you're going to get into biomagnetic
2:02:09studies.
2:02:10Also, it clarifies the way that particular poles on the magnet have particular
2:02:15effects. One pole expands energy and one contracts.
2:02:18If you were to put them on two sides of the spine, of a spine that is not straight,
2:02:23you would need to put the polarities on the correct parts so that it is expanding on
2:02:29the one part and pulling toward the other place to bring the spine into its correct
2:02:34position, for example. And many other applications as well.
2:02:38One polarity can increase an infection, another can diminish it.
2:02:42So all of this is described in this particular handout.
2:02:46So this work with polarity has many different manifestations, one of which is
2:02:51magnetic, but also has manifestations and things like the polarities of the human
2:02:56body.
2:02:56And so there's the polarity system of polarity healing developed by Randolph Stone.
2:03:02And polarity healing system is actually based on a lot of things that Randolph Stone
2:03:07picked up living and working in India.
2:03:10So I have a short part of the handout as well dealing with polarity healing and its
2:03:15basic concepts in the work of Randolph Stone.
2:03:18I also have a part of the handouts for you in the set that deal with polarity
2:03:23according to the esoteric work of a great hermetic healer and scholar named Franz
2:03:28Bardon.
2:03:29Franz Bardon wrote a series of very interesting hermetic texts that are classics in
2:03:34the field. His most famous text is called Initiation into Hermetics.
2:03:39And a very advanced hermetic adept in Europe.
2:03:42I believe he actually comes from Czechoslovakia, although he operated throughout
2:03:47Europe.
2:03:47And he had terrible experiences in World War II where he was captured and tortured
2:03:53by the Nazis. But he survived the war.
2:03:55Anyway, in his works like Initiation into Hermetics, he studies the polarities in
2:04:00different parts of the human body.
2:04:03And he talks about the way that these polarities come together in particular types
2:04:08of energetic work and in spiritual work.
2:04:11And the polarities that are operative in his type of hermetic initiation.
2:04:15And he also mentions there that there's in fact not only the dual system of North
2:04:21and South, but there are actually polarities within that creating a four-part system
2:04:26that he calls a quadrupole magnet.
2:04:28And that those four parts of magnetic energy are directly related to the concept of
2:04:34Yod Hei Val Hei, the divine name of God, which encloses this information about the
2:04:39quadrupole magnet in initiation.
2:04:41But again, I've written all up in the handout for you so we won't spend more time on
2:04:47it here, but know that that exists in your papers.
2:04:50In the biogeometry course, we spoke at one point about this aspect of the early
2:04:55French energy research with the work of a man named Louis Turin.
2:04:59And Louis Turin was one of the people that first began to examine the different
2:05:04qualities of energy and break the qualities of energy up into the different bands
2:05:10that we use today in biogeometry, for example.
2:05:13Now, there are particular tools that Louis Turin developed to be able to test
2:05:18different energy waves that cannot be picked up by electromagnetic equipment.
2:05:23And in fact, some of his tools are very effective and they're a bit complex to
2:05:28learn, which is one reason we don't use them in the basic biogeometry training, but
2:05:33they can reveal a lot of energetic phenomena that's hard to pick up any other way.
2:05:39So one very interesting tool of Louis Turin's that is described in some of the
2:05:44translations from Jane Weaver, where she translated Turin's works into English, is a
2:05:49particular tool that he developed in which using as a pendulum, a basic form of a
2:05:54sphere, he then would get two compass needles and he would mount them on either
2:06:00sides of the sphere.
2:06:01And then clearly marking which poles were which on the needles, depending on how you
2:06:06align the two needles, horizontally or vertically, or one horizontal and one
2:06:11vertical, or both polarities going the same direction, or the polarities going in
2:06:17two opposite directions, you could actually test different types of energy qualities
2:06:22and he could pick up different types of energy waves.
2:06:25This is a more complex part of testing the energetics off of shapes and forms and
2:06:31the energetics that make up our world that Turin talked about.
2:06:35But it's a very interesting idea.
2:06:37He's now applying the polarities of the magnets along with directionality for
2:06:42vertical waves and horizontal waves in nature to be able to differentiate very
2:06:47subtle energetic phenomena that most people had never even thought about.
2:06:52So this is a very interesting concept and something to explore for those of you into
2:06:57energetic research.
2:06:59Speaker 4: Did Christopher Hills work with that?
2:07:01Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Yes, he did. Christopher Hills did work with that at one time. That's right.
2:07:05Christopher Hills is one of the few people in North America that knew the French
2:07:10research.
2:07:10And as you might be aware, we were fortunate enough to purchase his entire library
2:07:15from his widow a couple of years ago.
2:07:17And that's been some of the text that Jane has been translating.
2:07:21So I mentioned before that not only is electricity a polar system of positive and
2:07:26negative polarities and is magnetism, but the two are themselves connected.
2:07:31And many different types of phenomena where you have an electrical field, it will
2:07:35generate a magnetic field at an orthogonal rotation, which if you remember from our
2:07:40first day as a big $10 word to make academics feel special, orthogonal rotation is
2:07:45just a 90 degree angular shift.
2:07:47And so you classically have electrical fields and magnetic fields appearing
2:07:52together, but at two different axes at 90 degree rotation from each other.
2:07:56It's another aspect of the polar creation of the world.
2:07:59Now, for those of you that are into the deeper waters of esoteric energy research
2:08:04and particularly into what's known as free energy research, there is an interesting
2:08:09body of work that has to do with zero point energy.
2:08:12And I don't know if it's still out there or not, but we had a few books by Murray
2:08:17King dealing with zero point energy and some of its concepts.
2:08:21And there's also relationships of zero point energy to what's known as scalar
2:08:25energy. In fact, there are different names that are used by people doing free energy
2:08:30research and esoteric energy research that many of them are closely connected.
2:08:35Scalar energies, free energy, zero point energy, torsion fields is a term that the
2:08:40Russians use. They all have to do with these particular subtle energetic phenomena.
2:08:45And if you begin to study their works, in almost every case, it comes down to
2:08:50geometry.
2:08:50It's the geometry of something they're creating that allows these energies to be
2:08:55manifested in a machine or to be used for some purpose.
2:08:58And so if you want to look at how they are now generating what's known as scalar
2:09:03energies and classically what a scalar energy is, which some of you are familiar
2:09:08with, and you hear this as a jargon term in a lot of advanced energy research, a
2:09:13scalar energy is an energy that has a magnitude in an area, but it does not have a
2:09:17vector of directionality.
2:09:19In other words, it's not propagating out in a direction in physical space the way
2:09:24that electromagnetic waves normally do.
2:09:26It has an energy quality to itself, but it's like instead of traveling out in
2:09:31physical space, it's somehow going in or out of some other place that's not in
2:09:35three-dimensional space. This was a very important concept for Nikola Tesla.
2:09:40Nikola Tesla said that the electromagnetic energies that we use in our modern
2:09:45technology are in fact what he called retarded waves.
2:09:48When the experimenter Hertz put his name onto Hertzian waves that we use today in
2:09:53electromagnetic technology, Tesla shook his head and said that we're gonna lose all
2:09:57understanding of electricity and magnetism because the only thing that are being
2:10:02called Hertzian waves are retarded waves, waves that are slower than the speed of
2:10:07light.
2:10:07But the scalar waves are faster than the speed of light and actually work with some
2:10:12different principles.
2:10:14But that got completely thrown out of the electromagnetic technology and textbooks
2:10:19in later times.
2:10:20Speaker 2: Remember when you heard white scalar waves or are they always differentiating those
2:10:28two terms?
2:10:31Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Very commonly, subtle energy is used as just a blanket term and without more clearly
2:10:36differentiating.
2:10:37Usually they use the term subtle energies for anything that cannot be picked up by
2:10:42electromagnetic monitoring device.
2:10:44So one thing that you find in working with the zero-point energy and scalar energy
2:10:49generation is that they'll build a particular type of coil.
2:10:53And these are two of the coils that are used in scalar energy research.
2:10:57One is what's known as a caduceus coil where the two wires are crossed over each
2:11:02other like this, like a caduceus.
2:11:04And this is also similar to what you find in the slim spiraling tools where he winds
2:11:10the two wires around each other in this type of helix fashion.
2:11:14Another type that you find is something called a bifilar coil.
2:11:17In these, the coils are wound around so that one is directly above the other.
2:11:22And the idea of this is that the currents that are generated in these two, when
2:11:27they're crossing over or they are one on top of the other is that the currents buck
2:11:32one against the other.
2:11:34And in the bucking of the two currents, the energy doesn't necessarily propagate out
2:11:39into physical space, but it creates a kind of a pressure point in spacetime.
2:11:44And it connects to something that's not in three-dimensional space, which can in
2:11:49some cases lead to a release of excess energy.
2:11:52And so there's a lot of different concepts about this and dealing with bringing
2:11:57energy from what they're referring to as hyperspace.
2:12:00And if you look on the internet, you can find different information about these
2:12:05types of technology, particularly if you look up the work of Tom Bearden.
2:12:09Tom Bearden is a person that's worked a lot with scalar wave generators and scalar
2:12:15wave detectors. And Bearden is B-E-A-R-D-E-N, Tom Bearden. Next.
2:12:19So again, a very important concept for us is the way that energy will move out from
2:12:24the center outward and from the periphery moving inward.
2:12:27We've explored this in multiple ways so far in the course, including in urithmy, as
2:12:33well as in our various concepts.
2:12:35And it's a concept that's going to keep coming up for us at different times and
2:12:39taking different manifestations. It's a core part of the creation process.
2:12:44And one aspect of that that I mentioned to you before is the way that etheric life
2:12:49energies will ray in from the circumference of the world around us toward a center.
2:12:54And this is related to some work in projective geometry.
2:12:58The other day, you did a project with Jane where you drew lines and you were able to
2:13:03create forms in the way that the lines came together to create an enclosure.
2:13:08So in projective geometry, it has to do not just with basic mathematical and
2:13:13geometric concepts in what's called non-Euclidean geometry, but it has to do with
2:13:18the basic process of how life forces stream in from the cosmos to the earth and
2:13:23construct things here in the world.
2:13:25That's one reason why Rudolf Steiner and the Rosicrucians working with Steiner have
2:13:30done a lot of work with projective geometry because they understand it's related to
2:13:35etheric life forces streaming toward the earth.
2:13:38And so they'll do these types of diagrams showing these forces streaming in from all
2:13:44these different directions, creating a matrix blueprint for the creation of living
2:13:49forms, such as this leaf.
2:13:50Or in this case, with the lines raying in from multiple directions, creating
2:13:55crystalline forms like minerals, with the idea being that if something like a
2:14:00crystal is growing, that form that the crystal takes with its hexagonal geometry is
2:14:05not formed purely from what's inside of it, but is also taking its form by the
2:14:10forces coming from the outside that are impressing the shape upon it.
2:14:14Now, there's a very important concept here also related to polarity, which is that
2:14:19of inversion.
2:14:20And if you read some older occult texts, they will often talk about this principle
2:14:25of inversion, and they will use the metaphor of a glove turning itself inside out.
2:14:31And they use this principle of inversion and the glove turning inside out to
2:14:35describe the relationship between the spiritual world and the physical world, that
2:14:40the spiritual and physical worlds are very similar to each other, but they're the
2:14:46exact opposite. One of them is inverted compared to the other.
2:14:49It's like something turning itself inside out.
2:14:52One way this is sometimes described as an esoteric example is that while we are
2:14:57incarnated in a physical body, I experience the forces streaming from the planets
2:15:02inside of me as my internal organs.
2:15:04And this is that whole hermetic analogy of the way the organs are derived from the
2:15:10forces of the planets. So now inside of me, in my body, I feel those organs.
2:15:14Whereas after death, it's like I'm turned inside out, and I experience the planets
2:15:20in the solar system the same way that I experienced the organs in my body while I
2:15:25was incarnated.
2:15:26So this inversion process is very important, and you find innumerable examples of it
2:15:31in different esoteric texts, particularly classical texts.
2:15:34A lot of classical knowledge has been lost today, and you just don't see it in
2:15:39esoteric teachings or texts anymore, even stuff from the turn of the last century.
2:15:44But it's very important ideas.
2:15:46Another important idea is about this inversion process between the physical and
2:15:51spiritual planes where things will appear literally reversed.
2:15:55And so one thing that you would find in some turn of the century text is describing
2:16:00perceiving things in the astral light.
2:16:03And in the astral light, the number 531 might appear to you as 135.
2:16:07And things that you're actually sending out away from you energetically might appear
2:16:12to you as if they're coming toward you.
2:16:15And so one description of this is that a person going through severe drug withdrawal
2:16:20or DTs of some kind might actually be sending out from themselves some pretty nasty
2:16:25stuff, but they perceive it as something terrible moving toward them, these
2:16:30terrible, horrific images moving toward them.
2:16:33They're actually being projected out from them, but they see it as moving in toward
2:16:38them. So all types of inversion processes like this occur.
2:16:41You will also find on the temple walls in ancient Egypt pictures of the initiate
2:16:46being led toward the spiritual world and standing there looking.
2:16:50And he has to figure out why there are figures standing up here and directly beneath
2:16:56them is the same figure reversed upside down beneath it.
2:16:59Understanding that inversion process, you see that on the Egyptian temple walls.
2:17:04So let me show you another idea related to inversion because it's not just between
2:17:09the physical and spiritual worlds, although that definitely happens.
2:17:14And it's also a very important idea for the Rosicrucians in understanding the
2:17:18relationship between the physical energies or the physical realm and etheric life
2:17:24energies. Part of it is actually one being turned inside out from the other.
2:17:28But this also occurs in the creation of the physical world with polarities.
2:17:33So I'll give you a very direct example that you're all familiar with.
2:17:37And that is this reciprocal polarity relationship with human beings breathing in
2:17:42oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide.
2:17:45Then the plants breathe in the carbon dioxide and they release oxygen.
2:17:49It's a perfect symbiotic relationship between the two.
2:17:53And again, it's also a polarity process.
2:17:55But interestingly enough, that polarity process also exists in the actual spatial
2:18:00form or the geometry of the organs of respiration for the plant and for the human
2:18:05being.
2:18:06So if you look at the organ of respiration for the plant, it's outside of itself
2:18:11with the branching of the branches and the leaves on the outside.
2:18:15And it takes a particular type of fractal form.
2:18:18Whereas in the human being, the exact same form is inside.
2:18:21But the branches into the openings in the lung are then literally the form that you
2:18:27see on the trees, which is on the outside, is now inverted and turned inside out.
2:18:32So what is actually solid in physical space with a physical branch and a physical
2:18:37twig and a physical leaf on the outside here is now not only turned inside out as
2:18:42the exact shape and form inside the human being, but also it is now an empty or
2:18:47hollow space. What was solid here is now empty here.
2:18:50And those branches of the lungs are now empty open space.
2:18:54A very important example of this principle of inversion in the creation of the
2:18:58physical world and polarity relationships for how life works, because life operates
2:19:04as a pulsation.
2:19:05When you check a person's pulse and there's no more pulse, they're dead.
2:19:09The faculty of breathing in and out, of the heart beating, these things are all
2:19:14directly related to that pulsation of polarity of life that need to be perfectly
2:19:19balanced. And I'll give you one other example of this.
2:19:22And that is this principle of the Mobius strip.
2:19:25Mobius strip becomes a very interesting geometric example of something turning
2:19:30itself inside out in a circuit.
2:19:32Because as you see here with a square riding the outside of a Mobius strip, this is
2:19:37a two-dimensional being on that surface.
2:19:40It'll start here and they're starting on the outside, but the Mobius strip has that
2:19:45half a turn.
2:19:46So if you took a piece of paper and gave it half a turn and then put it together,
2:19:51that gives you the form of a Mobius.
2:19:53So he's starting on the outside and then all of a sudden, he hits the twist and you
2:19:58see the look on his face. It's like, whoa, how'd I end up on the inside?
2:20:03And it goes through a complete 360 circuit on the inside and then all of a sudden
2:20:08he's on the outside again.
2:20:10So that twist of the Mobius strip of taking a circuit ride on the outside, then all
2:20:15of a sudden, whoops, I'm taking the ride on the inside, whoops, I'm back out on the
2:20:20outside, is also a description esoterically of the incarnation process.
2:20:24All of a sudden, I'm flying around in the spiritual world. What happened to my body?
2:20:30And then before you know it, I got stuck in another body and whoops, I'm back on the
2:20:35outside. Then whoops, I got hit by the truck and now I'm back on the inside.
2:20:40So it's a geometric archetype of that whole process, that entire movement and how
2:20:45the two work together. All righty, it is just now five o'clock.
2:20:49I'll take the lights on and I'll take a few quick questions and then we're gonna be
2:20:54done for the day.
2:20:55So the principle of this talk had to do with the vesica as the balancing of
2:21:00polarities and the universal harmonics of the three sacred roots that come out of it
2:21:05and then the basic principle of polarity and creation and the different forms that
2:21:10it takes. So any questions or comments that anybody has? Yes, please.
2:21:16Speaker 4: Well, I was like, this will be like mirroring, inversion and mirroring.
2:21:25Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Inversion and mirroring, it can take both forms.
2:21:28It can take the mirroring aspect that we talked about like with 135 appearing as 531
2:21:34and it can also take the literal inversion aspect like a glove turning itself inside
2:21:39out that you saw between the branches of the tree and the open spaces within the
2:21:45human lungs.
2:21:46Speaker 2: Well, because the 153 versus 133, I can't even say it, but if it was inversion, it
2:21:54would be reciprocals. 1 5th, 1 3rd, not the reverse order of the numbers.
2:22:01That to me is inversion, so I'm kind of getting hung up.
2:22:08Speaker 4: Do you understand what I'm saying?
2:22:09Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Kind of, kind of, we'll talk about it more.
2:22:12Speaker 3: Okay.
2:22:13Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Yes, please.
2:22:14Speaker 3: On the drawing of the cathedral, where the vestibule was around the Christ figure.
2:22:19There were a number of Hippohedra shown inverted and to each other.
2:22:23There was one drawing that showed them juxtaposed perfectly, which looks like the
2:22:29drawing of the symbol of the color macabre.
2:22:32Is that an actual figure that actually exists in creation with the solids?
2:22:37Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Absolutely.
2:22:37The form that is popularly known as the, well, let's start from the beginning.
2:22:42The concept of the Merkabah is a concept coming from early Jewish Kabbalism and then
2:22:48became a series of texts by what's known as the Hekaloth school around the 2nd
2:22:53century AD.
2:22:54This was a branch of the Kabbalistic school that specialized in directly applying
2:22:59Kabbalistic ideas to direct initiation processes and particularly to conscious
2:23:04travel through higher worlds.
2:23:06And you can actually find translations of these early Jewish texts.
2:23:10None of them refer directly to the actual geometric shape of the Merkabah.
2:23:15Rather, they refer to the Merkabah where the term Merkabah in Hebrew is actually a
2:23:20term coming from the root Rahev, which means to leave one's normal place and travel
2:23:26in Hebrew.
2:23:26And it's related to the term Merkabah that you see in the vision of Ezekiel in the
2:23:32Old Testament and the ascent of Elijah to heaven in which in those depictions, they
2:23:37talk about these people ascending to heaven on the Merkabah, which is then
2:23:42understood as being a chariot and depicted as a chariot of fire in some of the Old
2:23:47Testament texts.
2:23:48So it's some type of vehicle for travel in higher worlds in those earlier texts.
2:23:54Then material began to come out and the term Merkabah or Merkabah became
2:23:58repopularized in the US in the 1970s through the text, The Keys of Enoch with J.J.
2:24:04Hurtock.
2:24:04Then it reached even more exposure with the work of Bernard Perona, aka Drunvalo
2:24:09Melchizedek with his Flower of Life Workshop in the 1980s.
2:24:13And he taught a form of the Merkabah that was a bit different from what was taught
2:24:18by Hurtock in which he depicted the form of the Merkabah as what's known as a star
2:24:24tetrahedron. So that's the background.
2:24:26The star tetrahedron is basically one tetrahedron up, one tetrahedron down, creating
2:24:32an interlocked form.
2:24:33That is a form that you will find if you connect up points within a cube.
2:24:38A cube has eight spaces.
2:24:39If you want to make a cube so that if you made it a flexible cube that it would
2:24:45actually be supported and not fall down, you would put that form inside of the two
2:24:50tetrahedra. And it's actually important that it's related to that form of the cube.
2:24:55So that form of the star tetrahedra is known classically as the stella octangula
2:25:00because it's based on creating a stellation or a star form off of the base of a
2:25:06octahedron.
2:25:06Because what you basically do is you take every face of the octahedron and from the
2:25:12center you draw out a point. So now you have a point out on all eight faces.
2:25:17You stellate it into a star. And that gives you the form of the star tetrahedron.
2:25:22This particular form of the star tetrahedron does exist in different energetic
2:25:27applications.
2:25:28And one of the backgrounds to the work that was popularized as the Merkava with the
2:25:33star tetrahedron can be found in the work of Rudolf Steiner from about 60 years
2:25:38previously.
2:25:39And at that point, he was talking about the way that in the classical Western
2:25:44tradition, the form energetically of the human etheric body is related to a
2:25:49five-pointed star.
2:25:50The classic five-pointed star like this is an etheric circulation.
2:25:55Then the form of the human astral body is related to a six-pointed star.
2:25:59And we're gonna go into more detail on this, and I've got slides for this on
2:26:04probably Thursday.
2:26:05And so I'll go into some more about this and you'll see the pictures accompanying
2:26:11what I'm telling you right now.
2:26:13But the basic idea of it is that that six-pointed star form is simply a
2:26:17two-dimensional view of it.
2:26:19And to make a long story short that we'll talk about more when we get to it in a
2:26:24couple of days, the upshot of it is that the star tetrahedron form is one aspect of
2:26:30the human astral body. It is one form the human astral body of consciousness takes.
2:26:35Well, there are other forms as well.
2:26:37So that there's also an egg-shaped arc form and other forms that are part of the
2:26:43human astral body functioning.
2:26:45So what was then brought out to the public as the Merkava is one part of the human
2:26:50subtle bodies. And that part is accurate.
2:26:53But what was left out of it were the other geometric aspects that I believe was an
2:26:58original part of the understanding of the Kabbalistic school and then with their
2:27:03offshoot of the Hekeloth school with the Merkava writers.
2:27:07So that I think is an authentic piece of the puzzle but it's only one part of the
2:27:12original initiation knowledge of all the patterns.
2:27:15Because if we think of this in a way that's often described in modern terms as an
2:27:21ascension vehicle, that actually all the different subtle bodies are involved in
2:27:26higher spiritual knowledge and travel.
2:27:28And so part of this is the transformation of these subtle bodies to a higher form.
2:27:34So again, this is one part of that system but there's more to it.
2:27:38And I would make one little side comment.
2:27:41And that is that if you take a look at some of the old Egyptian hieroglyphics, you
2:27:46find that two primal forms in ancient Egypt for what we think of as the human
2:27:51etheric life body and the human astral body or what they call the Ka and the Ba.
2:27:56And if you take a look at these Egyptian texts related to the term love, the term
2:28:01love in Egypt was the prefix Mer.
2:28:04And so Mer-Ka-Ba, as far as pure seed sounds in ancient Egyptian would mean the
2:28:09force of love transmuting the human life body and the human astral body into a
2:28:14vehicle of higher consciousness and travel.
2:28:17The thing with this is that a Jewish Kabbalistic scholar will not accept that
2:28:22interpretation, which by the way is my interpretation.
2:28:25It doesn't, I haven't found it in any text.
2:28:28But just by studying ancient Egyptian, those are the sounds.
2:28:32But in Kabbalistic studies with the Kabbalistic word, the sound itself has some
2:28:37meaning.
2:28:38So again, what I would say as a wrap up for that, and we'll get to it in more detail
2:28:43with some slides in a couple of days, is that that is an authentic pattern for one
2:28:48part of the human energy field, but it's part of a larger system of patterns, too.
2:28:54Yes, please.
2:28:56Speaker 2: I have two questions.
2:28:57One is, can you speak about the shape of the egg, the ovoid, as it relates to the
2:29:04shape of the sphere?
2:29:05And the other question is, real early today, you showed that man unified a few.
2:29:12And I'm just wondering if there's any connection between the five forces and the
2:29:18BG3.
2:29:22Dr. Robert J. Gilbert: Let's see.
2:29:22The five forces of unified theory and the BG3, no, I'm not making any direct
2:29:27connection.
2:29:27I'll tell you one theory that I have, and this is not coming from Dr. Karim.
2:29:32This is just coming from me with my hermetic connections. This is just me.
2:29:37So, and that is that from my examination of the appearance of these three energies
2:29:42and their functions, they appear to me to be related to primal forces that are at
2:29:47the core of the human energy body, of the human consciousness body, and of the human
2:29:52divine essence.
2:29:53Now, what I mean by that is that one is the negative green carrier wave.
2:29:57And if you take a look at its function, it's to transmit energy and information.
2:30:02Well, that's the function of the etheric.
2:30:05And so the etheric life function seems to be mirrored there in what we're then
2:30:10identifying in the center of the circle as the function of the negative green.
2:30:14Then the second element is the higher harmonic of ultraviolet, the next body of the
2:30:20human being seen from a fourfold perspective that we described before is the astral
2:30:25body.
2:30:25And when we did our little process the other day, and we went through the layers, at
2:30:30the furthest layer we come to, at the astral level, we see this dark purple light.
2:30:35And in fact, when I started working with Dr. Karim, I recognized his description of
2:30:40the higher harmonic of ultraviolet as the spiritual light in the atmosphere of the
2:30:45angels as being the same thing as this particular light.
2:30:49It is the spiritual light because it is the light that you perceive in these
2:30:54different spiritual practices.
2:30:55So from my perspective, if I worked with a particular Himalayan master, they would
2:31:01focus on my being able to perceive it directly in the third eye space.
2:31:05Whereas from this Egyptian school, they work to objectify it from the outside to be
2:31:10able to test and manifest its energy quality through particular means.
2:31:14So one's more introverted, one's more extroverted, but it's the same thing.
2:31:19So higher harmonic of ultraviolet for me is the core energy behind the astral.
2:31:24Then the final one is the higher harmonic of gold and described in biogeometry as
2:31:29the plane of divine wisdom.
2:31:30And so that gold essence is what is classically connected to the I am
2:31:35self-awareness, the divine spark.
2:31:37And even the Egyptians say this is the highest of the three elements.
2:31:41And so negative green I would see as connected to the core of the etheric.
2:31:46The higher harmonic of ultraviolet to the core of the astral.
2:31:49Higher harmonic of gold to the core of the I am presence or the spiritual core.
2:31:54And so there's a reason why you would find all three in the center of the circle and
2:31:59why all three are what balance living energetic systems and those particular
2:32:04functions. Again, that's just my view, not necessarily Ibrahim's.
2:32:08He might agree with certain parts of it.
2:32:11Like he will say, definitely multiple groups know about these energies, particularly
2:32:16about higher harmonic of ultraviolet and the spiritual light, et cetera.
2:32:20But that particular interpretation is simply my own.
2:32:23Now, the other question, again, about the particular form of the ovoid vis-a-vis the
2:32:29circle or the sphere is something we're gonna get more into tomorrow.
2:32:33Because the upshot of it, when we're going to find from my perspective, when I did
2:32:38this work of trying to identify what are the core patterns in sacred geometry and
2:32:43what are their functions, that the egg-shaped auric enclosure are the egg shape in
2:32:48nature as a form of the egg.
2:32:50Whereas in a mammal, you find the egg in the womb in a more spherical form.
2:32:54And some other creatures, they have more of the literal egg when they lay an egg.
2:32:59One thing that we're going to see is that the actual form of the egg in its geometry
2:33:04is the complementary geometry, the exact opposite, but complementary to the form of
2:33:10a double vortex.
2:33:11That the double vortex hourglass-type form has its complementary shape in the form
2:33:16of the egg.
2:33:16And we're going to see that an egg-shaped form will actually generate a vortex.
2:33:21Like if you put an egg shape in water and the water runs by it, it'll spin the water
2:33:26into a vortex after it.
2:33:28And the egg-shaped auric enclosure of a human being fits into the vortices of higher
2:33:33worlds to move from one location to the next.
2:33:36So I'll leave it at there for the moment. And we'll call it a day. Thank you.

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