Ancient Symbols & Sacred Geometry


by Ilyhana Kate Kennedy © 2002

 

 Life comes into being through some mysterious process that we, as curious conscious creatures, are still exploring with some awe and wonder.

Some of us believe in a Creator, some in a Dreaming, some in a Mind, some in a process called the Big Bang.

 Regardless of what we believe, there are patterns to Nature that give clues as to how life takes shape.

It is those clues and what they might mean both scientifically and spiritually that this website is interested in exploring.

  

There is a direct relationship between ancient traditional symbols that take geometric form and elements of diagrams and computer generated images coming through alternative physics.

These same elements are observable in Natural forms.

 A very clear example is that of the symbol of the Star of David, the six-pointed hexagram-shaped star shown above.

(Author’s note: The work in this website is based on the text “The Bud of Compassion: The Story of Love and Hope.” After completing ‘The Bud of Compassion’ first draft, I read Drunvalo Melchisadek’s work on the Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, and discovered that this work and ‘The Bud of Compassion’ overlap in this symbol. Both works go off in completely different directions otherwise.)

 Here is just one of the ways that an ancient symbol tells a mathematically precise story about how life happens. The first eight cells of the human embryo are arranged spatially as two intersecting triangular 3D shapes called tetrahedrons. A tetrahedron is one of the basic building blocks of all life as described by Plato and now referred to as the Platonic Solids (see extreme left of diagram below). In 3D you might think of it as similar to a pyramid except that it has a triangular rather than square base.

 

 

(Diagram of the Platonic Solids, courtesy of Bruce Rawles and Nancy “Alese” Bolton-Rawles at www.intent.com)

 

                                                     

 

(Diagrams of The Flower of Life and the Egg of Life from the work of Drunvalo Melchisadek, courtesy of The Flower of Life Organisation www.floweroflife.org)

 

In two dimensions, or a cross section cut through the 3D form, it looks like this symbol below. The geometrical shape is composed of one triangle pointing upwards intersected with one triangle pointing downwards. The two triangles have all sides equal length:

                                               Can you see the two tetrahedrons that make up the star tetrahedron form? This is the beginning of life as a human. This is your life, your body, organised by a geometric pattern!

The 3D star tetrahedron form has eight points. It is composed of two intersecting tetrahedrons which each have four points.

The star in 2D has six points.The esoteric number that relates to the Star of David is 6.

 

 

There are six sides in the hexagonal figure that is formed by joining the points around the exterior of the hexagram star.

8 is the hidden number of this symbol.

 Geometrical patterns are throughout Nature and are especially evident in the smallest forms such as pollen grains. Geometry orders chaos to take form.

 The first principle of Creation or the manifestation of all form is geometry, or the Sound of the Dreaming Mind of the Creator, that which eternally expresses itself as the Universe.

  For further reading, you might enjoy exploring the following websites based on Drunvalo Melchisadek’s work on the Flower of Life symbol and its meaning in terms of esoteric physics:

 www.drunvalo.net and www.floweroflife.org

 Or look for the text, “The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1” by Drunvalo Melchisadek, 1990, Light Technology Publishing, Flagstaff, USA, ISBN 1-891824-17-1.