Greek philosophers Plato and
Pythagoras were the first ones
to assign a set value to geometry and concluded that geometry
forms the basis principle in the arrangement of the world and
the universe. Having said that, the Egyptians, Maya and other
ancient cultures long before their time built their sanctuaries
according to these geometric proportions. Because of the unmatched
beauty and harmony of these perfect proportions the geometric
patterns that reoccur in nature with great regularity are called
Sacred Geometry.
The universe is shaped according to set geometric proportions.
The perhaps most famous example is the Golden
Ratio, a special geometric value that occurs everywhere
on earth. These mathematical proportions can be recognised in
everything: from the atoms and the stars to manmade architectural
structures. Our brain recognises Sacred Geometric shapes and
forms at subconscious level. This innate knowledge is a universal
part of the human brain and leads inevitably to the fact that
people tend to experience certain emotions when concentrating
on these shapes. The brain, however, doesn’t always recognise
where this is coming from, because geometry enters the subconscious
mind in an unfiltered manner.
Some simple examples of Sacred Geometric shapes are, amongst
others, the circle, the
sphere and the Golden Ratio.
More complex forms are for example the five
Platonic Solids: Tetrahedron – Hexahedron (cube) – Octahedron
– Dodecahedron – Icosahedron. The water clusters in our body,
for example, are organised according to this norm. Our subconscious
mind recognises these forms by itself, even when we are usually
not aware of this.