Also Temples…

‘Vitruvian Man’

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Many, if not all, geometric forms can be used as templum, and the diagrammatic glyphs of most spiritual systems can be mapped on to the form of the human body after a three-fold pattern.

Despite exoteric claims to the contrary, amongst other things, Vitruvian Man illustrates the correspondence between human physiology and the pentagram, along with the three-fold nature of the human soul.

Movement in the lower torso and legs.

Emotion in the upper torso and arms.

Intellect in the head.

The Christian Trinity was originally a Gnostic Concept based on the ‘Theosophical Reduction’ of the first ten numbers, or Decad. In this system, the number five, which, as we have seen above, is reputedly the number of mankind, also ‘reduces’ to three but after a different fashion, and can thus be seen to explain the biblical mystery of, ‘man made in the image of god’.

The Old Irish Brehon laws were expressed in a triadic form and the Welsh Bards also told the history of Britain in this three-fold way. This was partly to aid memory which, it seems, must also operate via a linked system of three.

In a number of spiritual-traditions holding the central line of three marks the ‘golden mean’ or ‘true path’ giving rise to notions of being centred and/or balanced.

In the east we have the chakras, and in the west the middle pillar of the kabbalistic tree-of-life.

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The tree itself appears to have been earlier than the dying/living god associated with, or affixed to, it and would originally have represented a tree-spirit. The ‘Green Man’ effigies are for this reason always bodiless.

The Gnostic, Sophia, who is a goddess of wisdom initially inhabited the earth sphere as a tree-spirit.

In Scandinavian Mythology which may be very old indeed, the cosmos is a tree, and its form represents, the branching Macrocosm, the trunk of the Mesocosm, or middle-earth, and the roots of the Microcosm below ground. Psychologically this equates with the super-conscious, conscious and subconscious states.

The ancient stone monument builders regarded wood a symbol for life, and stone a symbol of death, even though they used stone to focus, transmit and, in some cases, re-direct the natural earth energies or telluric forces, of the planet. They constantly played with these polarities in the construction of their monuments some of which utilise petrified wood to good effect. Such life/death pillars of wood-turned-stone were sometimes placed over ‘blind springs’ whose energy emanates from the ‘stones’ in a spiral form.

Between the temples-of-the-forehead lie the eyes…

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‘Eyes of Horus’

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‘The iconography of the ‘Beheading Game’ now appears to be full of double-blinds.

The head it seems in this respect is to be regarded as a microcosm for the body.

The mouth is analogous to the genitals, the nose, to the stomach and the forehead to the chest.

The spiritual heart referred to in esoteric literature lies not in the chest but in the head.

The Chinese alchemists and mystics were well aware of this.

It is possible that they were among the first of the younger races to re-discover it.

Their square inch dwelling in a square foot field is a precise enough designation, although, if we want to be circumspect we could add that this house, or dwelling, lies between the sun and the moon…’

The Doomsday Books

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A man is tasked with liberating prisoners.

He finds them deluded.

Their history is prison history, their lives are prison lives.

They think and act accordingly.

Instead of hoarding bread they mold it into dominoes and play games with it.

The rats in prison are treated as pets instead of being trained to communicate with the outside world.

Alcohol is drunk in order to produce hallucinations rather than drug the guards.

The prisoners confuse common words – ‘Provisions’ to them means prison-food.  ‘Journey’ means walking to and from cell blocks. ‘Escape’ means avoiding punishment.

When their would-be liberator says, “We need provisions for our escape to the outside world,” he sounds like a madman.

To the inmates their prison is the world.

The liberator dies without accomplishing his task.

Those who tried to understand his words turn them into a prison cult and find questions for the next liberator who comes to set them free.

Nonetheless, occasionally, there are some prisoners who escape…

The Great Escape

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