The Energy Field of Vesica Piscis
The temple of the Universe and the temple of Man is one. Have you ever read this one before?
The sacred geometry principles of the human body and of ancient architecture were present into the Vitruvian Man drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, itself based on the much older writings of the Roman architect Vitruvius. The belief that God created the universe according to a geometric plan has ancient origins. Plutarch attributed the belief to Plato, writing that “Plato said God geometrizes continually”(Convivialium disputationum, liber 8.2). In modern times, the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss adapted this quote, saying “God arithmetizes”. As late as Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630), a belief in the geometric underpinnings of the cosmos persisted among some scientists.
The underlying psyche in the sacred geometry and the spiritual awakening recognizes the physical self as the temple of the spirit, this is the microcosmos and macrocosmos principle in Hindu and Buddhist esoteric tradition. In Hindu religious and philosophical culture, Trihita Karana delves in the three reasons and causes of man's happiness, it discloses man's responsibility as co-creator, caretaker and concluding his duties in this world by realizing the purpose of birth and the destiny after-life.
Sacred geometry ascribes symbolic and sacred meanings to certain geometric shapes and certain geometric proportions. It is associated with the belief that God is the geometer of the world. The geometry used in the design and construction of religious structures such as churches, temples, mosques, religious monuments, altars and tabernacles has sometimes been considered sacred. The concept applies also to sacred spaces such as temenoi, sacred groves, village greens and holy wells, and the creation of religious art. Geometric rations and geometric figures were often employed in the design of Egyptian, ancient Indian, Greek and Roman architecture. Medieval European cathedrals also incorporated symbolic geometry. Indian and Himalayan spiritual communities often constructed temples and fortifications on design plans of mandala and yantra. Many of the sacred geometry principles of the human body and of ancient architecture were compiled into the Vitruvian Man drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, itself based on the much older writings of the Roman architect Vitruvius.
Patterns in nature are all related to geometry, for example, the chambered nautilus grows at a constant rate and so its shell forms a logarithmic spiral to accommodate growth without changing shape. Also, honeybees construct hexagonal cells to hold their honey. These and other correspondences are sometimes interpreted in terms of sacred geometry and considered to be further proof of the natural significance of geometric forms.
Vesica Piscis in Chalice Well
The Chalice Well, also known as the Red Spring is a well situated at the foot of the Glastonbury Tor in the county of Somerset, England. The natural spring and surrounding gardens are owned and managed by the Chalice Well Trust (registered charity no. 204206), founded by Wellesley Tudor Pole in 1959. Research by Exeter University School of Geology in 2009 found that the Chalice Well is fed by a deep aquafier in the lower levels of the Pennard Sands. Archaeological evidence suggests that the well has been in almost constant use for at least two thousand years. Philip Rahtz found several dozen flints from the upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic and sherd of Iron Age pottery nearby. Roman and medieval sherds were also found in more recent layers.
Water issues from the spring at a rate of 25,000 gallons per day and has never failed, even during drought. Iron oxide deposits give water a reddish hue, as dissolved ferrous oxide becomes oxidized at the surface and is precipitated. Like hot springs in nearby Bath, the water is reputed to possess healing qualities.
In addition to the legends associated with Glastonbury, the Well has been portrayed by 20th-century writers as a symbol of the female aspect of deity, with the male symbolized by Glastonbury Tor. It is a popular destination for pilgrims in search of the divine feminine, including Neopagans. The Well is however popular with all faiths and in 2001 became a World Peace Garden.
Wells often feature in Welsh and Irish mythology as gateways to the spirit world. The overlapping of the inner and outer worlds is represented by the well cover, designed by the church architect and archaeologist Frederick Bligh Bond and presented as a gift after the Great War in 1919. The two interlocking circles constitute the symbol known as Vesica Piscis. In the well lid design, a spear or sword bisects these two circles, as possible reference to Excalibur, the sword of legendary King Arthur, believed by some to be buried at the nearby Glastonbury Abbey. Foliage represents the Glastonbury Thorn. Bligh bond wrote that the Vesica design for the well cover was "typical of many early diagrams, all having the same object - the rendering of spiritual truth by means of the purest, most intellectual system of imagery conceived by the mind, namely, truth which is 'aeonial' or eternal, of which geometry is the best interpreter, since it can figure for us with remarkable suggestiveness those formative principles upon which the Father has built his Creation, principles which shall endure when heaven and earth have "died".
Christian mythology suggests that Chalice Well marks the site where Joseph of Arimathea placed the chalice that had caught the drops of Christ's blood at the Crucifixion, linking the Well to the wealth of speculation surrounding the existence of the Holy Grail. The red of the water is also said by some Christians to represent the rusty iron nails used at the Crucifixion, "it is said that beneath its waters Joseph Arimathea hid the Chalice of the Last Supper and immediately the waters flowed red. According, however to William of Malmesbury (died 1143?), who first recorded the well, the waters gushed sometimes red, and sometimes blue".
Vesica Piscis in Geometry
The vesica piscis is shape the intersection of two disks, with the same radius, intersecting in scuh a way that the center of the disk lies on the parameter of the other. The name literally means the “bladder of a fish” in Latin. The shape is also called mandorla (“almond” in Italian).
The vesica piscis in Euclid’s elements, where it forms the first step in constructing an equilateral triangle using a compass and straighthedge. The triangle has as its vertices the two disk centers and one of the two sharp corners of the vesica piscis.
In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides are equal. In the familiar Euclidean geometry, equilateral triangles are also equiangular; that is, all three internal angles are also congruent to each other and are each 60°. They are regular polygons, and can therefore also be referred as regular triangles.
In Christian art, some aureolas are in the shape of vertically oriented vesica piscis, and the seals of ecclesiastical organizations can be enclosed within a vertically oriented vesica piscis (instead of the more usual circular enclosure). Also, the itchys symbol incorporates the vesica piscis shape.
The cover of the Chalice Well in Glastonbury (Somerset, United Kingdom) depicts a stylized version of the vesica piscis design. Freemasonry, most notably in the shapes of the collars worn by officiants of the Masonic rituals. It was also considered the proper shape for the enclosure of Masonic lodges. The vesica piscis is also used as proportioning system in architecture, in particular Gothic architecture. The system was illustrated in Cesare Cesariano's Vitruvius (1521), which he called the "rule of the German architects". The shape may be found in the topology of certain networks.
Vesica Piscis in Golden Rectangle
The Golden ratio is a special number found by dividing a line into two parts so that the longer part divided by the smaller part is also equal to the whole length divided by the longer part. It is often symbolized using phi, after the 21st letter of Greek alphabet. In an equation form, it looks like this:
a/b = (a+b)/a = 1.6180339887498948420 …
The quotient of any Fibonacci number and its predecessor approaches Phi (34/21 = 1.618) represented as the golden ratio, 1:1.618. A rectangle unevenly divided resulting into one square and one rectangle, the square’s sides would have 1:1, and the new rectangle would be exactly proportionate to the original rectangle 1:1.618.
Phidias (500 B.C. - 432 B.C.) was a Greek sculptor and mathematician who is thought to have applied phi to the design of sculptures for the Parthenon. Plato (420 B.C. - 347 B.C.) considered the Golden ratio to be the most universally binding of mathematical relationships. Later, Euclid (365 B.C. - 300 B.C.) linked the Golden ratio to the construction of a pentagram.
Around 1200, mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci discovered the unique properties of the Fibonacci sequence. This sequence ties directly into the Golden ratio because if you take any of two successive Fibonacci numbers, their ratio is very close to the Golden ratio. As the numbers get higher, the ratio becomes even closer to 1.618. For example the ratio of 3 to 5 is 1.666. But the ratio of 13 to 21 is 1.625. Getting even higher, the ratio of 21 to 34 is 1.618. These numbers are all successive numbers in the Fibonacci sequence.
These numbers can be applied to the proportions of a rectangle, called the Golden rectangle. This is known as one of the most visually satisfying of all geometric forms - hence, the appearance of the Golden ratio in art. The golden rectangle is also related to the Golden spiral, which is created by making adjacent squares of Fibonacci dimensions.
Energy Field in Vesica Piscis
So above is below. The logarithm spiral appears in the spiral arm galaxy and nautilus shell exhibit this pattern at an angle distinct from the golden spiral of the sunflower.
The Force of Creation in the Universe
1. Gravitational energy is potential energy associated with the gravitational field.
2. Zero-point energy, also called quantum vacuum zero-point energy, is the lowest possible energy that a quantum mechanical physical system may have; it is the energy of its ground state.
All quantum mechanical systems undergo fluctuations even in the ground state and have an associated zero-point energy, also called quantum vacuum zero-point energy, a consequence of their wave-like nature. The uncertainty principle requires every physical system to have a zero-point energy greater than the minimum of its classical potential well.
3. A potential well is the region surrounding a local minimum of potential energy.
4. In cosmology, the zero-point energy offers an intriguing possibility for explaining the speculative positive values of the proposed cosmological constant. In brief, if the energy is "really there", then it should exert a gravitational force. In general relativity, mass and energy are equivalent; both produce a gravitational field. One obvious difficulty with this association is that the zero-point energy of the vacuum is absurdly large. Naively, it is infinite, because it includes the energy waves with arbitrarily short wavelengths. But since only differences in energy are physically measurable, the infinity can be removed by renormalization. In all practical solutions, this is how the infinity is handled. It is also arguable that undiscovered physics relevant at the Planck scale reduces or eliminates the energy of waves shorter than the Planck length, making the total zero-point energy finite.
5. The open-universe allows the Big Bang to occur immediately after the Big Crunch of a preceding universe. The universe could then consist of an infinite sequence of finite universes, with each finite universe ending with a Big Crunch that is also the Big Bang of the next universe. Theoretically, the cyclic universe could not be reconciled with the second law of thermodynamics: entropy would build up from oscillation to oscillation and cause heat death. Current evidence also indicates the universe is not closed.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle allows the energy to be as large as needed to promote quantum actions for a brief moment of time, even if the average energy is small enough to satisfy relativity and flat space. To cope with disagreements, the vacuum energy is described as virtual energy potential of positive and negative energy.
What is the shape of the universe?
The ultimate fate of the universe is dependent on the shape of the universe and what role dark energy will play as the universe ages.
If Ω > 1, then the geometry of space is closed like the surface of a sphere. The sum of the angles of a triangle exceeds 180 degrees and there are no parallel lines; all lines eventually meet. The geometry of the universe, is at least on a very large scale, elliptic (see illustration 3, Cosmic Egg).
Gravitational Field
The weak gravity conjecture (WGC) is a conjecture regarding the strength gravity can have in a theory of quantum gravity relative to the gauge forces in that theory. It roughly states that gravity should be the weakest force in any consistent theory of quantum gravity.
Vacuum energy is the zero-point energy of all fields in space, which is the standard model includes the electromagnetic field, other gauge fields, fermionic fields and the Higgs field. It is the energy of the vacuum which in quantum field theory is defined not as empty space but as the ground state of the fields. In cosmology, the vacuum energy is one possible explanation for the cosmological constant. A related term is zero-point field which is the lowest energy state of a particular field.
Unsolved problem in physics. How can the theory of quantum mechanics be merged with the theory of general relativity/gravitational force and remain correct at microscopic length scales? What verifiable predictions does any theory of quantum gravity make? References:
1. Sacred Geometry in wikipedia
2. Chalice Well in wikipedia
3. Golden Ratio in Live Science
4. Zero-Point Energy in wikipedia
5. Ultimate Fate of the Universe in wikipedia
Image credits to:
1. http://www.livescience.com/37704-phi-golden-ratio.html
2. http://cdn3-www.webecoist.momtastic.com/assets/uploads/2012/10/golden-spiral-main.jpg
