Sacred Geometry

The nodes are usually represented as spheres and the lines are usually represented as paths.In the Jewish Kabbalah, the nodes are called sephiroth and are arranged in three columns or pillars. They usually represent different kinds of values – encompassing aspects of existence, God, or the human psyche. The lines usually represent the relationship between the concepts ascribed to the spheres, or a symbolic description of the requirements to go from one sphere to another.

There are 10 nodes symbolising different archetypes and 22 lines connecting the nodes; Kether or Crown (the Creator himself) is interchangeable with Dash (Knowledge).

The Crown (‘Kether’ in Hebrew): the Creator Himself.

Wisdom (‘Chokhmah’): Divine reality/revelation; the power of Wisdom.

Understanding (‘Binah’): repentance/reason; the power of Love.

Mercy (‘Chesed’): grace/intention to emulate God; the power of vision.

Strength (‘Gevurah’): judgment/determination; the power of Intention.

Beauty (‘Tiferet’): symmetry/compassion; the power of Creativity.

Victory (‘Netzach’): contemplation/initiative/persistence; the power of the Eternal Now.

Splendour (‘Hod’): surrender/sincerity/steadfastness; the power of Observation.

Yesod (‘Foundation’): remembering/knowing; the power of Manifesting.

Kingdom (‘Malkuth’): physical presence/vision and illusion; the power of Healing.

The Ten Sephiroths are divided into four realms:

Atziluth: the realm of the supernal, beyond which is the ain, or no-thing.

Beriah: the creative world, of archetypes and ideals.

Yetsirah: the world of formation.

Assiah: manifest creation, the material world

Scholars believe that the concept of a tree of life with different spheres representing encompassing aspects of reality, traces its origins back to Assyria in the 9th century BC. The Assyrians also assigned values and specific numbers to their deities similar to those used by the later Jewish Kabbalah. The beginnings of the Jewish Kabbalah are traced back by scholars to the Medieval Age, originating in the Book of Bahir and the Book of Zohar. However, the first historical instance of the modern diagram appeared centuries later in the cover of the Latin translation of Gates of Light in the year 1516.

Sacred Geometry

SACRED GEOMETRY

THE FIVE PLATONIC SOLIDS (after Plato)

Here are alternative definitions of Sacred Geometry, that may help understanding of a rather complex subject:

ADDITIONAL UNIVERSAL SACRED SHAPES AND PATTERNS