Sir Isaac Newton was intrigued by the ancient symbol known as ‘the seed of life’; six circles fitting perfectly around an identical central circle. It is found in ancient Egypt and in the art many other ancient civilisations.

The same image found in the Amritsar Temple, Punjab, India;

In China there are statues of Foo Dogs with one paw on a sphere showing this same symbol but in three dimensions.

This leap from a seeing in two into three dimensions was and is, an important change in human consciousness and perception for if modern man is ever to move into four dimensions, we must first become adept in three. It should not be difficult. Western art moved into ‘perspective’ during the European Renaissance, but let us first examine a similar ancient puzzle; how to circle the square for the two are linked.

Leonardo’s famous geometric drawing of the ‘Universal Man’ was perhaps the closest answer to the geometric quandary of how to ‘circle the square’ for centuries. In three dimensions the puzzle morphs into how to fit a sphere into a cube.

The child’s toy called the ‘Jack in a box’ is a whimsical variation on the surprise within the cube. Inside the cube is something of mystery and surprise – the same quality of a ‘joke’ or Zen Buddhist ‘Koan’.

We have a hint at what may be inside the cube with the diagram of the seed of life. A cube can be drawn over the nodes to produce a cube seen in three dimensions.

The seed repeated becomes the flower of life. This the fractal quality of the diagram replicates in an infinite number of scales. The flower of life becomes the tree of life and this metaphor mirrors natures widespread use of fractal geometry.

The tree of life is a common concept throughout ancient history from the Sumerians tending trees with pinecones in gardens to the Hasidic symbolic Tree of Life.

There is always a pattern of straight lines which cross at energetically important nodes.

Today this idea is extrapolated to extend a geodetic grid around planet Earth. The very word ‘geometry’ means measuring the earth, something which the ancient civilisations were good at. Indeed, there are astounding coincidences of global sacred sites corresponding with the nodes.

The best known of these sites are the pyramids on the Giza plateau shown above as the central red dot. The principal pyramid attributed to the Pharoah Kufu, has a square base which is precisely to a scale of 1: 43,200 of the diameter of the Earth at the equator. Not only this but the pyramids height is similarly to the same scale of one radius of the earth from its centre. Because of this one pyramid pointing up and another pointing down with their bases aligned would fit within minor tolerances, the oblate sphere which is the planet Earth.

Were the builders of this pyramid were highlighting a geometric truth for future, generations?

These ancient architects had circled the square and in the same stroke, put a sphere around a flat square. They had projected two-dimensional theory into a third dimension. I believe this was the true message showing how trans-dimensional projection can be conceived and achieved. The challenge for our age, is to discover the fourth dimension and beyond.

Curiously the pyramid that is depicted on the dollar bill (inspired by the masonic founding fathers) has at its apex, an illuminated eye. We know that an eyeball is designed to receive light. It is a sphere optically able to project an image onto the retina and directly to the brain. This is what the philosophers would perceive as matter being filled with light and by extension, Divine light or as we say ‘enlightenment’. The Ancient Greeks such as Plato and Empedocles believed the human eye to project light as well as receive, an idea known as the extramission theory. We have all felt the gaze of a person situated out of our sight or gazed at the night sky with feeling.

There is also the existence of the ‘third eye’ or pineal gland, so called because of its similar shape to a pinecone. This is said to give a clairvoyant perception into other dimensions.

A vital stage of enlightenment is described in gnostic literature as ‘the bridal chamber’ and this is a metaphor that is not at first obvious. But it becomes so when considering the step from dualistic thought to scalar conception. Without the Hermetic principle of gender, male and female merge to become one – as in the ‘bridal chamber’.

To refer to the upright and inverted pyramids of Euclidian geometry, the former represents the male and the latter female. When they are overlaid, as in the chamber of the bridegroom and bride, there is Divine Union in the geometric form of the Mercaba.

One of the most profound ways that this truth is presented to us today as the union of the two hemispheres of the human brain to produce a fully functioning mind. The modern depiction of the brain shows synaptic gaps connecting neurons in a fractal design within an organic sphere; the skull. This is stunningly similar to the ball held in place by the ancient Chinese Foo dogs.

The ancient Chinese Yin Yang symbol has always expressed the complementary opposites principle very clearly. Not only gender but all ‘opposites’ disappear when harmoniously integrated into each other.