In the book Canon, William Stirling presents an image of the Milan Cathedral plan, recommending that it offered a clue to the esoteric building practices of the Middle Ages. After introducing the kaballa, and the Tree of Life, he shows the cathedral plan and declares that it is based on a rhombus and a cross (female and male s*x symbols blush).



Here we see an image of a 12th Century architect holding a model and we see rhombus(es) on the roof of that.



Consider Albert Pike's version of the tree from Morals and Dogma. Or a Crowley 10 from his Tarot deck. All Crowley's tens are the Tree of Life




Now look again at the Gates of Light image. You will see that it is a builder holding a model. What I am recommending is that the upright rhombus that the architect holds is an abbreviation for the TOL. Compare the calipers in one image to the chair in the other.




Going back to the cathedral image we see that this version of the tree form fits inside an upright rhombus in the plan.Compare the cathedral plan to the DC map plan. You see that the equilateral triangle in the cathedral plan was shortened for the map to 52 degree base angles, like the GP.




The Kircher tree does not work for this. Note that this tree consists of an overlapping pentagram and a hexagram, and maps to Metatron's Cube as well as a dodecahedron. See the Escher print below.




bigbytes

I get all that but where are you going with all this?

what is the take home message?

Note especially how projecting the tops of the hexagon to the sides of the triangle locates two points of the pentagram.

bb

"what is the take home message?"

You don't enjoy geometry and puzzles? I know you don't read :-(

mmmm maybe.

more interesting to me is geometric fractalization in nature

like this cauliflower

sorry forgot, 20 words or less

"The use of Masonic Symbolism on a large scale is not a lost art as witnessed by the DC map."

I bet you knock em dead live at parties :-)

Gettin out the popcorn

"Gettin out the popcorn"

What up dawg. I spent time in Yuma.

bigbytes

interesting

And you didn't fry up like an egg?

What shape the Tree of Life?

Most modern students, of course, use the Jesuit Kircher's tree, but if you look, you will see that that tree may have been designed and distributed in order to detract from an earlier version. The first published image of the tree appeared in 1522 as the frontplate to Gates of Light ( http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Light-Shaare-Sacred-Literature/dp/0761990003 ). In that image the top five spheres form a triangle.

We see that form maps to both Metatron's Cube and the dodecahedron. The Kircher tree would not work for this. The founding Fathers chose that form as did the cathedral builders.

On the tree, we note that sphere 7 is ruled by Libra, associated with libraries, and books, and in the map, we see the National Archive Building in that location. The Washington Monument is at nine, and the Jefferson Memorial at ten, to send mail to either of these you mail to 900 Ohio Avenue (9x10=900). Look it up ;-)

bb

I agree, the cauliflower is far more fascinating to me as well.

"And you didn't fry up like an egg?"

As a matter of fact I baked like a turkey.

<----- likes MC Escher (yo!)

QuietMan - that specific cauliflower photo is one of my favorite internet memes - I loved it when i first stumbled across it with a google image search, and have seen it come up in so many places. If only it had catchy name, like 'keyboard cat' does.

I don't know about elsewhere, but we actually have cauliflower just like that in the grocery stores here.

That is a rather attractive cauliflower, and is the most interesting thing so far in this thread.

Yuma sucks, way too freakin hot!

boredinaz-

Here ya go cuz, so you can keep up. this is a list of some of my webpages and videos. My youtube handle is dcsymbols.

http://www.geocities.com/jussaymoe/dc_symbolism/contents2.htm

It wasn't MY choice to go to Yuma. 116 my first day.

bigbytes