THE MACROCOSMIC ORBIT
NUMBER SYMBOLISM
The cathedral is also full of number symbolism, not the construction of a rational meaning out of numerical analysis, but from an underlying sense that every number, and particularly the numbers from 1 to 12 had a transforming meaning. One was the number of original unity, and two the number of the first division. Three was the number of the divine, and four the number of the world. Seven, the sum of three and four, represented the steps or completed cycle from earth to heaven, and eight, the next, signifying rebirth and new life, and 12, the product of three and four, God and the world, were all also important. Chartres is full of threes and sevens. Apart from the threes inherent in the layout and height of the building, the transepts and the choir each have three bays, there are three portals, each with three doors. and three
storeys to each tower. At Chartres, there are seven bays to the nave, seven bays between the crossing and the east window, and seven bays to the apse and ambulatory. The pilgrimage to Chartres, from the secular to the sacred, and the pilgrimage through Chartres, through the sacred to rebirth, can be seen as journeys of seven steps, with, like the chapels of the ambulatory, three principal aspects. Seven is also the number of the gifts of the body and the gifts of the soul, shown in both transepts. Chartres expresses a unifying and transforming symbolism in the very fabric of its architectural design. It was the first high cathedral with only three storeys , the model for all later cathedrals. Internally and externally, height is a principal attribute, and not only height, but verticality. The whole design is expressed in terms of vertical lines. This is an enormously heavy stone building, which could have been expressed as stable and earthbound, but with all the stone masses expressed as bundles of vertical shafts, and with pointed arches formed like arrows to heaven, the emphasis is upward: gravity is transformed and the building leads the eye upward, an upward emphasis that is read psychologically as a spiritual ascent.
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Buddhist Stupa showing the representation of the Jhanas, or Chakras above the head. |
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The Native American Indian Totem Pole has many chakras, gods, blockages on the way up the Antahkarana to the Eagle. |
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The Alchemical Cosmic Egg
When the Supreme Ultimate and the Immaterial Spirit unfold, the Point at the crown of your head opens and the light or tunnel or shaft leading to the Cosmic Egg is revealed. |
See the file on the ALCHEMICAL Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus and the Alhambra in Granada, Spain , once a Sufi School, for more examples of the Antahkarana built in Stone.
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Many Sufi mystics came from organisations with names like the builders or the lock makers (Naqshbandhi).
 Plan of a pool at the Alhambra Granada. The Key and the Lock |
When you go to the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, you come across many symbols of Sufism. Above is the plan of the Pool of water (Rectangle) in front of one of the beautiful buildings there. And a fountain (Circle) with a water channel between the two. The water from the fountain comes out of the little circle in the center of the bigger circle and flows into the pool. And here below is a picture of that fountain at the Alhambra of Granada when we used to live near there, with one of our Students, Dr Thomas Fluellen, whose Meditation Energy Enhancement Testimonial is available on our Website
The symbolism is obvious given what has just been told about the sword in the stone and St Michael in an earlier chapter of the Meditation Energy Enhancement Book, available to Download Online.
The large circle of the fountain above is the Earth. The little circle in its center is kundalini energy which flows in every direction but is then channelled through the Antahkarana, the channel, into the pool, the ocean, the Soul , the central spiritual sun of Gurdjieff.
The fountain and the channel looks like a Key, does it not? Therefore here is the key of the Lockmakers, the Naqshbandi.
Below is a Shiva Lingham and Yoni from the india and the Ancient, 5000 years old Hindu religion. The base, Yoni looks like the fountain above, yes? The Shiva Lingam (Male Genitals) takes the part of the upwelling water of the fountain. In ritual worship, milk is poured over the Shiva Lingam and it comes out of the Yoni (Female Genitals) which symbolise the earth and the antahkarana spout shooting spiritual energy out of the center of the earth like the water of the fountain comes out of the fountain above into the pool.
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