Sacred Geometry Mandala Art

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Sacred Geometry Mandala Art

By Jonathan Quintin

Interdimensional Gateways to the Infinite

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Pythagoras described geometry as visual music. Music is created by

applying laws of frequency and sound in certain ways. States of

harmonic resonance are produced when frequencies are combined in

ways that are in unison with universal law.

 

These same laws can be applied to produce visual harmony. Instead of

frequency and sound it is angle and shape that are combined in ways

that are in unison with universal law. Geometric shapes can be

orchestrated in ways to produce visual symphonies that show the

harmonic unification of diversity.

 

Mandalas translate complex mathematical expressions into simple

shapes and forms. They show how the basic patterns governing the

evolution of life workout the most beautiful results.

 

The word mandala arises from the Sanskrit and means sacred circle.

The circle symbolizes the womb of creation; and mandalas are

geometric designs that are made through uniform divisions of the

circle. The shapes that are formed from these divisions are symbols

that embody the mathematical principles found throughout creation.

They reveal the inner workings of nature and the inherent order of

the universe.

 

Mandalas act as a bridge between the higher and lower realms. They

are interdimensional gateways linking human consciousness to the

realms of archetypes and the infinite. The relationship of form,

movement, space and time is evoked by the mandala.

 

Mandalas offer a way to engage with the inherent harmony and balance

of nature. They bring the principles of nature into our field of

awareness. For thousands of years, mandala imagery has served as a

means to an expanded way of thinking. The images transcend language

and the rational mind. They bring about a certain wisdom of

universal knowledge and a deeper understanding of human

consciousness.

 

 

 

 

Yantras

Yantras are a particular field of mandala imagery that visually

represent the harmonic tones of mantras (sacred sounds). By

directing our thought patterns to these archetypal planes we invite

the essence of these levels to penetrate our minds and thinking. An

attunement of individual consciousness with the harmony of universal

consciousness develops.

 

 

 

Sri Yantra - or Yantra of Creation - is the most revered of all the

Hindu yantras. There is a mysterious beauty that arises in the way

that nine diverse triangles interlink to form a state of perfect

balance and harmony, and the complementation of the yin and yang ~

creating 43 smaller triangles that define the Sri Yantra.

 

The Sri Yantra is believed to be the image of the OM mantra, which

in the Hindu tradition is understood to be the primordial sound of

creation. In his book Rhythms of Vision, Lawrence Blair writes that

when the OM is correctly intoned into a tonoscope (a device that

transforms sound into a visual representation on a screen), it first

produces a circle. As the tone is completed, the circle is filled

sequentially with concentric squares, triangles and finally, as the

last traces of the "mmm" have died away, the Sri Yantra.

 

 

 

Sri Yantra Eternal Fire: Primes the kundalini. For the serious soul

intent on burning through karma and the obstructions to one's

spiritual growth. The spiritual warrior.

 

 

 

Whirling Squares: In sacred geometry the circle symbolizes the

spiritual plane and the square symbolizes the material, physical

plane. The whirling squares yantra design portrays the union of

spirit and matter. It simultaneously expresses the spiritualization

of matter and the cloaking of spirit.

 

 

 

 

The Golden Ratio

The golden ratio, or it's mathematical term the phi ratio is a

mathematical principle that pervades the universe. This principle

can be found from molecules (including the dna molecule) to spiral

galaxies. It is a universal relationship that exists between two

elements of an equation in a natural situation.

 

In sacred geometry the golden ratio can be expressed in numbers,

lengths, shapes and forms, which include golden proportioned

triangles, rectangles and spirals. The golden ratio is the golden

thread that links all levels of creation. If the emotion of love is

the pervading principle of the universe, the golden ratio is the

mathematical equation of it.

 

 

 

The golden ratio is also present in the Sri Yantra. Pentagram star

with radiating spiral. Awakening and metamorphisis. New beginnings.

A link to the universal heart. A key to realms of higher awareness.

Pentagram star rainbow with yin and yang spirals forming universal

heart. A nuturing and enriching connection with universal abundance

and empathy.

 

 

The designs are part of a collection of sacred geometric art-work by

Jonathan Quintin, P.O. Box 1621 Solana Beach, CA 92075

 

http://www.isibrno.cz/~gott/mandalas.htm