The root of creation
In mathematics, a root or square root is related to the length of a side of a square and its area. 3 x 3 = 9 and √9 = 3.
In this article, an intuitive approach to the concept of ‘root’ and the mathematics of the soul will be discussed.
The root of creation starts with Genesis 1:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
It begins with the divine trinity. God’s spirit, the masculine aspect, hovered over the waters, the feminine aspect, and from this union came forth their creation: the child, the son-daughter, Light. This fundamental tri-unity exists in various cultures. I.e. in the ancient Egyptian civilization there is Osiris – Isis – Horus/Father – Mother – Child.
In sacred geometry, the divine trinity is represented by two circles that meet at their centers.
This symbolic representation is called the ‘Vesica Pisces’: the vessel of the fish. Throughout the ages the seekers of truth such as Pythagoras, have studied this seemingly simple image. They discovered that the Vesica Pisces conceals an overwhelming wealth of meaning. They became aware of these spiritual treasures by highlighting certain aspects: √2, √3, and √5. These roots of creation are indicated in the images below, but first, consider the following.
Mathematics teaches that √2, √3, and √5 are irrational numbers. 0.5 is a rational number because it can be expressed as the ratio ½. With √2, √3, and √5, this is not possible since they have an infinite and non-repeating series of digits after the decimal point. If irrational numbers are approached intuitively, they cannot be expressed in their entirety in matter. There is no ratio, no fraction, that can contain them. The spirit of eternity and infinity lives in these roots.
√2 – Right proportion
Let’s start with √2, Osiris and Isis: the spirit of God which hovered over the waters.
The circle, the Source, multiplies itself and the Vesica Pisces is created. There are then two principles, the masculine and feminine aspects, with which an exchange of energy takes place. When the masculine and feminine principles meet at a right angle, their relationship, the sloping side of the triangle or diagonal of the square with sides ‘1’, is √2 according to Pythagoras’ theorem. The right angle symbolizes the objective relationship, the right proportion, on which the divine universe of order and harmony is based.
At all levels of creation there are always two principles. There is a masculine, impulse-giving force and a feminine, receiving and manifesting force. Yin and Yang come together to form unity. However, in today’s world of material creation, Yin and Yang cannot form a unity because they remain polarized, in opposing aspects. In the relative time-space order, the relationships are subjectively colored by personal vision and desire. The proportions change from day to day.
√3 – Light
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
√3 is the unity, the son-daughter, the child, universal love, the Christ. It is the perpendicular connection between the two intersections of the circles. It is the bright light, the revelation of the objective relationship between the masculine and feminine principles.
It is this sacred connection, this completely new ensoulment that brings unity.
Behold, I make all things new. [1]
That is why Christ is called the Savior. Cosmically speaking, the son-daughter is an eternal reality, a transcendent greatness. It is the Light that shines in the darkness. The world is experienced as ‘dark’ because subjective experience is always partial: there are blind spots. What is needed is the unifying, illuminating aspect of universal love. To transcend the current condition, universal love must descend into the inner being. Christ must become immanent.
√5 – Life
√5 is the human mystery because the number 5 is connected to the reborn human soul. It is the Word becoming flesh. In other words, the right relationship between masculine and feminine principles revealed as light, can now prove itself as life. It is the path from Bethlehem to Golgotha and beyond. It is an immense mystery because eternity is about to reveal itself in time.
√5 is the liberating path of the two fish, of the two squares; the path of the cross and of the ninefold human being.
In the figure above, there are two squares intersected by the diagonal √5. Two semicircles form the fish. The male and female aspects are united. When viewed in man they form a connection of three focal points (√3), the luminous serpent-fire column. If we add up all the points, we get the number 9 (3 groups of 3). Nine is the number of humanity and also of the perfect human being. Think of the disciples who went fishing. When performing their work in the right way, they caught 153 (= 9) fish. So they worked for the regeneration of the perfect human being. It became dark when Jesus died on Golgotha: from the sixth to the ninth hour. Jesus, the soul-man who had conquered the body (3 + 3), was transfigured and transformed into a spirit-soul-man, into a 9 (3 + 3 + 3). After three days, the tomb was empty and his physical body was no longer to be found. The zodiacal sign ‘Pisces’ is therefore symbolically represented by two oppositely directed fish connected by a cross, as well as by the connection between the six and the nine.
However, the mystery of Easter or the mystery of the resurrection, is preceded by a path from Bethlehem to Golgotha. √5 points to this path. Five is a number associated with the reborn soul. The new soul body is often depicted as a pentagram. This new ensoulment, although latently present in the center of our being, must become concrete and active in our personality.
That is why the liberating path, the golden path (√5), begins in matter and continues through the cross (4) until the day of resurrection. It is the golden path of the rose and the cross.
When a person is a seeker of truth, his focus and his longing for a higher life open the door to the spiritual center. Then a spiritual heritage is found, the root of existence. The spiritual rose blooms and forms a new aura. It is the egg-shaped field found around the √3, the beginning of a new ensoulment. If the seeker of truth goes further and renounces his I-centered nature, then the way of the cross is found. Then an I-central person is made smaller and smaller, so that a new soul receives living space and increases in power. From the auric egg of the golden astral light forces, new etheric streams of life flow into the personality. When these new etheric forces overcome the resistance of earthly life, the soul pentagram or the new human being reveals itself. Then the path of the Vesica Pisces, √2, √3, and √5 has been followed. The two fish, the spiritual man and the earthly man, have found each other, and the earthly one is slowly dissolved into the spiritual one. The six gets transformed into a nine.
For the sake of completeness, numbers 7 and 8 also have their rightful place when the 6 is transfigured into a nine. Among other things, the number seven relates to the sevenfold spiritual structure of our microcosm (circle), revealing itself in a new soul (triangle) and a transfigured body (square). Before us is the symbol of the School of the Golden Rosycross:
Number 8 is associated with the gateway to liberation, with the transition to a new field of life.
The Golden Ratio
In the Age of Pisces, Christ manifested himself on earth in a human body. Jesus of Nazareth proved the spiritual possibilities of a human being. He received Christ in his inner being and became Jesus the Christ. The Word became flesh. There are √5 points to the path of liberation, the way from Bethlehem to Golgotha that Jesus pointed out.
It is significant that the Golden Ratio (𝜑) is found on the basis of √5. The Golden Ratio or ‘divine proportion’ is expressed by the formula:
𝜑 = √5 x 0,5 + 0,5
𝜑 = 1,618033…
The Golden Ratio (𝜑) is an irrational number that indicates the ratio between line segments, whereby the largest part is approximately 1.618 times larger than the smallest. A perfect Golden Ratio cannot be expressed in nature, but the ratio looks approximately like this:
Source: Golden rectangle – Wikipedia
People throughout history continue to be attracted to this ideal proportion and it will be seen why later. The Golden Ratio has been used throughout centuries in architecture, painting, and music. The Pyramid of Giza and the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are perhaps the best-known examples. Nature also likes to create according to the golden ratio spiral from snail shells and sunflowers to galaxies.
The Eye of God
The golden spiral can be graphically represented by dividing a rectangle according to the Golden Ratio, then dividing the smallest area in the same way, and so on. Theoretically, this can be done to infinity. If a spiraling red line is drawn through these rectangles, the following image is revealed:
Source: File:LogSpyr 4.jpg – Wikimedia Commons
The intersection of the diagonals (blue lines) is also called the ‘eye of God’. An interesting designation that indicates that there is a mystery. Meister Eckhart’s statement,
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me,
also applies to this mystery spiral. The golden ratio spiral is derived from 𝜑 and therefore from √5. √5 symbolizes the liberating path: the descent of the divine into man. It is the path on which the eye of our soul is opened, the eye of Horus, in order to live in unity with the divine universe.
Longing of the soul
As previously indicated, nature cannot express spiritual values in their entirety. Nature cannot work with infinite values: in earthly life, everything has a beginning and an end. However, nature’s aspirations can approach the golden ratio or divine proportion. This approximation is called the Fibonacci sequence. Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician who lived in the 12th and 13th centuries. In the sequence of numbers named after him, each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, … Later Johannes Kepler discovered that this sequence approximates the golden ratio. From 8 / 5 (= 1.600) onwards, the Fibonacci sequence approaches the golden proportion. Intuitively, our new soul (5) must pass through the gate of liberation (8) in order to reveal the gold of inner alchemy.
The descending spirit-soul can therefore connect with the approaching nature. It is eternity in time. While walking the path of liberation, the mystery spiral of spiritual forces penetrates the heart of our material atoms. Then the light of the spirit-soul shines through the personality and our atoms are absorbed into a process of transformation. Paul called this
Death has been swallowed up in victory [2].
A seeker of truth longs for eternity, perfection, and the overcoming of death. His eternal soul yearns for liberation from the limitations of a life in the material world. That is why a seeker of truth is attracted to the Golden Ratio: it is the longing of his soul for the path to liberation, for the ideal relationship between God and man.
Adam
This article reflects the wealth of knowledge gathered by seekers of truth throughout the centuries. All souls longing for freedom can and may stand on the shoulders of their brothers who preceded them. Famous or unknown, great or small, it does not matter. All seekers of truth are invited to take their place in the great human edifice. It is a pyramid, a temple, which slowly but surely ascends into the heavens. All seekers are invited to discover the insights outlined in this article within themselves. Inner realization, that is what it is all about!
Concluding with Michelangelo’s fresco ‘The Creation of Adam’ from the Sistine Chapel and a quote from Jan van Rijckenborgh from the book “Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross,” both speak for themselves.
Source: https://kunstvensters.com/2018/01/29/wat-is-de-gulden-snede/
In the Bible, man enters the stage as A.D.M.; three sounds that are translated as Adam. These three sounds taken in succession represent spirit, soul and body. Cabbalistically, they stand for the number 1440 (= 9). The letter A is Aleph, equivalent to the number 1, which indicates genesis, manifestation, the source from which everything comes forth, the spirit. The letter D is Daleth, equivalent to the number 4, which means ‘equalizer’ or ‘door’ — typical indications of the functions of the soul. The letter M is Mem, equivalent to the number 40, which refers to the finisher, the fulfiller, the executor, the bodily figure. The word ‘Adam’ therefore never indicates an individual, but mankind in its entirety, in its manifestation as spirit, soul and body.
[1] Revelation 21:5
[2] 1 Corinthians 15:54
