The Pentagon
Pentagon by Starwind
The Center from which we Work
..
Sacred Geometry Part 3 ..
According to Geometry,
the Pentagon is the last of the solid forms
for one simple reason,
it is the last form you can make
out of the other shapes
that fits together perfectly
It's a 5 sided figure,
whic , if you study the meaning of numbers
5, is the most sacred
of all, much study has been done on it
See Here
(off site link) .. for a good page on it, if your interested
Now why? For the simple
reason .. Nearly all of the natural world
comes in that number
Even US
Now there's been a great
deal of Woo haw regarding it
with respect to say ..
The Pentagon in Washington .. I mean why did they make
the building with 5 sides
instead of four ?
In my page on the Pentagram
you can see that if you take a Pentagon
and draw lines out from it you
get a Pentagram
and since a Pentagram
can reach out forever
it's symbol for the building in Washington becomes
apparent. It was intended
to show its completeness
and balance, it's far reaching effects ,
at least that was the
plan supossedly .. :)
Not to mention it looks
cool .. I mean, why be an builder
if you can't create something new once
in a while ?
And that center courtyard,
gotta love it .. :)
Picnic on the Quad anyone
?
Art and architecture makes
much use of geometry in creating pleasing shapes
and we humans Like the
Pentagon
Ok, aside from its being pleasing to the eye .. why ?
Balance ... and versatility as one
The circle can overlap
and create wonderful forms like the Flower
of life ,.. Or the Simple square .. solid and stable ..
the Pyramid which is
both of these at once ... the circle squared, but where does the Pentagon
come in ?
These sides are all the
elements .. as one ..
Earth, Fire, Water, Air
and Either or Spirit, but stable, measurable
Build something with square
blocks and after a certain point it has to be supported in some manner
.. ditto the circle ..
even the pentagram given
it's shape .. not the pentagon. You can stack pentagonal shapes into each
other until your blue
in the face, and it will
remain stable .. it is finite .. all sides can be measured to a concrete
finished number.. like the square ..
but more versatile as
its shape leans into itself .. and holds the item built from them .. stable
Now what does that mean in Esoteric terms ?
It is the square .. with
more.. a square in Esoteric terms
is the basic elements
Earth, Fire, Water, Air .. alone
The Pentagon adds more
.. like its kin the pentagram .. it adds
Spirit .. the spark of
life, what makes a thing living
It is an attempt to bring
spirit into a basic elemental form
but in a fashion unlike
the Pentagram ,which has no end,
the Pentagon is finite
Meaning .. Human
We
live on Earth, we are human
and
it is only through material reality that we can do anything
We
are, as a friend of mind has as her e-mail signature
"
Spiritual beings... having a human experience "
However, we ARE Human :)
At least I think so.. some people are a little questionable, but no matter :)
The Pentagon is a perfect example of this concept
While
we
can transcend the Earthly form, it's how Ritual operates ...
We
cannot ignore, that we Are Human beings doing it
As
a mediation tool, the Pentagon works very well, because since we are finite
humans,
working
with something that is also finite, is a good starting point
It
allows you to Explore all the facets of the self .. because while it is
finite, it can grow,
to
any size you need it to be. Make the Pentagon into a solid 3D form
and
you end up with something that looks like a Soccer ball
Now this form, has no
limits other than the size of the pentagon you started with,
does the term geodesic
dome mean anything to you ?
Ever seen the The Epcot
Center in Australia ?
While most such are made
from triangles, you can make one with a pentagon,
it's called a bucky ball
of all things, for a man named Buckland,
( the guy who came up
with the thing ..) anyway,
you can take a
line sided shape and make a what ?
A Circle
.. the infinite, a never ending cycle that has no beginning or end ,
which shows us the whole
of creation and spins off into forever.
All matter is interrelated,
which such a dome shows,
there is no such thing
as empty space, as is stated in Philosophy
"There
is nothing in the world with
any
independent existence:
all
is bound together by
an
unalterable chain of causation."
Aristotle
When
we stand in the middle of the Pentagon, the womb of our humanity, from
this form
we
can reach out into forever, as all things are linked to each other.
This
is what the pentagon try's to show us
Even
if it's not a perfect circle.. it's a little more kin to the Soccer
Ball, but that's Ok..
To
be human is to Feel like the Universe's Soccer Ball once in a while : )
If
ya know what I mean , hehehehehe
However, it does show
That
despite the fact we are bound in Human form, we can reach beyond that limitation,
this
is the lesson one may learn from it
Because to quote Aristotle again
"The
highest form is that of the Good,
which
is the ultimate basis of all the rest,
and
the first cause of being and knowledge.
Ideas
derived from the impressions of the senses
can
never give us the knowledge of true being --
i.e.
of the forms. It can only be obtained
by
the soul's activity within itself. "
The
Pentagon that is the Center of the Pentagram which we use as our symbol
is this concept ..
Our senses are not enough ,
we
must transcend them, even thou we are limited to
a human, finite state.
As the Pentagon is able to do, by its very nature,
to
reach out beyond its finite limits, into forever .. :)
..
May you enjoy the ride ..
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