#robert lawlor

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Do not fear the aging of the body, for it is the body's way of seeking the root. To seek the root is to return to the source, and to return to the source is to pursue one's destiny.

Robert Lawlor, Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice

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Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice (Robert Lawlor, 1982)

“One of the ways to view the Vesica Piscis is as a representation of the intermediate realm which partake of both the unchanging and the changing principles, the eternal and the ephemeral.

Human consciousness thus functions as the mediator, balancing the two complementary poles of consciousness. (…)

A link is forged between the most concrete (form and measure) and the most abstract realms of thought.

By seeking the invariable relationships by which forms are governed and interconnected we bring ourselves into resonance with universal order.

By re-enacting the genesis of these forms we seek to know the principles of evolution.

And by thus raising our own patterns of thought to these archetypal levels, we invite the force of these levels to penetrate our mind and thinking.

Our intuition is enlivened, and perhaps, as Plato says, the soul's eye might be purified and kindled afresh 'for it is by it alone that we contemplate the truth’.”

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This movie was so adorable I want to cry

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Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice (Robert Lawlor, 1982)

“To see how these operate, let us take an example of a tangible thing, such as the bridle of a horse.

This bridle can have a number of forms, materials, sizes, colours, uses, all of which are bridles. 

The bridle considered in this way, is typal; it is existing, diverse and variable.

But on another level there is the idea or form of the bridle, the guiding model of all bridles.

This is an unmanifest, pure, formal idea and its level is ectypal.

But yet above this there is the archetypal level which is that of the principle or power-activity.

That is a process which the ectypal form and typal example of the bridle only represent.

The archetypal is concerned with universal processes or dynamic patterns which can be considered independently of any structure or material form.

Modern thought has difficult access to the concept of the archetypal because European languages require that verbs or action words be associated with nouns. 

We therefore have no linguistic forms with which to image a process or activity that has no material carrier. 

Ancient cultures symbolized these pure, eternal processes as gods, that is, powers or lines of action through which Spirit is concretized into energy and matter. 

The bridle, then, relates to archetypal activity through the function of leverage; the principle that energies are controlled, specified and modified through the effects of angulation.”

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MBTI & Ideas

Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice (Robert Lawlor, 1982)

“The notion of Unity remains, literally, unthinkable; simply because in order for anything to be, to exist, it must, in the very positive affirmation of itself, negate that which it is not.

Cold is only cold because it is the negation of heat.

For a thing to be, its opposite must also be.

There is then at the beginning of the created world a contingency of division of Unity into two. 

With two, number begins.

This same law governs our understanding, for in order to comprehend any objective state we must acknowledge and negate its opposite. (…)

Thus, unthinkable though Unity may be, both reason and spiritual experience compel the traditional thinker to place it at the beginning.

Everything that exists in his mathematical problem or in his universe is a fraction of the unknown One, and because these parts can be related proportionately to one another they are knowable.”

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with 202 illustrations and diagrams

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Robert Lawlor. Sacred Geometry. 1982.

Sound frequencies in this experiment cause random particles to assume geometric patterns. This image was also used in a section of Carl G. Jung's Collected Works, in relation to Mandalas.

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Sacred geometry by Robert Lawlor