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    This was posted in a thread a while ago but I thought it needed a new one.
    Achkerov kute.

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    Re: Sacred Geometry and Armenia

    Originally posted by Anonymouse View Post
    http://www.astrologycom.com/geometry.html

    This was posted in a thread a while ago but I thought it needed a new one.
    Don't believe even half of it. People see proportions or ratios in buildings like they see faces in wallpaper. It's like Le Corbusier's famous "modulor" - years later he admitted he made it all up after he had designed the buildings that were supposedly based on its rules.
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      Re: Sacred Geometry and Armenia

      Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
      Don't believe even half of it. People see proportions or ratios in buildings like they see faces in wallpaper. It's like Le Corbusier's famous "modulor" - years later he admitted he made it all up after he had designed the buildings that were supposedly based on its rules.
      I disagree. I think the same goes for you. In your case you choose to not see where you don't want to see. What's the author making up and for what purpose? And I presume you are familiar with sacred geometry.
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        Re: Sacred Geometry and Armenia

        Originally posted by Anonymouse View Post
        I disagree. I think the same goes for you. In your case you choose to not see where you don't want to see. What's the author making up and for what purpose? And I presume you are familiar with sacred geometry.
        For what purpose? For the same purpose that all religious dogma is invented - to make things Wizard of Oz-like bigger and more important and more complicated than they actually are.
        How do you think medieval buildings were designed? That Haghpat belltower drawing is a joke. The pitch of roofs certainly weren't decided on by making them fit into some imaginary equilateral triangle whose endpoints are floating in empty space several metres above ground.
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          Re: Sacred Geometry and Armenia

          Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
          For what purpose? For the same purpose that all religious dogma is invented - to make things Wizard of Oz-like bigger and more important and more complicated than they actually are.
          Yet it remains that this was a fundamental part of ancient society, whether you like it or not. Your personal reservations about these things have absolutely no bearing on the way the entire old world viewed itself and what it held in esteem.

          Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
          How do you think medieval buildings were designed?
          Geometry was certainly an ingredient.

          Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
          That Haghpat belltower drawing is a joke. The pitch of roofs certainly weren't decided on by making them fit into some imaginary equilateral triangle whose endpoints are floating in empty space several metres above ground.
          How do you know?
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            Re: Sacred Geometry and Armenia

            Originally posted by Anonymouse View Post
            Yet it remains that this was a fundamental part of ancient society, whether you like it or not. Your personal reservations about these things have absolutely no bearing on the way the entire old world viewed itself and what it held in esteem.
            exactly.

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              Re: Sacred Geometry and Armenia

              Originally posted by Anonymouse View Post
              Your personal reservations about these things have absolutely no bearing on the way the entire old world viewed itself and what it held in esteem.
              Is this "entire old world" in a parallel universe where different laws of physics apply? The building traditions and the aims of the culture, working within the fixed technical limits of the construction technology and the physical limits of the masons and workers, are the design parameters of the architecture - not fantasy religious beliefs imposed onto pre-existing buildings.
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                Re: Sacred Geometry and Armenia

                Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
                Is this "entire old world" in a parallel universe where different laws of physics apply? The building traditions and the aims of the culture, working within the fixed technical limits of the construction technology and the physical limits of the masons and workers, are the design parameters of the architecture - not fantasy religious beliefs imposed onto pre-existing buildings.
                Yes, and if you know anything about the history of freemasonry and the ideals it espoused and the philosophy it originated from, you would know that it is not merely a blind homage to just some bland "architecture". (Recommended reading: Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma). Saying it ain't so because it must not be so doesn't cut it.
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                  Re: Sacred Geometry and Armenia

                  Originally posted by Anonymouse View Post
                  Yes, and if you know anything about the history of freemasonry and the ideals it espoused and the philosophy it originated from, you would know that it is not merely a blind homage to just some bland "architecture". (Recommended reading: Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma). Saying it ain't so because it must not be so doesn't cut it.
                  Freemasonry itself is a living example of "Wizard-of-Oz"'ism at work. Hide what is basically nothing within layer after layer of show and ritual and restricted esoteric pseudo-knowledge. Or, from when freemasons were real masons and not fat, golf-playing businessmen and corrupt politicians, hide from public knowledge what is actually a very simple set of rules and easily-learned skills inside a very complicated and secretive ritual and a long apprenticeship.
                  Last edited by bell-the-cat; 02-04-2009, 04:33 PM.
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                  • #10
                    Re: Sacred Geometry and Armenia

                    How about the pyramids of Egypt bell? What do you think motivated not only the ruling class but the rest of Ancient Egyptian society to become involved with such projects? Was it all just some logical exercise? Some attempt to appease the Pharaonic ego?

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