2. longest and shortest shadows cast by the sun around which to show the longest and shortest
days of the year circumventing the full length of a year of 365.24219 days. The culture
who observed this method of time keeping lived before 2,500 B.C. For a detailed study of
the early megalithic civilization responsible for casting shadows to calculate time it is highly
recommended that you read Temple's books.
Traditionally in Sacred Geometry, the ancient Gnosis teaches that the point or "inmost
center" is described as the Pre-manifest Creator "Deity" from which all life originates thus
uniting humankind with the "Eternal Source" from which all life manifests. Thus the
expression, "Unity In Duality". The circle circumventing the point being the divine nature
or lens through which all things are created in material form with the Word or "Logos"
personified as Christ Incarnate, proclaiming God's Word or "Logos", through the Holy
Text. As The Christ Jesus, taught to his disciples as told in the book of Matthew 6th
Chapter Verse 10, "Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done In Earth, As It Is In Heaven".
The symbol as taught in the lectures of Freemasonry shown above left as traditionally
shown is in 2D, when actually it is a 4D symbol as shown on right. The traditional symbol
is made by creating a circle with a compasses placing two parallel tangents 180 degrees from
the center and placing the Holy Word "Logos" on the circumference; The circumference
made by the compasses represents the boundaries established in the Holy Word which a
Freemason uses for his Moral Compasses in life. The two parallel tangents are explained in
the 2nd Degree as the process by which is shown the progression of creation beginning with
that of a Point, to a Line, from a Line to a Superfices, and from a Superfices to a Solid.
Viewing this symbol as exists in real life, it more resembles what is seen at right. A living
vibration of energy. More detail will be included as this series progresses.
Through a knowledge of this higher plane of consciousness immediately above, or rather
within, being infinitely more real than the physical world alone there is Unity In Duality.
This is the potential divinity of every human-being in the power of the Indwelling Christ or
Christos Principal that Jesus the Christ and his Disciples show through the Holy Texts.
And this is what the early Christian Sects taught for the first 3 centuries A.D. The
individual must have a knowledge (Gnosis) as well as faith (Pistis). For is it not ignorance
that is the cause of humanity's great pain?
It is through meditation and contemplation on the symbol currently in study that the
Freemason develops a higher plane of consciousness recognized as the Indwelling Christ
Principal. Although some cultures identify this point of origination for creation differently,
there is a commonality to all Monotheistic belief systems. For example in Brahman
teaching, Vedic spiritual texts explain that the root or "Cause" of the universe is actually
the reality underlying it. The principal is the same. Some cultures anthropomorphize or
deify the "Point In A Circle" attaching attributes that are really human character traits.
Astrology, for example, is used as a pseudo program to categorize and determine character
traits. Vedic scholars however in the Shankaracharia tradition recognize the Ultimate Cause
as neither an object or subject but rather a Supreme Self or Atman underlying both that is
Self-realizing and Non-personal. One Infinite Cause interweaves the two without personal
3. attributes recognized as emotions in the human consciousness. Therefore there is Unity In
Duality. For this reason, although Yin and Yang are traditionally interpreted as positive and
negative, they are actually without emotions we humans perceive as being good or bad, right
or wrong.
The symbol of the "Point In A Circle", alluding to mathematics dates long before the
Christian Scriptures or even Pythagoras and Euclid for that matter. In Egypt about 3,600
years ago the Egyptian mathematician Ahmes, formulated a rule for determining the area of
a circle corresponding to 3.16. In ancient China Liu Hui, approximated Pi up to 6 digits by
approximating the areas of polygons to determine the area of a circle.
By measuring the outside circumference of a circle and dividing the number by the circle's
diameter, the answer obtained is irrational or what is called a transcendental number
3.1415926 >. Pi, is not an exact number because it cannot be duplicated or constructed in
a material form therefore is transcendent meaning it continues into infinity. To more
understand the concept of the transcendental number, the human consciousnesses must
transcend the material and conceive the non-material pre-existent. This is the goal of the
Freemason who studies Gnosis or Transcendentalism. And this is the central theme taught
in the symbol being studied by meditation and contemplation. The concept of a
transcendent reality relative to the material universe will be described in greater detail in
future installments. The "Point" within the circle, is pre-existent, meaning it is un-manifest
or infinite and the "Cause" of that which is manifest or finite or material in the universe.
In consciousness, the finite (manifest) world cannot be self-aware or "self-operative"
because it does not have the binding force or "Cause" (un-manifest) and therefore there is
no absolute order either singularly or jointly. This explains the constant change in nature or
what would be called the cycle of life and death of all that is created. In Dualism the
manifest and un-manifest realities of life are only reflections of each other. We can realize
this when seeing a reflection of ourselves looking at a pool of water or in a mirror. We see
our self but it is only a reflection. Our real Self is the underlying cause of the reflection.
Both are separate but still one reality. A conscious understanding in the relationship
between that which is the Cause and its' reflection is needed if one is to transcend the
material reality of life and integrate the two in daily life. Therefore, when we become Self-
aware as a component of the "Cause" we become aware that we are a part of and have a
relationship with all that is the Cause and there is "Unity In Duality".
