Sacred Symbolism
The pentagram, the Flower of Life, and the geometry of the sacred — what the symbols of the Western tradition mean and where they come from.
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Sacred Symbolism and Geometry
Human beings have used marks to point beyond themselves for at least a hundred thousand years. The engraved ochre from Blombos Cave in South Africa, dated…
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Sacred Geometry in Practice
Sacred geometry is best understood as a practice, not a doctrine. The set of forms — the circle, the triangle, the square, the Platonic solids, the Flower…
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Symbols of Power and Protection
Across the long history of the Western esoteric tradition, a small set of symbols has been used again and again to mark, to protect, to empower, and to…
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The Meaning of the Pentagram and Pentacle
The five-pointed star appears across millennia of human visual culture: in the pottery of ancient Mesopotamia, in the iconography of Pythagorean Greece,…
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The Flower of Life: Symbol and Origin
The Flower of Life is one of the most recognisable modern symbols of the sacred geometry tradition. The figure is composed of nineteen equal, overlapping…