Home | Geometry | Geometry Art | Videos | Van Gogh | Escher

Sacred Geometry: Introduction

Click the play button above to start the video.

Video description: A lively video featuring artist Charles Gilchrist and his creations in which he speaks about the ancient spiritual discipline known as Sacred Geometry.

Sacred geometry is geometry used in the design of sacred architecture and sacred art. The basic belief is that geometry and mathematical ratios, harmonics and proportion are also found in music, light, cosmology. This value system is seen as widespread even in prehistory, a cultural universal of the human condition. It is considered foundational to building sacred structures such as temples, mosques, megaliths, monuments and churches; sacred spaces such as altars and tabernacles; meeting places such as sacred groves, village greens and holy wells and the creation of religious art, iconography and using ""divine"" proportions. Alternatively, sacred geometry based arts may be ephemeral, such as visualization, sand painting and medicine wheels.