Matrix of Creation: Sacred Geometry in the Realm of the Planets - Softcover

Heath, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892811943 ISBN 13: 9780892811946

Publisher: Inner Traditions, 2004

Synopsis

Reveals the ancient mathematical principles refuting the notion of the solar system as an accidental creation

· Reveals how ancient civilizations encoded their secret knowledge of the sky in mythology, music, and sacred measures

· Shows how modern culture can benefit from the ancient astronomical and astrological worldview based on number

· Shows the role of ratio and harmonic proportions in the creation of the material world

Humanity’s understanding of number was deeper and richer when the concept of creation was rooted in direct experience. But modern sensibility favors knowledge based exclusively on physical laws. We have forgotten what our ancestors once knew: that numbers and their properties create the forms of the world. Ancient units of measurement held within them the secrets of cosmic proportion and alignment that are hidden by the arbitrary decimal units of modern mathematical thinking.

Sacred numbers arose from ancient man’s observations of the heavens. Just as base ten numbers relate to the fingers and toes in terms of counting, each celestial period divides into the others like fingers revealing the base numbers of planetary creation. This ancient system made the art of counting a sacramental art, its units being given spiritual meanings beyond just measurement. The imperial yard, for example, retains a direct relationship to the Equator, the length of a day and a year, and the angular values of Earth, Moon, and Jupiter.

The ancients encoded their secret knowledge of the skies within mythology, music, monuments, and units of sacred measurement. They understood that the ripeness of the natural world is the perfection of ratio and realized that the planetary environment--and time itself--is a creation of number.

About this title

From the Author

Richard Heath is a Web developer and author with degrees in electrical and computer engineering. He lives in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

From the Back Cover

NEW SCIENCE / MATHEMATICS

“An astonishing and important book.”
--John Anthony West, author of Serpent in the Sky

“Marks a turning point in the recovery of a whole way of thinking stretching back perhaps tens of thousands of years.”
--Anthony Blake, author of The Intelligent Enneagram

“. . . a bold and very important contribution to our understanding of our ancestors’ genius.”
--William Sullivan, author of The Secret of the Incas

Humanity’s understanding of number was deeper and richer when the concept of creation was rooted in direct experience. The ancients encoded their secret knowledge of the skies within mythology, music, monuments, and units of sacred measurement. They understood that the ripeness of the natural world is the perfection of ratio and realized that the planetary environment--and time itself--was a creation of number.

Modern sensibility favors knowledge based exclusively on physical laws. We have forgotten what our ancestors once knew: that numbers and their properties create the forms of the world. Ancient units of measurement hold within them the secrets of cosmic proportion and alignment that are hidden by the arbitrary decimal units of modern mathematical thinking.

Relying on knowledge encoded in ancient myths and monuments as well as current astronomical data, Richard Heath shows that the planets in our solar system form interrelated numerical patterns with their orbits. The cohesion of these relationships and the ubiquity of certain sacred numbers within them form a matrix of creation, which provides numerical proof that our solar system was not an accidental creation.

RICHARD HEATH is a Web developer and author with degrees in electrical and computer engineering. He lives in Scotland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Inner Traditions
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0892811943
• ISBN 13: 9780892811946
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160