The Lotus of Life

Gazing deeply into this flower, our consciousness blooms:

The Lotus of Life is a cosmogram of human awareness—a tool for breath work, meditation and manifestation. It’s not something we look at, it’s something we enter. It is initiatory and complete.

The Lotus of Life is therefore not decorative, but diagnostic. Without this pattern, consciousness cannot arise. The Lotus of Life remains the grammar of form—from this plasmic membrane of 61 circles comes the structure of self-awareness:

The arrangement of 13 circles above gives birth to Metatron’s Cube below:

The pattern represents awakening. It rises from the mud to the light. It describes self-awareness from stillness. This is the framework that gives birth to the seven chakras:

Here we can see the cube, icosahedron, tetrahedron, star tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and cuboctahedron. While the lower chakras are rooted in sexuality, the upper chakras begin to strengthen our bond with our spiritual side. When all seven chakras are aligned, we can start working with the eighth—the hypercube:

Above: the tesseract is the governing shape of Metatron’s Cube

The unfolding of a hypercube into eight cubes is like the opening out of a cube into six squares. The use of a tesseract for the cross hints at the transcendental nature of God. Just as divinity exists in a world that is abstract to humans, the hypercube exists in 4D which is equally inaccessible. So the net of the hypercube is a 3D “crucifix” which in turn has a 2D shadow—both popular in religious iconography.

Above: the crucifixion represents the end of human awareness

In Dalí’s Corpus Hypercubus, Gala gazes upwards at her husband suspended before the unfolded geometry of the hypercube. Geometry therefore, is the language through which the soul projects itself into reality. Ptah rules the hypercube because he symbolises conception into application.

Indeed, the soul recognises its own relational image. Geometry is therefore not the soul; but rather its reflection. This mirror image has dimension because reflections require distinctions. So our higher dimensional aspects need lower dimensions only to experience ourselves as knowable.

Why were the Egyptians fixated on the eighth chakra depicted in the sphere above? Because it is the eighth that gives birth to the geometries beneath it. In other words, it hints at the 4D geometries above that inform the 3D patterns below. This is the generative threshold between the unseen geometry of consciousness and the visible geometry of form. Here we are reminded of the soul, the breath and the bindu.