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:

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.

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 while the IVM does not. So the soul does not need geometry to exist; it needs dimension only to experience itself as knowable.

The hypericosahedron (600-cell) is composed of 600 tetrahedral cells with 20 meeting at each vertex. Together they form 1200 triangular faces, 720 edges, and 120 vertices. It is the 4D analogue of the icosahedron, since it has five tetrahedra meeting at every edge, just as the icosahedron has five triangles meeting at every vertex.

The hypericosahedron represents the ultimate state of geometric consciousness: the moment when separation gives way to perfect relationship. Composed of 600 tetrahedral cells, each one individually complete yet inseparably connected to the whole, it becomes a symbol of unity emerging from infinite complexity. The tetrahedron—the first crystalline expression of three-dimensional form—is multiplied into a higher-dimensional harmony where every edge, face, and vertex participates in a single coherent field.

In the 600-cell, nothing exists in isolation; every element is defined by its relationship to everything else. It is geometry no longer as structure, but as awareness—a universe of forms recognising themselves through perfect symmetry. If the hypercube represents transcendence beyond the limitations of ordinary space, the 600-cell represents transfiguration: the state where consciousness does not escape creation, but becomes fully aligned with it.

It is the final expression of the sacred principle that has echoed through nature, life and the cosmos—that unity is not the absence of diversity, but the harmony of countless unique expressions becoming one. Sexuality then, is the biological archetype of the same principle that consciousness seeks: the transformation of separation into unity.

Sexual ecstasy and expanded consciousness share a gateway quality. Many mystical traditions have explored this connection, although they interpret it in different ways. The reason this analogy is so persistent is that orgasm is one of the few ordinary human experiences where several things happen simultaneously:

< the sense of a separate self can temporarily soften >

< attention becomes intensely focused in the present moment >

< the body enters a state of extraordinary physiological coherence >

< there is a feeling of release, union and transfiguration >

Those qualities have often been used as metaphors for mystical experience. In some Tantric traditions, for example, sexual energy is viewed symbolically as a creative force that can be transformed into awareness rather than simply discharged. Geometry therefore, is not merely mathematics—it is the language through which life becomes self-aware. So the nine chakras are arranged like this from top to bottom:

Hypericosahedron = transfiguration

Hypercube = transcendence

Cuboctahedron = perfection

Dodecahedron = insight

Octahedron = expression

Star tetrahedron = love

Tetrahedron = power

Icosahedron = creation

Cube = survival

The Ninth Gate then, is the doorway to the higher realms. And who guards the gate? Lucifer, the “light bringer” who inspires us to rejoin the angelic realms. He was never the adversary but rather the guardian of the door to wisdom—the trickster who always knew “The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life”.