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Flower of Life - Kabbalah Toy |
by David Bowman
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| Flower of Life |
A drawing of a metacube of 3 is allegedly found on several pillars of the Temple of Osiris, Osireion, in Abydos. The only photo from Osireion I have seen is here. If the inscriptions above the Flower of Life are considered by the same hand, than the mandala doesn’t seem to originate in the ancient Egypt, but more probably a merry gnostic passing by draw the Flower of Life on this pillar. Since the interwoven circles of the scheme form many shapes of vesica pisces that are easily seen as “eyes” the Flower of Life is supposedly related to Osiris. He was sometimes represented as completely covered with eyes (Book of Dead) and also his name contains an “eye”. I will show that the Flower of Life comes in the line of other successive cubes also containing “eyes” so this attribution proves to be useless.
This simple mandala of nineteen interlinked circles is found across the globe, even in such remote places as the Sikh temple at Amritsar.
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| Metacube of 3 units |
The Pythagoreans were particularly interested in the symbolism of figurative numbers.Metacubes were one of the intellectual toys that entertained Pythagorean philosophers. A cube of a chosen base - each pebble represented a unit - was drawn in flat projection in the shape of a hexagram. The number of the units that are “visible” is taken as a symbolic property or further elaboration of the mystical meaning of the numbers "revealed" by a metacube. Even the gematric value of the Greek word ΜΕΤΑΚΥΒΟΝ = 888 amplifies the idea of symbolic cubes. In the context of Pythagorean metacubes, the Flower of Life would thus represent a roentgen view of the metacube of 3 units.
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| Tree of Life projected on Flower of Life |
Many have already recognized that a kabbalistic scheme of the Tree of Life could be drawn upon the mesh of the Flower of Life. From a kabbalistic point of view, number three pertains to Binah, translated as Understanding. This third sephirah is a feminine signifier of the primordial Great Mother, the sphere of the birth of form erupting from a symbolic vulva. As much as she is a life-giver she is also a life-taker.
The cube of 3 units is the first cube complex enough that the Tree of Life could be drawn over its mesh.
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Side views of metacube of 3 units with projected Tree of Life |
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There are 27 (cube of 3) pebbles altogether, of these 26 are visible while 1 in the center is invisible. 26 is the value of IHVH, Tetragrammaton, representing the Four Elements (Fire, Water, Air, and Earth) of creation. It is not unreasonable to proclaim the invisible center as corresponding to the Fifth Element, or Spirit.
There are 27 (3x3x3) pebbles forming the third cube - 19 calculi are visible while 8 (2x2x2) are always concealed to the eye. Amusingly, but 19 visible pebbles represent the value of the first woman, Eve: חוה = 19, who could easily be attributed to the third sephirah Binah.
Four are variations of the pattern occurring on the sides of a three-dimensional cube containing the Tree of Life (see illustration). If fields occupied by a sephirah and fields that are empty are counted separately, the result gives a ratio of 22:14, which is twice the value of Pi. The same ratio is represented also by the width compared to the height of the Great Pyramid (440 : 280 royal cubits).
I hope that I have shown that a sheme of the Flower of Life reveals one or two properties of the Great Mother, the giver and taker of form, but has little to do with Osiris...
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