It is said that finding the missing code for this number - six cubed or 6*6*6 - will trigger the Messianic Age of peace. With this, everything in Rosslyn Chapel seems intended to replace the misguided symbolisms of evil with truth and hope.
Opposing forces of resonance and damping are everywhere in nature: the spacing of electrons in an atom, averaged interplanetary orbits, branching patterns in plants and the joint spacing in animals that enable articulated movement. Without this duality, nothing could vibrate, move or even live. Passed down from Egypt and the Orient, driven underground into the esoteric brotherhoods, these fundamental harmonic principles are the very definition of sacred.
An Age of Peace would be nice.
Esoteric brotherhoods? Naughty M word?
Me, I'm just an amateur self taught buddhist lay practitioner.
I know nothing about secret fraternities or messiahs.
Well, next to nothing.
But I do know a trick or two.
Harmony is balance.
Dionysus and Apollo reconciled.
Imagination and Reason.
Intuition and Rigour?
Er, that's it.
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