Pete
1st December 2011, 10:16
A recent trip to Scotland has alerted me to something that may well deserve some of your thought. To anyone familiar with Scotland it seems to be a very beautiful and affluent place, although it has to be said the towns and cities can seem a little grey and severe.
I was in Aberdeen recently and was struck by the weight of Gothic architecture and how this fact seemed to have a depressing effect upon me. I honestly felt a physical repulsion at the look of the buildings and wondered why you would surround yourself with such miserable and authoritive buildings.
I concluded that the effect was probably compounded by the lack of trees due to the severity of the Scottish weather, but it got me questioning the inspiration and ethos behind this style of architecture.
A few days ago, talking to a Scottish friend, I queried this fact and he simply replied, “oh that’s because of the masons”. He then elaborated upon his answer and divulged the fact that the Masonic order had been and still was a highly popular fraternity inside Scotland.
Now this got me thinking and I would like to share the following flow of thought to see if this resonates with any of you.
Firstly, I have to profess an interest in sacred geometry, I am no expert but the idea and evidence I have seen to date seems quite persuasive. I have seen how this knowledge has shaped cities like Rome, Paris, London, Edinburgh, New York, San Fransisco and Washington D.C. (see secrets in plain sight- youtube).
Secondly, you have to ask the question, where did this knowledge and technology to administer this knowledge come from? The more you understand what has been achieved the more you wonder how they achieved the level of accuracy and you also have to acknowledge the possibility that given the time spans involved someone had very accurate navigational information, way before the advent of satellite driven GPS.
Thirdly, now here is a real left fielder. Some of you may remember the white buildings on the moon thread, which was posted back in September 2011. The main thrust of this, to my mind was the fact that the white dome structures were located around the rim of the moon and from the photographic evidence it appeared that the moon actually stopped at the midpoint and appeared to have enormous structures protruding from the flat surface on the dark side of the moon. You can appreciate the silhouette of the structures and what appear to be antennae.
Well from a hill I was looking down upon Aberdeen and it brought to mind the Nasa photos showing the silhouette of the darkside of the moon and then the word Draco came to mind and I saw the spires and turrets of the Gothic buildings.
Therefore, what inspired Gothic architecture, why was it the preferred style used to contain and obscure the sacred geometry of the Masonic order and is it possible that Gothic style is actually alien?
I was in Aberdeen recently and was struck by the weight of Gothic architecture and how this fact seemed to have a depressing effect upon me. I honestly felt a physical repulsion at the look of the buildings and wondered why you would surround yourself with such miserable and authoritive buildings.
I concluded that the effect was probably compounded by the lack of trees due to the severity of the Scottish weather, but it got me questioning the inspiration and ethos behind this style of architecture.
A few days ago, talking to a Scottish friend, I queried this fact and he simply replied, “oh that’s because of the masons”. He then elaborated upon his answer and divulged the fact that the Masonic order had been and still was a highly popular fraternity inside Scotland.
Now this got me thinking and I would like to share the following flow of thought to see if this resonates with any of you.
Firstly, I have to profess an interest in sacred geometry, I am no expert but the idea and evidence I have seen to date seems quite persuasive. I have seen how this knowledge has shaped cities like Rome, Paris, London, Edinburgh, New York, San Fransisco and Washington D.C. (see secrets in plain sight- youtube).
Secondly, you have to ask the question, where did this knowledge and technology to administer this knowledge come from? The more you understand what has been achieved the more you wonder how they achieved the level of accuracy and you also have to acknowledge the possibility that given the time spans involved someone had very accurate navigational information, way before the advent of satellite driven GPS.
Thirdly, now here is a real left fielder. Some of you may remember the white buildings on the moon thread, which was posted back in September 2011. The main thrust of this, to my mind was the fact that the white dome structures were located around the rim of the moon and from the photographic evidence it appeared that the moon actually stopped at the midpoint and appeared to have enormous structures protruding from the flat surface on the dark side of the moon. You can appreciate the silhouette of the structures and what appear to be antennae.
Well from a hill I was looking down upon Aberdeen and it brought to mind the Nasa photos showing the silhouette of the darkside of the moon and then the word Draco came to mind and I saw the spires and turrets of the Gothic buildings.
Therefore, what inspired Gothic architecture, why was it the preferred style used to contain and obscure the sacred geometry of the Masonic order and is it possible that Gothic style is actually alien?