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Symbolism of NUMBERS
and of geometrical FORMS

Nombres

The number is used to count, to measure sizes. But it has not only this function. For Pythagoras the numbers expressed initially qualities, and the measurement of quantities, the arithmetic of businessmen being the use low, most vulgar that one could make some. Because the contents esoteric of the number translate the laws of cosmos and are declined in the processes of creation. Then let us start with some words on Pythagoras and his thought by pointing out what its Plato disciple had written in the entry of his school:
" That no one does not enter here if he is not a geometrician."

Known by the schoolboys because his triangle, Pythagoras lived at VIth century BC. It studied in Egypt lasting more than 20 years before travelling and supplementing its knowledge, then founded its school in Crotona in Sicily. One spoke there metaphysical, mathematics, geometry, cosmology but also social and political organization. Its radiation was such as the most significant thinkers of the time spent a few years there and that the increasing number of the followers, the pythagoricians seized the political power. All did not have to occur for best: towards 500 BC, a revolt of the local peasants led to a general massacre. It is not known if Pythagoras which died about this time was victim. The rare ones saved, in escape or a journey, dispersed and founded their own school. It is in one of it that many years later Plato was initiated. The pythagoricians constituted what today one would call a sect. There were the Masters who lived withdrawn enough from the world, with their studies, their rules, their secrecies and their signs of recognition, and the followers who took part in the life of the city. One of the latter is well-known: Milon of Crotona, the proper son-in-law of Pythagoras, several times winner with the Olympic Games. For Pythagore, all is in the number and the laws and the harmony of the universe must be required in the number (entireties) and the relationship between these numbers. Although none of its writings reached us, the teaching of Pythagore propagated and deepened by its successors influenced Greek science and the thought then Western until our days (Kepler, Newton...)..

Forms

The processes of creation generate two things: a form and matter, in other words a container and contents. The thought materialist is interested only in the contents and is unaware of the form.
A form generates a morphogenetic field which connects it subtle with all the similar forms and the appearance or the construction of a form multiplies the chances of a new appearance or duplication (the sphere is not it the most widespread form in the universe?). The forms in oneself are not neutral, they fit in the cosmic current. Whereas the shape of fish is not due randomly and that the shape of the boats and planes is carefully studied to make them more powerful, this relationship of form to cosmos is completely occulted.

Architecture

Architecture is well an art of the form, it aims to project and build forms in space. But contrary to other arts or craft industries of creation of forms like the sculpture, architecture produces an effect (visual for example) on outside but interior is especially made to be inhabited or used. It must thus meet human functions and needs. In best cases, when architecture is not that the beautiful art of frontage satisfying the égo of the designer, the material functions of the users or occupants are taken into account... and the completely ignored spiritual functions.

Crowned Architecture

Conversely crowned architecture, but also the simple house of the man of the majority of the people (known as primitive), aimed at spiritual functions, to connect the sky to the ground and the man with cosmos. The choice of the site, the orientation, the elements natural and climatic, the form and the proportions, all was considered, evaluated, adjusted to answer this search as well as possible, with for support the geometry and its contents symbolic system, sometimes complex for the significant buildings like the cathedrals.

Zomes

Resulting from geometrical form, Zome is carrying the symbolic system which one can find in the number and the form. The three degrees of freedom which control the polar rhombizonaedra and which can be expressed by numbers (of order, form, size) even make it possible to finely adjust it on fundamental frequencies of the universe. In return, it is able to resound in these cosmic vibrations, to generate or filter energy currents, to instigate space and to harmonize the man and his environment.

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