Been doing some research on the Throne of Osiris . . .
Heron of Alexandria, a 1st century AD Greek mathematician, defined a gnomon as "any figure which, when added to an original figure, leaves the resultant figure similar to the original." This is the symbol of growth by accretion, or evolution from a seed point. From the ground plan of a Hindu temple to the Throne of Osiris, this principle of gnomic expansion, or growth by accumulative increase, has been used throughout history to represent the unfoldment of space/time.
Identifying the Gnomon in verious cultures has been extremely easy - however I have yet to find an actual photograph of the Flower of Life from the Temple of Osiris in Abydos? Can anyone provide me with this reference or at least confirm that it does in fact reside there?
Can't believe there is nothing on the web!
Namaste,
David
Heron of Alexandria, a 1st century AD Greek mathematician, defined a gnomon as "any figure which, when added to an original figure, leaves the resultant figure similar to the original." This is the symbol of growth by accretion, or evolution from a seed point. From the ground plan of a Hindu temple to the Throne of Osiris, this principle of gnomic expansion, or growth by accumulative increase, has been used throughout history to represent the unfoldment of space/time.
Identifying the Gnomon in verious cultures has been extremely easy - however I have yet to find an actual photograph of the Flower of Life from the Temple of Osiris in Abydos? Can anyone provide me with this reference or at least confirm that it does in fact reside there?
Can't believe there is nothing on the web!
Namaste,
David
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Re: Throne of Osiris / Gnomon / FLower of Life
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 2:41 PMthere's a bad scan from dunvalos flower of life volume 1 for ya -
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Re: Throne of Osiris / Gnomon / FLower of Life
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 10:50 PMThankyou kind sir :-)
Just wanted to see the darn thing (forgive me) . . . at last :-)
Namaste,
David -
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Re: Throne of Osiris / Gnomon / FLower of Life
Mon, August 15, 2005 - 9:35 PMMy pleasure, Squire.
And, for your continued merriment, I have posted a couple of shots from beneath Rosslyn Chapel. Well worth the visit it be too.
See there, is a similar thing to that egyptian one. And rather than showing some la-de-dah unfolding spacetime malarky, it well, perhaps shows just what those evil-doers, the masonic templars were up to with it. Pentagrams too!
Don't say it had a practical use instead!! Lest one starts thinking the egyptians used it to build triangular churches.
How foolish would that be?
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