![]() ![]() The golden number, also called the golden ratio, golden ratio or divine proportion, is represented by the Greek letter Phi Φ in honor of the sculptor Phidias, the most famous sculptor of Ancient Greece. For Plato, the Golden Ratio was the key mathematical relationship to understand the cosmos. This knowledge came from the Egyptian mystery schools, in the sense of revealed sacred wisdom. The Pentagram (symbol of the physical and mental man), and especially the Dodecahedron (the representation of the macrocosm) of the Platonic Solids were the most representative elements of his school. Its mystical relations with PHI and the Spiral turned the Pentagram into the symbolic emblem of Health and Life of its initiatory school, and symbol of perfection and beauty. We even find it in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid, not to mention that it is found in the faces of all the great sculptures of the ancient period.įor the Pythagoreans, an initiatory community of scientific, philosophical, artistic, and religious character, the pentalpha or starry pentagon represented the triumph of the spirit over the elements of nature. In the Great Pyramid of Cheops, it is manifested in the quotient of the height of the triangles and its side, which is 2 PHI in the ratio between the height of a face and half the side of the base in the ratio between the total area and the lateral area of the Pyramid, and also in the ratio between the lateral area and the area of the base, which is also PHI. ![]() In imperial Egypt, every religious and artistic manifestation dedicated to the gods was not conceived without the presence of PHI and thus appears in all architectural, sculptural and pictorial creations: as in the plan of the temple of Seti I in Abydos, in the Temple of Dendera and in the Temple of Edfu. It appears in the Bible in different forms, in the construction of Noah’s Ark and in the dimensions of the Ark of the Covenant and we can find it in the design and construction of the great pyramid of Giza. The Baghdad Wall Gate responded in its design to the divine proportion, and we can find this relationship in the pentacles engraved on Sumerian clay tablets from Mesopotamia in 7000 BC. It has been the great secret of mathematics and ancient art and was used in the form of mathematical and mystical knowledge in all the great architectural works throughout history.
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