This is Tarot II (2) - the High Priestess/Papess card and the third card of the
Major Arcana.  It consists, amongst other things, of a lady twixt the (black) B
and (white) J pillars. marked B and J.  B and J are the Jachin/Boaz Sts John of
Jerusalem/St. Johns of Jerusalem - Evangelist and Baptist - but, in Freemasonry,
they are the Biblical Temple of Solomon  looking out (J is on the left) whereas
Tarot shows a symbolic view looking in (B is on the left).  Our mirror theme
continues: black and white, left and right, in and out. In Steiner-related art, the
pillars are red (J) to violet (B), the spectrum of a rainbow. The Evangelist is a
Jesus-replacement (Mid-winter), I think, and the model is once more about
mirrors, opposites, complements and seasonal circularity.  Note how the Gemini
twins/mirror is II.  And Tarot Papess?  A mediaeval fancy was of a female Pope
John!

 









The John the Baptist (left) is a current card depiction by the Church
(catholicforum.com).  The ancient Tarot card on the its right I had as 'Papess'
in my equally ancient notes - but it isn't, no, it's 'Faith', as in the Cary-Yale
Visconti-Sforza of (arguably) 1466 AD, possibly by Bembo, and there's a 'Hope'
and 'Charity' to go with it that is not present in our conventional/modern 78-card
pack -   http://www.tarot.org.il/Cary%20Yale/

I carry Tarot 'Faith' because of its startling similarity to the conventional John, to
its left, with the (stylised for him) upraised finger and cross and because of the
'female' John idea present in the Papess (John) and Beloved Disciple (John).
Does a 'John' somehow represent/code the Feminine-Divine principle?

This from Rachel Pollack, a leading light in this area - and my thanks*:

* It was, though, the COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO TAROT, 1999,
by Rachel Pollack, P. 74, that carried the identification of this  card as "La
Papess, or Female Pope, as shown in the Cary-Yale Visconti Tarot".  Um!

"Aha.  I can see why you are interested, resemblance is quite strong. the picture is from the Cary-Yale Visconti, one of two very early decks painted for the Visconti family, the Duke of Milan, presumably by Bonifacio Bembo.  The other one, the Visconti-Sforza, is better known because a.  it was the first complete Tarot deck we have, dating from 1450, and b. is closer to the modern decks in structure.  The Cary-Yale Visconti has extra court cards  U. S Games used to publish a replica of the Cary-Yale Visconti. I hope that helps, Geoff. Very interesting material on your web site. Rachel 08-12-07"

And here are two better 'takes' (of the above, as promised) to compare +:

















Note (geoffss, 09-12-07) re 'Ptolemy': that's a mediaeval representation wearing mediaeval
gear - and arguably carrying a mediaeval device, the cross-staff. But I find claims that
Aristillus and Timocharis were using something similar circa 284 BC, that it had Chaldean
origin, and that the Mayans used something similar.*  I think the pic. is by Andre Thevet,
1584.  Note the 'John' finger accompanies the staff, just as in the other two pics.  (I've
enquired re the Catholic Saint pic. provenance but it seems to be 'after the fact 'rather than
before it'   I also founf Baierl, early C20th AD - J the Bmis a girl there -- and, Gary, there's
a 23.5 there,somewhere!).   *http://members.shaw.ca/mjfinley/astronomers.html

This Leonardo, circa 1501 AD, featuring John, yarnwinder cross
and finger got knicked not so long ago, I remember:



















The 'yarnwinder' cross associated with St John the Baptist is strikingly
similar to the cross-staff (aka Jacob's Staff - albeit the source above
says the Jacob's Staff was a later version of the cross-staff lasting into
the C18th AD), a tool of use in determining Latitude in the Middle Ages
 - and, perhaps, earlier.  It is notable, perhaps, that some mediaeval
maps call Orion 'Jacob', and it is remarked (in Wikipedia) that the reason
may be the similarity twixt Orion and the cross-staff.  Gary Osborn writes
of the backbone of Osiris (assoc. Orion) as a start-fix for the heavenly
precessional cycle/circle. the djed/world axis (which he associates with
the angles 23/23.5, a feature to be found in considerable art of the period
1515-1717):

http://www.book-of-thoth.com/article1526.html

Is it possible, I wonder, to posit Jacob's Ladder as this "spine" of Osiris?
And is the combining 'glue' the stars and navigation?  We'd have a Jacob,
a Jacob's Ladder, a Jacob's Staff ... and Bethel, of course, Jacob's Pillow
and Place of God.

A site I wholly recommend for its content, vision and mission comes to mind:
Lexiline.  It's worth taking a look at the ideas carried regarding 'Jacob' and
the Orion part of the night sky, notably the identification of Jacob with the
area twixt the 7 Pleiades and Orion's Belt and twin Esau with the 7 Hyades
(and we're also in the region of the Gemini twins*):
www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi144.htm , www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi11.htm

*I find the script identifies Joseph with the area Aries to the Pleiades and Jacob seems to be the area from the
Plieiades to the belt stars of Orion, the 'Stone of God'.   Lexiline calls Jacob 'prior' to Orion.  Worth remembering
that the Jacob's (stony) Pillow here is associated with the Stone of Destiny/Lia Fail/Stone of Scone.  Lexiline
associates Bethel with Betelgeuse, left shoulder of Orion  - the right is Belltrix (female warrior).  The Arabs had
a stellar female figure encompassing Gemini and Orion - and  "astride the celestial equator".  She was "the
female one in the middle", jwz (al-jouza), Betelgeuse being 'the hand of ...'. 

This is GENISIS 28, 18 turf  - Jacob erects a pillar  to mark a dream when the sun rises.  I think it would have
to be about 10,500  BC for that sun rise to be Spring Equinoctal with Orion in the East ...

In the Hyades ref., it seems they "threaten rain when they rise with the sun" (BREWERS).  Very much not
Sailors' friends!  The Pleiades, their sisters, however, are from the Greek 'to sail' as would Old Ma Pkeione.

Note (geoffss, 10-12-07): 'the obliquity of the ecliptic'.  Were there a true
celestial 'up' and 'down' then that's how much Earth slopes off it, Pole-to
-Pole.  Gary Osborn has made - and is making - a compelling study of the
use, 1515-1717, of the angle 23.5 degrees (and sometimes 23 degrees) in
art.  And this angle can be assigned to represent the 'obliquity', above.

But it raises the question why?  There was nothing hidden about this angle:
circa 1230 AD, page 1, SPHAERA MUNDI by Iohannes Sacrobosco, "23".
A 'Round Earth' AND it's tilt - burn him, did they?  Well, no, actually - they
made 'John Halifax' (to some) a saint and his book was the required reading
for the navigators and mapmakers of the next 400 years!

23.5 does exist as "mirrors" though: the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn,
our Summer and Winter, are often accorded that (stylised) Latitude, N and
S of the Equator..  Now, if we look at the equinox suns of Spring and Autumn,
will they not fall, figuratively, twixt the two 'pillars' of  Capricorn and Cancer
and be (stylistically) 23.5 degrees from each whilst the total gap twixt these
pillars will be 47 ( and J + O + H + N = 47)?  And we have two Johns - the
47 degree trip Capricorn to Cancer (Evangelist) and the 47 degree trip
Cancer to Capricorn (Baptist).  It's a thought ...

This from Gary to me - my thanks - c/o the Graham Hancock Mysteries Board
(GHMB), noting Gary added that the Lomas and Knight book THE HIRAM
KEY, 2000 AD, also carries this identification, and, apart from the orientation,
an Earth X-section rectangle resulting from the Tropics is remarkably similar
in its maths to the Stonehenge Station Stones rectangle, I note*:

*www.awugabunnies.co.uk/10.html

Hi Geoff

Yes, that's the correct way of looking at this.

The two pillars represent the two solstice positions of the sun on the horizon
- i.e., the two opposites.  In regard to consciousness - the two pillars represent
the conscious-self (male) Summer Solstice and the subconscious-self (female)
Winter Solstice.

And therefore one must be balanced - i.e., one walks between the two pillars -
the 'Middle Way' ... central equinox position - the Unconscious(nothing)/
Superconscious(everything) Earth Upright and perfectlybalanced.  Now we
can see why the earth being upright would be the ideal situation - especially
when looking at how all this relates to these esoteric principles as regards
human consciousness.  Remember that during the two days of the equinoxes
we have the same conditions as if the earth were upright.

The compass or dividers convey the same - as does the Level.

Best.
Gary
(dated - by me - 12-12-07)

MOVING ON:

Now Jacob is James, one of the Thunderers (Boanerges)and a cousin
of  Jesus (and, presumably, John the Baptist).  His brother is the other
Thunderer and another John (aka the Beloved Disciple and associated
with the Feminine by some).  'Boanerges' is a title depicting the Heavenly
Twins, Gemini, Pollux and Castor - just by Orion and signalling better
times/weather for mariners (of whom the Heavenly Twins became patrons
 ... up to as late as Elizabethan times).  Other "sailors' friends" included the
7s: the Pleiades (of good weather association) and Ursa Major. Our
two High Priestess pillars are mostly the B J ones at the start.  One
card I've seen carries the Greek letters Alpha and Omega instead -
full circle, to some, beginning and end (though Alpha to Tau occurs ...). 
Arguably, both Alpha and Omega are female symbols:  Alpha ia a
stripped-down 'Lady' Pentagram (hence the alternative pentalpha)
and Omega is womb, perhaps?

Note, too, handedness.  Some of our 'pointer fingers' above are the index
finger of the right hand, others the left.  There is the idea that right =
male and left = female - and I know some identify Jupiter (the Pointer!)
is the planet associated with that digit - partly because Jupiter  is the one
(of what was the seven) that visits all 12 'Houses'?   Here's another
thematic Leonardo, 'The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St John the
Baptist' (circa 1499-1500 AD):













Look at the pointing hand just to the right of the pointing right hand of
baby Jesus.  Apparently, it belongs to St. Anne - her left hand.

Note (geoffss, 10-12-07): I have no opinion, currently, as to significance,
 if any, in the handedness - but I am aware that there was a finger
language, of sorts, some all toooften in use today, of course!   There are
associations with the heavens attached to fingers and palms and there is
the Dactyl idea.

In Freemasonry, the Johns are parallel tangential poles left and right of the circle
/cycle of the precession of the zodiac.  Baptist is left and Evangelist right here: 

This (second) is tagged "The dualism
of St. John" - defunct 'masonic' (?)
site.  You can find the two as two
church stained glass window-pieces
like this, too - ?borrowed?, and that
worried me a tad, so I provenanced
the idea c/o a site that
can be interrogated:   www.phoenixmasonry.org

Notice our Johns have changed sides:























I would note that it is billed "Sts John the Baptist" - no Evangelist in sight .....
save visually (and this time on our left) of course. The As Above So Below
gesture (fidure right) finds expression both below (Tarot 15) and on my
"Mirrors" page.

This 'Dualism of St John' seems to find almost Tarot II (noting the two Poles
/Pillars in II), expression in Baierl, 1920:


What have we here?

There's our yarnwinder,
two 'pillars' of sorts -
the figure holding the
lamb (another St John
symbol in art) stands
between the two upright
features ....

but ....

isn't this Saint John the
Baptist a girl?

Or hermaphrodite?
(See 'herm'/central
pillar below)












MOVING ON:
 
               J          B                         J       B










Credits (in order): wiki commons (sloth_monkey), libralion.com, connectotel.com
and (for an example) timboucher.com.  Note cross = "tree" in some symbolism

The ten sephira Gates of Light 'shining ones' of the Kabbala Tree of Life can
be expressed as 3 pillars, female (B) on the right and complement/opposite
male (J) on the left, as with Freemasonry. The third pillar is the middle way, an
Axis Mundi/Wprld Tree to some.  The angles are those indicative of equilateral
triangles, of honeycombing, hexagons and of dodecagons, 30 and 60 degrees,
and the model is built on a dodecagonal/hexagonal/vesica 'bed' discovered from
the "Sun", third up/middle.  This is sephirot 6, appropriately,and below it is the
"Moon", sephirot 9. The vesica piscis-based geometry of the Seed (hexagonal
7 inter-locking circles sharing the same radius length) can develop into the Flower
of Life and this relates to the 5 Platonic solids - the Fruit of Life/Metatron's Cube:


Metatron's Cube - 8 of 10 points
here coincide with the Tree of Life.
Sephira 2 and 3 do not (but I
recommend you visit the Bigbytes'
sites given below for more here).
2 and 3 are 'found', I note (he
doesn't!) by seed/vesica construction
                             - 15, 75, 90 degree triangles.

Progressing down the Tree of Life is termed "Lightening Flash" whilst a
(gnostic) snake is sometimes portrayed ascending whilst 'touching all bases'
(as shown above).  Sometimes the snake is identified with Nehushtan, the
brazen serpent (on a pole) of Moses (where the 'an' can indicate 2 serpents). 
A number of things spring to mind: the Aesculapius healer snake symbol
associated with Ophiuchus, the Serpent-Bearer, the two-snaked caduceus
herald's staff of Mercury/Hermes, DNA's double helix,  Draco's Thuban
Pole Star and the World tree/Axis Mundi, and, (c/o Gary Osborn), ida and
pingala, chakras and the human spine/central nervous system.  The imagery
also has associations with the number 7 and the eagle (and, c/o virgin 7,
serpent and eagle, St John of  REVELATION).  The two-snake idea finds
expression in our mirrors, complements and opposites: male/female, hot/cold,
light/dark, fire/water, J and B pillars, Adam/Eve (+ tree with serpent a la
Durer) etc.  This theme rather fits to Libra to scales/balances back to ...
Ophiuchus.  I note also that it is possible to express the Fibonacci phi
sequence as 2 "snakes" a mobius strip type loop.

A version of the Tree of Life approximates to the John Evelyn FRS plan for
rebuilding Great Fire London: and do we find more of the same 130 years later
in the ground-planning for Washington DC?  Some think so:

A* John Evelyn plan from
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk -
my thanks. Also at www.
nmm.ac.uk
*I think he did 2.


John Evelyn's London plan overlaid.
St Paul's Cathedral is the Sun, 6.  My
thanks to Andy Mercer of IoPR:
                       www.iopr.org.uk/84701/86401.htm

(This link WAS correct but Andy has 'moved on', he tells me, and you
now just reach the revised IoPR site - a computer crash or so later!
Anyway, he's kindly allowed me to carry his idea - and my thanks!).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
"Bigbytes" on Washington DC.
This is what he terms an "A" Tree
of Life as against his aptly named
"H" - visit the link below for more:

http://www.geocities.com/jussaymoe/TOL/tree4.htm

MOVING ON:






This is Albrecht Durer - 3 'pillars' (Adam, Eve and tree) + snake. Are
we also looking at the Tree of Life here?

The picture's construction is said to evidence the (red) "Seal of Hermes". 
You see Adam and Eve expressed as two opposing, complementary,
balancing equilaterals (which are also used to convey the 4 Elements
hermetically): this is the maths of hexagons, honeycombs (bees) and the
vesica piscis.  These are two different ways of expressing the same thing:


Seed of Life



The ten sephira themselves are reminiscent of the Star sapphires - and
sephirot means sapphire (and cypher and sphere).  Star sapphires display
hexagonal - and sometimes dodecagonal - properties; the sephira sit on a
honeycomb hexagonal pattern, otherwise expressed as the Seed of Life
(above, right) and its expanded version, the Flower of Life:

  The drop-on is featured above.  Seed and
  Flower contain the maths of an "Isis" as
  well as that of the Tree of Life.  This pattern
  was on the floor at Abydos.

        J    B
Some identify the J and B pillars with the Royal Arches (North-South and
East-West) whilst others identify them with Pi and Phi.  It is conceivable that
the SONG OF SONGS contains allusions in 'Rose of Sharon' and 'lily of the
valley' - but "I am black but comely" can also be alchemical Egypt,  Khem,
unified. Here we see them as Sun and Moon, Air/Fire and Earth/Water, Day
and Night, Hot/Dry and Wet/Cold:

 

This is the alchemical "Compass of the Wise" dating to the C16th-C18th
depending on the source).  It contains themes seen on Tarot II (2), in the Old
Testament and in Freemasonry: J is identified with white whilst B is identified with
black  J is on the left, so we are looking out from within the Temple.  J carries the
male and solar emblems of the Sun, itself, plus Fire and Air; B carries the female
and lunar Moon, plus Water and Earth.  Between them are the other heavenly
bodies of times gone by: Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn and Mars. These 7 are,
collectively, the 7 Pillars of Wisdom.  Above them are 3 of the 12 Signs of the
Zodiac: Aries, Taurus and Pisces. 'Pater' and 'Mater' rather reinforce the male
-female pillar themes.  Do you see the "Isis"?  She's in all these 5, too:

 

"Isis" is the product of classical geometry - using a vesica piscis to create
a pentagon by pencil, ruler and straight edge construction.  The tip of her
forehead would be the Da'ath (sepirot 11) position on the Tree of Life and
would give the Golden Mean, phi, constructionally.

The "Compass of the Wise" distribution Air-Fire to Earth-Water can be
indicative of the 4 Humours: combinations of Dry, Hot, Cold and Wet. 
They can also indicate (with a little fancy footwork) the 4 Cardinal points and
the 4 Royal Watchers, the Fixed Stars Regulus, Aldebaran, Antares and
Fomalhaut.  We have North (Fire), East (Earth), South (Water switched
from Air) and West (Air switched from Water).  On to these we can drop the
four Fixed Stars.  We also see possible connections here to the 4 Horse-men
of the Apocalpyse and various Biblical Fiery Chariots (for ascending to heaven).
Exactly why the 7 Heavenly Bodies are distributed in no known pattern (to me)
and why the 3 signs of the zodiac are in the wrong order - Pisces, Aries Taurus
or vice-versa is logical - I currently give in - and invite suggestion!  In Retrich's
Steiner-inspired art J is red and stands on water whilst B is the other end of the
spectrum and stands, right, on land.  A ROYGBIV rainbow connects them.  A
hand on J points up - the "John gesture" associated with the Baptist - but on B
a hand points left, to an opened book. This contrasts to the rolled-up scroll  the
Tarot II High Priestess sometimes holds - much as Isis and Virgin Mary
representations have a child.

 

    









 

Albrecht Durer's, THE FALL OF MAN, 1504 AD, again.  Adam is on the
left and Eve is on the right (but not from their perspective).  Between them is
a tree.  Eden had two - Life was one and Knowledge of Good and Evil the
other.  There's a serpent in the tree - of which the (male) trunk is showing. 
The foliage the trunk goes into, were it shown, would be both (1) higher and
(2) female.  If the Tree represents the Trees of Life and/or Knowledge, then
its fruit - "apple" - would be Fruit of Life, and apples signified pentagrams in
Pythagorean code.  The 'action' is based on two interlocking (opposite)
equilaterals - Adam and Eve - otherwise Star of David/Seal of Solomon. 
These have a describing circle and square - with identical perimeters: the circle
is "squared".  The scheme was common in 'sacral' art of the Renaissance period. 
The square/circle/hexagram design is termed 'Seal of Hermes', otherwise Mercury.
The middle 'tree' can symbolise the World Tree or Djed (Return of the ...), the
Axis Mundi that holds up the sky.  And it is a hermaphrodite. Adam AND Eve:

 

Source:

http://www.aiwaz.net/fall-of-man/a9








In Rosicrucian representation, too, the male (pillar) is left and female right but
the male is given as "Orient' and the female 'Occident': East and West.  This
fits more to an alchemical mage: "Marry the Red Man of the East to the White
Woman of the West".  I'm also aware of the pingala-ida idea - thanks to Gary
Osborn* - where we have opposing and complementary/mirroring male fire
and female water energy 'snakes' running up our spinal columns (of 33 bones). 
This is evocative of the winged Staff of Mercury. Alchemically this 'lives' with
Sulphur and Salt, a threesome, with Mercury a hermaphrodite.  A 'herm' was
the central World Tree pillar (that held up the Heavens). 

* http://garyosborn.moonfruit.com I have to note that Gary identifies East with White with Woman and West
with Red with Male - which seems rather at variance to the alchemical 'way'  Also, we tend to identify rose with
woman whilst lily (fleur-de-lis) looks somewhat male?  Against this,  Freemasony Female lodges are Eastern.
I seem to remember.  Confusing!  I looked at Eastern Lodges' star symbology: it's the Goat version - male.  And
presumably Lux (since female will be Nox/Black?).  Or will it?

Notes (geoffss, 02-12-07):  the above area is yet another presentational
mess.  Depending on where you look, pingala is male or female and ida
vice-versa, with pingala red and ida white (with central pole black or gold). 
The outside poles are either upright or a la Caduceus of Hermes/Mercery
 - intertwining (and likened by some to DNA).  There is a constant theme
of opposites/mirrors/balance/compl-ments running throughall the
alternatives I looked at, including female/lunar/dark and male/solar/light
and Divine Female Shakti with Male Shiva (sometimes 1 of a 5) ia an
expression of this.  Exactly what goes where, however, is a 'moveable
feast' : depends on whether blood/red/sun/male or white/semen/male ....
And Male appears, in one for instance, to be South!  Of course, with 69,
a 'dot' pictorally of the one quality appears in t'other.  The system's
common equivalent of herm is shushumna, the central pillar associated
commonly these days with the caduceus staff and Hermes/Mercury/(Lugh
 - thanks Paul Ashworth/Morph!).










Lucifer-Lux-Lightbringer-Morning/Eastern Star-Venus.  In some representation
the pretty colours are a more menacing black arrangement. The two sigils next to
the Masonic Eastern Star emblem are from
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/symbology/3o5.htm
Apparently, 'Lady' (as I know her) is "Good Lucifer" (middle) with 'Goat' as
"Bad Lucifer" in a dualisatic system - but the author seems to me to have an axe
to grind, finding a rotation of shock-horror! 33 degrees from good delivers bad. 
Really?  I always thought 72/2 was 36?  Despite this, the "Bad Lucifer" above is
not as blackly ominous as some Goat 'light-bringers' I've seen on Masonic sites! 
See, for instance,http://www.dpjs.co.uk/lucifer.html  but, whatever, it is this star
that sits in masonic representation where the sun sits in the picture below though
as 'Lady' (if I remember correctly):

This is a picture from the early C20th AD.  The painter is Retrich and the
inspiration is Rudolf Steiner.  Notice the 3 sigils, includind an "Isis".She's the
outcome of a marriage twixt pentagon and hexagon, earth and heaven, the
mundane/material and the spiritual. There's also a dot in circle signifies the Sun,
usually, and the same/similar motif also represents the precession of the zodiac. 
There's a hexagram Star of David/Seal of Solomon, which is also the Sun (6) but
it's also a union of Male and Female equilaterals.  In the Bible, GENESIS, Adam
and Eve cleave together (a rhombus/diamond/lozenge of two equilaterals side-by
side, this being the classic vesica piscis 'property') and then Adam 'knows' Eve
= gets on top of her = hexagram.  The hexagram is an outcome of Vesica Piscis
construction (two circles sharing a common radius). 

White is implicit here (?) - the rainbow colour 'sum'? Of note: the rainbow is the
wrong way round for a Primary rainbow - that would have red at the top!  So is
this a secondary rainbow or a nod and a wink to the chakra progression of red
base to violet top?

Here's Steiner: red on sea ... blue on land ...red angel of the north ... blue angel
of the south ... blue pillar on the left ... red on the right ... two gateways: Jachin ...
Dawn, the Gate of Life; Boaz ... Twilight, the Gate into the Spiritual World...
"they represent (together ... mutual action) the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree
of Life" - ART INSPIRED BY RUDOLF STEINER,  John Fletcher, pp. 6-7,
1987.

This is an Isis detail from Steiner's Malsch Building:

 
This "Lady"/Isis is also on the 'Compass of the Wise', above - if you look closely.

I first met "Isis" in David Wood's GENISIS.  He thought (wrongly) that 'only by
use of' a regular 15-sided polygon could the shape be produced.  There are many
(easier)ways!  What a 15-sided polygon DOES draw attention to is the ratio
15 : 24 (5 : 8, basically, or 5 : 2 power 3.  Values near Phi and phi).  In St John's
REVELATION, there are 24 'elders' seated round a 'throne'.  That's a 24 -sided
polygon angled 15 degrees - equilateral/hexagonal/dodecagonal maths.  One way
of looking at it is that one Earth hour = 15 degrees of Latitude (since 15 X 24 =
360).

Glastonbury's famous Chalice Well has water tinged red - "blood".*  Hence this

cover there.  Two circles sharing the same radius is hexagonal, produces the maths

of Gothic Cathedrals (that stops them falling down!), and looks like where-a-lady's

-legs-meet.  If you connect the two intersects you'll have an equilateral side and a

hexagram chord - the same line does both jobs.  Given those you can develop the

Seed of Life, Flower of Life, Tree of Life and Fruit of Life.  The maths of it is best

summed up as the Square Root of 3: the Square Root of ISIS (1.5 + 1.5).  I note

here two other Glastonbury features: (1) a "White" Well to mirror the Red Chalice

Well and (2) a legend of a sapphire of "inestimable value".

*Internet note has appeared recently concerning the other Glastonbury well.  The
White-Red theme also crops up at Renned-les-Bains with stylised White and Red
coming together by La Madelaine Well.

I really need to compare notes with Gary Osborn (et al) on this colour
'thing': black/dark/Moon/Pisces/Earth/Water/B pillar/triangles down is
female and white/light/Sun/Aries/Fire/Air?J Pillar/triangles up is male -
as a starting point.  But Pisces (Water) and Aries (Fire), astrologically
1st and last, are next to each other on a circle of the zodiac (Compass
of the Wise).  I note other concerns re "presentational inconsistencies"
variously elsewhere (geoffss, 03-12-07)/

Steiner-related art puts (red) J on water and (violet) B on land - the
spectrum of colour (opposites) standing on their opposites - except water
and earth are both 'female' elements ...  So red replaces white as male and
violet black as female, but red rose assoc. part of a lady ... and red fire
sun ... to moon white but white rose male.  Just say it's all about opposites
/mirrors/complements/circularity and leave it at that?  If not, it's a
hermetic stream mess!

CONSIDER

TREE OF LIFE*  PTOLMAIC/ROYGBIV/CHAKRA
(White)                       -                     -
(Silver)                       -                     -
Black                      Saturn            Violet
Blue                        Jupiter            Indigo
Red                         Mars               Blue  
Yellow                     Sun                 Green
Green                     Venus              Yellow
Orange                   Mercury          Orange
Purple                    Moon               Red
(Brown*)                     -                    -
* commonly/  
Kingdom/Shekinah/Malkuth
Sovereignty/Well of the Seven ...) 
 A quartered circle is used as the Planetary device, with 4 colours.         

Pythagoras would run Moon-Sun .... Saturn;  Copernicus would run
Sun-Moon down to Saturn**;  the arrival of Neptune, Uranus and
Pluto appears unanticipated by 'Ancient Wisdom'.

*I've seen eastern chakra colour values utterly at odds with those
common in the West.  There is no consensus as to how many there
are - 6, 7, Tantric 8 etc. etc - and the kundalini model of ROYGBIV
is an utterly arbitrary device dated (probably) to the C11th AD.
Chakras weren't imported until the 1920s ('THE SERPENT POWER',
by Arthur Avalon - penname of Sir John Woodriffe.  Tthe Chakra
systems do not appear to be particularly compatible with, say, the Tree
of Life system (as currentlygiven by some).

*THIS iS different again!  The major Tarot Arcana have been assigned
(by some) to the 22 paths joining the sephira (which the Sepher
Yetzirah emphatically numbers as 10),

















* So models moved Crown to Base.  Omar K's./Seat of Saturn is
Ptolmaic though - bowels of Earth rising to Seat/Throne of Saturn
There seems to be some consensus of White=Violet=Silver/Grey (Tree
of Life top 3).  Now that allows dark to fit to white woman .. but red***?
*** There is the idea that red rose = life/(pro)creation but white rose =
death ... lilies, too?  Keats and La Belle Dame Sans Merci carries some of
the imagery.

NB  It is none-the-less intriguing that the base chakra seems to equate to
'red earth', given that Adam means 'red earth' (red blood+clay earth) and
alchemy possesses a Red Man of the East .... White Woman of the West
when the crown chakra can be seen as the opposite (Mind Above to Mind
Below idea) to the base and white is the sum of the spectrum/alternate to
Violet.

Here is a current Tree of Life alternatiuve model utterly at odds with ?the more
standard B and J approach.  Doesn't accommodate Galen either, I'll hazard ...
Derek (see elsewhere) tells me Gk. Gem has 576 as Eagle/Breath - and we
identify eagle with St John the Evangelist 'because he saw further', a theme
fitting the Crown chakra, methinks.  But we also identify J the E with WEST
whereas the model below develops to assign west to the chakra 9 (counting
down) Foundation sepiroth Yesod, nting that some (not of the basic tradition)
associate this with moon - the 'heavenly body' Prolmaic overlay above
















Source  for both above  http://members.optusnet.au/~astroqab/231ihvtree.htm

Plot back to (noting the Tree of Life is hexagonal/dodecagonal in form - 30
degrees, 60 degrees, 90 degrees background triangles):

Classical Geometry was (and is!) done with compasses, straight edge and pencil. 

Until fairly recently, it was considered the noblest of all (7) areas of study that

comprised the curriculum.  The vesica Piscis is a basic construction.  Two missing

lines identify the necessary details, the hexagram cord and a parallel diameter in
the lower circle.  From these come both a decagonal and pentagonal side.  So
you are looking at the basic geometry for drawing both (male) hexagons and
(female) pentagons (as in the "Lady" pentagram - Lady and Goat section). You
get to see the Lady (Isis), herself, by adding in decagonal phi (a side) to the
construction  - well, that's the easy way (or one of them).

The Golden Mean (phi/Phi) and the Square Root of 3 are two features of what is
termed "Sacred Geometry" (go to www.geomancy.org/sacred-geometry/index.html
for a first-rate and detailed exposition by Sig Lonegren and/or click on '153 -
mirrors'here).