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The Flower of Life is the modern name by New Age movement author Drunvalo Melchizedek for an ancient geometrical figure composed of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles.[1] This figure forms a flower-like pattern with the symmetrical structure of a hexagon.
Drunvalo Melchizedek has called these figures symbols of sacred geometry, asserting that they represent ancient spiritual beliefs, and that they depict fundamental aspects of space and time. Melchizedek claims that Metatron's Cube may be derived from the Flower of Life pattern, and that the Platonic solids within it were "thought to act as a template from which all life springs".[1]
Variations
[edit] 7-circle form, with larger bounding circle |
 Complete in one circle |
A Flower of Life figure consists of seven or more overlapping circles, in which the center of each circle is on the circumference of up to six surrounding circles of the same diameter. However, the surrounding circles need not be clearly or completely drawn; in fact, some ancient symbols that are claimed as examples of the Flower of Life contain only a single circle or hexagon.
Historical forms
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![Pattern found at the Great Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.[2]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Temple-of-Osiris_Flower-of-Life_02.jpg/120px-Temple-of-Osiris_Flower-of-Life_02.jpg)
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Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of geometrical structures related to the ornamental structure. -
A window in this shape at the southern apsis of the church of Preveli Monastery (Moni Preveli), Crete. -
Cup with mythological scenes, a sphinx frieze and the representation of a king vanquishing his enemies. Cypro-Archaic I (8th–7th centuries BC). From Idalion, Cyprus.
![Pattern found at the Great Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.[2]](/wiki/File:Temple-of-Osiris_Flower-of-Life_02.jpg)
Construction
[edit]A Flower of Life pattern can be constructed with a pen, compass, and paper, by creating multiple series of interlinking circles of the same diameter touch the previous circle's center. The second circle is centered at any point on the first circle. All following circles are centered on the intersection of two other circles.
References
[edit]- Melchizedek, Drunvalo, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1 and 2. (1999, 2000) Light Technology Publishing.
- Rawles, B. Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook: Universal Dimensional Patterns. Nevada City, CA: Elysian Pub., p. 15, 1997. [1]
- Wolfram, S. A New Kind of Science. Champaign, IL: Wolfram Media, pp. 43 and 873, 2002.
- Eric W. Weisstein Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Second Edition [2]
External links
[edit]- Weisstein, Eric W. "The Flower of Life". MathWorld.
- Peter W. Michel, Sculptor, [3] uses as a mandala
- Animated creation of Flower of Life [4]
- Sacred Geometry: Flower of Life, Andrew Monkman [5]
Category:Mathematics and mysticism Category:Patterns Category:Religious symbols