<video><title>Secrets of Sacred Geometry - The Golden Ratio</title><description>Join host Sebastian Schepis as he takes you on a journey through the world of Sacred Geometry, exploring the nature of form and examining the unfolding of shape. Lets travel from the Plenum to Multiplicity, enjoying the sights.</description><transcript><transcript><line from="00:00:00,000" to="00:00:07,760">The Golden Ratio. The Golden Ratio describes a geometrical proportion considered mathematically,</line><line from="00:00:07,760" to="00:00:14,320">philosophically, and aesthetically ideal. Denoted by the Greek letter Phi, it is approximately</line><line from="00:00:14,320" to="00:00:23,120">1.618. Many of its properties seem almost supernaturally perfect. Geometers discovered the</line><line from="00:00:23,120" to="00:00:30,240">Golden Ratio over 2,500 years ago by dividing a line into its most harmonious, unequal parts.</line><line from="00:00:31,280" to="00:00:37,520">Amazingly, Phi possesses unique capabilities of geometric construction using only a straight edge</line><line from="00:00:37,520" to="00:00:44,080">and compass. The Golden Ratio is encoded in the pentagram and the five platonic solids.</line><line from="00:00:44,640" to="00:00:48,080">It governs the arrangement of seeds, petals, and leaves, and plants.</line><line from="00:00:48,720" to="00:00:53,040">Sea shells like the notalists perfectly express its spiraling proportions.</line><line from="00:00:53,760" to="00:00:59,200">Sacred architecture employed the Golden Ratio extensively, with Greek temples,</line><line from="00:00:59,200" to="00:01:04,560">Gothic cathedrals, and ancient Egyptian monuments incorporating Phi relationships.</line><line from="00:01:05,520" to="00:01:10,480">The UN Secretary of Building in New York was constructed on golden Ratio principles.</line><line from="00:01:11,280" to="00:01:17,520">Nature seems to employ the Golden Ratio as a universal organizing principle and blueprint for beauty.</line><line from="00:01:17,600" to="00:01:22,320">It reflects harmonies between dimension, form, and growth that sacred geometers have</line><line from="00:01:22,320" to="00:01:28,400">pondered from millennium. Even the spiraling galaxies may echo its cosmic resonances.</line><line from="00:01:29,360" to="00:01:34,320">Phi's mathematical uniqueness and pervasive appearance signifies its important status</line><line from="00:01:34,320" to="00:01:40,240">to ancient and modern geometers alike. It reveals an archetypal harmony interfacing life,</line><line from="00:01:40,240" to="00:01:43,520">form, and number at every scale of existence.</line></transcript></transcript></video>