<video><title>Secrets of Sacred Geometry: The Square</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="00:00:15,000">The square. The square is the fundamental two-dimensional shape, bounded by four equal lines, intersecting at right angles, representing earth, materiality, and bodily existence.</line><line from="00:00:15,000" to="00:00:24,000">The square features prominently across cultures. The square is the shape of the altar, the building block, the foundation.</line><line from="00:00:24,000" to="00:00:33,000">The original perfection and anchoring nature imbue it with spiritual symbolism. In alchemy, the square signifies the element earth.</line><line from="00:00:33,000" to="00:00:40,000">In Chinese cosmology, the square is associated with the direction north and the season winter.</line><line from="00:00:40,000" to="00:00:53,000">The orthogonal nature of the square establishes linear perspective. It frames the world in right angles, laying the groundwork from mathematical space and rectangular coordinate systems.</line><line from="00:00:53,000" to="00:01:00,000">Square frames in painting, photography and film reinforce linear perspective and centrality.</line><line from="00:01:00,000" to="00:01:12,000">Sacred geometers explore the mystical resonances of squaring the circle. That is, constructing a square with the same area as a given circle, using only compass and straight edge.</line><line from="00:01:12,000" to="00:01:22,000">This demonstrates the deep linkage between curvilinearity and linearity and geometry. Architectural forms play with the opposition and reconciliation of squares and circles.</line><line from="00:01:22,000" to="00:01:29,000">Central domes rise above square foundations. Circular breaks in wall reliefs create scalloped edges.</line><line from="00:01:29,000" to="00:01:39,000">Squares turn on their vertex to become diamond tylings. In this interplay of shapes, sacred geometry reveals the dance between the heavens and the earth.</line><line from="00:01:39,000" to="00:01:47,000">The square is concentrated order and structure. It epitomizes firmness, solidity and reliable foundation.</line><line from="00:01:47,000" to="00:02:01,000">As the simplest modular planning unit, it is ordered architectural space for millennia. Yet its earthy stability also contains the seed for transcending materiality through geometric harmony and order.</line><line from="00:02:01,000" to="00:02:15,000">The square distills the constructability and proportionality of space. In its reconciliation with the infinite curve, it exhibits the play and precision possible within the perimeters of form.</line></transcript></transcript></video>