Tribe.net. Local Connections ۞ Karina http://26.tribe.net/thread/036293a0-4f66-4007-9b09-620ad407cb81#badfd217-fc3d-490b-9071-87d6fd3de2f2 2005-04-01T06:14:47Z 2005-04-01T06:14:47Z

Many people have felt uplifted and inspired by the proportions of King's College Chapel in Cambridge (built 1446-1515). Its founder, King Henry VI, gave precise stipulations for its dimensions and design, and it turned out to be one of the last Gothic churches built entirely to geomantic principles. Among other things, its component parts repeatedly reflect the number 26, which in gematria is the name of God in Hebrew, the tetragrammaton JHVH. Nigel Pennick has written that King's College Chapel "embodied in its fabric, dimensions, proportions, colours and geometry the basic mysteries of the faith. ... Numerologically, the number 26 is dominant. There are 26 great stained-glass windows, 26 structural uprights, 26 ribs in each pair of fans in the stone vaulting of the roof, 26 apertures in each panel of side-chantry tracery, etc. ... Twenty-six represents the ineffable name of God, in Hebrew. This word permeates the fabric of the chapel, as the spirit of God was believed to permeate the earth, making the chapel indeed the divine body. In fact, the numerological symbolism is openly revealed at the tympanum over the west door, where (there) is carved the Tetragrammaton. Although its significance is lost on today's tourist guides (and most of today's tourists), it is perhaps the only overt statement of mystical purpose to exist on the outside of an English ecclesiastical building. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Jehovah = 26 current also leads us once again to the Squaring of the Circle, as the Hermeticists discovered, in light of pi equaling 22 sevenths, which when added to the 4 corners of the Square or Cross, yields the number 26. Moreover, the number 26 is also intimately related to the Cube of Measurable Space, made up of 6 faces, 8 corners, and 12 edges, said components adding to the Number 26. The number 26 is also the number of the proportion of the Golden Rectangle, which was utilized by Classical and Renaissance artists as a symbol of perfection, for this rectangle is measured as 5 by 8 units, and 5 + 8 + 5 + 8 = 26.

۞ Karina 2005-04-01T06:14:47Z