The pilgrimage to Chartres,
from the secular to the sacred, and the pilgrimage through Chartres,
through the sacred to rebirth, are journeys of seven steps with
three principal aspects
Energy Enhancement and Secret
Knowledge at Chartres
by Swami Satchidanand
Here I am not referring to
Freemasonry, but to the idea that there has been knowledge kept
secret, spiritual knowledge, secret meditations and in particular
knowledge of the secrets of art and architecture. After the age of
the cathedrals, the Middle Ages, with the Renaissance, and up to the
present, the development of humanity in the European tradition
turned to the development of the intellect, reason, logical thought,
as distinct from instinct and intuition. We have gained enormously
from this development, and we can see with a clarity previously
impossible, but a combination of ego and rationality has demanded an
understanding which commands its subject. An illusory desire for
reason to command all, meeting the fact that reason cannot command
all, produces the concept of secrets, secret knowledge.
There is an essential
knowledge, but it is not secret, just difficult to put into
practice, so it is sometimes easier to hold the concept of secret
knowledge, not available to me. There have been all sorts of ideas
about secret schools preserving knowledge of architecture across the
centuries, and this usually settles upon geometrical systems of
proportion and composition. Harmonious proportions and number
symbolism were used, and these harmonies are inherent in the human
mind, and emerge naturally when composition is undertaken by a pure
mind.
The search for secret
knowledge is often promoted by people who are avoiding their own
self discovery. There have been times when knowledge had to be kept
secret from oppressive authorities -- time when religious
institutions were both decadent and powerful, but even then the real
knowledge can be expressed in a way that communicates without
offence. Maurice Maeterlinck, author of the play The Blue Bird,
wrote his book The Great Secret about seventy years ago. He said
that the secret had been openly expressed again and again, and it
told who you really are, something quite simple, but entailing in
its acceptance a certain sacrifice, of who you are not, THE EGO, a
sacrifice many are unwilling to entertain, and, consciously or
unconsciously, prefer to see the truth as hidden from them,
requiring a profound search. Your search is hindered only by
yourself.
The cathedral is also full
of number symbolism, not the construction of a rational meaning out
of numerical analysis, but from an underlying sense that every
number, and particularly the numbers from 1 to 12 had a transforming
meaning. One was the number of original unity, and two the number of
the first division. The higher Three chakras was the number of the
divine, and the lower four chakras the number of the world. Seven
chakras, the sum of three and four, represented the steps or
completed cycle from earth to heaven, and eight, the soul, the next,
signifying rebirth and new life, and 12, chakras higher and higher ,
the product of three and four, God and the world, were all also
important.
Chartres is full of threes
and sevens. Apart from the threes The Trinity, inherent in the
layout and height of the building, the transepts and the choir each
have three bays, there are three portals, each with three doors, and
three stories to each tower.
The trinity - The Sun
Father, the Earth Mother and the Holy Spirit communicating between
them.
At Chartres, there are seven
bays, seven chakras, to the nave, seven bays between the crossing
and the east window, and seven bays to the apse and ambulatory. The
pilgrimage to Chartres, from the secular to the sacred, and the
pilgrimage through Chartres, through the sacred to rebirth, can be
seen as journeys of seven steps, with, like the chapels of the
ambulatory, three principal aspects. Seven is also the number of the
gifts of the body and the gifts of the soul, shown in both
transepts. Chartres expresses a unifying and transforming symbolism
in the very fabric of its architectural design. It was the first
high cathedral with only three storeys, the model for all later
cathedrals. Internally and externally, height is a principal
attribute, and not only height, but verticality. The whole design is
expressed in terms of vertical lines. This is an enormously heavy
stone building, which could have been expressed as stable and
earthbound, but with all the stone masses expressed as bundles of
vertical shafts, and with pointed arches formed like arrows to
heaven, the emphasis is upward: gravity is transformed and the
building leads the eye upward, an upward emphasis that is read
psychologically as a spiritual ascent.
The secret meditations
encapsulated in the Cathedral of Chartres is part of the Energy
Enhancement Synthesis of Light twenty eight ancient and effective
techniques to enable control of the mind, an enhanced IQ, control
over all negative emotions, anger, fear, depression on the path of
the ultimate Samadhi and enlightenment itself.
About the author:
Director Satchidanand, is one of the leading teachers of Meditation.
He helps people worldwide reach further than they EVER thought
possible, FASTER!
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