Air Seed of Earth: Squaring the Circle

8.29.10 

Squaring the circle can only be approached through the mental alchemy, and it is about the compass of our lives that works totally within the esoteric realm, before becoming manifested in the physical dimension.

The airy castles of our soul, as it designs the fine structure of our physical dimension, is held within air seed of earth.

Robert & I saw a film last night of the life of a very mystical architect, Louis Kahn. The movie’s title is “My Architect- A Son’s Journey”, a film about a man, his buildings, and his secret lives. www.MyArchitectFilm.com  

It was about the journey of a son to find his father through his creativity and his mysticism. Nathaniel Kahn, a film maker and the architect’s son, created this award-winning film. 

It was so much about air seed of earth. The whole problem of understanding someone, who knew the mental alchemy, that cannot be solved with the straight edge and compass. 

Esoteric geometry is what this architect was about, and his life design that continuously reached to squaring the circle. His last design was the capital of Bangladesh, and it was the culmination of all his life’s work. He squared the circle. 

“Squaring the circle is the mental alchemy of transferring an airy concept from the mental plane to the physical dimension, so the objective conception, and birth, become a demonstrative reality.” Dr. John Munford, “Magical Tattwas”.

Louis Kahn, in the capital of Bangladesh, took the airy concept of democracy, and built a space that was the pattern it could conceive, germinate, and become a reality in. He did this in collaboration with the dreams of the Bangladesh government at that time.

He squared the circle and his design reveals it completely. He did not live the acceptable, conventional life that creates many good buildings, but he lived an un-ordinary, somewhat unacceptable life, that created magnificent architectures that changed all that went within them. He studied Jewish Mysticism, Buddhism, Christianity, and other mysteries. He was considered a Mystic by other fellow architects.

I have thought of all the changes, acceptable and unacceptable, that I have lived through, and the importance of realizing the truly real work often requires one’s life to follow and accept that squaring the circle is a height, that often requires a change in form, that can adapt to the shift in light, temperature, and oxygen.

This new form does not always comply with the world’s standards. Louis Kahn lived inside the mysteries of sacred structure, so he lived outside the standards of daily life, still creating from a sacred geometry of the soul. 

He always had a dialogue with the life within his work. “Before you build, you need to know what the brick wants.” Louis Kahn.

I am inspired by this day, this man’s life, and fortunately my own.