Vesica

I dig the venn diagram lurking behind the title… or “Vesica Piscis” as @johnkanesmith put it.

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While doing the prior posts on the Hind of Hinds and the Ka'bah of Mecca a/k/a the Goddess Kybele/Cybele and the Vesica Piscis I came across a reference to the Hala Sultan Tekke.

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A beautiful example of decoration, on the basis of the Vesica, is seen in the tomb of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey.

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

Now let me try to describe the wonderful properties of the Vesica

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

"Vesica Piscis" (Fish's Bladder), and named, no doubt, by the Greeks at the beginning of our Era, for the purpose of misleading the ignorant from the true meaning of the Figure.

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

In the volume referred to I have given a skeleton plan upon such a scale of subdivision that a tracing-board, of 5 feet by 8 feet, would be divided up into over one million parts, and, as all these subdivisions are perfect representations of the original Vesica figure with all its properties, the design of the largest building, with the minutest detail, could be drafted with absolute accuracy.

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

The problem of describing a Pentagon must have puzzled architects considerably in those early times, but this was again easily accomplished by means of the Vesica.

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

Natures of the Logos, the Word, the Creator; they are both procreated and enclosed in the Vesica; the one having the Apex pointed upwards, represented Divine or Spiritual Life, and in that I have placed the

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

This explains the reason why true Gothic buildings have always been said to be built mainly on the basis of the Equilateral Triangle; this naturally follows, because the use of the Vesica creates, and therefore necessitates, the appearance of the Equilateral Triangle in every conceivable situation.

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

Cathedrals of the Middle Ages are stated by antiquarians to have been planned on the Equilateral Triangle, so do we find the Pentagon appearing as the basis of Architectural designs of buildings of a later date, such as Liverpool Castle, Chester Castle, and other similar structures; but the true means by which each were laid down, as in the case of the Equilateral Triangle, was again the Vesica

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893