Sacred Geometry of the Starcut Diagram

Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Sacred Geometry: Who Tastes Knows
	The Sand Reckoner and the Starcut Diagram
	The Tetraktys
	Structure
	Some Notes on Style and Content
	Reassurance
	Mistakes
Chapter 2. Unity in the Liberal Arts
	The Mnemonic is the Message
	The Liberal Arts
Chapter 3. Opening the Box
Chapter 4. Altar of the First Fire
	Mythic Associations—The Swami and the Architect
	The Starcut
Chapter 5. The Tartans of Pythagoras
	The Arica Yantras
	The Wild Bunch
Chapter 6. Pyramid Connections
	The Magic 7 And 11
	The Great Pyramid Sheked
	New Measures
Chapter 7. The Sword Master’s Floor Plan
Chapter 8. The Hidden Geometry of the “Divine Raphael”
	Causarum Cognitio
	The Central Starcut
Chapter 9. Guardian Apollo
Chapter 10. Conjecture
Chapter 11. Beautiful Diagonals
	Similar Triangles
Chapter 12. Clues to a Forgotten Lore
	Whole-Number Triangles
	What Fibonacci Didn’t Know
Chapter 13. The Mother of All Pentagons
Chapter 14. The Area Key
	The Cube
Chapter 15. The Secret and the Sacred
Chapter 16. Wheels of Number and Time
	The Great Square—72 and 720
Chapter 17. Powers of 108
Chapter 18. Ten Pebbles in the Sand
Chapter 19. Harmony at the Horizon of Being
	The Centrality of 6
	Prime Numbers
Chapter 20. The Shape of Concord
	Astrological Implication
Chapter 21. The Lyre of Apollo
	The Starcut and Apollo’s Lyre
	A Last Harmony
Chapter 22. The Puzzle That Drives You Mad
Chapter 23. Reflections within the Light
Chapter 24. Inevitable Sufis
Chapter 25. The Luo Shu and the Limping Dance
	Snakes and Ladders
	Yu Bu—The Limping Dance
Chapter 26. . . . Finally
Epilogue
Appendix. The Starcut Glass Bead Games
	The Game Board
	The Games
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
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Index