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Never having been to Europe I cannot claim to have visited a medieval cathedral, so for me the best I could do was to purchase The Teaching Company's video series CATHEDRAL.
For 38-years I have studied Christian Symbolism and I had already published an acdemic book decoding the mathematical compositional structure of La Divina Commedia, by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): THE CONQUEST OF GENESIS: A Study in Universal Creation Mathematics and an academic paper on the decoding of the symbols frescoes of the Sistine Chapel: THE SISTINE CHAPEL: A Study in Celestial Cartography. I never visited the Sistine Chapel. Now I had set my sights on Chartres Cathedral. Could decoding its reason d'etre be anymore difficult than La Divina Commedia or the Sistine Chapel or more important the first chapter of Genesis?
What had interested me about Christian art forms, my being a Roman Catholic, was the raw materials use to rewrite the Genesis Creation Account. For example: Dante used ink and parchment to write La Divina Commedia, the Sistine Chapel was created basically with mosaic (floor) and paint and wet plaster and Chartres Cathedral was build with stone and stainglass windows. It is the Catholic Church's onus to rewrite the Word of God in as many different art forms as possibles. The spiritual conceptual idea behind this aids the congregant to learn how to truly interpret the sacred scriptures.
I have many books and videos on Chartres Cathedral besides the video series on the CATHEDRAL, which three episodes based solely on Chartres Cathedral, which are priceless for my obtaining nuances that I may well have overlooked.
A previous video I had watched pointed out some verying interest anomallies or synchronicities that normally should not exist in the everyday mundane reality. Such as the Rose Window being of the same size as the labyrinth when laid down theoretically on the floor. Another was the two towers though not completed until the sixteenth century symbolically represent the Sun and the Moon and also when laid down left the tip of the spire of the Moon at the transcept and the tip of the Sun's spire to the rim of the sanctuary. Extraordinary coincidences. The final thing about Chartres was learning about the West Facade holding a symbolic MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST, which one Hindu priest indicated coincided with the Chakra system in Hinduism. These three tells caught my interest in Chartres Cathedral and thus I went to work to find out the major impetus for creating it. For I could show the Sun and the Moon throughout the first four chapters of Genesis and I could show the Kundalini and the Chakra system twice in the first four chapters of Genesis. The difficult part was to discover the cathedral's key.
The way I discovered the key to Chartres Cathedral was to study its religious 'mythological' history rather than its secular history. There are two types of histories: secular and religious. When the Church declares something being from a history they are referring to it religious mythos rather than the secular history. I found this problem throughout the analysis on the Sistine Chapel and Dante Alighieris La Divina Commedia. I had made discoveries about both these art forms that were never written about and obviously those discoveries disagreed with popular historical accounts.
Chartres Cathedral was originally built in the Romanesque style and this is a key factor in my analysis. The West Facade burns down with no damage to the main body of the Cathedral and is rebuilt in the Romanesque/Gothic style, which is an extremely important factor. Then fifty years later the main body of the Cathedral is burnt down and no part of the West Facade is touch (do you see the incongruity here). This last burning of Chartres Cathedral has a young priest running out of the burning inferno with the Veil of the Virgin in his hands. Symbolically the West Facade, which did not burnt down is the Veil of the Virgin.
The key to Chartres Cathedral is the Vesica Piscis carved over the central door of the West Facade. This is the imprint upon the soul/psyche upon entering creation. This imprint can be any reason d'etre that God's gives as a gift to the soul/psyche. It does not have to be the expressed image of Christ but any worthwhile endeavor to give meaning to life.
The three central doors represent RESH in the spelling of the first word of Genesis: BE-RESH-ITH BETH is the first letter of Genesis represented symbolically by the two towers but symbolically they move apart to accept the new dispensation. The Sun and the Moon combined represent pagan gods with a hierarchy. By moving aside and allowing the new dispensation to take over they reconize their decline and the supremacy of the one God.
The stone sculptures represent literalism and the dominance of the world interpretation of the sacred scriptures; whereas, the stainglass windows represent the interpretation of the surface texts of the sacred scriptures making them spiritually understood. The stone facade has little light; whereas, the stainglass alows a lot of light into the cathedral; whereas, the Romanesque was not known for vast amount of light
The labyrinth represents the soul/psyche giving his will over to God similar to how Christ on the cross said, "into thy hands I commend my spirit". A labyrinth has only one path though it twist and turns as it will; whereas, a maze leaves the soul/psyche choices of paths to take, which could and probably will lead him astray.
Finally in this brief explanation of Chartres Cathedral RESH is diametrically opposite to BETH, which creates the Cross of Christ that represent the center of creation at the moment of the singularity, which is the center of the transcept. The reason the Cathedral is built in the shape of a cross. This is found between the first and second verses of Genesis.
Chartres Cathedral is actually a commentary on the first word of Genesis, which writes the first verse of Genesis, which writes the first chapter of Genesis. All of this for the express purpose of pointing out the sigularity of creation.
For 38-years I have studied Christian Symbolism and I had already published an acdemic book decoding the mathematical compositional structure of La Divina Commedia, by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): THE CONQUEST OF GENESIS: A Study in Universal Creation Mathematics and an academic paper on the decoding of the symbols frescoes of the Sistine Chapel: THE SISTINE CHAPEL: A Study in Celestial Cartography. I never visited the Sistine Chapel. Now I had set my sights on Chartres Cathedral. Could decoding its reason d'etre be anymore difficult than La Divina Commedia or the Sistine Chapel or more important the first chapter of Genesis?
What had interested me about Christian art forms, my being a Roman Catholic, was the raw materials use to rewrite the Genesis Creation Account. For example: Dante used ink and parchment to write La Divina Commedia, the Sistine Chapel was created basically with mosaic (floor) and paint and wet plaster and Chartres Cathedral was build with stone and stainglass windows. It is the Catholic Church's onus to rewrite the Word of God in as many different art forms as possibles. The spiritual conceptual idea behind this aids the congregant to learn how to truly interpret the sacred scriptures.
I have many books and videos on Chartres Cathedral besides the video series on the CATHEDRAL, which three episodes based solely on Chartres Cathedral, which are priceless for my obtaining nuances that I may well have overlooked.
A previous video I had watched pointed out some verying interest anomallies or synchronicities that normally should not exist in the everyday mundane reality. Such as the Rose Window being of the same size as the labyrinth when laid down theoretically on the floor. Another was the two towers though not completed until the sixteenth century symbolically represent the Sun and the Moon and also when laid down left the tip of the spire of the Moon at the transcept and the tip of the Sun's spire to the rim of the sanctuary. Extraordinary coincidences. The final thing about Chartres was learning about the West Facade holding a symbolic MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST, which one Hindu priest indicated coincided with the Chakra system in Hinduism. These three tells caught my interest in Chartres Cathedral and thus I went to work to find out the major impetus for creating it. For I could show the Sun and the Moon throughout the first four chapters of Genesis and I could show the Kundalini and the Chakra system twice in the first four chapters of Genesis. The difficult part was to discover the cathedral's key.
The way I discovered the key to Chartres Cathedral was to study its religious 'mythological' history rather than its secular history. There are two types of histories: secular and religious. When the Church declares something being from a history they are referring to it religious mythos rather than the secular history. I found this problem throughout the analysis on the Sistine Chapel and Dante Alighieris La Divina Commedia. I had made discoveries about both these art forms that were never written about and obviously those discoveries disagreed with popular historical accounts.
Chartres Cathedral was originally built in the Romanesque style and this is a key factor in my analysis. The West Facade burns down with no damage to the main body of the Cathedral and is rebuilt in the Romanesque/Gothic style, which is an extremely important factor. Then fifty years later the main body of the Cathedral is burnt down and no part of the West Facade is touch (do you see the incongruity here). This last burning of Chartres Cathedral has a young priest running out of the burning inferno with the Veil of the Virgin in his hands. Symbolically the West Facade, which did not burnt down is the Veil of the Virgin.
The key to Chartres Cathedral is the Vesica Piscis carved over the central door of the West Facade. This is the imprint upon the soul/psyche upon entering creation. This imprint can be any reason d'etre that God's gives as a gift to the soul/psyche. It does not have to be the expressed image of Christ but any worthwhile endeavor to give meaning to life.
The three central doors represent RESH in the spelling of the first word of Genesis: BE-RESH-ITH BETH is the first letter of Genesis represented symbolically by the two towers but symbolically they move apart to accept the new dispensation. The Sun and the Moon combined represent pagan gods with a hierarchy. By moving aside and allowing the new dispensation to take over they reconize their decline and the supremacy of the one God.
The stone sculptures represent literalism and the dominance of the world interpretation of the sacred scriptures; whereas, the stainglass windows represent the interpretation of the surface texts of the sacred scriptures making them spiritually understood. The stone facade has little light; whereas, the stainglass alows a lot of light into the cathedral; whereas, the Romanesque was not known for vast amount of light
The labyrinth represents the soul/psyche giving his will over to God similar to how Christ on the cross said, "into thy hands I commend my spirit". A labyrinth has only one path though it twist and turns as it will; whereas, a maze leaves the soul/psyche choices of paths to take, which could and probably will lead him astray.
Finally in this brief explanation of Chartres Cathedral RESH is diametrically opposite to BETH, which creates the Cross of Christ that represent the center of creation at the moment of the singularity, which is the center of the transcept. The reason the Cathedral is built in the shape of a cross. This is found between the first and second verses of Genesis.
Chartres Cathedral is actually a commentary on the first word of Genesis, which writes the first verse of Genesis, which writes the first chapter of Genesis. All of this for the express purpose of pointing out the sigularity of creation.