Strange Universe: The Flower of Life

One of the most elegant and ubiquitous symbols of the occult in the ancient world is the Flower of Life. It looks like some inter-dimensional non-Euclidean form Lovecraft might have envisioned, but beyond surface value, it goes much deeper than that. A glance yields geometric beauty, but magical types from practitioners of Kabbalah to New Agers have sought meaning and other sacred diagrams within the Flower's web. One of the most frequently traced, as shown in the rendition above, is the Tree of Life within the Flower of Life. The Tree is a popular construct attributed to everything from creation cosmology in Kabbalah to the chakras of human spiritual essence suggested by Eastern philosophies.

Interestingly, the Flower of Life itself is not agreed to have any definite, all-encompassing meaning. Instead, the many significant shapes within its design (like the Tree noted), bestow this cosmic figure with profound layers of wisdom. Alongside other "life" symbolism, the Borromean Rings, the Tube Torus suggesting light vortexes, and the Vesica Piscis symbolizing a stage of mystical creation are apparent. Any of these independent symbols holding weight would make several stunning observations true about the Flower: a very wide usage of this figure across vast distances of Earth and time suggesting interconnections between ancient peoples, and possibly a greater understanding of nature than previously imagined by ancients. Historically, variations of the Flower of Life were discovered at Egypt's Temple of Osiris, throughout ancient Christian sites, and in the drawings of Da Vinci. Before this veers off into suggesting Da Vinci Code like possibilities, however, let's just say the Flower has a very impressive record of historical appearance, with mystical connotations across religions and human thought.

In passing, it must be said several crop circles depicting the Flower of Life appeared in the last decade too. Make of that what you will. This blog covering "Ancient Sacred Geometry" does an effective job of presenting the Flower's pictorial history, from ancient Egyptian temples to the crop circles of today.

-Grim Blogger