Beschreibung:
John Oscar Lieben is a geometer who has researched sacred geometry and harmonics for over 25 years. A graduate of New York University, he also studied at Oregon School of Arts and Crafts and Roehampton College in London. A designer and builder of gardens and ceremonial spaces proportioned by sacred geometry, he lives in Papillion, Nebraska.
An illustrated guide to harmonics--the sacred geometry principles that underlie the natural world--and its practical applications.
Introduction A Harmony That Structures the Universe 1 The Field of HarmonyThe Ring Form • The Vesica-Tone Construction • Tone 2 The Geometry of Time The Center of Time • The Tritone • Harmonious Rectangles 3 Moon and Earth Measures of Time and Space • The Three Masters (Part 1) • Constructing a Seven-Tone Scale • The Three Masters (Part 2) • Earth and Moon • The Inner Earth 4 The Temple of Water Land and Water • The Shape of Raindrops • The Temple Garden • A Temple of Water 5 Musical Vessels Planetary Pottery • The World in a Grain of Sand 6 The Spiraling OctaveThe Sky Speaks • Octave Spirals • Musical Spaces 7 Harmonic Structures The Harmonic Series • The Mean • The Reciprocal • Musical Rectangles • The Vesica-Harmonic Construction • The Minor Third 8 The Circle of Resonance Resonance • Two from One • One from Two • The Birth of the Moon • Crossings • Harmonic Science 9 The Musical Universe As Above, So Below • The Water of Life • The Great Central Sun • The Galactic Core 10 The Tree of Time A Spiral of Time • The Vesica of Time • The Era Before Time • The Tree of Time • Within the Root of Time 11 The Cosmic Flower The Symbol in the Sky • Sacred Cosmology • The Symbol Speaks • Ceremony Appendix 1 The Vessel of Ceremony Ceremony within Geometric Space • Classical Geometry • Creating Sacred Space • An Earth-Honoring Ceremony • A Birth of the Moon Ceremony • A Water-Honoring Ceremony • A Birth of the Cosmos Ceremony • A Sun-Honoring Ceremony Appendix 2 A Miscellany of Numbers and Forms Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index