THE FUTURE HAS AN ANCIENT HEART
The True, the Good and the Beautiful in Megalithic Culture
© Xavier de la Huerga 2024
Fully comprehending that sacred geometry and the orbital patterns in our solar system, mathematics and the vibrational architecture of music, the size and the shape of the earth, the metrology derived from it and the proportions in the human body are ALL not just interconnected, but in fact, seamlessly integrated as a harmonious whole, triggers in most human beings a massive epiphany, feelings of reassurance and a profound sense of purpose and meaning arising from the realization that we are immersed in an intelligent, living, sentient and purposeful Cosmos that is not alien to, or separated from the human soul.
If, on top of this, you add the fact that this continuum of knowledge was discovered, fully understood and implemented thousands of years ago by our ancestors, the resulting implications are nothing short of mind blowing and to a great extent, perplexing. We are faced with a great, multifaceted mystery from the distant past concerning the roots of human nature. Over time, if the depths of the megalithic astrogeomantic canon are pursued with perseverance, the life-changing properties of this knowledge become patent and gradually, a subtle but powerful perceptual shift occurs in those who study and PRACTICE it. This change itself is a clue that begins to answer some of the many questions posed by the immense achievements of our enigmatic ancestors; such as that they possessed a very different kind of awareness, a unified mode of perception with the Cosmos, which has been lost for millennia, but can still be recovered through reverse-engineering.
Experiencing that harmonious cosmic mode of perception, not by intellectualizing about it, but by re-establishing the broken connections in our awareness through the study and practice of astrogeomancy, invokes the presence of the sacred; the raw spiritual core of reality preceding the religious, the Great Mystery as a pervasive, ever-present dimension in life. The ongoing spiritualization of the material and the materialization of the spiritual unveiled by this fusion of the scientific and the sacred, is invariably accompanied by the expression of beauty.
This triad of Science, Spirituality and Art in all astrogeomantic designs is also in direct correlation to the three utmost qualities pursued by the Mystery Schools of antiquity; the True (Science), the Good (Spirituality), and the Beautiful (Art). Whatever you do, it must be true and serve to spread truth in the world, it also must be done for the good of others and for your own good and it must result in beautiful deeds and works.
So, we could say that astrogeomantic knowledge leads human beings to act in the world as molecules in a crystalline lattice aligning themselves along lines of force in space. However, this analogy doesn't refer to the spatial arrangement of a bunch of people in parallel rows or similar shapes over a field! But to what could be called psycho-geometric patterns of behaviour conforming to invisible lines of cosmic will-force that coalesce throughout the morphic field of the Earth.
Spatial Harmonization - From Inner Space to Outer Space
Astrogeomancy allows us to harmonize space; first inner space, then the space around us; artificial, human-made spaces, as well as the natural environment, reaching out to encompass the landscape and finally, reverberating across collective social and cultural organization within the different nations of the world. The entire biosphere can be seen to be the ultimate objective. The biospheric realm is our living home, presently in a state of disruption and toxicity that must be healed and fully restored to its original homeostatic* harmony. Once societies start experiencing the harmonizing influence of astrogeomancy, the positive effects will be directed first and foremost towards the restoration of the biosphere, whilst the modern day definition of "ecology" will be expanded to include outer space, our exoplanetary environment and its inescapable, attending spiritual and archetypal dimensions.
Below, an explanation is attempted as to how this restoration and healing is indeed one of the main purposes of the Great Work of Earth Magic that a worldwide astrogeomantic project would accomplish in continuing with the task that our ancestors carried out over millennia during the enlightened period that still goes under the derogative name of "prehistory".
*Homeostasis - A state of equilibrium, as in an organism or cell, maintained by self-regulating processes.
Temples, Time and Eternity
The root of the word “temple” (templum) is to be found in the word “time” (tempus). The concept of a temple originates in the idea of a space where time can be measured and experienced directly as an earthly, temporary expression of eternity and the eternal archetypes that forever "dwell in the heavens". This is what originally made a temple’s space a sacred space. Many ancient temples are indeed microcosmic portrayals of heaven. Thus, the first temples were always astronomically oriented, so that at significant times the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the rest of the stellar cohort would be observed with the necessary accuracy to understand and measure their rhythms, embedding them for thousands of years in their stoney architecture through the interplay of light and shadow, their risings and settings geometrically made a significant part of their fabric, and weaving them through the calendar and through the astro-mythological stories into the daily lives of human beings.
This was done by the placement of elements within the temple in such a way that the movements of heavenly bodies were measured against a fixed point anchored in the earth; an earthly backdrop such as a mountain top, other salient feature in the horizon - sometimes sculpted by the human hand - or a series of standing stones acting in combination as the sight upon the barrel of a gun. Such markers would determine the orientation of the temple and thus, the consummation of the hieros gamos, the sacred marriage of Heaven and Earth was achieved implicitly in the very structure of the temple.
These very first temples of humankind that we are talking about are nowadays often simplistically labeled within the dominant scientific materialism paradigm as “megalithic monuments”, "stone circles", "dolmens", "earthworks", "fertility cult centres", "forts" and other such titles. In spite of this belittling ignorance of the true role of megalithic complexes by the academic mainstream, one can easily see that there is a concerted effort and universal modus operandi, choice of constructive elements and same astrogeomantic principles behind what obviously is a gigantic project. Their planet-wide distribution, sheer numbers, sizes and time-scale of construction over more than ten thousand years, make one wonder if the megalithic builders were aiming to turn the whole of the Earth into a temple! Is that what we are seeing here? Not a progression and build up towards “civilization”, but instead what could be termed a constructive process of “planetary templization”?
Planetary Transmutation
Carlo Levi said once that “the future has an ancient heart”. Does the future of humankind and the biosphere pass through the renewal and expansion of that ancient network of temples?
Perhaps, but what we are dealing with here seems to be more complex than a process of "templization", since these structures also fulfil a scientific role and are imbued with aesthetic qualities. So, the above question could be reformulated more comprehensively as: Is the destiny of the Earth to become simultaneously a Living Cosmic Temple, a Transcendent Scientific Instrument and an Organically Evolving Work of Art?