Looking at all the Fours, what is the intrinsic question we should ask when we take the route from The Aces (primordial energy), into the Two’s (Containment), further to the Three’s (Fertility and first fruit or fusion of the numbers 1 and 2)?

If we look at Newton’s discovery, “for every movement, we have the same reacting force opposing progression”. If we take a seed and plant it, we have a perception of what may happen. As the seed develops we find the seedling showing its head above ground. We can consider the soil, where this seed has been planted, being the resisting factor. This seedling can be strong or weak, this depends on the “fertility” (Empress) of the soil, and enough “water” (High Priestess), and the “energy” (Magician), found within the seed.

When we study the cards, we find a predominance of squares, and “oblong squares”. Looking at each card we will find 4 predominant squares, the Cups have, 4 square bases, Swords are contained in 3 squares and the window is another. In the Robin Wood, Pentacles, the man is sitting on one square and surrounded by three others. In the Raider Waite, the man is sitting on a square structure.

Consider the significance of a square. Look around you, and you will see, most of what is practical is based upon a square. Our houses are squares within squares, linking to each other. To divide ground into round circles is a “waste” as you will have little bits of “vacant” spots. The square can also be seen as the ultimate shape in Geometry. Within this structure, anything can originate.

The most significant circles we find, are the planets and galaxies. These circles are the most appropriate structures to use. As the planets spin on its axis, it brings day and night, essential cycles to our existence. Our perception of outer space being a “void” is not entirely true. Although we have no Oxygen, we still have resistance, friction and the essential reverse action against movement. Thus, in itself it creates energy, being an Aleph on its own, through this we find magnetism. Should our planet come to a dead stop, we will be flung into outer space, at an infinite speed!

In essence we look at “To be contained”. If Gimmel (3) continues to an unknown point, we will not have the development of a firm base or structure. Although we see resistance in the fours, it’s not resistance per say to Aleph (1). The primary energy will maintain its development, even in the fours or Dallet.

Getting back to our seedling, we see that once it shows its head, it will slow down, to strengthen its stem, root system, promote photosynthesis in developing leaves, but also to anchor itself within the soil, creating a strong base to support the future growth. In this sense, we must remember that all is within Aleph, all is Aleph. Every stage of development goes through the same cycle, until it achieves Tav, in the Cosmic.

In card four, we can consider this as a development, but within itself, not outward. This is where a solid base and foundation is developed. Considering this, we see the next result in the five’s. The question to ask; “How will, or have you developed your base, your foundation”. This question is answered in the Five’s.

Oblong Square
Symbol of the "form of a lodge" which in turn is a symbol of the known world of the ancients-Spain in the west, Asia Minor in the east, lines east and west a few miles north and south of the Mediterranean. "Oblong square" has been objected to by purists as a contradiction in terms; that an oblong is a rectangle with un¬equal sides and perpendiculars while a square is a rectangle with equal sides and perpendiculars. The word "square" did not originally denote a figure with four equal sides, but any figure which had right angles at all four corners. Later "square" came to mean not only "right angled," but a figure inclosed by four equal length lines, any adjoining two of which formed a right angle. "Oblong square," then, meant anciently what "ob¬long" means today.


Geometry, God and Tarot.

Forty-seventh Problem of Euclid
Symbol of geometry; of exact science. Passed over with but a few words of ritual, it is Masonically most in¬teresting. It appears on the frontispiece of An¬derson's Constitutions, published in 1723; Street says it is the earliest example of a printed symbol of Freemasonry. It was apparently known to ancient mathematicians long before Pythagoras (Masonically credited as its discoverer) or Eu¬clid, who made of the properties of a right-angled triangle his forty-seventh problem. It is the root of all mathematics used to determine an unknown from two knowns. Given the distance of a moun¬tain and the angle of sight to its top, mathematics may determine its height. Tunnels are driven through mountains from both sides to meet ex¬actly by means of measurements made by the forty-seventh problem. Navigation of the seas depends upon it. In non-Euclidian language, a right angled triangle of 3 feet base and 4 feet height, has a line 5 feet long joining the free ends of the two legs. The square of 3 is 9; the square of 4 is 16; the sum of 9 and 16 is 25; the square root of 25 is 5. All right-angled triangles, regardless of the length of base and upright, follow this law; that the line joining the free ends (the hypotenuse) is the square root of the sum {)f the squares of the two sides. Therefore, if any two of the three are known, the third may be calculated. According to the ritual "it teaches Masons to he general lovers of the arts and sciences". This short description encompasses the study of geometry. The ritual is here not factual. Pythagoras was poor and could hardly have possessed a hecatomb (hundred head of cattle). He was a vegetarian, and reverenced animal life; he would not have killed one cow, let alone a hundred, to "celebrate" his discovery. He may have cried "Eureka", but could hardly have been "raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason," which did not take even an ancient and simple form until centuries after he died.

Geometry
(See Forty-seventh Problem.) "God is always geometrizing," said the ancient philos¬opher. In the Fellowcraft Degree, geometry is a symbol not only of mathematics but of the divine and moral significance of abstract truth.

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