The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 93
se, aside from the factthat they are of all plane fig-ures the most elementary^ 86 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY they are intimately relatedto the body of man, as hasbeen shown (Illustration 45),and the body of man isas it were the architecturalarchetype. But this simplyremoves the inquiry to a… … 69 extended elucidation wouldbe out of place here: it issufficient to remind thereader that the circle is thesymbol of the universe; theequilateral triangle, of thehigher trinity {atma,buddhi,manas) ; and the square, ofthe lower quaternary ofmans sevenfold nature. The square is principallyused in…
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