“The human body is the principal source of proportion among the classical orders of architecture.” – Leonardo da Vinci
To endure the tests of the Earth and the elements, a structure must adhere precisely to the immutable laws of materialization if it is to remain upright. It must be simply perfect, or it will not stand the tests of both Saturn (time, pressure) and the elements. The same laws that allow a structure to stand also govern beauty, the human body, and the architecture of consciousness itself.
These laws of materialization are the same laws that we must learn to engage with through the processes of rising consciousness. Beautiful structures are the crystallization of invisible energetic laws, just as is a perfected human body. This is because beauty arises from geometric and mathematical harmony, and adherence to these same laws is the reason any structure is able to literally stand rather than collapse.

Palais Garnier, Opera House
(Paris, France)
Stunning architecture that takes your breath away is the framework of the Divine mind. It is the vibration of beauty made visible through the medium of stone and glass. Just as the beauty of a flower is the vibration of the Divine made visible through the medium of Earth. As is the beauty of a bright, healthy human body the framework of the Divine, made visible through the medium of skin and bones.
Beauty is a spiritual principle. Beauty is a pattern. A tight, specific, Divine pattern which can express itself through every material on Earth.
Architects tap into the Divine mind when they build temples, high-rising buildings, palaces, museums, and anything else that is both functional and visually stunning. Both of these criteria must be met.
Of course, as humanity moves from Golden Ages to Iron Ages, we witness the degradation of these architectural arts. The collective consciousness “forgets” the purpose of divine architecture and the truths are lost for a time. However, consciousness will always have to rise again, as humans will always require shelter from the elements to thrive. Not just survive, but thrive. And so, as the human Will develops the capacity to stretch toward the Divine, the human ability to build proper protective structures increases. The rudimentary shelter in the jungle evolves into something more functional, and so it continues to build upon itself until we are able to build the most proper housing for ourselves. The cadence increases, rushing toward a rebirth of consciousness, which is now so chronologically far from the last Age of Gold, that it feels brand new again. And so, humanity rediscovers itself through these divine impulses to build beauty. Humanity seems reborn, and we call it a “Renaissance.”
We then seek to build that which will please and serve the Divine impulse which has been growing in proportion to our protection from the elements. The human Will then seeks to move beyond that which is merely functional and desires to create that which is perfect. The absolute intelligence required to do this is god-like, as the creation of anything on Earth is a gift from the Ultimate Creator. So, as intelligence and consciousness grow, our ability to create beauty around us grows.
At the peak of these Golden Ages humanity reached a fever pitch of creating perfected architectural forms. And importantly, the knowledge of why we were doing so remained consciously intact.
However, like a wave, this pitch dulls slightly over time, fading until the reasoning behind the building of such structures is lost. We may retain the ability to make sound enough structures that do not collapse, but we lose the Divine metric, the living proportion that mirrors the enlightened human body, mind, and energetic system.
We may observe an example of this wave of consciousness by studying the construction of the Santa Maria Del Fiore cathedral in Florence.
By the early 1400s, the Florence Cathedral had been under construction for decades. The main problem was the enormous central space of the nave: the church needed a massive dome to cover it. No one had ever built a dome of that size without using temporary wooden scaffolding from the ground up and such scaffolding was not feasible at that scale.
The builders struggled because the traditional techniques used for smaller domes would not work. Many architects believed it was impossible. And yet, when the human Will encounters an opportunity for expansion, nothing is impossible.
Enter Filippo Brunelleschi.
Without scaffolding, he designed a self-supporting, double-shell dome using a herringbone brick pattern and innovative machinery. The result was a structure of immense beauty and mathematical precision, a testament to human ingenuity aligned with the laws of the material and the Divine.

Pictured here, Brunelleschi’s dome still crowns the city of Florence to this day.
Today, because of those who came before us, we can stand inside cathedrals of Divine proportion. We can witness the revelation of Divinity as mathematics solidified through physical materials. Humanity once understood that approaching the Divine should be beautiful, as a way of showing reverence. Yet modern humanity is content to call any old refurbished strip mall a “church.”
The spiritual aspirant should seek the embrace of any perfected edifice, using it to align one’s auric field with symmetry, divinity, balance, and beauty. If one cannot perceive the beauty of temples, this is a result of one’s own dullness. A remedial solution would be to simply spend as much time around physical perfection as possible. A person who is oriented away from truth and beauty will feel physically ill when confronted by them. This tonic is pure and straight to the heart. Consider it a Divine miracle that the state of one’s energetic field is so easily revealed in the presence of Divine proportion.
We must also seek to keep our homes in Divine order, however it may fit our own individual Will, but consciously curated and upheld to the status of a temple. And it goes without saying that if our homes can be the dwelling place of Divinity through beauty, soundness, and structural perfection, so may our own human bodies be.
“Man only becomes fully human when he has become a work of art.” – Friedrich Schiller (German, 1759-1805)

The Bathing Pool by Hubert Robert (c.1777-1780, French)













