Chapter 14 of Blavatsky’s Isis
Unveiled, vol. 1 featured a pioneering study of Sacred Architecture and Sacred
Geography and the field is doing very well nowadays thank you very much,
notably with the work of people such as Rana P.B. Singh of India, below are the fivefold
dimensions of sacred geography from Visioning Sacred Geography, Rana P.B. Singh
from Sacred
Geography of Goddesses in South Asia, p. 9:
The notion of sacred
geography refers to an all-encompassing reality that maintain the prāna (ethereal
breathe/ life-force) by interactional web of the five gross elements (mahābhutas),
viz. earth, air, water, fire, and ether/space. The interactional web of network
may further be reflected into at least five dimensions (cf. Pogačnik 2007: 5-6):
(i) Dimension of eternity
― representation of
primeval vibration, the divine all-presence, the light of light, e.g. sacred
territory like Vindhyāchal
Kshetra.
(ii) Archetypal dimension
of reality ― the
inherent quality of spatial manifestation that preserves the sense of planetary
creation or archetypal patterns behind reality, e.g. representation of other
sacred places of India in the sacredscapes of Banaras.
(iii) Dimension of
consciousness ― the
operational system of cosmic ideas and archetypes that makes the mindset and
covers the range from mental to emotional, and from intuitive to rational ― ultimately making the ‘belief systems’,
e.g. various myths, folk believes and rituals that make the consciousness
always alive, active and expanding.
(iv) Etheric dimension ― possessing vital-energy or
bio-energetic dimensions, symbolised with ether that invisible hold and
manifests the rest four elements, e.g. Vital-energy fields, Earth chakras, and
channel/orsite of vital power or places of healing.
(v) Material dimension ― the dimension in which embodiment of minerals,
plants, animals, human beings, landscape features, stars and the Earth’s crust
takes place ― the visual world
of physical perceptibility.
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