At one time or another, I would venture to say that you sat through classes in school where the Pythagorean tradition, the Fibonacci series of Phi were discussed. These concepts seemed not only un-important to our life, but just plain boring. Guess what? By taking these ideas out of the realm of mathematics and geometry, they can be revealed for what they truly are: Spiritually creative constructs that are the architectural blueprints of the universe, at least from our own human perspective.

There is a little known fact that, at one time, the mystical science of numbers began with one, not with zero. This was an acknowledgement of the scientific theology that all came and comes from One. Sacred geometry as well believed in the metaphysical philosophy of the unity and the inexplicable oneness of existence. While the ancients began with one, present day mathematics and geometry begin with zero:

“Unity is a philosophic concept and a mystic experience expressible mathematically. The Western mentality, however, withdrew its discipline of acknowledging a supra-rational, unknowable mystery as its first principle.

Our present thought is based on the following numerical and logical sequence:

-5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5....

With zero in the centre, there is a quantitative expansion 1, 2, 3 ... and our sense of balance requires having -1, -2, -3 ... on the other side, giving a series of non-existent abstractions (negative quantities) which demand an absurd logic. The system has a break-point, zero, disconnecting the continuum and dissociating the positive numbers from the negative balancing series.

In the ancient Egyptian numerical progression, beginning with one rather than zero, all the elements are natural and real:

1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5....

All the elements flow out from the central unity in accordance with the law of inversion or reciprocity. The Egyptians based their mathematics on this simple, natural series of numbers, performing sophisticated operations with it for which we now need complex algebra and trigonometry.”
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Ancient cultures held this wisdom of numbers. Thousands of years ago, there was no separation between what we refer to as science, art and spirituality. To indigenous people’s holistic minds, their religious leaders, the shamans, were not only caretakers of the soul but also investigators into the workings of the sun, the moon and the stars.

Everything was considered to be alive and connected in a web of loving oneness. These spiritual architects, in seeking harmony and unity for their people, created and designed calendars, pyramids, temples, and other works of wonder that even today defy and surpass modern technology and science. All were created according to the laws inherent within the mysteries of the earth and the heavens.

The same numeric ratios were used as the foundation of Mesoamerican’s sacred calendar, in the building of the great pyramids in Egypt, as well as the building of the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan in ancient Mexico.

Sadly enough in today’s world, we have a separation of science and religion. Life, and all its mysteries, is either analyzed through the lens of an electronic microscope or filtered through the eyes of religious faith without any regards to the holistic and interconnectedness of our natural existence.

In the past the 'Masters of the Secrets' were both priest and scientist who viewed the world not as materialistic but as one where divine life revealed it’s self in the natural world through time and space. Today in a world of suffering and global warming, why do we have the separation of science and religion? What ever happened? In simplistic terms, the ‘church’ banished nature from religion while science, separating humanity even further, expelled God.

Listening to the knowledge and wisdom of ancient cultures reveals how our 21st Century fixation on the separation of science and religion is a determent to the healing of our fractured society and wounded earth. This is the urgency of bringing true science back into the fold of true religion.