New Mirror: The Flower of Life

[m1thr0s]

Just added this one although it still needs some detail finishing. The math is fine though and the line work moves well (ie, it scribes nicely)... I'm screwing around with a few basic effects, so this one might change appearance until it settles down...this image looks a little better against a grey background which you can view here: http://www.abrahadabra.com/fol001.htm

I'm leaving the grid out of this one as well as the cross-hairs because they obstruct the flow of the crescent and just generally muddy the image. The crescent is very important...it's actually a technical "proof" in its own right but I am not entirely up to speed on it. We see references to it all over the place and it was Shiva's symbol and shows up in Islam and various places. Crowley makes a big to-do about it in his work as well.

I just can't get over what a perfect match the Flower is with the TwinStar. We don't really know how old the image is but the oldest known use of it is in the Temple of Osiris dating back about 6000 years, which means it was already considered a sacred image at that time...so who knows how old it really is.

There's a bit of confusion as to where to place the center & ground actions and what I have been doing is applying the final closing to the outermost circle which means that the center point drops just below where it would be in the TwinStar. That just seems to feel right to me right now but I also don't think it's absolutely critical how you deal with this. Either way you go you will be getting a reciprocal "ripple" effect on all other relevant gridlines, so I would say just go with whatever feels right. I don't think anybody is going to get cheated out of anything important either way.

m1thr0s

[silentjohn]

You know I've considered spending some time in macromedia Flash to design a flower of life, where the threads so to speak move freely based on mouse movement.. yet the points stay stationary, just to add some "life" to it...

[m1thr0s]

meaning that you would be scribing with the mouse? I'm not quite following you on that. I never actually do weaving work with my mouse, although lately I have been doing a lot more scrying against the computer screen itself. I can't help but wonder what havoc this is wreaking on the web...lol...

you get that effect when buiding vector graphics in Illustrator (and others) by the way so I have examined it...it's a pretty trippy effect...maybe if there was some kind of wireless pointer that held like a pen or something it would feel more natural.

m1thr0s

[silentjohn]

aaaaa no

it would be like a website
and it would just be a trippy visual effect

[silentjohn]

flower-of-life-symbol-big.jpg

link: http://www.ka-gold-jewelry.com/image...symbol-big.gif

Alright so.. basically all the "end points" in the image you see here would remain station ary, yet all the lines, would react with visual motion when the mouse cursor moved over them.. they would expand and have physics and be reactionary and after the inertia of movement would settle back down to apparant stillness again. I also thought one that reacted to sound would be cool..

[m1thr0s]

Note: Since technical images are the focus of this forum I am going to clamp down on competing or oversized images being posted here. It creates the general feeling of graffitti and is counter-productive to useful discussion of the intended topics.

It's an interesting idea and would probably look great silentjohn. Images like these always seem to give rise to a lot of great ideas, it's part of their "magick". Right here I want to try to stick to technical weaving/scrying applications and questions for those who have any...

m1thr0s

[silentjohn]

right on!

[imagenerator]

I recieved word of this relationship before I noted the flower-twinstar marriage in the Nutshell 003 glyph. When I was looking at the Elemental Worlds mirror, I threw together this: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/...e+-in%3Ascraps. Kind of makes me wonder: what came first, the star or the flower ?

[imagenerator]

Can you explain the significance of where the centre of the outer bounding circle lies ?

[m1thr0s]

amazing...the images are networking all by themselves...most excellent...

it is hard to say "which comes first" but in linear time at least we have good reason to suppose that the flower predates the TwinStar itself...it may not predate Abrahadabra...we don't really know that for sure. The facts simply aren't all in yet on that one. Certainly the pyramids have been around a very long time. We don't really know all the reasons they were deemed sacred to ancient people's.

And yet, even the TwinStar can be found encrypted in many ancient symbolisms. We never seem to find it spelled out clearly but we find TwinSerpents, TwinHawks, TwinPhoenixs and so on all over the place...many times you can trace the TwinStar right over these images with pinpoint accuracy...

so it's a mystery. right now it's one of the most puzzling mysteries I know of...

m1thr0s