Sermon on Emerson's Essay: Circles, Part 1

The Pythagorean mystery school seems to be where Sacred Geometry got its start in Western Thought. And this fact would not have been lost to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nor was it lost to St. Augustine or Aleister Crowley in his prophetic work, which we mention in this sermon. But it seems most significant is the Eastern metaphor of the mandala, which Jung connected to the human soul as a symbol of the self. Emerson captures this, as well; having mastered both Western and Eastern thought. And he brings us full circle back to the metaphysics of Pythagoras.