The Esoteric History of the Cross: The Intersection of Time and Eternity
In the history of universal symbolism and "Highly Structured" esoteric architecture, no form possesses the absolute central gravity or the multi-dimensional power of the Cross . Long before its adoption as a specific religious emblem, the cross represented the fundamental Intersection of the Worlds —the point where the vertical axis of the spirit meets the horizontal axis of the elements. From the archaic "Four Directions" of the primordial cultures to the complex "Rosy Cross" of the alchemists, the history of the cross is a record of the soul’s attempt to find the Sacred Center of the Divine Mind within the theater of time and space. To understand the Esoteric Cross is to confront the law of Geometric Correspondence . The vertical line represents the Proodos and Epistrophe —the descent of the divine light and the ascent of the human soul. It is the "Axis Mundi" that connects the absolute simplicity of the One to the infinite multiplicity of t...