St.Bernard of Clairvaux, the patron saint of the Knights Templar, clearly regarded their architectural skills with much praise, and was particularly impressed by their soaring roofs and arches… With their distinguishing features of Gothic architecture as expressed at Chartres Cathedral and other 12th century French Cathedral’s.
Contained within the walls of Chartres Cathedral, Ancient Hebrew ciphers were added, spelling out obscure liturgical phrases in key positions, in the buildings structure. Key designs to religious mysteries.
Similarly, sculptors and glaziers concealed texts about human nature, the past and prophetic scriptures, in its sculptural works and leaded glass.
The French Gothic Cathedral of Chartres contains sacred geometry, as used in its construction…
In the nave of the cathedral, we find a labyrinth on the floor made from white stone, set within dark coloured marble. The labyrinth measures one tenth of the cathedral’s interior length, which equates to the central point of the buildings geometric construction.
The diameter of the labyrinth is the same size as the West Rose Window. The distance from the centre of the west rose window to the floor, is exactly the same as the distance from the centre of the labyrinth to the Cathedral’s west portal wall.
Putting it simply, the West Rose Window and the Labyrinth form a perfect equilateral triangle.
Within the Cathedral, distances between pillars and the length of the nave, transepts and choir, are multiples of the Golden Mean, (The Golden Mean is related to the dimensions of a pentagon, a shape much used in the building of Chartres Cathedral).
The ribs supporting the vaults of the quadrangle units of which the cathedral is composed of, are the shape of the golden triangles.
The grand plan view of Chartres Cathedral is in the design of a Latin Cross. It symbolizes Light of the Cross, where Spirit and Matter converge.