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kennethreitz ce93f429a2 Add Knowledge: the vault's reference shelf, crosslinked across the site
Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes,
67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer.

- scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault:
  slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site
  links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables
  rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion
  list plus a privacy guard.
- tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and
  aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note
  (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages
  list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other
  pages get a Related Knowledge block.
- Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never
  displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid
  diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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The patterns God draws with a compass — form as the language of creation. obsidian-knowledge

Sacred Geometry

The patterns God draws with a compass — form as the language of creation.


Sacred geometry is the study of the shapes and proportions that recur across nature, art, and the esoteric traditions, held to encode the structure of creation itself. From the spiral of a shell to the hexagonal packing of a honeycomb, the same handful of forms appear again and again — and the mystics read them not as coincidence but as signature. It is the geometric grammar beneath Alchemy, the Kabbalah, and the elemental world the Tarot divides into four.


The Platonic Solids

The five regular convex polyhedra, which Plato assigned to the classical elements — the only shapes whose faces, edges, and angles are all identical. See Platonic Solids for the set.

Solid Faces Element
Tetrahedron 4 triangles Fire
Cube 6 squares Earth
Octahedron 8 triangles Air
Icosahedron 20 triangles Water
Dodecahedron 12 pentagons Aether

The Generative Forms

The figures from which the rest unfold: Vesica Piscis (the womb of form), Seed of Life, Flower of Life, and Metatron's Cube — the last containing all five Platonic solids and tying the geometry back to the Tree of Life.

One form unfolds from the last, until Metatron's Cube gathers all five solids and ties the geometry back to the Tree:

flowchart LR
    VP["Vesica Piscis — the womb of form"] --> SEED["Seed of Life"]
    SEED --> FLOWER["Flower of Life"]
    FLOWER --> META["Metatron's Cube"]
    META --> SOLIDS["The five Platonic solids"]
    META --> TREE["Tree of Life"]

Proportion & Pattern

Golden Ratio (phi) · Fibonacci Sequence · Sri Yantra · Merkaba · Torus