Archetype of the Circle - Symbolism in Film, Art & Religion (2019)

[Music] [Music] the unmade bed must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came [Music] it is time your friend young free psychologist says that the most powerful religious symbol is the circle he says the circle is one of the great primordial images of mankind that in considering the symbol of the circle we are analyzing the self and I find you in your own work throughout the course of your life coming across the circle whether it's in the magical designs the world over whether it's in the architecture both ancient and modern whether it's in the dome-shaped temples of India or the calendar stone to the Aztecs or the ancient Chinese bronze shields or the visions of the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel whom you talked about the wheel in the sky you keep coming across this image yes ever-present thing it's the center from which you've come back to which you know I remember reading in a book about the American Indians called the Indian book Bernard Lee Curtis was probably published around 19th for her conversation with a chief I think it was a chief of the Pawnee tribe and among the things he said was when we pitched camp we pitch a tent in a circle when we looked at the horizon that rising was in this circuit when the Eagle built a nest the nest is in a circle and then you read in Plato somewhere the soul is a circle I spelled the circle represents a totality within the circle is one thing it is encircled it's inflamed that would be the spatial aspect but the temporal aspect of the circle is you leave go somewhere and come back the Alpha and Omega God is the Alpha and Omega the source and the and somehow the circle suggests immediately and completed totality whether in time or in space no beginning the wind well round and round and round the year well this is November again you know and we're about to have Thanksgiving you again and we're about to have Christmas again and there then not only the year but the month the moon cycle and the day the cycle and this is we're reminded of this when we look on our watch and see the cycle of time is the same now at the same hour but another day and all that sort of thing why do you suppose the circle became so universally symbolic well because it's experienced all the time experiencing the day of year just as we've said and you experience it in leaving home going on your adventure hunting or whatever it may be coming back home and then there's a deeper one also that mystery of the womb and the tomb when people are buried it's for rebirth a mess of the origin is a very old idea you put back into the womb of Mother Earth or rebirth and y'all kept returning to that theme of the circle as being the sort of universal symbol well you used it as a pedagogical device actually what he called the mandala this was a actually a Hindu term for a sacred circle here is a one of the pictures that's a very elaborate mandala you have the deity the center with the power source the illumination source and these are the manifestations or aspects of its radiance but in working out a mandala for oneself what one does the draw a circle and then think of the different impulse system in your life the different value systems in your life and try them to compose them and find why the sender is it's a kind of discipline for pulling all those scattered aspects of your life together finding a center and on ordering yourself to it so you're trying to coordinate your circle with the universal circle to be at the center of the Senate [Music]

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Length: 6min 12sec (372 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 17 2019