Meaning built into proportion

Sacred geometry covers the figures that traditions have treated as carrying meaning as well as measure: the circle, the vesica piscis, the platonic solids, the flower of life, the Sri Yantra, the golden ratio and others. The underlying idea is that certain shapes and proportions express something true about the cosmos, and that building them into temples, mandalas and diagrams aligns the work with that order.

Building meaning into proportion is well attested in temple architecture, religious art and cosmological diagrams across many cultures, from Egyptian and Greek building to Islamic geometric ornament to the yantras of Hindu and Buddhist practice.