How the world is made according to sacred geometry

My friend Barbara suggested my this book about geometry. I brought it with me in my parent house in Italy and read it carefully. It is a thick book full of amazing illustrations about geometric figures and patterns.

It was a tough reading because it wasn't what I expected. The first part started with the explanation of how the world began according to geometer's cosmogony, proportion between number and ratios, areas of the cosmos, the sun, the moon and the universe, and then introduced the figure of the circle and the square. After that, they write about "gematria", a mystical technique that use numbers to express letters of the alphabet and interpreted names and phrases made up Greek letters. The latter composed the holy names of the new religion in accordance with the numbers. At this point, I really wasn't interested on it, but I needed to read it to understand the next chapters. I believe numbers are important for geometry, for the relationship between structures, as it shown in architecture with the Golden Ratio, but what they talked about was another way to use them.

The next part was much more interesting: it was about the physical creation related to the geometrical figures related to numbers and the element they visualise. For example, "One and Only. Symbol of the Universe", "the Geometry of Two. Duality and the World of Paradox"and related to my project, "Six and the Hexagon. The Perfect Number". It goes on in the next part with the number five and ten expressing the creation of life; the fourth part linked the number seven with the world soul, ending it with a part about the love.The fifth and last part of the book took in consideration Plato's Pentagonal allegory about Atlantis, and it was an occasion to discover what was behind the storytelling of that story.

I thought the book would have espress more interest about the representation of the geometric figures and their meaning instead of the meaning of the number and their manifestation as figures but surely now I added knowledge about a topic I would have not consider.