The Golden Rectangle and attendant exactly fitting Circle construction described above is best illustrated by  The Virgin of the Rocks (aka Madonna of the Rocks)  by Leonardo da Vinci (versions of this painting are held in the National Gallery, London and the Louvre, Paris, respectively). These paintings have roughly the correct dimensions, one of the exactly fitting circles is explicit, the Golden Section Spiral is evident and the Virgin Mary’s hand indicates the position of the Golden Section.

The FISH is a type of Vesica Pisces and an Early Christian symbol of both Jesus Christ the Savior and the Saved. However  if you  rotate your Golden Rectangle so that is now in Landscape Mode the FISH now becomes an extremely profane (i.e. non-sacred) image, specifically of the external organ of generation in the female i.e. the VULVA  - as well as the sacred Gothic arch of Christian churches.  Christianity did not arise in a cultural vacuum and was influenced by the sacred-profane dichotomies of the polytheistic pre-Christian Greek, Roman and Egyptian religions that permitted Gods having human desires and proclivities. Indeed the pure monotheism of the Jews can be seen to have been compromised by Early Christian accommodation to the dominant polytheism within the Roman Empire. Thus while Judaism and Islam retained uncompromising monotheism, Christianity is peculiar among the Abrahamic religions in having intrinsically polytheistic elements, namely the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin.

The 4-leafed or 4-petalled FLOWER image (the Golden Flowers) that so suddenly pops out of the Golden Rectangle geometry is not only surprising and beautiful - it is also indicative of the mathematically- and aesthetically-precise positioning for the Divine Proportion and of a sacred-profane dichotomy in the Christian tradition.  Four is fundamentally “good” in its symbolism - 4 elements of earth, air, fire and water; 4 humours; 4 Christian Gospels (now we have the recently discovered fifth Gospel according to Judas); Father, Son, Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary (Grace); Faith, Hope, Charity and Happiness; and, of course, the Sign of the Cross and Salvation. Accordingly, the Irish Shamrock (the 4-leafed clover variant of the normally 3-leafed Trifolium repens) is considered “lucky” because of its rarity and these lucky “4” associations.

More specifically, a European plant Paris quadrifolia (Truelove) has the narrow, “crossed bows” appearance of the Golden Flowers of the Golden Rectangle. Truelove is “holy” in the sense of the Holy Trinity plus the Virgin Mary but is also profane in the sense of being associated with “luck in love” and as an aphrodisiac (dangerous since Truelove is very poisonous). Indeed in the raunchy “Miller’s Tale” of Chaucer’s Medieval “Canterbury Tales” , the love-struck clerk Absolon advances his “noble, knightly love” to the carpenter John’s adulterous wife Alisoun (naughty with student Nicholas) with love-promoting Truelove under his tongue (“Under his tonge a trewe-love he beer”).  Perhaps the 4-leafed aquatic fern Marsilia quadrifolia (water clover) had related significance for the Ancient Egyptians.     

The REAL Da Vinci Code reveals a profound sacred-profane dichotomy in Christian culture that is scrupulously ignored by lying, racist Mainstream media currently hell-bent on dishonestly  “selling” a War for Oil (or War for Global Hegemony) as fundamentally arising from differences between Abrahamic religions (rather than from military-industrial complex and corporate greed and pathological narcissism). The Mainstream culture that scrupulously ignores the all too human, profane constructions of the Da Vinci Code also ignores the horrendous human cost of what is in reality a War on Women and Children. 

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Dr Gideon Polya,  MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality ---

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