| Have you ever caught a snowflake and examined it? | | | | the fact that when dividing a line with one section |
| You will notice that it is perfectly shaped in symmetry | | | | smaller and one section larger, there is a relationship of |
| with six corners on each one. How can this be, you | | | | the complete line and this was called the Divine |
| ask yourself. Aren't snowflakes just frozen moisture | | | | Proportion. |
| that enters our atmosphere? Welcome to the world of | | | | "For the theater of the world is so ordered that there |
| Golden Proportion. | | | | exist in it suitable signs by which human minds, |
| Johannes Kepler, a mathematician at a school in Graz, | | | | likenesses of God, are not only invited to study the |
| Austria, was not one to shrug off the unknown, | | | | divine works, from which they may evaluate the |
| especially when it came to solving a constant. He was | | | | founder's goodness, but are also assisted in inquiring |
| next astounded by a group of seeds that lie within a | | | | more deeply." Kepler (Optics, pg.15) |
| pomegranate. They didn't roll around but were in an | | | | In the early 1600s, Kepler entered into the realm of |
| irregular arrangement that allowed them to expand | | | | space and the planets that surrounded earth. He |
| inside of the fruit. | | | | realized through Divine Proportion that the speed of |
| Intrigued by the symmetry of one and the loss of | | | | the planets decreased with the increasing distance |
| symmetry of another but feeling a connection of some | | | | from the Sun and had to produce an immaterial |
| type, Kepler began to notice the flowers. Earlier, | | | | species of universal gravitation in all planetary motion. |
| Leonardo da Vinci had observed a displacement of | | | | Discovering the harmonic relationships within our world |
| leaves around a stem but also in some sort of pattern | | | | and striving to understand the Divine Proportion in all |
| that was called philotaxis. In roses, a congruent | | | | aspects of life, urged Kepler to expand to the cosmos |
| 360-degree angle that separates the petals from one | | | | as an enrichment of all that could be realized. Not only |
| another proportionately had become known as the | | | | could there be a Divine Proportion to earthly things but |
| Divine Proportion. | | | | also the universe as a whole. If Kepler had lived long |
| Everything that Kepler came upon in nature seemed to | | | | enough, he might even have found his answer to |
| possess a type of symmetric balance yet no equal to | | | | man's own divine potential. |
| itself. It was then that Kepler became fascinated with | | | | |