Spirals Within Spirals: Fibonacci Explained🧵
The Golden Ratio & Fibonacci Sequence has been covered ad nauseum but it's important for me to explain.
These Concepts were described in detail by the Rishis of India around the 6th century AD and only later introduced to the West.
In 1202, Leonardo of Pisa introduced the Arabic Decimal System to the West, a vast improvement over the Archaic Roman Numeral System.
But, that wasn't the only Mathematical Advancement Young Leo learned & imported. He, also, unveiled the Law of Accumulation & the Golden Ratio.
The Ancient Rishis purified their bodies and concentrated their minds. Over time, they actualized Clairvoyant Powers called Siddas. They communed with the Intelligence of the Cosmic Mind, what the Greeks called the Nous, directly experiencing the fundamental forces of Creation.
As the Rishis experienced these Forces, they described the vibratory nature of Energy as “spirals within spirals, within spirals." They described the Gunas or, qualities of Energy, as a rope spun of three threads. Centrifugal & centripetal spiraling around an unchanging core.
Spiraling through all vibration are a balance of centrifugal & centripetal currents fractally emanating from an infinite core. These forces radiate from the core, universally, in the proportional harmonics defined by the Golden Spiral.
What is the Golden Spiral, Phi & Fibonacci?
The Golden Spiral describes the radiation of energy from a center. In all natural processes energy radiates from a center in the logarithmic proportions of the Golden Spiral. The spiral of your fingerprint or eye lash follow the Golden Spiral also known as the Divine Proportion.
Everything is Geometric. As Plato said G-d is constantly Geometizing. Phi, Golden Spiral & the Fibonacci Sequence are intimately related.
Afterall Pythagoras taught Numbers governed the properties & conditions of all beings & were regarded the causes of being in everything else.
Phi is the theory of 0 (infinity/nothingness containing all numbers) becoming separated by 1 (unity/somethingness expressing all numbers), and the result is Phi: Φ. First there was nothing = 0 then there was something = 1. Then there was everything = Φ .
The Fibonacci Progression describes the law that underlies the radiation of energy in nature.
It is a sequence of numbers in which each number is equal to the sum of two numbers before it.
The Fibonacci Sequence goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 and so on.
The Fibonacci Sequence is Additive, it is the sum of two numbers before it and, Multiplicative, each number approximates the previous number multiplied by the Golden Ratio.
It begins with Zero and Unity, 0 & 1, Nothing & Everything, the Unknowable and the Manifest.
The Fibonacci Spiral is logarithmic and also equiangular, since the angle it describes with the radii remains always the same.
The Fibonacci Progression is the Physical Manifesation of Phi found in Nature. But, Phi goes to Infinity and Fibonacci has a Finite Center.
It is the finite reflection of the infinite principle embedded within it.
When comparing a Fibonacci and Golden Mean spiral they are off the closer you get to the center, but by the time you get to steps 55 & 89 in the Fibonacci Spiral the two spirals are practically identical.
Fibonacci 'Numbers' are constantly found in Nature. All Flowers have a Fibonacci number of petals: daisies tend to have 34 or 55 petals, while sunflowers have 89 or 144. The seeds of sunflowers spiral outward both to the left and the right in a Fibonacci number of spirals.
The higher the numbers are on the Fibonacci Sequence and the more precise the ratio is to phi, the more complex the plant.
It was Socrates that said, "Geometry is the art of the ever true. The constant reminder that flowers are emissaries of the ‘ever-true’ makes what we live in a cosmos and not a chaos."
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