The Circle, Triangle and Square (2024) Painting by Marjolein Gamble

Somebody who worked causally for me last summer died unexpectedly, when he was caught in cross-fire. The previous evening he had left a little packet with 3 samoosas (which were not for me) that he did not want to take home with him in my fridge.

After his death, I felt that his request had possibly some deeper meaning. I investigated the word 'samoosas' which originates from the middle east (circa tenth century BC) and literally means 'little triangles'. It took me to a sacred geometry book which defines the circle as made up of many points. It is often seen as a symbol of Oneness, a principle of absolute unity representing God. Two, duality, represents, in a formal sense a line, on that two points define a line. Three, in its formal sense, is that of the triangle, formed from three points. With three, a qualitative transition is made, from the pure, abstract elements of point and line, to the tangible, measurable state, which is called a surface.

A Zen calligraphic drawing in this book portrays a square, intersecting a triangle and then a circle. In Japan they start on the right and move to the left as opposed to Western norms where we read and write from left to right. So in the book, starting with the circle; creation is shown through the simple progression from the unit of lift (circle), through the triangle (surface, time) to the manifest form of the square (the world of nature or space and time).

The person who was about to die, indicated to my higher self, through his higher self by means of his illogical behaviour, what was about to transpire - from square to triangle (the in-between state to circle - God).

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