Chartres Cathedral: sacred geometry (3/5)

This extraordinary documentary film explores one of the most beautiful and mysterious cathedrals in the world, the famous Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France.

Filmed by an acclaimed BBC cameraman, it features haunting images and beautiful music, and advances challenging theories and discoveries by Professor Keith Critchlow, a leading expert in sacred architecture who has studied the mysteries of Chartres Cathedral for over forty years. Also featured is Malcolm Miller, author and longtime cathedral guide.

Forty-four magnificent stained-glass windows, including three rose windows, tell the story of the world from creation to the day of judgment. The 12th Century labyrinth in the nave paving is the largest and best preserved surviving example of a medieval labyrinth in France. Who were the architects, the so called Masters of the Compasses? Where did they get the courage and confidence to build such a complex and magnificent cathedral as Chartres?

This extraordinary documentary will inspire all students of architecture, religious studies and the mysteries of life.

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Education

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• chartres
• cathedral
• documentary
• medieval
• architecture
• catholic
• churches
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[willmesa1]

Chartres is a beautiful Cathedral. I prefer Notre-Dame de Paris. One of my passions when I lived in Paris was to go to Notre-Dame with Fulcanelli's book Le Mysteres Des Cathedrales and explore the hundred of alchemy symbols. Thanks for sharing this video.

[happysquidsinateapot]

Also, Chartre is the most pagan building I have ever come across. Funny, that people do not see that the Virgin Mary resembles roman goddesses and that early Roman Christianity is simply a pagan religion that somehow incorporates the concept of Jesus, the one who came to die in love, as a mere baby in the background, or someone who is simple dead, not alive.

[happysquidsinateapot]

I would have to say that the response to the question, "what is God?" is exactly the opposite : God is not length; He is not height, not width, not depth. He is infinite in love and in Himself.

[pugcasso]

The end explanation of the symbols up the front of the Cathedral relating to the symbols of the 7 (main) chakras of the body is amazing. In the esoteric Hermetic/Alchemical symbols, there are body diagrams with the 7 chakra levels labeled with the 5 (naked eye) planets and 2 luminaries (Sun, Moon) in the order of the Earth-centred model of the Cosmos. The throat chakra is Mars and this Cathedral has knights there. The Apocalypse text ('unveiling') book seems also to relate to chakra levels.

[AMTattersall]

For a historical perspective on Christianity and Chartres Labyrinth, watch "Researching the Labyrinth" on YouTube.