Sacred Geometry and Spiritual Symbolism. Donald B. Carroll

      Acknowledgments

      There are so many to thank in the bringing of this book to fruition. I would like to thank all of the staff and volunteers of the Association of Research and Enlightenment and the Edgar Cayce Foundations, these organizations and individuals have kept alive and expanded on the amazing material that can be found in the Edgar Cayce readings. I have been the recipient of their unwavering support, assistance, and inspiration that has been a vital part of this work. There are many to thank and I list just a few in the following: Kevin Todeschi, John Van Auken, Henry Reed, Peter Woodbury, Jennie Taylor Martin, Alison Ray—thank you for your faith, Cassie McQuagge, Carol Hicks, Susan Lendvay, Kevin Grant, Vanessa Darling, Renee Branch, James Mullaney, and the Wayshower organization. I give many thanks to my copy editor, Stephanie Pope, who was vital in channeling my streams of consciousness into fertile, organized growth and coherence. To Carol Hicks whose graphic illustrations were so important for visualizing the content. If I have missed anyone, please forgive me; it seemed in any direction I turned there were wonderful people. To all the authors of books, articles, and images cited in this work I thank you; such works are the lamps that helped guide me on this journey, shining light onto the shadowed ideas in my mind, acting like photosynthesis for them to grow. I hope I have added a little light for others.

      Thanks to all my family, particularly my sons, Jeremy, Chase, and Corwin who are some of the people I most admire in the world, and my brother Chris for always being there.

      Signposts of the Journey

      All roads lead to an interconnected Oneness. Signposts, to me, are those phrases or thoughts in writings that catch our attention and help us choose the path that is right for us. It may not be the one that any author of said writings is traveling, yet these thoughts provide direction to the same destination through a different landscape. The journey is ours.

      In the study of ourselves in relation to the Whole lies the awakening of the inner man to a full consciousness of our respective part which we must play in the scheme of creation. Here again man is baffled by what seems to be a great division of force. This is due to the limitations of the conscious facilities by space-time. Yet there is open to every individual a door through which he may pass to obtain a new vision. This door leads to the inner self. ‘We must, in spite of our three-dimensional, finite, physical viewpoints, understand the inner, infinite, higher-dimensional experiences that the inner subconscious mind may be induced to bring through imagination into our consciousness, but which visioning,

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