I noticed this recently while searching the game of chess for its esoteric symbols and encoded wisdom: that if you draw out the eight points to which the knight can move to on a typical turn, and then connect the dots radially across the center, you end up with essentially the cross patee symbol used by the Knights Templar or the Maltese-style cross of the Knights Hospitallers.
Observe the similarities for yourself, I’m not dreaming this one:
Could only find information resources very remotely related to this subject online: a blog post titled, “Board games history: Knights Templars and the triple square.” They mention a game called Nine Man’s Morris:
For example, René Guénon, affirm that this symbol represent, in ancient religous rituals, a sort of holy centre where the world energies can reach the right power to involve a man’s mind on a mystic level.
The origins of the triple square are still unknown but without any reasonable doubt we can say that its symbolism is related to the centre and the balance of the world and the human spheres represented by the pieces of the game have to converge to find the perfect equilibrium.
Along with a peculiar page illustrating something called a Templar Cipher. And an online forum draws a connection between this Maltese-cross shape and the so-called Sator Square, a magic square operating under a sort of Sudoku-style logic.
So what’s the deal? What other secrets are hidden in plain sight in the game of chess?
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A groovy bit of symbolic analysis. Eat your heart out, Robert Langdon. The relatively powerless king and powerful (in terms of movement) queen must hark back to a specific historical moment. You would think…
The movements of the knight also square the circle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle
http://chemistry.about.com/od/periodic...chemy-Symbols/Philosopher-s-Stone.htm
As to the Queen/King relationship, the Queen was previous to its current incarnation a Vizier or advisor to the King.
But I look at it like this: the King represents God, for without access to the Source of All Being, your existence is nullified, and you have no power to act in the world/game board. The Queen, then, becomes something like the Shekinah of Hebrew mysticism, the feminine presence or “dwelling” of God in actual reality. God-made-flesh versus the unknowable Godhead beyond all existence… Also see Metatron and Malkuth in the Sephiroth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malkuth
Hi;
thanks for quoting my post, the Nine mens morris game is derived from the triple square symbol, but is still not clear if the triple square was just a game or a esoteric and mistyque simbol used by Templars during their religious rituals.
Thanks for the read
Bye
With things like this, I find that they don’t tend to be either/or propositions – they are usually both. A game is a ready vehicle to inscribe deeper truths onto the mind of the young learner.
Learned the eight queens chess puzzle today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle
It’s a great one to use with kids!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corners_(game)
Only sort of relevant.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/...try-of-the-green-revolution.html#more
http://stumblinghorse.tumblr.com/post/...board-is-the-world-the-pieces-are-the