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Simple trigonometry in Appendix 8 shows why the Knights
Templar were distinguished by the Cross Patteé to mark their austere role
as Knights of the Perfect Pyramid and Golden Ratio. St Bernard saw the
Knights Templar as icons of mathematical perfection, replication and the
womb of living Church regeneration.
Geometry in architecture triumphed with the creation of
spectacular height and roof spans, only limited by the compressive
strength of the building materials available. This found its zenith at
Beauvias Cathedral, which has a nave ceiling height at the keystone of
forty-eight meters compared to thirty-two meters in Paris and thirty-six
meters at Chartres. 1181 Due to repeated compressive failure in the stone
foundations, the nave at Beauvias was never completed. After
encountering this limit, the architects of God turned to their newly
discovered dimension of expression, natural light, and increased window
size. Their objective was to create a thin pillar shell, as found at Saint-
Denis and Sainte-Chappelle. Saint-Denis is the true diaphanous cradle of
the Gothic style.
St Bernard motivated his ecclesiastical workforce by declaring
that work is prayer. 1182 The Gothic cathedrals erected by this practical
prayer became the magnificent New Jerusalem, rebuilt everywhere in
Europe. 1183 After St Bernard's discoveries were incorporated into the
great cathedrals, the Church rapidly lost interest in Jerusalem itself. With
the discoveries of the Melchizedek knights safely hoarded away, even St
Bernard never saw the need to visit Jerusalem. Quite pointedly, he
asserted that Cistercian monks need only travel to Clairvaux Abbey
where: 1184
Even now he stands in the courts of Jerusalem … but not of that
earthly Jerusalem to which Mount Sinai in Arabia is joined, and
which is in bondage with her children, but of that free Jerusalem
which is above and the mother of us all. And this, if you want to
know, is Clairvaux. She is the Jerusalem united to the one in
heaven by whole-hearted devotion, by conformity of life and by a
certain spiritual affinity.
The architect brethren of St Bernard’s cathedral builders, the
Magistri Comacini, honored the martyrs Hiram Abiff and the Quatuor
Coronati. Their meeting rooms were loggia and their symbols included
King Solomon’s knot and the interwoven cord of eternity. They held that
King Solomon had given them a Charge and incorporated them fraternally
in the precincts of his Temple.
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