Having recently finished the masterfully written novel, The DaVinci Code, I became intrigued by the Divine Proportion, also known as Phi, or the Golden Mean. The number Phi is 1.618033987 (with the lowercase phi being 0.6180339887), and it is manifested in numerous ways. This is how it came to be known in the Renaissance as the Divine Proportion, because it was believed to be God’s hand. It indicates a ratio.
Phi appears in the following places:
- the human body
- the proportions of other animals
- plants
- DNA
- the solar system
- art and architecture
- music
- population growth
- spirals
- energy
- the stock market
- the Bible and in theology.
John Cleese and Elizabeth Hurley do an admirable job of explaining Phi and its role in the concept of beauty in a mini-series called The Human Face. Educational and funny, too.
I loved the Davinci Code, excelent book. Opened my eyes to all sorts of things that made sense, and I am not a very religious person.
i loved the book too, it got me very curious about goddess religion and spirituality all over again.
The davinci code was awesome. The way that phi was casully mentioned kind of made it stick to my mind, and i have researched alot about it. It’s really cool.
Yeah I’ve researched PHI since reading that book too , heh
The Da Vinci Code is a good story, very intriguing, but very loose on the historical details of Christ and Christianity. Fiction does not outweigh the truth no matter how good the story is.
A good story is all I was seeking from this novel. If I wanted truth (i.e., to read the actual text and weigh it for myself), I would go to the scholarly works and the book of Christianity itself.