Washington DC

The first thing that was done as far as the building of Washington DC is concerned, was to establish a ten by ten mile oblique square border. This denotes the cardinal directions and establishes the othogonal (north/south east/west) street grid. 16th Stret (in red below) was shifted slightly off center and is directed down the Potomac River. Washington lived 20 miles south on the west bank of the river. His wife, the former Mrs. Custis owned the land on the west bank where Arlington Cemetery now is.

The orthogonal grid was overlayed with a diagonal grid which produced the Tree of Life image featuring an overlapping hexagon and pentagon, just as we can see in the Milan Cathedral plan. Note the three axes, and remember that in perspective drawing we depict a cube as a hexagon.

This version of the TOL derives from Metatron's Cube, which is related to the cube that Enoch had in the Royal Arch legend. Notice how it depicts 12 around one. On the map, the figure centers on the White House, and the three axes are represented by 16th St, Penn Ave and New York Ave. This is the triangulum form of the notion of the 'six directions in space' (up-down, left-right, front-back).

Note the the axes form 60 degree angles where they cross. Here the cardinal directions are indicated by an X, where as in the quadtratum form a plus sign + is used. In the quadratum, the Z axis is straight up, in the triangulum it is a vertical line on the page. The orthogonal grid of streets and the oblique square of the district boundary represent the quadratum form, while the diagonal street grid represents the triangulum.

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