The Geometric, Zodiacal, and Vedic Keys of Leonardo's "Last Supper" - Part 1
Introduction
“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
This saying is commonly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, and whether he actually said or wrote it or not, it sets a fitting tone not only for this new series but also, more broadly, for the work at hand in our Age of Aquarius.
I was planning to share what I have learned so far this year about the Divine Measure and Eternal Law [Sanatana Dharma] of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper via a video slideshow, but the learning curve is a little too steep for me at the moment, so the written word and my illustrations will have to do for now. Before diving in and explaining the twelvefold division of The Last Supper table as illustrated above, in this introduction I will backtrack a bit to bring new readers up to speed.
I turned my eye towards analyzing the sacred geometry of The Last Supper after completing my first Substack series, The Sacred Geometry & Sanatana Dharma of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’, and subsequently rereading Thea’s (Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s) booklet, Explorations into the Leonardo Mystery.
In the Salvator Mundi series I discussed not only the hidden sacred geometry of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi in relation to the Vedic and post-Vedic lore and prophecy of the Divine Son and his sevenfold Apocalypse/Revelation, but also in relation to the incarnational continuity and sacred geometry of Leonardo’s and Sri Aurobindo’s lives and births. In Part One I illustrated how the sacred 432,000 solar measure of the radius and its vesica piscis shows up in the timespan of their birthdays, 15 April and 15 August; and in Part Four I illustrated their temporal relationship within the framework of the Age of Pisces, when measured as ending at the zero point of 1872—the year of Sri Aurobindo’s birth—thereby revealing a striking correspondence with the sacred numbers and multiples of 144 and 432. [1]
In a subsequent post, I shared a summary of and a handful of excerpts from Explorations into the Leonardo Mystery in which Thea discussed the 12-month Zodiac as the principal key of understanding Leonardo’s Last Supper, including this excerpt below.
“The system Leonardo conveys in The Last Supper is the zodiac of twelve signs, — in other words, Christ is the ‘sun’ around which revolve the twelve disciples/signs.” (p. 2)
Thea posited that without this key and context, the viewer of The Last Supper is “blind” to the highest significance and artistically veiled message of the painting.
Here I will share some additional excerpts from Thea’s writings to further acquaint readers with her seeing and understanding of the zodiacal sense of The Last Supper.
