The Geometric, Zodiacal, and Vedic Keys of Leonardo's "Last Supper" - Part 3
The Twelvefold Zodiacal Measure of the Table & the Missing Halos
In Part One, I discussed the origin of my interest in Leonardo’s Last Supper painting, including Thea’s illuminations of the zodiacal sense of the painting, the Mother’s and Thea’s commentary on the incarnational continuity between Leonardo and Sri Aurobindo, together with what I have learned since 2016 about the long-forgotten correspondence between the Divine Son and the radius that—in conjunction with the Earth’s equinoxes and solstices and the vesica piscis—measures out the twelve-month zodiacal year, or yajna.
In Part Two, I discussed and illustrated the sixfold horizontal or linear division of Leonardo’s Last Supper table via the unit of measure established by the Divine Son’s hand gesture. I also illustrated the sixfold circle-based division of the table using the Son’s handwidth as the radius of six vesicae piscium and six circles, and discussed the significance of this 1:6 ratio in relation to the sacred geometry of the circle and the vesica pisces.
Naturally, after illustrating the sixfold division of the table, I used the same unit, radius, “Hidden One,” or geometric Son, and its companion vesicae piscium, to divide the table into twelve (= 2 × 6) segments. From there, I added the twelve zodiacal glyphs and the numerical count to help readers SEE and UNDERSTAND the table as a linear portrayal of the cyclical/circular 12-month Zodiac. Note that in the Arthurian parable of the Last Supper, featuring King Arthur and his 12 knights, the table is indeed round.
In Fig. 2, I have illustrated the Pisces glyph inherent in the structural geometry of the painting. Similarly, in Fig. 1, the opening image, I illustrated the geometric FISH (ΙΧΘΥΣ/Ichthys)—i.e. the Vesica Piscis or “Vessel of the Fish”—that is not only the widely forgotten or unacknowledged origin of the “Jesus Fish” or fish symbol that was co-opted by Christianity in the Age of Pisces, but also the widely forgotten geometric foundation and eternal law of Vishnu’s first Avatar in his line of ten (dasavatara), whose name is Matsya, meaning Fish.
