Chartres Cathedral - A Sacred Geometry (documentary w/ Keith Critchlow)

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This documentary is unique in its attempt to combine information about some of the architectural features of Chartres Cathedral with a search into the mysteries, the deeper meaning and purpose of a sacred place. Are there sacred sites? How do they affect us, if we allow ourselves to be sensitive to their energies?
How can Chartres Cathedral be understood, in terms of its sacred geometry? One hour is too short a time to unravel all its mysteries, but it can point the viewer towards some of the Cathedral’s deeper meanings. The documentary aims to both uplift and inspire, and leave the viewer with a feeling of hope, of being part of a wider community capable of working together in harmony, as were those who built Chartres Cathedral in 12th century France.
Memorable images of Chartres Cathedral’s stained glass windows, striking stonework and statues, the famous labyrinth and beautiful music by American composer Richard Einhorn, accompany an insightful commentary. Professor Keith Critchlow, a leading specialist in Sacred Geometry and Architecture, elaborates on his personal findings about the cathedral, and guides us with knowledge and wisdom throughout the documentary. Malcolm Miller, the well-known author, and Chartres Cathedral tour guide, offers his own perspective on the Cathedral and its Christian symbolism. The documentary represents a perfect starting point for those who may be interested in all things Sacred. It is an ideal resource for architectural students and those who want to know more about medieval buildings, European history and culture.
This ever-popular documentary has now (2014) been re-mastered and reissued by the Producer and Director of the film, Louise Illig-Mooncie.

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@elinstar6034 22 күн бұрын

I went to a lecture by Keith Critchlow many years ago. He was absolutely mesmerising.

@swiftcee266 5 ай бұрын

Long ago in Christian Europe the spirit of initiation was kept alive throughout the Dark Ages and the medieval period by several initiatory orders of people, who the church even today described as illiterate workmen. Illiterate workmen my backside! they were highly skilled people, these were the craft masons who built the glories of Chartres Cathedral, who built Cologne Cathedral, who built Amien, and who built every major church building in Europe. They had no architects, they worked as teams, now Chartres Cathedral was built in the unbelievable time of 30 years. It was built by five separate craft masonic teams, all working seemingly independent of one another, there is no existing overall plan for the place and yet the whole thing comes together as a harmonious whole which baffles description. It enhances the powerful earth energies that are already there, it is acoustically perfect and it is a place of incredible beauty. Now these crafts mason's were divided into four main groups, they are known today collectively as The Compagnonnage, and they were the Compagnons Passant who built bridges, made road structures and built castles. The Children of Maitre Soubisse who mainly worked in the romanesque style with rounded arches, thick walled buildings, that couldn't rise very high because of structural problems with them. Then there were the Children of Solomon, and this is a very disputed group. It's very difficult to discern whether they actually were part of the Templar order or were they merely affiliated to them or were they employed by them. The Templar certainly gave them their rule. They built in the new style that the Templars had brought back the secret from the holy land, how to build with the pointed arch. They got that from their Sufi brethren in Jerusalem, and the first pointed arches that the Templars commissioned are still there to this day on Temple Mount. They were replicated at Chartres Cathedral in France. Now with gothic building, the pointed arch, the flying buttresses, the stresses are totally different, so you can build high, you can build with thin walls, you can have large window spaces which allowed the glories of stained glass to come into play and the mystery at Charte is that the stained glass there is particularly special. The secret was brought back by the Templars from near persia and that stain glass filters out certain wavelengths of light, and only allows those through that are conducive to a change in consciousness. All the things necessary for a change of consciousness can be found in Charte and in several other cathedrals too - the light is right, the earth energies are enhanced, amplified and the acoustics are perfect. It's all about a spiritual change of consciousness, transformation.

@Dionysus_333 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this!

@usgusdus1215 Ай бұрын

the "dark" ages did not exist; it's a myth. Late antiquity or early medieval period is a more appropriate term

@SoulSpa6835 Ай бұрын

🙏🏻

@sonnylambert4893 5 ай бұрын

Quite impressed with the admission or statement about it being built atop a naturally high energy field.This is sort of the theory with all of these ancient classic churches cathedrals sites all built atop scared pagan place

@WoodyMarx 5 ай бұрын

I like the idea of Chartres being an encyclopedia of the cosmos for the medieval world view.

@HowardARoark 4 ай бұрын

Its amazing the mindset medieval people must have had to build these incredible buildings. Its amazing what kind of society would envisage such buildings and put the enormous effort and expense into creating them. Its an entirely different motivation from what exists today.

@MN8 3 ай бұрын

people had shorter lives too

@bobhemphut4011 2 ай бұрын

People had shorter lives thats not an explanation... look around you people die young at all times in history. People had more respect for one another and their community. They had honor something that's gone missing in most professions.

@kasturipillay6626 6 ай бұрын

Everything is within us. Don't look outside. The holy house is our body. The light within is the orchestra that plays constantly. How you perceive and absorb the tune is left up to you. Beautiful cathedral. Thanks for sharing. 😊❤

@shaycormac4428 5 ай бұрын

the body is the church that houses the spirit of the Lord... the kingdom of god is within you... the only way to make it out is to go within... Jesus taught this.. christianity is an inward spirituality as opposed to other faiths which involve outward forms of connection with God... do not take everything yeshua said literally... the disciples that did ended up leaving him when he said you must eat my flesh and drink my blood... he even said himself that he spoke in parables.. May God bless you bruvva... @@37pintospintos33

@shaycormac4428 5 ай бұрын

To add... church is a congregation of fellow believers.. you don't need a building or temple .... we don't go to church ... we are the church...@@37pintospintos33

@Dino_Medici 5 ай бұрын

🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

@drwolftickets7473 5 ай бұрын

You say 'don't look outside' the body... but the next thing you do is compare it to an orchestra. So you looked outside for a metaphor. Just goes to show that not everything is within us.

@Dino_Medici 5 ай бұрын

@@drwolftickets7473 party pooper :/

@maisondesalbertins 4 ай бұрын

I just finished watching this astonishing documentary that left me completely engrossed. The most touching part of the documentary was at 54:35 and onwards, which was so realistic that I could not help but feel moved. Now I finally understand why Joseph Campbell was so fascinated by the Cathedral of Chartres.

@realmonis64 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for reposting this highly informative documentary on Chartres Cathedral.

@maryerichardson8302 5 ай бұрын

This program makes me want to visit and sit inside for at least a year!!! Thank you!

@ianbertus9689 11 ай бұрын

It is the gift to generations of humanity

@illuminatedsinger 3 ай бұрын

This documentary is profound. Relating Hindu tantra chakras and yantras to the sacred geometry of the Chartres Cathedral is exactly what we need today. 🎉❤

@elizabethnott4076 10 ай бұрын

An incredibly beautiful, interesting and well documented film. Thanks for this.

@newdawnrising8110 5 ай бұрын

I once visited Chartres with the intention to see if I could understand something of this idea of Objective Sacred Art. About ten mins after entering I found it impossible not to weep profoundly and deep. I calmed myself a little and looked up and around and everyone I could see all around were weeping too. It was astonishing. How could art have this objective impression? This is not to say everyone who enters will experience this too. Just be still and inwardly relaxed and quiet and look around and you will see what I mean, or so it seems to me.

@AntonandSinan 5 ай бұрын

Had a very similar feeling at La Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais.

@treffainguypascal Ай бұрын

learn about radionics and you'll understand

@Qu0thTheRaven 5 ай бұрын

55:58 this seems like a really important teaching, the bit about the principle of sacredness.

@Qu0thTheRaven 5 ай бұрын

I see a big issue with that with people picking and choosing what they want to be sacred as basically being anything that they like or that they wish to promote and demonizing what they dislike and don't want to promote. I think we like to simplify things into those two boxes and that's not real sacredness. We should seek to understand true sacredness.

@Dani68ABminus 5 ай бұрын

What a gem of a documentary. Thank you!

@Serioussamurai500 9 күн бұрын

Excellent Doc.👏🏽🙌🏼👏🏽

@warriorpoet9629 5 ай бұрын

Amazing. Chartres had a big effect on me. And when ever I flew to France this is the exact music I listened too. Officium. Thank you.

@krohndesign 11 ай бұрын

Incredible!

@mielleestebanpowell2759 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful documentary. Thank you!

@Brewskin78 3 ай бұрын

A perfect film for those interested in cathedrals, but who aren't actually interested in seeing a cathedral or learning anything about cathedrals.

@catherinepoloynis 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this very beautiful and spiritual illumination of Chartres.

@strayportal 6 ай бұрын

This is so beautiful

@1rober2 6 ай бұрын

Excellent, thank you

@nordlysful 5 ай бұрын

This is incredible and so beautiful

@alicevanderbruggen1339 5 ай бұрын

Very beautiful

@tuathdedanann 3 ай бұрын

Perfect.❤

@misfitkid3926 5 ай бұрын

This is gold.

@nyckolaus 5 ай бұрын

fascinating!

@Philomaan 6 ай бұрын

The underground structures are also very interesting. There are 14 underground water channels (Wuivres=water, symbolized by snakes) dug out, one of which feeds the baptism font, the source of 'Saint - Forts'. The channels are fed by underground rivers that flow beneath the Cathedral. They converge under the altar. Also, in 1770, bishop Bridan replaced some coloured windows with clear ones, so that the congregation could see him better. This disturbed the effect of the coloured windows on the psyche of the attending people. Before this time, the priests performed the mass with their backs to the people. After this time they revered their own pompous egos more than the holy ceremony they represent. (Source: 'Orte der Kraft' by Blanche Merz, Institut de Recherches en Geobiologie, Schweiz, 1984) The builders of Chartres were probably taught by the Arabs, who brought us the decimal system with the 0 (zero) they imported from the Vedic mathematics.

@diogenesegarden5152 5 ай бұрын

The cathedral was built on the powerful Michael and Mary serpent lines, which stretch from Skellig Michael off the west coast of Ireland and has been traced all the way down to Armageddon near Mount Carmel in Israel. Prior to Christianity this was known as the Apollo and Athena line. There would have been sacred groves and possibly stone circles placed on the nodal points where the male and female energies cross, the alter being the exact location of the crossing point. The churches and monuments along this line are more often than not dedicated to Michael or Mary and would have been built over the pre-Christian (Pagan) groves as the Church asserted its dominance over the people. Interestingly there was mention that there were several churches laid out to show the Virgo constellation. More and more star maps are being discovered in the landscapes of Western Europe, which are ancient, far older than Christianity. There are several videos on KZbin about them.

@ErnovanZeben 5 ай бұрын

@@diogenesegarden5152.... do you have a link or maybe a few?

@lorinoseworthy4318 5 ай бұрын

@@ErnovanZeben Britains hidden history

@silvergirl2847 5 ай бұрын

I only recently became aware of st Michael's line .I'm very interested in our Irish history .this.was new one to me .and just endlessly fascinating .thank you for your information .@@diogenesegarden5152

@bobthebuildest6828 4 ай бұрын

@@diogenesegarden5152sure but the constellations werent christian it was an aspect we got from judiasm, plus they are too universal to have just popped up independently everywhere so someone like either adam or noah naming the constellations makes the most since, basically constellations are not pagan imagery even if pagans used them at some point

@manutdmb 9 ай бұрын

good one!

@mielleestebanpowell2759 5 ай бұрын

Sanctification is a better word, in my opinion, for sacralization. The latter is now more often used for pain in the lumbar area.

@judithsmorti4306 6 ай бұрын

Awesome 🙏

@dee7781 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic

@aarondery4672 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful

@John-mz8rj 6 ай бұрын

Good one.

@herbalannie7707 5 ай бұрын

Inspirational

@tiffanyduan5564 6 ай бұрын

Can you turn on the text function? At least there are subtitles, it's so sad that such a long video doesn't have subtitles.

@djwerd831 Ай бұрын

Cool!!

@Do-si 5 ай бұрын

fascinating

@Serioussamurai500 9 күн бұрын

The most spiritual experience I've had was in here.

@janakasanjaya6926 5 ай бұрын

Thank you

@ritabiro5105 5 ай бұрын

A happy New Year in this fantastick Chatre Cathedral as it used to bee very old times

@OwlKnight32 2 ай бұрын

Aren’t there people on this earth that understand these things in their entirety and are using it to benefit themselves rather than mankind? Who ordered to have the paint removed from the cathedrals? Who ordered the re-routing of water that used to exist under most of these structures?

@mauricepowers3804 5 ай бұрын

The labyrinth is not to be walked fast, but slowly and contemplatively.

@jhj6636 5 ай бұрын

Very interesting. Thank you. I recommend Prof. David Fagerberg's research and online videos on ecclesiology and especially Liturgical mysticism.

@ceeemm1901 5 ай бұрын

Would have been good to see John James give some input about his 'toichology' and the construction of the cathedral.

@Stadtpark90 5 ай бұрын

Where do we get the remastered version? Watching this in 360p hurts the eye. Edit: Or is this already the remastered version? What’s remastered about it then? The low quality might be a side effect of uploading the video to KZbin with reduced settings? The version on the archive seems to be a little better visually.

@EmilyKresl 5 ай бұрын

You can adjust your settings to highest quality.

@nancylesiuk1541 5 ай бұрын

What about the well beneath the cathedral. And that it was built on a sacred Druid oak grove destroyed by the romans.

@diogenesegarden5152 5 ай бұрын

@jeans1712 4 ай бұрын

@@diogenesegarden5152 I understand the history you speak of, yet honoring the creator was left behind and Jesus came to set the record straight; we are but dust in the wind and our life is a gift from the creator.

@albertito77 5 ай бұрын

40:09 chant needs to return to all Catholic Churches asap

@oxXkiritoXxo 10 ай бұрын

can there is a french subtitel please ?

@user-xg3tb6uw2b 4 ай бұрын

bravo Bravo BRAVO! L O V E IT! 🥰🥰🥰

@Moonlight-yu5xo 5 ай бұрын

Cathedrals are healing centers if we know how to use them (where to stand, what time, etc)

@Warcrimeenthusiast 3 ай бұрын

Does anyone know the end credits music what its called

@guruuDev 8 ай бұрын

Does anyone know how to spell the name of the orthodox Hindu gentleman who noticed the number correlation of details on the façade with chakra number values?

@JAvDijk 7 ай бұрын

I think… parish shakarboti

@guruuDev 7 ай бұрын

@@JAvDijk Thanks!

@brunoderobillard1526 6 ай бұрын

Paresh Chakraborty

@guruuDev 6 ай бұрын

@@brunoderobillard1526Awesome -- thanks! Very interesting that he has 'chakra' in his name. Also the English word 'parish' is a district surrounding a church. 'Borty' sounds like English word body. So you get 'Church region -chakra- body.'

@gustavosanchezruano7133 4 ай бұрын

@@brunoderobillard1526 Do you know if there is any information about this man?

@kazimierakawecka4214 8 ай бұрын

Polskie tłumaczenie -konieczne❤️

@minichanti 7 ай бұрын

Que lo digan quienes no saben, cuál es el significado de la espiritualidad con respecto a su triste conclusión referida como "hacerse pasar por santo"

@QED_ 7 ай бұрын

3:34 Plotinus (neo-Platonist) . . . not Plato.

@WolandSilent 4 ай бұрын

Someone knows first and last song used?

@xyzllii 5 ай бұрын

Who was Elizabeth of Shernell that he speaks of ?

@TS-1267 7 ай бұрын

... " PILLARS OF THE EARTH "… 🎉🎉🎉 1:30

@swiftcee266 29 күн бұрын

_Chartres Cathedral was built and financed at the Knights Templar’s behest. That's how it was erected so quickly, normally it took two or three centuries to finish a cathedral, Chartres was done in 30 years. Over the west front of Chartre, there is one of the earliest pieces of gothic architecture in Europe. It is the over the main door at Chartre, with Jesus sat in glory, surmounted by a mandorla which according to straight Church iconography means he is God, and there is another significant symbol of his deity which is his halo, and it's a halo with a cross in it that symbolises the deity. But if you look very carefully at the shape of that cross you'll find it's the Gnostic cross!_ We've got heresy again, so we not only have here heresy behind the head of Jesus, we also have Europe's first known initiate Pythagoras, and there are more. Above the three pillars supporting the main door, there is a frieze and it's very intricate, and it shows what the church guides tell you of the principal scenes from the life of Jesus, but it's deliberately designed to confuse. You can start at the left work right, you start in the middle and work left, when you got to the left you go back to the middle, and you work right. On the right you will find Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey being hailed as the King of the Jews and immediately next to it he's being laid in the tomb. Well my Christian friends what's missing? the crucifixion, the central issue of Christianity, and what these boys are trying to tell us is two things. There are two or three little triggers like this, you are free to interpret any piece of symbolism in that particular Cathedral in the gnostic tradition in the heretical point of view, secret symbolism.

@sinabehjat 4 ай бұрын

The fact is that you have this same system in Islam, with the Kaaba being the square and the green dome of the mosque of the prophet representing the heart chakra.

@joecrowe7062 6 ай бұрын

Are bodies are a cathedral or temple

@andretucker3810 5 ай бұрын

Similar level as pyramids. The numbers r incredible

@Pro-Deo 5 ай бұрын

God manifest Himself in all His desires, stone being just one of the innumerable.

@Reddirtrelichunters 5 ай бұрын

Not even a minute in and adds goodbye now

@thegoldenthread 4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately I have no control over this. Film's copyright owners get ad revenue.

@anthonyjwestchannel3178 Ай бұрын

“Virgin Mother, Daughter of thy Son; humble beyond all creatures yet more exalted; predestined turning point of God’s intention. Thy merit so ennobled human nature that that its Divine Creator did not scorn to make Himself the creature of His creature…. Lady, thou art so near God’s reconning that he who would first seek grace without first seeking thee would have his prayer fly upwards without wings.

@davidkershaw5379 4 ай бұрын

Where do I start? I can’t possibly start no one would read it, it would be that long so I will pose one point. The point being it states the knowledge to build these structures was trusted to only a few! I would say if we count all these structures that were Standing before the First World War you find every building is constructed with the same sacred geometry so whole towns and cities. consider some of these were just residential buildings that point is invalid it appears it was common knowledge that has been hidden presently by a few that have used war to erase the common knowledge replacing it with the nonsense they try teaching in schools. All these structures had a positive symbiotic relationship with humanity while it’s replacement only causes Dis-ease, if you take a look at an original bell it will have a chunk taken out of it to change the frequency from a positive to a negative one. Like I said to much to state.

@frmm123 11 күн бұрын

KZbin still too stupid to figure out how to install captioning for the deaf, on an educational video even.

@caroledrury1411 5 ай бұрын

Quote from my perspective there is nothing that’s ever been sacred” ?

@itisi6455 5 ай бұрын

The color green represents the heart chakra, which is associated with emotional healing, unconditional love, and compassion. The cross, on the other hand, symbolizes Christianity, sacrifice, and spiritual protection. We should carry that to great hights.. ✨Bless you ps; the cathredral is also a hymn

@Dionysus_333 5 ай бұрын

Tell me more please:)

@danielbast352 5 ай бұрын

I’m amazed at the architecture and the immense amount of time and knowledge it takes to do something like this. Where are the prints…. It’s the same for the pyramids.. or any of it, no matter the time frame. Not one layout. Where’s the rock with gobeki tempi’s layout… just one please

@Defensor_Libertatis 4 ай бұрын

This, I believe, is due to the code of secrecy maintained. Ppl unfortunately tend to misrepresent the principles & concepts discussed & target those who follow this practice. While it sounds very metaphysical to say it, it is very true that all these structures are related through the passing down of the knowledge, let's say maybe through the stone masonry guilds who have been responsible for building sacred sites for many thousands of years. Within nearly all of these incredible structures you can see the use of sacred geometry, hidden mathematics within the design, intentional positioning on the Earth in relation to the heavens & related lightbox phenomena & more. As this knowledge spread across the Earth in ancient times (however that occurred) certain aspects were kept while others forgotten, whether it was constructing & moving massive megalithic sized blocks/stone or constructing with no gap using all side polygonal blocks. But even today you can find important modern structures that maintain some of the overall principles.🏛️📐

@chrisparker2118 5 ай бұрын

It should be noted that the book Jesus is holding is closed, symbolizing secret teachings.

@elliotkey7961 4 ай бұрын

3@@@

@egggmann2000 3 ай бұрын

Ok, 3 min in and we’re already hearing about non-descript earth energy nonsense. Just stated plainly, like oh ya, you know the areas of the earth where the energy converges, and no explanation. We’re just supposed to take babble as fact

@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 6 ай бұрын

Everything that actually has permanent architectural value in France was built during the Middle Ages. Paradoxically, no one can say that the Enlightenment and the French Revolution were unnecessary. But there is another paradox. While the French State officially says it is proud of its cultural heritage, little Emmanuel Macron does not know what to do with a lost and directionless country that is losing the peculiar characteristics that distinguish it from other countries. France is totally and foolishly dominated by a mediocre and rapacious financial oligarchy that devours the country while the 9.2 million French people are plunged into poverty and the majority of the population eagerly consumes garbage produced by the American cultural industry.

@johngrooms34 5 ай бұрын

Hmm, sounds a lot like present day America. And Britain. And nearly every other country. About time to bring the hammer down on financial moguls.

@massmd62 Жыл бұрын

The Virgin Mary held her creator in her arms.

@kickinghorse2405 10 ай бұрын

A touching story, indeed.

@Bokeh1004 5 ай бұрын

Tell that to my Servant, the Almighty God. Who the hell told you to pray to Mary? Not in the Scripture. - Ω

@jenniferlynn3537 5 ай бұрын

@@Bokeh1004 Once you understand and accept the concept of spiritual unity, you appreciate that it is the act of prayer & the opening of oneself to enlightenment that is relevant - not the conduit through which one makes the effort.

@ddrse 5 ай бұрын

@@Bokeh1004the woman. Just like jacob receives god's blessing with the help of the woman so does jesus. It's her seed that will crush the serpent's head. You need to venerate her.

@nearlyrighteouslad3213 5 ай бұрын

@@ddrseheresy. The serpent's head is crushed, salvation is come, Christ died and yet lives. Mary is a human woman chosen and blessed, but human nonetheless. She is not to be worshiped or prayed to, only God can be worshiped, and only He can heed true prayer.

@shepperdwright3557 5 ай бұрын

From this rotting flesh of biomattter, mashine god set us free

@richardharrisson5250 5 ай бұрын

Pity about the dreadful third- rate music accompanying this video. The music of the time when the cathedral was built would surely have been more appropriate. I also deplore the affected and sentimental voices of the over-elocuted ladies doing the commentary. This is not a very intelligent contribution. Chartres deserves better...

@nancycole-auguste6614 5 ай бұрын

The geometry came from the revelation of the Quran 570 years after Christ, Muhammad appeared with a revelation to the warring cut throat tribes of the desert and raised them up to such a high civtilization that it brought about the Christian renaisaunce and Arabic numerals etc. Study the math of the Mosques. Spanish architecture. God has sent Prophets all throughout time and all of it is one Spirit. Now it is time for the universal revelation and the Kingdom of God on earth.

@RavenBeartheLight Ай бұрын

His name was jose!!! Do not deny the power of Jose!!! he makes a glorious Fresca ✨️

@jayceperlmutter4317 4 ай бұрын

Ugh with the loud choir voices - can't stand that sonic assault

@Ma-pz5kl 6 күн бұрын

please stop with the sacred stuff....it is far more simple than that

@antonleimbach648 4 ай бұрын

Although the cathedrals are beautiful they were built while other infrastructure was not so people starved. How does this serve gods will or does god even have a will if he can’t stop one person from starving?