Drawing Sacred Geometry: Compass-and-Straightedge Workbook

Thirteen constructions, one compass setting at a time

You need a compass that holds its radius, a straightedge, a pencil and paper. Nothing in this workbook is measured: every length comes from a length you have already drawn. Each construction is shown in numbered steps, and in every figure the lines you have already made are grey while the lines that step adds are black, with letters marking the points the instructions name.

Part one: from one circle

1. Dividing a circle into six, twelve, four and eight
2. The vesica piscis and the equilateral triangle
3. The seed of life
4. The flower of life
5. The fruit of life and Metatron's Cube: thirteen touching circles, their 78 connections drawn as 39 straight lines, and the cube, tetrahedron and octahedron that appear in it as exact flat views, with a practice page
6. The hexagram
7. The pentagram, by Ptolemy's exact construction

Part two: six mandala constructions

The Padma, Bloom, Lancet, Mandorla, Oculus and Filigree constructions from the Mandala Maker, each shown growing from hub to rim, band by band, drawn by the generator itself. Every chapter ends with a practice page: the guide circles and sector lines for that design printed faintly on a full page, so you can draw your own on the same grid. Each design's code reopens it in the free tool.

What it does not do

It does not tell you what the figures mean. Where a page draws on a documented tradition it says which, and where a construction is Pardesco's own it says that. For the history and the documented meanings, the Essence of Sacred Geometry e-book is the companion volume.

Licence

Personal use. Print any page as often as you like, including the practice pages. Please do not redistribute the file.