The Catharturgy Corpus · Christopher E. Etter

The Vitruvian Soul

The Tree of Life mapped onto the sacred geometry of the human form — the circle, the pentagram, the cross of Tau, and the Vitruvian square. Click any sphere, veil, or the hidden Daath to read its correspondences. Toggle the layers to see how the Tree aligns with the figure of man.

Geometric Layers
Pentagram
Cross of Tau
Circle
Vitruvian Square
The 22 Paths
River Paths (E·H·M·P)
Click a sphere, the hidden Daath, or one of the three Veils above to see its name, correspondences, and neurological mapping.

The Figure of Man

This diagram places the Tree of Life within the classical geometry of the human form — the same circle and square that frame Vitruvian Man, with the pentagram of the five points of the body and the cross of Tau marking the vertical axis of the spine and the horizontal of the outstretched arms. The ten Sephiroth are positioned so that they fall on the intersections of this sacred geometry: Kether at the crown, Chesed and Geburah on the horizontal of the shoulders, Tiphareth at the heart-center of the circle, and Malkuth at the feet, on the lower pentagram line.

Above the Crown rise the three Veils of Negative Existence — Ein Sof Aur, Ein Sof, and Ein — the limitless light, the infinite, and the no-thing, receding into the unmanifest. Between the supernal spheres and the moral triad lies the Abyss, crossed only through the hidden sphere of Daath. The four bold dashed river paths — Will, Knowledge, Courage, and Silence — carry the CEQ letters E, H, M, and P across the structure.

Toggle each geometric layer on and off to see the alignment directly: how the Tree, the pentagram, the cross, the circle, and the square are not separate figures laid together but one structure — the soul given the proportions of the body, the Tzelem made visible.