Due to its privileged relationship with the natural elements, Architecture is often considered the cornerstone of all the Arts. The synchronization between the properties of a temple and temporal cycles has always been one of the best-kept secrets of the higher spheres of priestly castes.
It is in the resolution of the squaring of the circle that the edifice is elevated toward the sacred, thus asserting its operative function by uniting celestial and terrestrial energies within itself.
When a temple is built according to the rules of the Art, its geometric form gives the space its orientation, and, as a needle would on a sundial, it also gives the measure of time.
In this, the scientific knowledge of cosmic cycles elevates the Artist to the rank of the initiated.