7. The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science I

The whole of this kind of architecture stood in relationship to a knowledge of the universe. If you take the Egyptian pyramids, for instance, their measurements correspond to certain measurements in heavenly space, to the distances of the stars in space. The whole configuration of stellar space was depicted in these buildings. There was a connection between the individual building and the dome of heaven. The mysterious rhythm presented to our gaze when we behold the starry heavens—not just with our outer sense, but with an intuitive gaze which penetrates to higher relationships, to rhythmical relationships—that was what the original architects included in their building, because they were building out of the universe.