The Burgundy region of France is the area to the south-east of Paris that includes the towns of Auxerre, Nevers, Dijon, and Vezelay. Just outside of Burgundy is Troyes and the abbey of Clairvaux in the Champagne region.

The significance of Burgundy is that it was here that the Order of the knights Templar was founded by Hugh de Payns, an officer of the House of Champagne, following his return from the first crusade to the Holy Land in 1099 AD. The knights that left for the Holy Land carried with them instructions from the pope Urbain 2^nd to bring back a knowledge that was known to be contained within the Temple of Solomon. Following their return, the sacred Hebrew documents that they brought back with them were studied at the abbey of Citeaux, and soon afterwards, the abbey of Clairvaux, or the ‘daughter’ of Citeaux was founded by twelve monks.

The Burgundy landscape zodiacs are a physical reproduction of all twelve signs of the zodiac on the landscape. Their shapes are formed by the natural contours of the hills, valleys, rivers, woods, track-ways and even modern day roads. Twelve monks founded the abbey at Clairvaux and there are twelve signs of the zodiac reproduced on the landscape. This is not just coincidence. The esoteric meaning of the number twelve is one of the secrets revealed in the sacred Hebrew texts that were recovered in the Holy Land. But the number twelve is in itself a product of a more primal code, the significance of which could reveal the origins of the landscape zodiacs. So we need to start at the very beginning; the biblical moment of Creation.

Creation

« In the beginning, GOD created heaven and earth... »

Before the moment of Creation there was a state of perfection, nothing else.

Then came the moment when the state of perfection divided itself into different, but equally perfect parts.

The opening words of the book of Genesis explain the moment of Creation « In the beginning, GOD created Heaven and Earth ... »They tell us symbolically that the decision to divide itself was made by an intelligence, GOD the « Creator », the perfection found within all of creation.

This is how GOD created the relative universe .

The problem with our translation of the opening words of Genesis is that it implies that God created something outside of himself. It would be more appropriate to say ‘GOD transformed Himself into Heaven and Earth’ thus becoming the substance of these two relative elements while remaining the absolute divine element which contained them.

GOD the One became Heaven and Earth, otherwise expressed as the divine proportion 1:2, or 2:1.