Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

CIRCLE 

A symbol of the all-embracing principle of Divine manifestation, perfect and entire, including everything and wanting nothing, without beginning or end, neither first nor last, time-less, sex-less, absolute. The circle denotes the higher planes, the square the lower. "When he established the heavens I was there when he set a circle upon the face of the deep." - PROV. viii. 27.

When the Higher nature came forth on the upper planes, and the cycle of manifestation was described in the mentality of the lower nature, the Self was existent.

"What is spoken of (in the text) is the drawing of a limit in that which has no limit, giving bounds to the boundless marking out the cycle of a cosmic order In Hindu thought, as perhaps, you know it is held that Brahm, the nameless, eternal, impersonal reality, without parts or passions, attributes or qualities, gives birth to a universe when Brahma, idea and purpose, arises within it. The emergence of Brahma means the drawing of lines where there were no lines before the bringing into existence of relations, sequences, phenomena, space and time: it is as though a Being rose out of a shoreless sea, and taking a pair of compasses, swept a circle around himself: that circle is the universe. The universe has to run its course, as innumerable universes have done before, till it is reabsorbed in Brahm.” - R. J. CAMBELL Serm., The Timeless Affinity.  

See Also

ADITI
Brahma
Cosmos
Creation
PRAGÂPATI
SERPENT Anata
SPHERE, YEAR