Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

CIRCLE AND SQUARE 

Symbols of the higher nature and the lower nature-the Triad and the Quaternary.

"Sixty-four diagrams which are represented in a circle as emblematical of heaven, because heaven, according to Chinese notions, is round; and the same number of diagrams, so disposed in a square as to make eight every way, is a similitude of the earth, which, on the principles of the same philosophy, is an immovable square in the centre of the universe, around which the heavens constantly revolve." - KIDD, China, p. 306.

The number of the emblematic divisions, 8 × 8: 64, signifies completion of a process which ushers in a new state of manifestation. The lower nature, or physical nature (earth) is the foundation and centre of the evolutionary process which brings forth the higher nature into a new state of actual being. Froin the point of view of the lower consciousness, the infinite revolves round the finite.  

See Also

BOAT OF THE EARTH
CIRCLE
HEAVEN AND EARTH
I A O
QUATERNARY
SQUARE