There are a number of diagrams in the literature of Sacred Geometry all related to the single idea known as the "Squaring of the Circle". This is a practice which seeks with only the usual compass and straight-edge, to construct a square which is virtually equal in perimeter to the circumference of a given circle. Because the circle is an incommensurable figure based on π, it is impossible to draw a square more than approximately equal to it. Never the less the Squaring of the Circle is of great importance to the geometer-cosmologist because for him the circle represents pure, unmanifest spirit space, while the square represents the manifest and comprehensible world. When a near-equality is drawn between the circle and the square, the infinite is able to express its dimensions or qualities through the finite.
Robert Lawlor, Sacred Geometry
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