Do you know of any concepts or beliefs associated with the symbol of a circle circumscribed about a triangle?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Well, in architecture and electrical engineering they believe it serves as a symbol for certain kinds of steel supports or motor/generator wiring. Ad de Vries DICTIONARY OF SYMBOLS AND IMAGES (Perkins Ref. 291.3703 V982D) ascribes a whole range of uses: man and woman, the Plain of Truth (the area within the triangle), unity and the trinity. This last is a very common Christian religious use (also as a circle within a triangle, and, of course, a plain triangle). Until 1993, it was used by Alcoholics Anonymous as their symbol, with the words “Recovery, Unity, Service” around the triangle.