The dimensions of paradise : sacred geometry, ancient science, and the heavenly order on earth / John Michell

Author: Michell, John, 1933-2009
Published: Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions, 2008.
Edition: 2nd U.S. ed.
Physical Description: 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Michell, John, 1933-2009

Availability

Finding items...

Contents

Introduction: In quest of the canon -- The heavenly city as eternal standard -- The cosmic temple -- The new Jerusalem -- The twelve hides of Glastonbury -- The new Jerusalem in Stonehenge -- The pattern in the heavens -- Constructing the new Jerusalem -- Measuring the courts of the city -- Number in sacred science -- The numbers of the Canon -- Gematria : the names and numbers of God -- Symbolic or sacred geometry -- Sacred geometry in Dürer's Melencolia -- Music and proportion -- A circle of perpetual choirs -- Number and measure -- Lengths of ancient units of measure -- Summary of the earth's dimensions -- The priority of the foot -- Astronomy -- The cities of Plato -- The 5,040 citizens of Magnesia -- From circle to square : the city brought to earth, Plato's secrecy -- Atlantis -- The measures of Atlantis -- The problem of the plain -- Why Atlantis fell -- Plato's cosmos and the wanderings of the soul -- The music of the heavenly wheels -- The numerical creation myth of Timaeus -- The harmonic composition of the world-soul -- The number of the soul -- Symbolic number -- 864, the foundation number -- 3,168, the perimeter of the new Jerusalem -- 1,224, the number of paradise, and the 153 fishes in the net -- 1,080, the lunar number -- 666, the solar number, and the number of the beast -- 1,746, the number of fusion -- Sacred names from the dimensions of the new Jerusalem -- The ancient and future cosmology -- Heavenly Jerusalem, its invocation and modern function.

Subject(s)

ISBN

9781594771989
1594771987

Note

"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 1971 by Garnstone Press under the title 'City of revelation' ; Revised and expanded edition published in the United Kingdom in 1988 by Thames and Hudson under the title 'The dimensions of paradise' ; First U.S. edition published in 1988 by Harper & Row." -- T.p. verso.
Includes indexes.

View MARC record | catkey: 4358241