The Dimensions of Paradise: The Proportions and Symbolic Numbers of Ancient Cosmology

by Michell, John F.

• ISBN13: 9780932813893
• ISBN10: 0932813895
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Scb Distributors

Summary

The Dimensions of Paradise were known to ancient civilizations as the harmonious numerical standards that were the underpinning of the created world. John Michell's quest for these standards provides vital clues for understanding:

* the dimensions and symbolism of Stonehenge

* the plan of Atlantis and reason for its fall

* the numbers behind the sacred names of Christianity

* the form of St. John's vision of the New Jerusalem

* the name of the man with the number 666

* the foundation plan of Glastonbury and other sanctuaries These symbols suggest a potential for personal, cultural and political regeneration in our new century.

Table of Contents

Summary: in quest of the canon	7	(4)
The heavenly city as eternal standard	11	(36)
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	47	(48)
The numbers of the canon
Gematria: the names and numbers of God Symbolic or sacred geometry
Sacred geometry in Durer's `Melencolia' Music and proportion
A circle of perpetual choirs
Number and measure	95	(12)
Lengths of ancient units of measure
Summary of the earth's dimensions
The priority of the foot
Astronomy
The cities of Plato	107	(63)
The 5040 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	170	(29)
864, the foundation number
3168, the perimeter of the New Jerusalem 1224, the number of Paradise, and the 153 fishes in the net 1080, the lunar number
666, the solar number, and the number of the Beast 1746, the number of fusion
Sacred names from the dimensions of the New Jerusalem
The ancient and future cosmology	199	(15)
Heavenly Jerusalem, its invocation and modern function
Index of names	214	(1)
Index of numbers	215