How the World Is Made: The Story of Creation According to Sacred Geometry

Michell, John; Brown, Allan

ISBN 10: 1594773246 / ISBN 13: 9781594773242

Published by Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT, 2009

About this Item

Second printing, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, very light bumps to spine ends and lower cover corners, a hint of rubbing to the covers, and a touch of faint smudging to edges of text block, otherwise a solid, tight VG+ copy in a VG unclipped dust jacket, which has bumps to spine ends and corners with an approx. 2" closed tear to upper front corner, moderate edgewear, and slight rubbing.

Seller Inventory # 103673

Bibliographic Details

• Title: How the World Is Made: The Story of Creation According to Sacred Geometry
• Publisher: Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594773246
• ISBN 13: 9781594773242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Metaphysics

About this title

Synopsis

Understanding the role of sacred geometry in cosmology and human affairs

• Explains how ancient societies that grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry were able to create flourishing societies

• Illustrates the social and spiritual values in the natural progression of number

• Contains more than 300 full-color drawings showing the interplay of number and sacred geometry

Galileo described the universe as a large book written in the language of mathematics, which can only be read by those with knowledge of its characters--triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures. The laws of geometry are not human inventions. They are found ready-made in nature and hold a truth that is the same in all times and all places and is older than the world itself.

In How the World Is Made John Michell explains how ancient societies that grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry were able to create flourishing societies. His more than 300 full-color illustrations reveal the secret code within these geometrical figures and how they express the spiritual meanings in the key numbers of 1 through 12. For example, the number 8 and its octagon are symbols of peace and stability, the holy 7 and its seven-sided figure are connected to the world-soul. He identifies the various regular shapes and shows their constructions; their natural symbolism; their meetings, matings, and ways of breeding; and their functions within the universal order. Some are musical and structural, others relate to life and humanity. In the process of making these discoveries, Michell helps us see the world in a new light. Disparate shapes and their corresponding numbers are woven together, resolving themselves into an all-inclusive world image--that “pattern in the heavens,” as Socrates called it, “which anyone can find and establish within themselves.”

About the Author

John Michell (1933-2009), educated at Eton and Cambridge, is the pioneer researcher and specialist in the field of ancient, traditional science. He is the author of more than 25 books that have profoundly influenced modern thinking, including The Dimensions of Paradise, The New View over Atlantis, and The Sacred Center. Allan Brown is a graphic designer who specializes in sacred geometrical figures. He lives in Brighton.