Review
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“John Michell’s The Dimensions of Paradise is
inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of
recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style, John
has made widely available the visions, the laws, and the numbers
held within pure geometry and which integrate earth and sky,
movement and form, cosmos and mankind.” (Robert Lawlor, author of
Sacred Geometry: Its Philosophy and Practice and Voices of the
First Day)
“John Michell has produced one of the primary texts for
understanding the number system that encoded the prehistoric
world view. He reveals how sacred geometry, myth, gematria, and
the structure of numbers created a big picture lost soon after
Plato, a knowledge replaced by derivative religious and
materialistic ideas. The Dimensions of Paradise is an essential
key to comprehending monuments such as the Great Pyramid and
Stonehenge, but it also provides an initiatory journey into the
ancient mind itself.” (Richard Heath, author of Sacred Number and
the Origins of Civilization)
"As usual, this is a dense, yet inspiring, read and one that has
some practical nuggets in it for those who are looking for a kind
of three-dimensional sacred geometry they can apply to daily
life." (Institute of Hermetic Studies, Mar 2008)
" . . . a top pick for New Age libraries interested in sacred
geometry." (The Midwest Book Review, April 08)
"A must for anyone looking for the science hidden within the
matrix of life." (Rahasya Poe, Lotus Guide magazine, July 2009)
“. . . most intriguing of books. Recommended.” (EarthRites.org,
May 2011)
From the Back Cover
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NEW SCIENCE / SACRED GEOMETRY "John Michell's The
Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important
Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid,
uncomplicated style, John has made widely available the visions,
the laws, and the numbers held within pure geometry and which
integrate earth and sky, movement and form, cosmos and mankind."
--Robert Lawlor, author of Sacred Geometry: Its Philosophy and
Practice and Voices of the First Day "John Michell has produced
one of the primary texts for understanding the number system that
encoded the prehistoric world view. He reveals how sacred
geometry, myth, gematria, and the structure of numbers created a
big picture lost soon after Plato, a knowledge replaced by
derivative religious and materialistic ideas. The Dimensions of
Paradise is an essential key to comprehending monuments such as
the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge, but it also provides an
initiatory journey into the ancient mind itself." --Richard
Heath, author of Sacred Number and the Origins of Civilization
The priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a
numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to
music, art, statecraft, and all the institutions of their
civilization. Plato, an initiate in the Egyptian Mysteries, said
it was the instrument by which the ancients maintained high,
principled standards of civilization and culture over thousands
of years. In The Dimensions of Paradise, John Michell describes
the results of a lifetime's research, demonstrating how the same
numerical code underlies sacred structures from ancient times to
the Christian era. In the measurements of Stonehenge, the
foundation plan of Glastonbury, and in Plato's ideal city and the
Heavenly City of the New Jerusalem described in the vision of
Saint John lie the science and cosmology on which the ancient
world order was founded. The central revelation of this book is a
structure of geometry and number representing the essential order
of the heavens and functioning as a of paradise. JOHN
MICHELL, educated at Eton and Cambridge, is the pioneer
researcher and spet in the field of ancient, traditional
science. He is the author of more than twenty-five books that
have profoundly influenced modern thinking, including The New
View Over Atlantis, Secrets of the Stones, and The Temple of
Jerusalem: A Revelation. He lives in London.