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

The Hand and the Computer: A Note on the Illustrations

Pt. 1 The Geometric Creation

1 How the World Began, and Why, and Why Worry? 2

2 The Number 5040: Key to the World Plan 20

3 The Circle, the Square, and the Meaning of Pi 36

4 Initiation, and the Vision of Heavenly Order 62

Pt. 2 The Physical Creation

5 The Dodecad: A Summary of the Numbers One to Twelve 86

6 The One and Only: Symbol of the Universe 87

7 The Geometry of Two: Duality and the World of Paradox 88

8 The Geometry of Three: The Vesica Piscis and Material Creation 90

9 Four and the Square: Reason, Stability, Order 109

10 Six and the Hexagon: The Perfect Number 119

11 Eight and the Octagon: For Peace and Justice 124

12 The Majestic Twelve: The Number of Universal Order and Harmony 150

Pt. 3 The Creation of Life

13 Five and Ten: Numbers of Life and Growth 166

Pt. 4 The World Soul

14 The Holy Seven: Symbol of the World Soul 212

15 Geometry and Love: Approaching the Climax 232

Pt. 5 Atlantis

16 A Geometer's Nightmare: Plato's Pentagonal Allegory 240

About the Author 264

Index 269