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Stewart shows how the starcut diagram was the key to the building of humanity’s first cities and how it underlies many significant patterns and proportions around the world.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 An Introduction to Sacred Geometry: Who Tastes Knows
2 Unity in the Liberal Arts
3 Opening the Box
4 Altar of the First Fire
5 The Tartans of Pythagoras
6 Pyramid Connections
7 The Sword Master’s Floor Plan
8 The Hidden Geometry of the “Divine Raphael”
9 Guardian Apollo
10 Conjecture
11 Beautiful Diagonals
12 Clues to a Forgotten Lore
13 The Mother of All Pentagons
14 The Area Key
15 The Secret and the Sacred
16 Wheels of Number and Time
17 Powers of 108
18 Ten Pebbles in the Sand
19 Harmony at the Horizon of Being
20 The Shape of Concord
21 The Lyre of Apollo
22 The Puzzle That Drives You Mad
23 Reflections within the Light
24 Inevitable Sufis
25 The Luo Shu and the Limping Dance
26 . . . Finally
Epilogue
appendix
The Starcut Glass Bead Games
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Malcolm Stewart is an author, musician, and designer who has created mosaic, stained glass, landscape, and interior designs for a range of secular and sacred environments. He is a former priest, television producer, UN project director, and administrator for Ockenden Venture, a refugee relief charity. He has lectured widely throughout the UK, Europe, the US, and Canada. He lives in Tilford, Surrey, England.
Summary
Stewart shows how the starcut diagram was the key to the building of humanity’s first cities and how it underlies many significant patterns and proportions around the world.
