City of revelation - on the proportion and symbolic numbers of the cosmic temple

179 Pages·1972·1.802 MB·English

by  Michell, John

CITY OF REVELATION
John Michell is a dedicated scholar who has spent years researching
into and rediscovering the wisdom of ancient civilisations. His three
books, The Flying Saucer Vision, The View Over Atlantis and City of
Revelation, in which he explains his fascinating and remarkable con-
clusions, caused a sensation when they were first published and have
subsequently become international bestsellers.
Also by John Michell and available in Abacus
THE VIEW OVER ATLANTIS
JOHN MICHELL
CITY OF REVELATION
On the proportion and symbolic numbers
of the cosmic temple
ABACUS edition published 1973
by Sphere Books Ltd
30/32 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8JL
First published in Great Britain by Garnstone Press Ltd 1972
Copyright ©John Michell 1972
ISBN 0 349 12320 9
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Set in Monotype Baskerville
Printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd,
Aylesbury, Bucks
Contents
Introductory Note on Gematria:
The Numerical Correspondences of the
Greek Alphabet 7
Introduction 9
1 Time and Portents 13
2 The Temple 23
3 The New Jerusalem 31
4 The 12 Hides of Glaston 43
5 Stonehenge 51
6 Sacred Geometry: The Plan of the Holy City 59
7 3168, The Perimeter of the Temple 77
8 1746, The Number of Fusion 85
9 The Literary Canon: 153 Fishes in the Net 95
10 The Canon of Measures 103
11 Gnostic Numbers 115
12 The Numbers of Stonehenge 125
13 The Number 666 137
14 The Number 1080 149
15 History and Origins of the Canon 157
16 Prophecy 165
Index 175

INTRODUCTORY NOTE ON
GEMATRIA
THE NUMERICAL CORRESPONDENCES
OF THE GREEK ALPHABET
A α Β β Γ γ Δ δ Ε ε Ζ ζ Η η Θ θ
I 2 3 4 5 7 8 9
Ι ι Κ κ Λ λ Μ μ Ν ν Ε ξ Ο ο Π π
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Ρ ρ Σ σ, ς Τ τ Υ υ Φ φ Χ χ Ψ ψ Ω ω
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
There were formerly two other letters, representing numbers 90 and
900, but they became obsolete in literature, retained only as numeri-
cal symbols. Another letter, the digamma of value 6, also fell out of
use and was replaced by the symbol ς', which may also be used in
place of the letters στ when they occur together. Thus the value in
gematria of σταυρος a cross is either
200 + 300 + 1 + 400 + 100 + 70 + 200 = 1271
or 6 + 1 + 400 + 100 + 70 + 200 = 777
The number of the beast in Revelation 13 is χξς' — 666. ’Iησους.
Jesus, has the number 888. By the conventions of gematria one
unit, known as colei, may be added to or subtracted from the value
of any word without affecting its symbolic meaning. Thus ’εκκλησια
Θεου 778, Church of God, is equivalent by gematria to σταυρος 777.
These triple numbers, such as 111, 666, etc., all multiples of 37,
are of particular significance in gematria, and in the dimensions of
temples. The plan of Noah’s Ark in Genesis 6.15 measures 300 × 50
cubits which, if the royal cubit of 1.72 feet is the appropriate unit, is
equal to 4440 square feet. 444 is the number of σαρξ και αἱμα, flesh
and blood (1 Cor. 15.50). 37 × 64 = 2368 which is the number of
the Christian holy name ’Ιησους Χριστος, Jesus Christ, occurring
7
8 City of Revelation
several times in New Testament gematria including, for example, the
passage (John 15.1) where Jesus announces his divinity.
‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman’.
The interpretation by gematria of this sentence is
The true vine, ἡ ἀμπελος ἡ ἀληθινη = 558
(my) father the husbandman, ὀ πατηρ ὀ γεωργος = 1810
Ἰησονς Χριστος = 2368