John Michell

In How the World Is Made, his final book, John Michell sums up and lays out for anyone to follow his many astonishing (re)discoveries of the way numbers, geometry, and patterns work and how they underlie our whole world and the best of the well-ordered societies and states that have flourished since ancient times. Step by step, from first principles,...

One of the oldest and most secret magical arts of the ancient world, Euphonics is the study of the natural meanings of sounds in words and language. First discussed over 2,000 years ago in Plato's Cratylus, it has long been used by sorcerers worldwide to weave their sonic spells. Learn about the deadly effects of 'D', the ghastly glint of...

Throughout the world—in countries as far apart as China, Ireland, Iceland, and Madagascar—there survive records and traditions of whole nations being divided into twelve tribes and twelve regions, each corresponding to one of the twelve signs of the zodiac and to one of the twelve months of the year. Best known are the twelve tribes of Israel under King Solomon,...