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TomBo Jul 21, 2004 09:14:43
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"I'm not suggesting that the city of London was designed geomantically in the manner that I've heard Rome was, when I think about it. More that the sacred landscape/whateveryoucallit that was there before London has influenced London's development."

Which is just what Bob Trubshaw has argued about Jerusalem:

"Although the physical city of Jerusalem was never laid out on the principles of 'sacred geometry', the main christian sites give the natural topography an indelibly sacred manifestation, with Mount Sion the most auspicious of the holy mountains."

http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/mountn.htm

F FourWinds
FourWinds Jul 21, 2004 15:39:53
Replying to TomBo

Bob always seems to have his head screwwed on.

>> "I'm not suggesting that the city of London was designed geomantically in the manner that
>> I've heard Rome was, when I think about it. More that the sacred landscape/whateveryoucallit
>> that was there before London has influenced London's development."

Shirley that's totally different - and probably a more valid case anyway :-)

I can not really accept that because another (ancient) culture planned one or two cities using geomantic (?) principles that a much later one would do the same in London.

Thinking about it I reckon I could come up with similar ideas about Dublin. In fact I know a street where the sun sets straight down it on the equinoxes. To compound the theory the sun sets behind a passage tomb on one of the Dublin Mountains (the north end of the Wicklow Mountains that just happens to be in County Dublin - to me they're all the Wicklow Mountains). Unfortunately, this part of Dublin was apple orchards 200 years ago - I have 1798 & 1693 maps of Dublin. Not a road in sight. The road is new and the alignment simply a very nice coincidence.

Anyway, by way of diversion, how old is the Pentagram as a recorded western sacred symbol? It's not something I've looked into, so I don't have a clue. Saying that, the Irish five-stone stone circles ....