Summary: in quest of the canon

The heavenly city as eternal standard

The cosmic temple

The New Jerusalem

The twelve hides of Glastonbury

The New Jerusalem in Stonehenge

The pattern in the heavens

Constructing the New Jerusalem

Measuring the courts of the city

Number in sacred science

The numbers of the canon

Gematria: the names and numbers of God Symbolic or sacred geometry

Sacred geometry in Durer's `Melencolia' Music and proportion

A circle of perpetual choirs

Number and measure

Lengths of ancient units of measure

Summary of the earth's dimensions

The priority of the foot

Astronomy

The cities of Plato

The 5040 citizens of Magnesia

From circle to square: the City brought to earth

Plato's secrecy

Atlantis

The measures of Atlantis The problem of the plain

Why Atlantis fell Plato's cosmos and the wanderings of the soul The music of the heavenly wheels

The numerical creation myth of `Timaeus' The harmonic composition of the World-soul

The number of the Soul

Symbolic number

864, the foundation number

3168, the perimeter of the New Jerusalem 1224, the number of Paradise, and the 153 fishes in the net 1080, the lunar number

666, the solar number, and the number of the Beast 1746, the number of fusion

Sacred names from the dimensions of the New Jerusalem

The ancient and future cosmology

Heavenly Jerusalem, its invocation and modern function

Index of names

Index of numbers