Sacred Number

ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS

by JOHN NEAL

"It would seem that in ages gone by, the intellectual grasp held by our ancestors of the nature of numbers was equal to our modern understandings of any of the branches of physics." says John Neal in what must be the definitive textbook on Metrology, the ancient science of measure. This metrology is built on all of the metrological work of the ancients, the Greek writers and the great antiquarian researchers of recent centuries.

It was John Michell who published part of the system in his little volume Ancient Metrology [Pentacle Press, Bristol: 1982]. Neal expanded both the references to metrology and developed the metrological system to reveal how all the ancient measures are systematic variations of root lengths, all related to the English foot which represents the base of the whole edifice. Michell reviewed the book:

J.F. Neal's book is the most significant modern contribution to the study of ancient science and civilization. He goes to its very root, exploring the comprehensive structure of number, measure and proportion that underlies all the traditional arts. Units of measure are a basic expression of that structure, and scholars since the time of Newton have tried to define the Greek, Roman, Egyptian and other standards in the dimensions of ancient temples and pyramids. This book is a break-through. Here for the first time are given the exact, rational definitions of traditional measuring units throughout the world, showing their inter-relations, their geodetic and astronomical references and the numerical patterns they create. This is not an easy book to skip through, but it provides a firm cornerstone for all future studies of prehistoric culture. And this is not just of abstract or academic interest. The further one sees into the beauties and subtleties of the ancient code of knowledge, the more one is impelled to wonder, "Why don't we do things that way these days?

John Michell, author of The View over Atlantis

From this the diligent reader will be rewarded, by gaining a unique tool known only to few people - a tool that is literally the key to the monumental cultures of the past. There is still much work to be done in understanding monuments and so even an amateur interest can recover potentially ground breaking information.

Colin Wilson, the writer on all subjects mystical and occult wrote of this book:

This book is enthralling, a little masterpiece. It goes more deeply than any before it into the ancient units of measure which, as early historians testify, are exact fractions of the earth's dimensions. It adds proof to the growing body of evidence that points to an advanced and widespread prehistoric civilization

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