David Fideler

The spirit of harmony properly invoked.

David Fideler is another John Michell disciple who employs 'the same story about a symbol and instrument for universal harmony etc.' At least Fideler credits William Stirling as being the source of much of the Gematria info that Michell handed out. He, like Michell had so much of the facts together but couldn't make a system out of it, as they, like many people, had no experience with 'ritual'.

He purports to describe to us the process of the magical invocation of the 'spirit of harmony':

" The principles of harmony can always be invoked and made manifest. Philosophers and cosmologists sought not only to understand the principles of harmony, but also to put them to use whenever possible." Yeah, but how. Michell had already said that. How did they do that??

"The central vessel of magical invocation was the temple which was designed to attract a particular god or spirit and to make that spirit both accesible and active within human society." The temple was designed to attract a particular god or spirit. Not only attract it, but store (capture, ensnare) it too, according to Michell. [See notion of broken pentagram as a snare. The idea probably works the same with a broken protective square?] How did they do it?

This spirit was attracted through geometry and proportions, thus reflecting the harmony (order) of the universe and those principles that underlie the genesis of life. Geometry and Proportions are seen as reflecting the order in the universe. (And this is demonstrated largely by the visible lights in the sky.) The geometry that he is talking about is the geometry of the movement of the earth among the heavens, but he doesn't quite know how.

"The temple was seen as constituting a microcosm, an image of the entire universe and was laid out accordingly." And how is that?

"The same basic patterns both the world of man and the world of stars." And?

"Temples, like Gothic cathedrals, were designed to reflect and thus enshrine the living spirit of harmony which underlies the universe." Had he said to 'imitate' and enshrine he would have had it.

Here we see an invoking square (magic circle). Inside the triangle in the circle it reads "For the Spirit to Appear in". Below we see a similar figure without a protective square. Note that the triangle is pointing east. These figures are the source for the language that Fideler used.

Here we see the Rose Cross Lamen, which is an expanded symbolic circle (square). In the four corners we see the emblems of the four elements. We also see the alchemical symbols for salt, sulphur and mercury. Below the center we see a hexagram with all the planets.

The Plan for the Temple

St. Peter's Bascillica