John Michell

The Stonehenge

Michell had assembled most all the parts, but just couldn't see the whole picture. He even writes this:

"The geometry of stone circles is derived from the extreme positions of the sun. moon and stars (should be planets, esp. Merc) as they cross the horizon. The lines of stones that determine the the circle's formation are set to point out these astronomical points (should be lines) in such a way that the heavenly bodies create the figures on which the circles are based." He goes on to suggest that Christian churches in Britain we placed on former stone circles. so that the proportions of the old arrangement was preserved along with its alignment.

Wrapping up, Michell proclaims that all ancient units of measure relate to each other and to dimensions of the earth, and that the figure above is the scheme which lies at the foundation of temples and sacred cities of the ancient world, being the geometer's image of ideal cosmology. While he is right in a sense, the hexagram is only used to develop the 30 degree limiting lines of Mercury, and the arctic circles. He has discarded the quadratic component.

He suggests that the image above is the plan used for St. mary's chapel in Glastonbury, as well as at the Stonehenge. While Michell never uses the term Metatron's Cube, you can see that is the figure that he is using, a hexagonal fractal. Note the concentric circles in the Stonehenge plan. Once again, the image produces some of the astronomical lines, and it looks a little like the lodge floor, but it is not completely correct.

Unfortunately, when we look closely we see that a hexagram does not fit the station stones. Connecting those produces a rectangle with 23 degree diagonals like the tropics. Twenty three degree diagonals are formed when we shorten an equilateral triangle to 52 degree base angles like we see on the Grerat Pyramid, like we see in the Sri Yantra, and the Washington DC map plan.

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