Chapter Iv. At The Centre Of The Earth : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 71 CHAPTER IV AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH '... "That stellar concave spreading overhead, softly absorbed into me, rising so free interminably high, stretching east, west, north, south--and I, though but a point in the centre below...
Chapter Iii. Four Square : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 53 CHAPTER III FOUR SQUARE 'A tower of strength that stood Four square to all the winds that blow.' --TENNYSON. THE perfect temple should stand at the centre of the world, a microcosm of the universe fabric, its walls built four...
Chapter I. The World Fabric : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 9 CHAPTER I THE WORLD FABRIC 'Tales of ages long forgotten Now the legends of creation Once familiar to the children.'--KALEVALA. IF we erase from the mind absolutely all that science has laboriously spied out of the actual facts...
Chapter Xi. The Windows Of Heaven And Three : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 235 CHAPTER XI THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS '"Stop! stop! O man stop! for the sake of three hundred and sixty-five, which are in the year".'--SERVIAN FOLK LORE. THE parallelism so often made out between...
Untitled : This delightful book describes the symbolism of real-world architecture, as well as architecture described in fiction, myth and folklore. Lethaby believed that architecture reflected the macrocosm. He speculated that many of the seemingly ornamental details of classical buildings actually...
Chapter Ii. The Microcosmos : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 32 CHAPTER II THE MICROCOSMOS 'The altar cell was a dome low-lit, And a veil hung in the midst of it; At the pole points of its circling girth Four symbols stood of the world's first birth, Air and water and fire and earth.'...
Chapter Viii. The Golden Gate Of The Sun : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 174 CHAPTER VIII THE GOLDEN GATE OF THE SUN ...'The eastern gate Where the great sun begins his state.'--MILTON. '"The doors of Heaven seem slowly to open, and what are called the bright flocks of the Dawn step out of the dark...
Chapter Xii. The Symbol Of Creation : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 254 CHAPTER XII THE SYMBOL OF CREATION '"They entered an apartment containing nothing except a black painting representing a woman. Her legs reached to the top of one of the walls; her body occupied the entire ceiling; from her...
Introductory : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 1 ARCHITECTVRE, MYSTICISM AND MYTH "INTRODUCTORY '"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images, that have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing: he...
Chapter Vi. The Planetary Spheres : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 122 CHAPTER VI THE PLANETARY SPHERES 'And after skewed hym the nyne spheris And after that the melodye herd he, That cometh of thilke speris thries thre; That welleys of musyke ben and melodye In this world here and cause of armonye...
Chapter X. Ceilings Like The Sky : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 221 CHAPTER X CEILINGS LIKE THE SKY 'He first framed, For the children of earth, The heaven as a roof-- Holy Creator!'--CDMON. 'Look you, this brave, o'erhanging firmament, This majestical roof fretted with golden fire'--HAMLET. WE...
Chapter V. The Jewel Bearing Tree : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 94 CHAPTER V THE JEWEL-BEARING TREE 'Impious! the trees of vegetable gold Such as in Eden's groves Yet innocent it grew; Impious! he made his boast, though Heaven had hid So deep the baneful ore, That they should branch and bud...
Chapter Ix. Pavements Like The Sea : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 201 CHAPTER IX PAVEMENTS LIKE THE SEA '... "The sea, flat like a pavement of lapis-lazuli, ascended imperceptibly to the sky on the horizon".'--FLAUBERT. IN the 'Stones of Venice' Mr Ruskin wrote of the floors of the basilic...
Preface : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. vii PREFACE "IN sending out this essay, I must ask for indulgence." "In the first place, because this is, so far as known to me, the only attempt to set out, from an architect's point of view, the basis of certain ideas comm...
Title Page : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], ARCHITECTURE MYSTICISM AND MYTH BY W. R. LETHABY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR '"Are there symbols which may be called constant; proper to all races, all societies, and all countries?"'--CSAR DALY. Percival & Co., London. [1892]...
Chapter Vii. The Labyrinth : * "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth", by W.R. Lethaby, [1892], p. 149 CHAPTER VII THE LABYRINTH '"Hast thou left thy blue course in heaven, golden-haired son of the sky! The west opened its gates, the bed of thy repose is there. The waves cone to behold thy beauty. They lift their trembling heads...
