This beautiful and groundbreaking book examines the use of sacred geometry and cosmology in Gothic cathedral design. Renowned geometer and lecturer Tom Bree demonstrates how medieval Master Masons combined their knowledge of the practical building arts with ancient cosmological knowledge to endow their constructions with profound spiritual meaning.

Wells Cathedral, the focus of this book, was England's first Gothic cathedral, and its design symbolises the soul's cosmic journey from Earth, through the underworld and up into the heavens.

Bree shows how the medieval Christian fascination with the knowledge of the ancient world laid the foundations for the more recent mythos involving the Templars, Freemasonry and Pyramidology. Packed with rare illustrations and original research unavailable anywhere else, this is a book to study and treasure.

The use of geometry as a language of spiritual symbolism lies at the heart of this book. To perceive geometry in this way is not new, but rather something that goes far back into the ancient world within many different cultures across the globe. One of the reasons for looking at geometry in such a way is that it reflects and embodies the eternal and unchanging reality of number. Whatever culture or historical era we are living in, indeed whichever ‘spherical’ planet we reside on, the same laws of number apply to each and every one of us.

One of the ways in which we come into direct physical contact with these ‘divine numerical thoughts’ is through their manifestation in pattern. Such numerical patterns can be experienced temporally through music and spatially through geometry.