Stone Circles
You only need two equilateral triangles to conceptually mark the extremes of Mercury's orbit at the equator. You may not know, but as you move away from the equator that angle increases, as does the solar arc. The term 'solar arc' refers to the apparent positions of the sun on the horizon at sunrise and sunset. At the equator the solar arc is 47 degrees (23.5x2 = 47). At the location of DC (39 N) that arc is 62 degrees; at the solstices it is 31 degrees from due east/west at sunrise/set. The points betwen the equinoxes and solstices are called Cross Quarter Days and occur in Feb, May, Aug and Nov. As the sun moves fastest through the 'arc' at the equinoxes, it covers 71 percent of the distance to the solstice point in 50 percent of the time. At the equator the quarter days occur 16.7 degrees from the equator (23.5 x .71 = 16.7). At the latitude of DC the quarter days occur at 22 degrees, very close to the tropics angle and the diagonals of the ~52 degree triangle. On page 50 of New View Over Atlantis, Michell writes that early churches "incorporated many of the features of the stone circles they replaced". He fails to point to the stage where the stone circles took on ritual and magical significance. Ambulations and circle dances around a central altar (fire) come to mind immediately. I suggest that the stone circles were first astronomical viewing places. Astrology and religion are born when someone gets the idea that the planets are spirits that mediate betwen Heaven and the Earth, and that we are some how controlled by them. Magic turns the tables on that notion and proclaims that if we say the right words and make the right moves that we can control them. When modern religion develops and prayer is substituted for magic, the original astronomical basis has been forgotten. Even so-called magicians aren't astrologers and can't tell you how astronomy fits the magic circles and squares. The ceremonies that we see in Masonic Lodges and churches are remnants of a system of sympathetic magic that invoked the spirit of Harmony via the imitation of the orderly movement of the planets. By now most everyone has forgotten the astronomy and the magic involved.
 Consider images of the magic circle, the Rose Cross Lamen used by the Golden Dawn, and St. Peter's in Rome. Above we see the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Remember that the altars in front of the Tabernacle and Temple were square, that the holiest place was square, and that the Oblation and the sanctuary there were also square.
 Looking west in St Peter's
 The Pantheon in Rome and Templar Church in London
On page 229 of the Da Vinci Code, the Templar Church is described as 'panthenically pagan', a perfectly circular church in honor of the sun. If you read you will find that the Panteheon in Rome was dedicated to Jupiter and all the gods (or planets if you like), hence the name. Also, if you look, you can see that the globe with latitude lines is being depicted inside the building.
 I suggest that the building was dedicated to the number 10, for sure. The round nave is 55 feet across. Adding the first ten numbers together gives us 55. You can see the five sections of the rectangular area of the church. We are reminded of the ten effigies there. The church was dedicated on Feb 10th, 1185. That would be the point half way between the December Solstice and the March Equinox.
 It is not uncommon to read things like, the buildings of antiquity were established across the world upon an identical canon of number, geometry and proportion, the same canon that underlies the cathedrals of the 12th and 13th centuries. Following that we read that in the architecture of today, that canon is either ignored or forgotten.
 John Michell writes that prehistoric monuments all over the world were designed in accordance with one scheme of proportion in units of measurement which are everywhere the same, but were founded on principles of which we are now ignorant. What do you think?
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