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A guide to the contents of each issue follows.
1987-88 (OUT OF PRINT)
Sacred or Revealed Number
Sound, Word, Proportion and Reason in Logos and The Science of Balance
Sound, Cosmos and the Sacred Alphabet in the Vedic Tradition
(Keith Critchlow)
The Mercury Loops & Sacred Alphabets (Plato)
Anatolius: On the Decad (trans. Robin Waterfield)
The Saint Pauls Triads (Burkhardt)
The Platonic Succession
The First Magic Square the Square of Saturn
The Chakras of the Subtle Body
Book Review: The Golden Age of Chartres by Rene Querido
Details of the Krishnamurti Study Centre

1989-90 (OUT OF PRINT)

Pattern for relationships in Daily Life (Ida Seymour)
Quotes from Truth Eternal and Kabir
The Ancient Greek Insight into Number
Astronomy (Keith Critchlow)

To Draw a Labyrinth
Gemistos Plethons Reply to Scholarios Defence of Aristotle
The Wisdom of Ptah-Hotep
Symbols from A Handbook of Celtic Ornament
Book Review: The Square and the Circle of the Indian Arts by Kapila Vatsayayan

1990-91
Proportion
Egyptian Creation and Number
I Ching Mandalas (Thomas Cleary)
Book Review: Cosmic Music: Musical Keys to the Interpretation of Reality
ed. J Godwin

1991-92
What is knowledge and what is knowing?
Time the Mercy of Eternity
Sacred Space
(Keith Critchlow)
Gems from Plato
The Tuning of the Universe (James DAngelo)

1992-93
Notes on what Christianity means to me (Ida Seymour)
What is the Body? (Keith Critchlow)
The Alhambra (David Yarbrough)

1993-94
Energy
The Good
Thoughts while in India with Sai Baba
The Perfection of Six

Notes to a lecture on Chartres Cathedral

(Keith Critchlow)
The Philosophers Pursuits
Excerpts from Aristotle, Plato and Proclus
Book Reviews: The Tao of Management ( B Messing); Seal of the Saints
(M Chodkiewicz); In the Beginning Was Harmony: Review by KC of Philolaus of Croton,
Pythagorean and Presocratic (Huffman)

1994-95
Thoughts on Knowledge, Truth and Wisdom
Education and Example
Education and the Foundations of the Need to Build
Permanence and Change: Form and Function in Architecture
Ionic Volute
Biomorphic Form
The Significance of a Geocentric Cosmology
(Keith Crithlow)
Thoughts on Education (Sai Baba)

1995-96
Greetings to all who aspire to the truth of Sacred Geometry
The Way of Lao Tzu
(Keith Critchlow)
What is the Spiritual Dimension? (quotations from the Upanishads)
Review of a workshop on the Four Elements given by Keith Critchlow
The Bridge Between Pure Geometry and Our Cosmos (Keith Critchlow, John Martineau)
Book Review: Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan

1996-97
Interview with Keith Critchlow
How Can You Buy Or Sell The Earth? (Chief Seattle)
Sacred Geometry (Keith Critchlow)
Book Review: Earth Medicine: Revealing hidden teachings of the Native American Medicine
Wheel by Kenneth Meadows

1997-98
Stupa Architecture: the Technology of Transformation
Platonic Spaces and Cosmic Measure
Mask of Melromene The Muse of Tragedy
Creation Intelligence and Movement
The Renewal of Time
Effluence to Affluence (quotations)
(Keith Critchlow)
Education and Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Quotations from Plato and Socrates

1998-99
Archytas of Tarentum: On the Proportional Musical Means
Vitruvius: On the Education of the Architect
Sacred Art is a Sacred Science
The Geometry of Creation? (Keith Critchlow)
Suffering of Man: Thoughts from Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Black Elk on the Symbolism of the Sacred Pipe
North American Indian quotations
Trisection of an Angle & the Construction of the Perfect Enneagon (Daud Sutton)
Knowledge, Truth and Wisdom

1999-2000
What is Sacred Architecture?
(Keith Critchlow)
Extracts from The Roots of Christian Mysticism (Oliver Clement)
Architecture as Trinity (2 diagrams)
Just a note on 108
Cultural Revelation and its Contents (John Michell)
Inspirations from Fritz Schumacher

Wisdom from the Vedas

Calligraphy (Ann Hechle)
Number
Planetary symbols
(Keith Critchlow)
Native American Words of Wisdom

2000-01
A Unit of Acu Measure
Beauty
The Path to construct a Seven-sided Figure
The Mystery of Unity Totality and Multiplicity of the Cosmic Whole
Vastu and the Meaning of Breath
Basic Geometry: The Sphere
The Circle of Creation
The Symbolism of the Circle and the Wheel
Kathleen Raine
(Keith Critchlow)
A Brief Note on the Geometry of the Lords Prayer (David Tasker)
From the Sermons of Hazrat Ali
To check accuracy of Geometrical Construction of Heptagon by Algebra (Jon Allen)
The Bear

2001-02
Notes from 2001 Summer School Retreat
Flowers of Creation
The Sacred Geometry of Durham Cathedral
How should we look at or for the Sacred?
(Keith Critchlow)
From the Timaeus
Spiritual Beings and Planets after Rudolf Steiner
Selection of quotations
Book Review: Jesus the Master Builder: Druid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity by
Gordon Strachan

2002-03
Answers to questions at the Summer School Retreat 2002
Plato on Relatively Beautiful and Absolute Beauty
An Ancient Tradition on Creation
The Six Days of Creation
An Introduction to Thomas Taylor
The Universality and Particularity of Islamic Geometric Pattern
(Keith Critchlow)
Are All Artists Shamans? (Amelia Critchlow)
Love and quotations on the theme of Love
Extracts from Sathya Sai Babas Christmas Discourse 2002
A Traditional View of the Full Purpose of Evolution (from Taittiriya Upanishad)
Some dates from Classical Greece
A Dissertation on the Platonic Theory of Ideas (Thomas Taylor)

2003-04
The Seven
Bardic Numbers
The Human Hand is a Miracle, The Computer Merely a Machine
Re-discovering your hand in relation to manipulating the mouse or ball of your p.c.
Number and the Human Hand
Chu Hsi
The Seven Values Indispensable to the Achievement of Universal Wisdom for All
Thoughts on waking
(Keith Critchlow)
Hugo of St Victor and Nine Ways in which Numbers can be Meaningful
The Vedantic Creation Sequence
Thought for the year
Magic Square

2004-05
Notes from 2004 Summer School Retreat
Aspects of the Ancient Chinese Sense of Creation
Notes from Chinese Buddhism
The Six Perfections of Buddhism (Shen-Hui)
What is a good IDEA?
Ideal Number
The Transmission of Classical Philosophy via Islamic Sources
Pattern for the Innocent
Two Alternative Approaches to the Enclosures of Our Reality
Excerpt from Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the 12th Century with comments
Symbolism and Number
Three Simultaneously Occurring Modes of Spiritual Activity
(Keith Critchlow)
Sacred Number
Usury
The illuminated work of Diane George
Quotations from the Gospel of Thomas
Symbolic Correspondences

2005-06
Notes from Chartres Summer School Retreat 2005
Ave Maria from the book The Sophia Teachings
Top Down Rather Than Bottom-Up (evolution vs. intelligent design)
The Sun, the Moon and the Cosmic Octave
(Keith Critchlow)
Conciliation and the Universal Languages of Humankind
The Four Levels and the Sun/Moon Symbolism
The Sun and the Moon
Sun and Moon in Ancient Chinese Symbolism

From The Sayings of Confucius

Poem by Elias Ashmole

2006-07
Notes from Chartres Summer School Retreat 2006
Physical Colour
Octagonal Geometries
Platonic Figures (from an interview with Mick Csaky)
Extracts from some of KCs early books
Heaven on Earth
(Keith Critchlow)
Geometrical Dissections
Buddha Geometries

2007-08
Quotations from Summer School Retreat 2007
The Wisdom of Number
A Reflection by Keith Critchlow on Being Conferred With an Honour by Canterbury
University Art Department
What are the Archetypes?
Number, Archetype and Gematria
The Inner Values of Architecture
Commentaries on the Soul or Recovering Psychology
(Keith Critchlow)
Poems by Kathleen Raine

2008-09
Quotations from Chartres Summer School Retreat 2008
An Introduction to Chartres
The Significance of Ten-ness and original diagrams of the Tetraktys
(Keith Critchlow)
Geometry and Structure
Hinduism An Introduction
Buddhism and the Goddess of Mercy and Compassion
The Tao

Quotations from the Bhagavad-Gita

The Three Perspectives on Education from Plato

2009-10
Tribute to and Eulogy for John Michell
Buckfast Abbey floor design
Report and notes from Granada Summer School Retreat 2009
Quotations
Introduction to the Arts of Islam
The Stages in the Creation Story of the First Man (according to the Oglala Sioux tradition)
Questioning
The Evolutionary Three
Thoughts on the Sacred Arts
Sacred Geometry: A Graph of the Soul
(Keith Critchlow)
A Prayer
Archaeology With Balls: Book Review by Paul Devereux of Time Stands Still (Keith
Critchlow)
From Part 47 of the Tao Teh Ching (Lao Tzu)
From Reflections on Things at Hand (Chu Hsi)