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304 pages. DJ slightly worn In 1666 a spark from an unattended Baker's oven in Pudding Lane led to the Gr eat Fire which levelled large areas of London. After the flames had been put out and the dead buried, London was once more a blank canvas for the builders and a rchitects to create a new city - a city which could be built in the full glory d eserving of its destiny. The men at the centre of London's reconstruction were, in the main, members of the Royal Society, men such as Sir Christopher Wren. Thi s society, founded originally by the Rosicrucians, adhered to a belief in the my stical wisdom of the ancient world and the millenarianist beliefs of its founder s. Central to this idea was the conviction that London had long been the chosen site of the New Jerusalem - the city that would descend from the sky at the seco nd coming as foretold in the Book of Revelations. Now, the Great Fire, as devast ating as it had been, had given them the chance to recreate the city in a more f itting image. In this book Adrian Gilbert takes the reader on a guided tour of a hidden London, revealing the true significance of such well known sites as St P aul's Cathedral, the Monument and Temple church. He also introduces us to the me n and women who shaped 17th century London, leaving us this legacy of mystical s ignificance. Written in Adrian Gilbert's trademark style, combining personal det ective story, archaeological investigation with rigorous historical research Th e New Jerusalem is a colourful historical portrait of London.…
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- Title
- New Jerusalem
- Author
- Adrian D. Gilbert
- Publisher
- Bantam Press
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0593046943
- ISBN 13
- 9780593046944
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture
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Many of the men at the centre of London's reconstruction, among them Sir Christopher Wren, were members of the newly formed Royal Society. This avowedly scientific organization was broad in scope, its early members being largely either proto-Freemasons or Rosicrucians and adhering to a Hermetic world-view. They believed that Britain had a preordained role to fulfil as the leading Protestant nation in Europe, and central to this belief was the conviction that England was a new Israel, God's chosen country for the new age of enlightenment then dawning. This exclusive group of men equated the capital city, which they now set about rebuilding out of white stone instead of wood, with the prophesied New Jerusalem.
In The New Jerusalem Adrian Gilbert takes the reader on a guided tour of a hidden London, revealing the true significance of such well known sites as St Paul's cathedral, the Monument and Temple church. He also introduces us to the men and women who shaped seventeenth-century London, leaving us this legacy of mystical significance. Combining personal detective story and archaeological investigation with rigorous historical research, The New Jerusalem is a colourful historical portrait of London as we have never seen it before.
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