Visible Gods
About this book
After Faber & Faber published his great book, The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth, in 1952, Douglas Harding returned to practising architecture. However, though Harding was now designing buildings again, he didn't give up writing - he didn't stop trying to share with the world his message about who we really are. In 1955 he finished Visible Gods, a deeply inspiring book that contains many ideas from The Hierarchy, but in an easier-to-read form. Harding did not succeed in publishing Visible Gods, so it is with delight that we do so now.Visible Gods takes the form of an imaginary dialogue between Socrates and four fictitious modern-day characters. Socrates' world-view is of a living cosmos with man only half-way up the tree of life; above him reign supra human beings of great majesty and power - the visible gods. The moderns with whom Socrates converses disdain his ancient Greek cosmos as primitive and false. Yet as Socrates questions them in typically ironic fashion about the discoveries of science, it's not at all clear that the scientists' view of "a dead universe populated here and there with rare accidents of life" is right. Indeed, the more the moderns argue their case, the more Socrates shows they are arguing his...