ORDERING Cosmokrator and its Books
COSMOKRATOR MODEL
To order a Cosmokrator model - the first item on the shopping list - click on the Add to Cart button (postage is included in the price).
GETTING STARTED GUIDE
For help in using your model for the first time and understanding how it works, the Getting Started Guide - the second item on the list - consists of all the material given in the first four menus on the Home Page of the Cosmokrator website. It can be printed off onto A4 paper - from the link on the Home Page or from the list below - and put into a folder to use as a reference booklet. This is free of charge - our introductory gift.
COSMOKRATOR BOOKS – READING AND ORDERING
To get the more out of Cosmokrator in all its dimensions, a mini-library of more detailed books is in process of production (one a year since 2009 – see the order list) each consisting of roughly 100-200 pages of text, and fully illustrated with pictures and diagrams that often speak for themselves. These are scrapbook-style visual quotations, and not always of high quality - the intention is to save the reader the chore of looking up other books when pictures are referred to! Each book lays in foundations for the next, so ideally should be read in sequence.
You can EITHER order books (as with the Cosmokrator model) by clicking on the Add to Cart button and going through the procedure for paying by PayPal, OR send a cheque as pre-payment (payable to Vulcan Assets). Queries and further details? E-mail me at asia@cosmokrator.com
All
beautifully codified in the Cosmokrator model, the Titles
column of the book list gives the main subject area
explained, whilst the next column gives an idea of the key
number sequences and colours introduced for the first time.
The Spanner or Veil No. in the last column on the right
relates to exponential changes in dimension following the
division of the Cosmic Octave into an increasing number of
divisions (there are seven major quantum leaps, each
providing a system, of which the best-known is the 8-note
octave). Through the books we will come to realise how each
of these consciously survive in many areas of the arts,
sciences and games we play today, since the basics of sound
division, colour or shape show up in fields such as atomic
structure, molecular compounds, animal biology, astronomy,
architecture and other arts. These increasingly complex
orders of octave are gradually introduced and discussed up to
Book 14.
You will see what the concept of Veil or Spanner means
by reading the books and looking at their pictures – but the
overall idea is that Veils obscure what is going on beneath
the surface, and we have to unpick them, whilst Spanners put
those hidden principles of the Octave (in increasingly
smaller subdivisions) to use, to create things or make
mini-journeys to the Centre by various media – in practice
all very simple and obvious, such as listening to music or
looking at cosmic paintings.
The
last two books give an overview of the Female and Male
dimensions of religion, and are simply anthologies of
wonderful material showing up Cosmokrator's key spiritual
principle of the complementarity of opposites – Plato’s
favourite. Nothing in Cosmokrator conflicts with any of the
established religions since it embodies principles common to
all Religion - the
Religio Perennis.
This means that Cosmokrator and
all it has to offer embraces lost forms of philosophy and
spiritual knowledge. After the World Wars it became clear
that conventional sources of spiritual instruction were
becoming bankrupt - and this means all the religions
– since unfortunately organized religion has mostly
abandoned what it used to know about the universal languages
of colour, music and geometric harmony that, using ancient
and modern sources, Cosmokrator reassembles for you and your
children.
Although the Cosmokrator books provide deeper understanding
of the model’s potential, they can also be read quite
independently of it. Eventually a Bibliography including the
many books on colour, music, number, astrology and science
that provided its literary sources will appear at the end of
the series, but in the meantime relevant titles are referred
to in individual books in lists or footnotes.
The Author
Author Asia Shepsut (a pen-name for her Cosmokrator work)
wrote her first two books on calendar festivals and on
priestesses in the ancient world for HarperCollins. With
degrees in Art History and Archaeology, she was a teacher
and itinerant presenter of papers in these fields at various
academic venues (her c.v. is on the Layish website).
Fortunate to have been taught by several well-known experts
at London and Oxford University colleges, she has travelled
worldwide in pursuit of her research into the Canon of
Ancient Near-Eastern Art (in which the ancient Theory of
Correspondences plays a key part). The languages of the
Cosmokrator model are off-shoots from this main line of
enquiry, since she found proof of the practice of
Cosmokrator principles in surviving artefacts of the Ancient
Near East, developed from c. 4000BC and reaching their peak in Babylon and Greece.
This is why, paired with
Book 7
on
Colour and Astrology,
she also inserted into the Cosmokrator book list above an optional volume
(Book 7A)
which is an academic paper vindicating Cosmokrator’s
structure against the cultural background of a master Theory
of Correspondences brought to its highest level of
complexity by the doctors, diviners and astrologers of
Babylon.
It neatly bridges the Cosmokrator Project on one
website with the Canon of Ancient Near East Art Project
(CANEA)
on her Layish website, and even gives Cosmokrator
academic respectability for those who want to know the
reasons behind its combinations of colour, musical notes and
astrology that unfold in the Cosmokrator books. It was
submitted to an authority on ancient astronomy in the
British Museum and its overall theory presented at an ARAM
Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Astronomy and Astrology
held at the Oriental Institute Oxford in 2010. The
(CANEA)
research is being built up chapter by chapter on the
Layish website on the overall premise that a core cycle of
images in ancient near eastern art express calendrical
cycles: like the Cosmokrator book series, it will take some
years to complete every section due to the high visual
content that has to be managed.
Eventually information about all her written work and photos
of other inventions will be posted on the Layish website (the
Cosmokrator model in fact relates to a suite of other more
specific astrological 3-D geometric sculptures). She cannot
claim sole responsibility for the wonders of Cosmokrator,
since it is the fruit of hundreds of explorations by others
drawn upon by her – but as an experienced teacher she can
claim credit for her ability to predigest and present
complex knowledge in palatable form (in this case the New
Astrology) - using simple language and images - for common
educational use. Why do scholars write up their research if
not to be read and used by society at large?