Phanes (fa-nays) means "manifester" or "revealer", and is related to the Greek words "light" and "to shine forth". Phanes Press was founded in 1985 to publish quality books on the spiritual,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
A gem of a book. Lucidly written, it provides excellent and comprehensive evidence for the existence of an ancient global culture that was based on the number twelve. This was a harmoniously structured society that for some reason naturally resonated with its inhabitants. Modern civilization, having lost, forgotten, or destroyed this knowledge, is constantly mired in chaos and turmoil. This edition is a reprint from the early 1990's, so I wonder if the authors have by now come up with a better explanation than conventional scholarship (which regards our ancestors as merely primitive stargazers) as to why the number twelve should have held such a universal authority. That is the great secret.
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