The Day Star: Reading Sacred Architecture (Book 1)

This new edition adds over 200 pages of additional information, including an entire section devoted to the Christ-centered symbolism of the Great Pyramid of Giza. This new volume has over 400 pages. Learn to "read" Latter-day Saint temples and other sacred architecture—historic and modern—by understanding the rich language of visual symbolism used in and on them. The author takes his reader on a journey of the visual alphabet and archetypes of this ancient symbolic language established early on by the Prophet Joseph Smith and resurrected again by President Gordon B. Hinckley. Experience the rise, fall, and resurrection of this unique visual language on Latter-day Saint temples. Begin understanding numbers, shapes, and colors from a Biblical and visual perspective. Discover how pillars are connected to covenant-making and how the 432 celestial spheres on the Nauvoo Temple illustrate the church of the Firstborn, eternal life, and other important doctrinal concepts. More than 500 gorgeous