THE WAYS OF PARADISE

In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise Peter Cornell presents this so called found manuscript the work of a now deceased obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Sweden working on his magnum opus Upon his death no trace of this work remains aside from this set of notes and fragments which form an enigmatic set of texts on the connections between art literature spirituality and the occult through history with a particular focus on spirals and labyrinths Ranging from the Crusades to Ruskin Freud to surrealism cubism automatic writing Duchamp the Manhattan Project Pollock and Smithson this cult book first published in Sweden in 1987 is translated into English for the first time by Saskia Vogel