Found a wealth of interesting information on this topic lately. Lud Heat (1975) by Iain Sinclair introduced the idea of “lines of influence” formed by churches and monuments designed and built by architects following the Great Fire of London in 1666. This idea was picked up by Peter Ackroyd in his 1985 novel Hawksmoor, and inspired Alan Moore to write the graphic horror novel From Hell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawksmoor_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell
“I think that the dead are the great teachers, I think that all of these sites could be possible to get into a sort of meditative wisdom exchange with the dead. The dead don’t stop, I mean the energies can’t possibly just stop or decay at that point. I think distinctly that the sort of dreams of the dead fertilise the ground of those churches. [Normally?] I think that in some way that the force of the church could be cancelled by the removal of the dead from underneath it. ’cause by lying these dead, who represent different periods in time, so that the present is constantly there, because people are being buried all the time. You’ve got them laid out geometrically underneath the whole body of the church, they are the emanations of the dead rising. And there are the praises lifting through the roof, you’ve got [code?]”
— Iain Sinclair interviewed by Paul Green, The Lud Heat Tapes (1979), originally made for BBC Radio 3
The Lud Heat Tapes 1979 - with Iain Sinclair and Paul Green: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=eXR2Px3aNB0
Interview with author Paul Green - The Thinker's Garden: https://archive.ph/QKSdv / https://web.archive.org/web/20250726101838/https://thethinkersgarden.com/interview-author-paul-green/
“…the churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor soon invade tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
