The Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: Partial early version manuscript, organized in two Books containing six Parts, with a Preface and Epilogue

620-page partial manuscript which includes the Preface, Book One, the Prologue to Book Two, a copy of Chapter Three corrected, and the four Appendices grouped under the title “On the Nature of Matter.” The complete manuscript is organized in two Books and six Parts with the following Table of Comments:
Preface – The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Book One – Order: Prologue: The Nature of Order
Part One – The Structure of Life in Buildings: 1. The Phenomenon of Life; 2. Degrees of Life; 3. Wholeness: The Theory of Centers; 4. Fifteen Fundamental Properties; 5. Fifteen Properties in Nature; 6. How Life Comes from Wholeness; 7. The Awakening of Space
Part Two – The Personal Ground: 8. Mirror of the Self; 9. A New Form of Scientific Observation; 10. The Personal Nature of Order; 11. Ten Thousand Mirrors of the Self
Book Two – Process: Prologue: The Nature of Process
Part Three – The Process of Creating Life: 12. Smooth Unfolding as the Basis of All Nature; 13. Dynamics of Wholeness: The Unfolding Whole; 14. The Necessity of Process; 15. Deep Feeling; 16. Example of a Simple Building Process; 17. The Fundamental Process
Part Four – Details of the Building Process: 18. Pure Geometry; 19. Defining the Essential Centers; 20. Volume and Site Design; 21. Working out the Structure; 22. Actual Making; 23. The Construction Process in Society; 24. Simplicity
Part Five – The Luminous Ground: 25. The ‘I’; 26. The Window to the ‘I’; 27. The Goal of Tears; 28. Color and Inner Light; 29. Emergence of a Being; 30. The Face of God
Part Six – Cosmology: The Nature of the Universe
Epilogue: The Art of Building.