The King reads the Quran: The life of Charles III royal watchers don't talk about
If you want to try and understand the mysteries of the universe, then you could start in Gorton. Opposite the council estate on Gorton Lane there's a building that's believed to conceal a code - a code that King Charles III has spent much of his life studying. This code is connected to the world-view which made him the most unique of princes - his conversations with plants, his interest in Islam, and even his support for The Great Reset.
But not necessarily to Charles. Not just because these things happen when you lose a loved one - I remember the white butterfly that fluttered from my grandmother's grave - but because he has a spiritual belief in the interconnectedness of all things, placing him in the philosophical tradition of English mystics like William Blake, the poet he admires. He is the king who has called for revolution.
This 'grammar', to those who believe in it, is evidence of divine order and design in the universe. Great structures and artworks, from the Great Pyramid at Giza, to Christian cathedrals, Islamic gardens and the works of Da Vinci, in this mindset, derive their power from their creators' understanding of nature's rules of proportion and regeneration.
Charles visited in 2007 as it was being restored, and again in 2010, and has said of the building: "I find that just being here lifts my spirits and makes me feel anything is possible." It's not the maths we were taught in school - although Pythagoras is central to the development of the Western tradition of this world-view, which doesn't just hold that numbers express order - but that numbers express principles.
The King reads the Quran Islamic tile designs express principles of sacred geometry in intricate detail. But Charles III's interest in the religion goes beyond its art. Five years earlier he said Islamic finance could help tackle some of society's problems, saying: "What interests me is that it is based on very important teachings at the heart of Islam the notions of 'unity through diversity', of equity and compassion, as well as the requirement for natural capital to be properly acknowledged."
He went on to talk about sharia law, saying: "People in this country frequently argue that the Sharia law of the Islamic world is cruel, barbaric and unjust. "In those countries women have long enjoyed equal pay, and the opportunity to play a full working role in their societies. The rights of Muslim women to property and inheritance, to some protection if divorced, and to the conducting of business, were rights prescribed by the Qur'an twelve hundred years ago, even if they were not everywhere translated into practice.
The Great Reset It seems it is the desire to restore a 'comprehensive philosophy' of nature - against a backdrop of environmental degradation - that led Charles to align with 'The Great Reset' project. Among those who are ambivalent about it, it's just another idea which has come out of a talking shop for the wealthy and powerful - the World Economic Forum's annual meeting at Davos - which won't change the world a bit.
The king, who is now supreme governor of Church of England, as well as King of the United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Belize, Canada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu - among other countries - has been calling for revolution for a while. Salford-born literary critic Terry Eagleton isn't alone in seeing the contradictions. "There are, to be sure, limits to Charles's revolutionism," he wrote, reviewing Harmony in 2010.
"Old-style Tories like the prince support a system that breeds materialism and cultural cretinism, then throw up their hands in well-bred horror at what they have helped to bring into existence."
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