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.
