See as well 5×5, The Matrix of Abraham, and Deutsche Schule Montevideo .
“If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Bunker Bingo
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Beach Rocks
"The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland." — Wikipedia
Windows lockscreen today —
Another part of the lockscreen, later . . .
Related* mystical remark on a legendary artifact —
Animation adapted from a legendary diagram —
* The "9" and "16" may be viewed as referring to areas —
both above and below the hypotenuse — bordering a
3-4-5 triangle illustrating Euclid's proposition I.47.
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Sunday, September 13, 2020
Braving the Elements
The title is that of a book of poems by James Merrill
that includes “The Emerald.”
“As above, so below.” — The Emerald Tablet
“The Emerald Tablet … is a compact and cryptic piece of
the Hermetica reputed to contain the secret of the prima materia
and its transmutation. It was highly regarded by European alchemists
as the foundation of their art and its Hermetic tradition.” — Wikipedia
Animated version of Book I, Proposition 47, Euclid’s Elements —
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
Occult Writings
From the author who in 2001 described "God's fingerprint"
(see the previous post) —
From the same publisher —
From other posts tagged Triskele in this journal —
Other geometry for enthusiasts of the esoteric —
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Monday, November 4, 2019
As Above, So Below*
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Monday, November 4, 2019
As Above, So Below*
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Monday, April 13, 2015
Deutsche Schule
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Lichtung!
(Continued from Dec. 5, 2002)
From Bad…
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
Thursday December 5, 2002
For Otto Preminger's birthday:
Lichtung!
Today's symbol-mongering (see my Sept. 7, 2002, note The Boys from Uruguay) involves two illustrations from the website of the Deutsche Schule Montevideo, in Uruguay. The first, a follow-up to Wallace Stevens's remarks on poetry and painting in my note "Sacerdotal Jargon" of earlier today, is a poem, "Lichtung," by Ernst Jandl, with an illustration by Lucia Spangenberg.
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The second, from the same school, illustrates the meaning of "Lichtung" explained in my note The Shining of May 29:
"We acknowledge a theorem's beauty when we see how the theorem 'fits' in its place, how it sheds light around itself, like a Lichtung, a clearing in the woods."
— Gian-Carlo Rota, page 132 of Indiscrete Thoughts, Birkhauser Boston, 1997
From the Deutsche Schule Montevideo mathematics page, an illustration of the Pythagorean theorem:
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