whirling source

Streamlines for a pulsating source and a rhythmic vortex

placed in center.

whirling source

Streamlines for a pulsating source and a rhythmic vortex

placed in center.

all-meaningful

"I suddenly realised that in the language or at any rate in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually was all-meaningful, that every single and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the centre, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. "
-- Herman Hesse, "The Glass Bead Game"

all-meaningful

"I suddenly realised that in the language or at any rate in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually was all-meaningful, that every single and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the centre, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. "
-- Herman Hesse, "The Glass Bead Game"

The stone ascent

The Sage continues: "If you gently separate the earth from the water, the subtle from the hard, the Stone ascends from earth to heaven, and again descends from heaven to earth, and receives its virtue from above and from below. By this process you obtain the glory and brightness of the whole world. With it you can put to flight poverty, disease, and weariness; for it overcomes the subtle mercury, and penetrates all hard and firm bodies."
from an alchemic text

The stone ascent

The Sage continues: "If you gently separate the earth from the water, the subtle from the hard, the Stone ascends from earth to heaven, and again descends from heaven to earth, and receives its virtue from above and from below. By this process you obtain the glory and brightness of the whole world. With it you can put to flight poverty, disease, and weariness; for it overcomes the subtle mercury, and penetrates all hard and firm bodies."
from an alchemic text

An ancient ship hullform

Found a ship from about 1300.
The hullform definition is based on a line drawing published in 1951 by Harald Akerlund.
Length: 11.07 m; Breadth: 4.49 m; Height: 2.06 m.
From Kenn Jensen PhD thesis, 1999, Technical University of Denmark

An ancient ship hullform

Found a ship from about 1300.
The hullform definition is based on a line drawing published in 1951 by Harald Akerlund.
Length: 11.07 m; Breadth: 4.49 m; Height: 2.06 m.
From Kenn Jensen PhD thesis, 1999, Technical University of Denmark

An alchemic stone

So, too, the matter of the Stone shews most beautiful colours in the production of its flowers. The comparison, also, is apt, because a certain matter rises out of the philosophical earth, as if it were a thicket of branches and sprouts: like a sponge growing on the earth. They say, therefore, that the fruit of their tree tends towards heaven. So, then, they put forth that the whole thing hinged upon natural vegetables, though not as to its matter, because their stone contains within itself a body, soul, and spirit, as vegetables do.
from The Aurora of the Philosophers by Theophrastus Paracelsus

An alchemic stone

So, too, the matter of the Stone shews most beautiful colours in the production of its flowers. The comparison, also, is apt, because a certain matter rises out of the philosophical earth, as if it were a thicket of branches and sprouts: like a sponge growing on the earth. They say, therefore, that the fruit of their tree tends towards heaven. So, then, they put forth that the whole thing hinged upon natural vegetables, though not as to its matter, because their stone contains within itself a body, soul, and spirit, as vegetables do.
from The Aurora of the Philosophers by Theophrastus Paracelsus

Country

The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
From Shakespeare's Hamlet

Country

The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
From Shakespeare's Hamlet

Space, time

"that everything which can be given to our senses (to the external senses in space, to the internal one in time) is intuited by us as it appears to us, not as it is in itself."
from Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Space, time

"that everything which can be given to our senses (to the external senses in space, to the internal one in time) is intuited by us as it appears to us, not as it is in itself."
from Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Sevenfold

27. His illumination is sevenfold, rising in successive stages.
from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Sevenfold

27. His illumination is sevenfold, rising in successive stages.
from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

The hidden game

Time logic: the depth of this peaceful crest
Through looking glass is blessed into the Blue,
The drown of the crude crowds
New game will raise in water falls, a pure One.

The echoed harps are gathered by the poet
Into a reverse flight of loose sensations.
The hidden game is stopped,
As always does the sea with her green travel cups.

The hidden game

Time logic: the depth of this peaceful crest
Through looking glass is blessed into the Blue,
The drown of the crude crowds
New game will raise in water falls, a pure One.

The echoed harps are gathered by the poet
Into a reverse flight of loose sensations.
The hidden game is stopped,
As always does the sea with her green travel cups.

Think

Do ye know the terror of him who falleth asleep?

Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche

Think

Do ye know the terror of him who falleth asleep?

Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche