The Plates

Diagrams

Interactive engraved figures — each form appears only because it says the concept.

  1. Plate I

    Fanaa / Baqaa

    Procession and Reversion.

  2. Plate II

    The Fourfold Path

    The Return is the Emanation in reverse.

  3. Plate III

    The Tablet and the Pen

    Every symbol is opened, then closed.

  4. Plate IV

    The Tide

    Out in waves, drawn back by the next swell.

  5. Plate V

    Polehood

    Reality bends around the Pole.

  6. Plate VI

    The Boundary of the Sayable

    You cannot count to Infinity. It is seen all at once.

  7. Plate VII

    The Cosmic Graph

    A Map of Ontological Dependence and its Distortions.

  8. Plate VIII

    In Anything, there is Everything

    Every stair is a staircase. Each rose is a rosebush.

  9. Plate IX

    The Stacking of Lenses

    The Truth is a Hidden Treasure and longs to be known.

  10. Plate X

    The Universe in a Nutshell

    Infinity is what is missing.

  11. Plate XI

    The Cone of Light

    The form is not the essence.

  12. Plate XII

    The Two Altitudes

    Multiplicity is an artifact of altitude.

  13. Plate XIII

    The Lamp in the Niche

    Nothing beneath you lives until the wick is trimmed.

  14. Plate XIV

    The Bud

    Bloom forever; arrive never.

  15. Plate XV

    The Graded Gaze

    The field does not change. The gaze does.

  16. Plate XVI

    The Sounding Plate

    Whatever does not re-make you, you never knew.

  17. Plate XVII

    The Seed and the Plane

    Freeze the law and it fractures; refuse it and it goes dark.

  18. Plate XVIII

    The Two Lattices

    Reality does not argue with error; it interferes.

  19. Plate XIX

    The Wheel within the Wheel

    Every return is made of returns.