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

    Mercy in, Wrath out, then Mercy out, Wrath in.

  3. Plate III

    Polehood

    Reality bends around the Pole.

  4. Plate IV

    The Boundary of the Sayable

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

  5. Plate V

    The Cosmic Graph

    A Map of Ontological Dependence and its Distortions.

  6. Plate VI

    In Anything, there is Everything

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

  7. Plate VII

    The Stacking of Lenses

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

  8. Plate VIII

    The Universe in a Nutshell

    Infinity is what is missing.

  9. Plate IX

    The Cone of Light

    The form is not the essence.

  10. Plate X

    The Two Altitudes

    Multiplicity is an artifact of altitude.

  11. Plate XI

    The Lamp in the Niche

    Nothing beneath you lives until the wick is trimmed.

  12. Plate XII

    The Bud

    Bloom forever; arrive never.

  13. Plate XIII

    The Graded Gaze

    The field does not change. The gaze does.

  14. Plate XIV

    The Sounding Plate

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

  15. Plate XV

    The Seed and the Plane

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

  16. Plate XVI

    The Two Lattices

    Reality does not argue with error; it interferes.

  17. Plate XVII

    The Wheel within the Wheel

    Every return is made of returns.