Plate X
The Two Altitudes
Two registers of one return, told apart only by the height of the gaze.
"The same return is being described from different altitudes."
One mountain, one spiral trail: from its base, a forking pilgrimage climbing into unpainted brightness; raise the gaze and the same stone becomes a seven-armed rosette turning around an empty, radiant center
Raise the gaze: drag vertically — up lifts the eye, down returns it to the mountain's base. The same drag orbits the mountain horizontally. Scroll or pinch to zoom, bounded clear of the rock. Focused, Up/Down arrows raise or lower the gaze and Left/Right orbit — hold Shift for a larger step; on touch, one finger does both axes, two fingers pinch to zoom. At the highest gaze, held still, a small label names the register; the ground below carries the trail's own flattened shadow, sharpening as the gaze rises.
Fig. Xa — one spiral trail, two readings: near its base, a ; directly above, a . Lower the gaze and the mandala unfolds back into the .
There is no moral deficiency in Salvation as there is no moral superiority in Liberation. They are simply distinct stages in the same emanation.