Plate XVII
The Wheel within the Wheel
Descend into the traveler: the same four beats turn at every depth, without end.
"Every virtuous act itself consists of cyclical sub-interpretations, sub-initiations, sub-openings, sub-ascents, and sub-returns, all of which culminate in the gestalt that characterises the flight of the self to the Self."
An astrolabe of nested wheels turning through the fourfold beat
Drag to move the view. Scroll or pinch to descend into the wheels or ascend out of them. With the figure focused: plus and minus keys, or the up and down arrow keys, zoom; the left and right arrow keys move the view sideways.
Fig. XVII — the fractal at every scale: each of the great wheel contains the same four beats again, and the thread of the innermost point is one .
Design note: one clock drives every wheel — no counter-rotation, no borrowed time. The hub that would name the center is left as ground; a bloom breathes there instead, because the innermost mover is not the brightest thing in the frame.