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Lausanne, Cathedral Symbolic geometry The play of squares and circles, symbolising things material (finite) and things immaterial and beyond (infinite)..The central square sybolised the Earth which interfaces with half-circles of repeating time - ie the 4 seasons and the 12 months. Within the outer square is Paradise seen as a place but beyond time, with its weird inhabitants. Paradise interfaces with the formative elements of the cosmos, earth, fire,air and water, surrounded by signs of the zodiac and 2 of the prophecy-by-the-elements figures (The other 2 seem to be lost). In the 8 outer trefoils are the Winds of Heaven that keep creation in being. The outer circle is the cosmos / heaven. [Some of these panels would seem to be misplaced from their original positions]
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