The Secret of the Rose

Out of Time and In Time

"....The point of intersection of the timeless
With time...."

The Dry Salvages T.S.Eliot

The mediaeval Wheel of Fortune reflects the wheel metaphor of time, which moves relentlessly on, turning events into success or failure - fortune or misfortune. Events happen on the circumference of the wheel which reflects the world with its months, seasons and passing time.


But what happens when the wheel becomes a rose of light...... and focusses on the central still point
?

"At the still point of the turning world....

Burnt Norton T.S.Eliot

"The unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time....

The Dry Salvages T.S.Eliot

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Angers cathedral

Beauvais, St Etienne