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Raiders of the Lost Ring

Wikipedia on a magical ring— Background—  The Ring and the Stone, a story linked to here Wednesday. "By then he was familiar with the work of the Vienna Actionists…….

Solomon's Seal

(Mathematics and Narrative, continued) Narrative— The Ring and The Stone from yesterday's post, and… "In Medieval Jewish, Christian and Islamic legends, the Seal of Solomon was a magical signet…

Finding a Form

In "Contact," Dr. Arroway  is shown the key to the Primer— In this journal, fictional symbologist Robert Langdon is shown a cube— "Confusion is nothing new." — Song lyric

Meanwhile, back in 1950…

See also Solomon's Cube.

Defining Form

Some related resources from Malcolm Lowry— "…his eyes ranged the Consul's books disposed quite neatly… on high shelves around the walls: Dogme et Ritual de la Haute Magie ,…

Castles in the Air

"… the Jews have discovered a way to access a fourth spatial dimension." — Clifford Pickover, description of his novel Jews in Hyperspace "If you have built castles…

Epiphany Riddle

"Spaces and geometries, those which we perceive, which we can’t perceive, or which only some of us perceive, are a recurring theme in Against  the Day ." —…

The Tiffany Puzzle

Suggested by Dan Brown's remarks in today's Science Times  special section on puzzles— For a fanciful linkage of the dreidel 's concept of chance to The Stone 's…

Brightness at Noon

David Levine's portrait of Arthur Koestler (see Dec. 30, 2009) — Escher’s Verbum Solomon’s Cube Geometry of the I Ching See also this morning's post as well as…

Symbology

From this journal: Friday December 5, 2008 m759 @ 1:06 PM   Mirror-Play of the Fourfold For an excellent commentary  on this concept of Heidegger, View selected pages…