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In past periods in the gradual unfolding of humankind’s understanding and knowledge of self and place within the universe, arguments
regarding nature and its relevance in relation to a anthropocentric view of humankind and attitude to entitlement to use the earth.
From the collective school of Athens the philosophical perspectives, Hebrew texts , early Christianity, Eastern Faiths, Islam,
The Enlightenment and the present realisation and application of Quantum theory and Physics; nature has been and continues to be
revalued to its vital importance.
In all faiths past and present, a central theme has been a Creation narrative the understanding by humanity is the existential position
within Divine Being in terms of cosmic scale and within the collective selves of humanity and our relationship, yet deep within the
Human Psyche a notion of something greater than the experienced transient world .
The quest to understand is the ground for Continue development in discussion relating to knowledge as to the connection of Virtual states
beyond humanity’s physical presence: whilst gazing and contemplating form, for humanity there is the boundary in out total knowing as
we exist within the stricture of a space-time universe envelope peering outwards.
In many faiths, all is created from the ONE the undisclosed being through which within the nature of the Divine a mirroring portal
interfaces all that is created into existence as disclosure of Divinity as the created cosmos.
The depiction has been the circle and a central point, symbolically the circle portrays all encompassing, nothing outside of being, no
fixed points of beginning or ending only continuum.
In Christianity the Rose window presents this structure, Islam , Judaism and eastern faiths depict in the form of abstract patterning
of the circle. It is science of today that has been a torch light on the mists of unknowing and can be seen as an aspect of the Divine
aiding humanity’s search for answers, it is surely the need to join mystical with reasoning to complete the searching.
The collection is divided into responses to nature; The sense of the elemental form of nature, Theological and philological contemplation.
The Beauty of nature in the garden and landscape, Nature forming a basis for poetic language through imagination of Alter Realism.
Charles Neal