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manifests its sublimity, not as an echo of the heavens, but as a cosmic reality: an innocence enchanting 3⁄4 Beauty, eternal.
P re s e n c e
In this blissful harmony, an antithesis of presence conjugates itself: The Piper gazes upwards unto the heavens; the child gazes downwards unto the earth. In the space between “Upward” and “Downward,” “Heaven” and “Earth,” the gazes cross, illumining the other, and a presence once felt, manifests itself. Time and space, in SI’s frontispiece, seem suspended in the clearing of presence amidst the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge 3⁄4 the Unspoken and the Spoken. A presence, a radiance, something divino–sublime is grasped in-between them: the gazer becomes the beloved gazed at, and the gazed at, the beautiful gazer, and the atemporal and temporal fuse in their loving gazes, transfiguring absence into divine presence, the divine presence of Jesus, the Lamb, in the riddle of time.
To pipe, to sing, to write is to invoke the beauteous gaze 3⁄4 its presence sublime 3⁄4 and with it, to bring forth into
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