THE ATLAS OF THE EMPTY THRONE

Indra's net · interpenetration

Indra's net

nature

In the palace of Indra hangs a net stretching infinitely in all directions, and at every knot a jewel — each reflecting every other jewel, including all the reflections in them, without end. No jewel is the source. Remove one and the whole net changes, because each was only ever the meeting-place of all the others.

The door's deepest genuine rhyme, and structural rather than poetic.

rhymes with

sephirahtiferet

whyThe Kabbalah teaches that each sefirah contains all ten, and those ten contain ten, without limit — which is how ten names yield four hundred faces. Two traditions, no contact, both refusing to let the parts sit apart from the whole. The one difference that matters: the Kabbalah's net hangs from somewhere.