{Dynamic Ascent toward the Other [continued (4)]}[15th March 1991]

[Redbook8:338][19910315:1000x]{Dynamic Ascent toward the Other [continued (4)]}[15th March 1991]

19910315.1000

[continued]

Similarly,* the Gothic period** seems to be the central phase of a third ‘leap’ in the conception of the religious building, starting in the Romanesque period.*** Of course there were churches in Byzantine times, and interesting ones too, just as there were temples in Roman times, and so on; but the Gothic period does seem to share with the Greek temple-creation period (Archaic and early? Classical) and the great Egyptian pyramid-building period (c[irca] 2682-2345) a sense of dynamic ascent towards the Other, whether the afterlife particularly, gods, or God, which other times seem to lack. My knowledge of their common 2048J~ quadrant**** tendency, however, may affect my judgement!

*[See last previous ts entry]

**c[irca]1150 - c[irca]1400/1500

2048|J~1280|G~1536|CE

***c[irca]1050 – 1150

2048|A~1024|J~1280|CE

****

{

G~

↑

J~ ← A~

}

[The diagram in the ms roughly shows a 90-degree arc from A~ through J~ to G~]

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