(15-07-2021, 09:43 PM)Barbrey wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The VMS "clock hands" are rounded on the ends.
Not only the ends. This is important. This shape with the 3 circles is not recognizable as a compass, clock nor anything material. What possibly remains is the immaterial: a symbolic or schematic representation.
About the religious content, the (fake) herbal might be simply pushing the metaphor of the garden too far.
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It's almost as if Edgar Allan Poe knew about the VMS when he wrote The man of the crowd surprisingly mentioning "a certain German book that (...) does not permit itself to be read", a "grosser book than the Hortulus Animae"...
