All of creation,
Like a book and a picture,
Is a mirror for us.
Of our life, of our state;
Of our death, of our fate
A faithful symbol.
From: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Omnis mundi creatura
Quasi liber et pictura
Nobis est speculum.
Nostrae vitae, nostrae mortis
Nostrae status, nostrae mortis
Fidele signaculum.
The Symbolic Nature of the Universe
BY JAMES MARCHAND
The Incisal Edge 