The Discovery Of Genesis

Epilog. Revelation
crude!” I thought. It was more difficult at this close
range to make out the various objects which composed
the panorama. Certainly at this short distance it lacked
beauty, the outlines were difficult to delineate, and there
was no breath-taking attractiveness. Instead, one might
be tempted to criticize the handiwork of the one who had
set the tiles in a slightly irregular fashion. Once again 1
moved away to the far end of the mezzanine, and the
city became alive! It was the distance and the’ lighting.
From whence the light came, I do not remember,
whether artificial or by skylight, but it was perfect. I
could not help but take out my camera, hoping to
record its glowing exquisiteness.
“How like this study we have just completed,” I
mused. “The isolated Chinese character by itself, or perhaps
a small series on one aspect of the Genesis subject
is interesting, but one might question, ‘Is it possible?
or ‘Was this really the original intention?’ One can become
very ‘picky’ and critical. However, taken as a
whole, with all the pieces in place, and with a retrospection
of 4,500 years, the total picture becomes amazing!”
I was soon settled comfortably, smoothly airborne.
The roar of thejetmotors was left far behind with only the
whistling wind accompaniment as a reminder of being
rapidly transported. The landscape far below was one
which I always loved in the Orient - neat patchwork
of the rice paddies in their many shades of green, interspersed
with unplanted, plowed fields. An aerial view,
reflecting the light from the flooded plots, always reminded
me of a mammoth stained-glass window.
Perhaps it was this scene that flashed to mind the
radical w , which we had always used to represent the
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