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culine God-image—Yahweh’s neglected opposite. What happens
next, of course, depends a good deal on how conscious we become
individually. Make no mistake about it, what we do and are has an
effect on the great Him. 110 And I dare say the same is true of Ms.
Little.”
Rachel seemed perplexed. Perhaps she would have pursued it,
but D. spoke.
“Look,” he said, “this is all very interesting, but aren’t we getting
off track? The other tablets?”
“Very well,” said Adam.
He shook his fool’s cap, the one with bells. I’d begged him not
to bring it, it makes him look ridiculous. Personally, I much prefer
the miter, but it wasn’t my call.
“Who knows something about holography?” asked Adam.
There, that was my signal. I readied myself.
Arnold shook his head.
D. shrugged, though I must say it was hard to imagine he didn’t
know what was coming.
“I’ve been to the Science Museum,” said Rachel. “They have a
laser show with flashing lights, and next to it there’s a booth with
some holograms. Oh, and I have one on my credit card.”
“Holography,” nodded Adam, “is a photographic technique for
storing, or better say capturing, three-dimensional visual information
on a two-dimensional plane. I cannot claim to understand how
it is done, but fortunately we have an expert with us—my helpful
frater mysticus.”
He motioned to me and I took over, as planned.
“Holography,” I said, “was conceived by the physicist Denis Gabor.
Using a complicated white light source he made the first holograms
in 1948 at the Imperial Institute in London. They were
merely a curiosity until the invention of the laser in 1960.
“Most holograms are made with a laser—because it emits a continuous,
monochromatic beam of light—using an inanimate object
as the subject. They are viewed as though one were looking
through a window, with a transparent film or glass plate being the
110 See Edward F. Edinger, Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of
Jung’s Answer to Job.