Love is the meaning of the earth's development... Who could put that into words. Who could find exercises in love? How should you give an understanding of love? The apostle and evangelist John says: "Children, love eachother! But what does that mean?... read more...
In the Middle Ages the School of Chartres flourished, where great religious scholars lived with the Platonic and Pythagorean idea that the mediation between God and the world lies in mathematics, especially in the principles of geometry, but these are also determined by the concept of 'size', which is an arithmetic conce... read more...
When visiting the cathedral, we first tried to experience the West Portal, the famous royal portal. As you enter the cathedral, you enter the gate of the New Jerusalem. But if we want to experience a reality, that is not the right entry. For the human being is far from perfect enough to present a similarity with the apocalyptic ... read more...
It is a very special experience to see how a spiritual doctrine, which was part of the spirituality of Europe, has become a formed structure, a cathedral. What was expressed in Dante's 'Divine Comedy' in poetic words has here in all its miraculous pythagorean wisdom of proportions been built in stone. It is because o... read more...
On the eve of the seminar around and in the Cathedral of Chartres, Notre Dame de Paris caught fire and partly burned down. We were already in Chartres and sympathized with the French and worldwide emotions. The cathedral in Chartres, also a Notre Dame, mourned her sister with two intense chimings of the bells. In the days that f... read more...