The book, a mystical allegory recounting the search for an elusive mountain said to link Heaven and Earth, has nothing to do with technology.
Halevi explains the region's special standing in terms of its ideal configuration of temperate climate, its placement at the center of the inhabited world (as then known), and its location on the axis mundi that historically links heaven and earth through prophecy, as depicted in Jacob's dream.
The Kaaba marked the location where the sacred world intersected with the profane, and the embedded Black Stone was a further symbol of this as an object that linked heaven and earth.
Decaying Architecture Replicas Link Heaven and Hell in Red Hook.
About the size of laptops, such pictures operate as the spiritual equivalent of wireless communication, linking earth and heaven.
The views available through the wedge-like windows of the spire of the Chrysler Building (1930) were limited, but the interior observation room, on the seventy-first floor, offered high, crazily angled walls, painted stars, and hanging Saturn lamps suggesting a celestial platform linking Earth to the heavens.
Photograph by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker The views available through the wedge-like windows of the spire of the Chrysler Building (1930) were limited, but the interior observation room, on the seventy-first floor, offered high, crazily angled walls, painted stars, and hanging Saturn lamps suggesting a celestial platform linking Earth to the heavens.
"The condor links us to heaven...
Towers, minarets, and obelisks followed — axes mundi, intended to link Earth and Heaven, the sea and the skies, the people with the gods.
Truoc was the leader of a powerful underworld gang that was linked to the Heaven and Earth Society.
