Lovescape Novels, an art
project exploring the wide 'invisible world' of the landscape of love in which
unfolds the light of civilization

Glass
Barriers

Room 7

Volume 5a of the series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose,
a literary art
project exploring the wide landscape of love
by Rolf A. F. Witzsche

Painting a living garden of
the
invisible shapes
that
shape
us

Exploring
the principle
of the Universal Kiss

The barriers are fragile, not because they are easily broken. In fact they
have stood for thousands of year like shapes cut in stone. But they
are
fragile to the truth of which little has been seen until the new age of
science began that is still at the stage of a new dawn.

As the cover image suggests, the vistas in this novel unfold in India and the scene of the Taj
Mahal becomes a major vista within the larger vistas. In the flow of this
movement some ancient 'glass' is being
shattered and the Taj's greatest myths are being shattered as well. The
Taj
becomes actually more beautiful thereby.

In the cover image the Taj is shown in the light of the morning
sun. Scholars say that the orientation of the attached mosque is not
towards Mecca, which is critical in Islam, which thereby defeats the very purpose of the mosque. Once
that
glass is broken other scholars find in the mists of India's hidden history that
the Taj was never really built as a Mogul shrine, but was was built hundreds of years
earlier as a Hindu temple, a Shiva temple-palace. And in addition to all of that
another myths is shattered as well, which adds still another major element of beauty that
is laced with threads of love that bind mankind to its humanity and to one
another. This additional element links the Taj in a subtle way to
the great erotic temples of Khajuraho in central
India of which 85 of such temples were built nearly a thousand years ago
and in the space of
slightly more than a single century, which seems to have been a period of a
profound renaissance.

The point is that when one shatters old myths,
including the myths related to love that rule us on the grassroots level, the
vistas become more beautiful as then many new threads of love become visible. Of
course that is echoed in numerous different vistas throughout the book as the novel unfolds.

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