The blog about things that should not be forgotten
~ Tuesday, October 5, 2021 ~
The apostolic tradition did not distribute knowledge evenly. It distributed responsibility. This distinction appears in apocryphal custodian literature with a consistency that institutional scholarship has preferred not to examine, but that the texts themselves do not permit to be set aside.
~ Saturday, October 9, 2021 ~
The Chartres labyrinth was measured and built using the Roman foot — 294.45 millimetres — as its basic unit. This is the same unit used throughout the rest of the cathedral. The path length is 888 Roman feet. The diameter corresponds, in whole units, to the building’s master geometric plan. These are not decorative choices. They are the marks left by a measurement system, and they connect the labyrinth to the structure around it in ways that are precise enough to verify.