Fourth Lecture
When you look at this motif, you have the peculiarity that you can view it symmetrically from all points of the circumference. It is symmetrical in all directions, in all directions of space — at least as far as the dome is concerned — so that we can say: a motif is placed on the body of the earth, which extends mainly upwards and is symmetrical in its circumference.
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