This degree speaks of the beauty and teaching contained in the remnants of once-great structures.
"Learning from what fell"
A totally ruined castle retains a grandeur that surpasses many intact buildings. Ruins teach us about the impermanence of power and the strange beauty that emerges when human ambition is humbled by time. What remains after collapse is often more instructive than what stood before it.
Left unexamined, the compulsion to perform glorious ruin without genuine feeling — the beauty and teaching contained in the remnants of once-great structures, but hollowed of meaning.
What has fallen can still teach you plenty.
The restless mental pressure to answer the world's questions through spontaneous theories. This gate formulates endlessly, understanding that its folly is charming—each failed hypothesis brings it one step closer to truth.
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