This degree speaks of the patient art of giving permanent, beautiful shape to the visions of imagination.
"Shaping what you see within"
The sculptor works in three dimensions, removing material to reveal the form that was always hidden inside. This art of subtraction — finding beauty by removing everything that is not beautiful — represents the understanding that creation and reduction are the same process.
Left unexamined, the fear that the patient art of giving permanent, beautiful shape to the visions of imagination will be taken away, leading to possessiveness where openness was intended.
Hold the picture in your mind and keep working the material until it matches.
An endless fountain of ideas stimulated by external experience — a mind attuned to harmony and the sharing of stimulating visions. This gate channels the energy of peace through the fertile stillness from which new possibilities emerge.
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