‘Channel No. 5’ (Oil painting on canvas, by Alan Rayner, 2007).
This picture is based on understanding numbers (and all natural flow-forms) as living relational channels, not discrete points on a
dead line to infinity. The symbolism is largely based around the words of 'Green Grow the Rushes, O', and shows how when 'One' is not
'All Alone (all one)', 'Two' (the lily white swans dressed in greenery) is no longer 'binary' opposition and 'Three' is no longer a bone
of contention for rivalry between One and Other. Instead, One dynamically includes Other, and the 'Gold (Air), Silver (Water) and Bronze
(Earth)' of 'Olympic Sovereignty' is no longer a hierarchical 'order of merit' but a vital Communion of All including All. Moreover,
darkness (the blackness of the Fifth and Infinite dimension/channel) is an inclusion of light and no longer 'objectified' as 'Evil'
(Evil being a product of excluding Shadow through the attempt to purify Light in the Quest for definitive Knowledge of Right and Wrong;
when Shadow is excluded, Love is excluded and 2 become opposites in conflict, not the heart formed from their mirror imaging). This is
why we need to love Other as Self, not make an Enemy of It. Love (receptivity) turns One Way to Hate When Excluded, but flows Both ways
when included.
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