reflections

Our consciousness being a kind of mirror, it follows that we appear to ourselves only symetrically altered, like the image in a mirror. Everything that passes through consciousness must therefore be corrected and inverted for the true effigy (the essential, paradisiac form) to appear.  This is part of the illusion of the world, whose trajectory can be corrected only by a suplementary artifice. We have to undo this mental turnabout, with the simulation of an inverted image — showing us we shall never actually appear to ourselves.

Hence, the betrothed at a Pakistani wedding together enter a room in which there is a mirror. They look at each other only in the mirror. In this way each sees the other as they are in paradise — this is to say, as they are really, in the transformed, essential image eternity provides for them, and not as they ordinarly appear.