The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . ansside) was called the sacredmale pillar, Jachin; and the south, or left hand tower (the woman5 side)the sacred female pillar, Boaz, from the twocolumns flanking the gate to Solomons Temple—itself an allegory of the bodily temple. Inonly a few of the French cathedrals is thisdistinction clearly and consistently maintained,and of these Tours forms perhaps the mostremarkable example, for in its flamboyantfacade, over and above the difference in actualbreadth and apparent sturdiness of the twotowers (the south being the more s
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . ansside) was called the sacredmale pillar, Jachin; and the south, or left hand tower (the woman5 side)the sacred female pillar, Boaz, from the twocolumns flanking the gate to Solomons Temple—itself an allegory of the bodily temple. Inonly a few of the French cathedrals is thisdistinction clearly and consistently maintained,and of these Tours forms perhaps the mostremarkable example, for in its flamboyantfacade, over and above the difference in actualbreadth and apparent sturdiness of the twotowers (the south being the more slender anddelicate), there is a clearly marked distinctionin the character of the ornamentation, that ofthe north tower being more salient, angular,radial—more masculine, in point of fact (Illus-tration 17). In Notre Dame, the cathedral of Paris, as in the cathedral ofTours, the north tower is perceptibly broader than the south. The only VDINVO M U M IN BEAD AND REtL EANDBD TORUS 30 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY II YO IN YO IN n H H IH H ti H H H H I-. FRIEZE OF TH; EA^NESE. PALACE/
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