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by Huysmans Joris-Karl

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Joris-Karl Huysmans’ treatise of the symbology of medieval architecture. A French novelist, he is best known for his novel “Against the Grain”. “The Cathedral” became the third, and the last, part of a trilogy, describing spiritual search of literary man. Almost the whole substance of the work is devoted to The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres).

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...and wine symbolize the two natures united in Our Lord;the salt is divine wisdom; the ashes are in memory of His Passion. "Balsam, as you know, is emblematical of virtue and good repute, and iscombined with oil, signifying peace and wisdom, to compose thesacramental ointment. "Think, too, " the priest went on, "of the pyx, in which thetransubstantiated elements are preserved, the consecrated oblations, andnote that in the Middle Ages these little cases were formed in thefigure of a dove and contained the Host in the very image of theParaclete and the Virgin; this was well done, but here is somethingbetter. The jewellers of the time carved ivory and gave these littleshrines the form of a tower. Is not the sentiment exquisite of our Lorddwelling in the heart of the Virgin, the Ivory Tower of the Canticles?Is not ivory indeed the most admirable material to serve as a sanctumfor the most pure white flesh of the Sacrament?""It is certainly mystical, and far more appropriate than the vessels...