Symbolism: The Glory of Escutcheoned Doors is about experiencing this world symbolically. The energy of God takes over as operating fuel in human personality. This happens and perdures though a life of symbols. From such a perspective most important symbol of all is you yourself as an active part in a greater whole.

Our biological life from birth to death is bankrolled by counterfeit currency unless we consciously switch to the alternative energy of divine illumination. In Light of this superior wattage we ourselves and everything that exists in our world are seen, heard, tasted, smelled, touched, breathed not as discrete, self-contained things in themselves but as a manifestation of a larger reality, signals from a vaster energy.

Mark Patrick Hederman is a Benedictine monk at Glenstal abbey. His recent publication include I must be talking to Myself: Dialogue in roman Catholic Church since Vatican II (Veritas 2004), Walkabout: Life as Holy Spirit (Columba, 2005)