gyroscope. Like the living creatures, the wheels face in all four directions at once and can move in any direction without turning. The wheels and the creatures are supremely free. Further, just as the creatures with their four faces see in all directions at once, so the rims of the great wheels are full of eyes all around (v. 18). Thus is absolute freedom joined to perfect knowledge and perception, omnipresence to omniscience. Already, we can sense where this vision is taking us. Above the creatures