What is the ‘glory’ to which this work is to bear witness? The first Volume set out on the path towards it in order to catch sight of it: the subject was the manner of the appearing of beauty and the conditions of its becoming perceived. The next two Volumes displayed not the heart of the shining sun itself but twelve rays that flame out from it; in their substance they diverged from one another but perhaps they were nevertheless conditioned by one another and each bore witness to the