In Persian mysticism, the mirror often serves as a metaphor for incarnation: the soul projects its image into a mirror, thereby becoming part of the material world. Generation thus succeeds generation, as interconnected and repeating as this mirrored, gilded ceiling design in the Palace of Forty Columns, or this mother and child, linked by their shared features and glints of gold.
In Persian mysticism, the mirror often serves as a metaphor for incarnation: the soul projects its image into a mirror, thereby becoming part of the material world. Generation thus succeeds generation, as interconnected and repeating as this mirrored, gilded ceiling design in the Palace of Forty Columns, or this mother and child, linked by their shared features and glints of gold.