Last week, Paule and I were in Münsterland again, the German province with its many castles, churches, feudal memories and old buildings amidst quiet landscape. It was the first foreign trip after the corona crisis made life rather dull and monotonous. More on this trip in my Dutch blog.
We saw very special image in Paderborn of three hares running together with three ears seen only. It is found as a decoration in front of some houses, the oldest in the great mediaeval cathedral (Hoher Dom). It is also founrd in some twenty more churches of Europe, in Jewish synagogues and below we will also see an Indonesian Muslim equivalent.
On top we see the three hares of Paderborn in front of a common house, in the middle in the cloister of the great cathedral. Some people interprete it as a symbol of the unity within the trinity: the three animals sharing ears. But a friendly guide gave us the common poetic riddle in German: 3 Hasen und der Löffel 3, und doch hat jeder Hase 2 ('Three hares and their three ears, and still each one has two!).
It reminded me of an image found in the dissertation of Rinkes on the doctrine of Martabat Tujuh, the seven emanations of the divinity, where the three first are still united: God's knowledge, God knowing, the object of divine knowledge: all three are still united in the divinity, because God's knowledge creates, not something outside the divine being, but still inside God. This is the way God creates the obnject of his knowledge and love. Remaining one God only!
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