Hieronymus Bosch: Barrier, Portal and Tube

Dr. Steven B Halls | December 2025

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Hieronymus Bosch made image A around 1500. Do you see a barrier structure around a torus, a portal and a tube? In symbolism, transparent usually means something is in higher-density/dimension. Little tori interlinked to create a barrier has been a topic in my "found in symbolism" posts for a long time.

A Hieronymus Bosch painting from around 1500 shows a barrier structure around a torus, a portal and a tube, and transparency in symbolism usually marks something in a higher density. A ring carries the same barrier structure, and an oval outer barrier built of little diamond tori has S shaped interlinks, with tiny dots in the empty spaces showing the walls of flux tubes, while emptiness itself marks higher density like the void at the core of a torus.

Image B's ring has that same barrier structure, it could be showing us a barrier around the inner core of a torus, or a portal ring, or just showing us that donut shapes are an energy structure known in symbolism.

Image C has an oval outer barrier made with little (diamond) tori, and it has those S shaped interlinks between them, a subject of my recent posts. Zoom in on those empty spaces of an S curve, and you will see tiny dots representing the walls of flux tubes. Symbolism can use "emptyness" as a way to mark something being in higher-density (kind of like the "void" of the core of a torus). A flux tube having an outer wall of tiny tori and even higher density in the lumen of the tube. https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/void/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/transparent/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/barrier/

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