Two things fill the mind with ever new and ever increasing admiration and awe, the more often and the more steadily they are reflected upon, the starry heavens above me and the world which I am[1].
Like Immanuel Kant, who speaks in the lines above, we can travel the world within us and the cosmos without us without moving from one spot. A key vehicle in this navigation of inner and outer space is the evocative power of Adinkrahene.
Kant never travelled far from Koningsberg, but united the universe within him and the universe outside him as he surveyed both far ranging worlds of thought and distant universes of vision.
Within the circles of Adinkrahene are symbolised both the cosmos and the human being who created Adinkrahene as a representation of that cosmos. Adinkrahene embodies the known and the knower, that which is known and the one who knows, thinker and thought, the cosmos and that within the cosmos which contemplates the cosmos through the symbolism of Adinkrahene.
The structure of Adinkrahene can be understood as three black circles or as six black and white circles.
If understood as three circles, the first, outermost circle of Adinkrahene is the starry heavens, the celestial world, in their revolutions through space and time. The circle after the outermost one is the human person, who reflects on the cosmic world and on the relationships between the cosmos and themselves as an individual and as a representative of the earth.
The third circle is the conjunction of mind and cosmos represented by the recognition of and reflection on the fact of being, the sensitivity to self and environment that is consciousness that emerges through the convergence of terrestrial and extraterrestrial matter in shaping that self that now looks out upon the cosmos.
The innermost circle could also represent the body, the next circle the mind, and the outermost and largest circle the spirit.
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