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The Bridge carries the essential meaning of Objective Mind as a finite pathway between two eternities. Great bridges (an illustrative photo is provided) do this wherever they are constructed since they really express an eternal idea of infinite power--an insight gifted to us by the Serbian poet and novelist Ivo Andric (d. 1975). The skyline of the U.S. City of Saint Paul is read to reveal The Bridge in the guise of significant historical development, the final element of which (the massive Shrine of the Apostle Paul, 1907) here is interpreted as a further and final instantiation of The Bridge, representing the passage to individualized Divine Action by voluntary abnegation of finite will. Sudden appreciation arises of an Eternal Triangle encompassing Real Landscape. Are there others in the world?
N.B.: Readers are advised of the subsequent substantial conceptual concretion of the foregoing thesis in a series of studies by the same author, to be found here:
'Totalization of Universal History by Meta-Analytic Ascent (URLs)'
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https://www.academia.edu/43292436/Totalization_of_Universal_History_by_Meta-Analytic_Ascent_URLs_)
Perceptive readers of the author's various studies will notice that the question posed here about "Real Landscape" is actually answered in the mentioned meta-analytic studies (particularly 'How the German Spirit Died' and 'How the Human Spirit Died'), where a global schema ("Concretion of the World Stage") does indeed represent the highest possible instauration of the Real Landscape as a logical process--one triadic conceptual solution underlain by sublated moments, e.g., Being (the Bridge), Essence (reflections of historically contingent development), and the Notion ("Begriff") or Concept (here the Holy Church), which in genuine cases totalizes the sublated components and represents (as repeatedly noted by idealists from Pythagoras to Boehme to Hegel), the End finding itself in the Beginning. Is this clear?
The author would like to note that less-than-global solutions to the conundrum of Real Landscape have been posed and fulfilled (at least potentially) by the Creator of Creators, and are discernible in the Old World/New World dichotomy; the "One [Triadic] Continent Many Islands" notion accurately discerned by the influential Halford Mackinder (d. 1946); partially hidden formations, such as the geological sub-reality underlying Hadrian's Wall, which marks the spiritual separation of Scotland and England; and globally significant straits (the English Channel, the Bosporus Strait, the Korea Strait, etc.), and even the "negative" of such straits (such as the Isthmus of Panama). In other words, properly cogitated, the World is chock full of Real Landscape and this could easily fill the pages of a good book.
