{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0122.htm","path":"aor/dv/0122.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0122.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nShadow partakes of the nature of universal matter. All such matters are more powerful in their beginning and grow weaker towards the end, I say at the beginning, whatever their form or condition may be and whether visible or invisible. And it is not from small beginnings that they grow to a great size in time; as it might be a great oak which has a feeble beginning from a small acorn. Yet I may say that the oak is most powerful at its beginning, that is where it springs from the earth, which is where it is largest (To return:) Darkness, then, is the strongest degree of shadow and light is its least. Therefore, O Painter, make your shadow darkest close to the object that casts it, and make the end of it fading into light, seeming to have no end.","title":"Vol. I: III. Six Books on Light and Shade: 122.","type":"page"}