The Form of Godliness · the attribute of God
Colorful
Castello di Sammezzano
Sixty-five rooms and no two the same colour — output as pure spectrum.
The attribute of God
Colorful
The way it moves
Emit
The estate it increases
Output
The geography lesson
It stands in the hills above the Arno valley in Tuscany, inside a park of Californian sequoias planted by the same owner — an imported forest around an imported architecture.
- Where
- Leccio, Tuscany, Italy
- Continent
- Europe
- Built
- 1853–1889 by Ferdinando Panciatichi Ximenes
- Style
- Moorish Revival — 65 rooms, every one a different colour scheme
- Coordinates
- 43.7069°, 11.4386°
The real castle · photographs
Castello di Sammezzano as it actually stands in Leccio, Tuscany — photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Look long enough at the stone, the roofline and the land it was set on to know why this kingdom reads as colorful.
The mirror reading · Colorful
One word, two kingdoms. On the earth side colorful is a stone she carries and studies — geology, substance, the thing in her hand. Behind the Door the same word is a castle standing somewhere real — geography, dominion, the place she lives from.
Earth · The Adventure CEO
Watermelon Tourmaline
Pink heart, white ring, green rind — three colours in one crystal, on purpose.
The stone of Colorful →Heaven · The Form of Godliness
Castello di Sammezzano
Sixty-five rooms and no two the same colour — output as pure spectrum.
Leccio, Tuscany, Italy
What you build in your castle
Castello di Sammezzano is four works, and so is yours: a moat that decides what may cross, walls that hold what has been gathered, furnishings that make the inside livable, and beauty that makes it worth defending. Keeping colorful — here behind the Door and on the earth side in the planner — raises all four.
What may cross
Moat
You dig the moat by learning what colorful lets in and what it does not. At this degree the water is shallow — it is a line drawn, a first no. Anything that cannot cross colorful waits outside the gate.
What is held
Walls
Every time you do emit on purpose you set a stone. The walls of Castello di Sammezzano were raised the same way — one course a season, by hands that did not see the finish. Height is only repetition that kept its line.
What makes it livable
Furnishings
A bare keep is survived, not lived in. The first furnishings are small and daily: the page written, the table laid, the hour kept. Emit is what carries furniture through the gate.
What makes it worth defending
Beauty
Castello di Sammezzano is beautiful on purpose. Moorish Revival — 65 rooms, every one a different colour scheme was chosen, carved and paid for by people who knew that beauty is what makes a place worth defending. Your first beauty is simply doing colorful gracefully rather than grimly.
Read in heaven · The Form of Godliness
Colour is what a thing emits when it is full. God did not make one flower. Output is the natural overflow of a life with pigment in it.
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Proverbs 23:7
Build your castle today
Emit: publish, post, send or give one thing out today rather than storing it.
The other castles of Day 12 · The Law of the Personality