The Gothic M

When the gothic M appeared in our coffee cup there was speculation that it either stood for Michailidis or Mom?

The cosmic M is also written in the sky for Dante in Paradiso 18

Then, having formed the M of the fifth word, those spirits kept their order; Jupiter’s silver, at that point, seemed embossed with gold. And I saw other lights descending on the apex of the M and, settling, singing— I think—the Good that draws them to Itself. Then, as innumerable sparks rise up when one strikes burning logs (and in those sparks fools have a way of reading auguries), from that M seemed to surge more than a thousand lights; and they climbed, some high, some low, just as the Sun that kindles them assigned positions. With each light settled quietly in place, I saw that the array of fire had shaped the image of an eagle’s head and neck. He who paints there has no one as His guide: He guides Himself; in Him we recognize the shaping force that flows from nest to nest. The other lights, who were, it seemed, content at first to form a lily on the M, moving a little, formed the eagle’s frame. 

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