The Wood Between the Worlds: The Center That Holds

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

-W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming

In him all things hold together.

He is the head of the body, the church.

He is the beginning,

The firstborn from the dead.

-St. Paul, Colossians 1:17–18