How to find the entrance door(s) in the triptych?
It’s true that there are so many scenes that it’s hard to get lost…
We can say that the four main entrances into the Garden of Earthly Delights are:
the exact center of Paradise (left panel, the owl in the giant iris) for the extrasensory function of love,
the exact center of the central panel for the rules to follow (closest part of the large procession, couple with hood, balancing egg, giant fish etc. up to the owl),
the center of the lower part of the same panel for the distinction between the two functions of sexuality (thistle whose leaves lead to the amniotic sac = reproduction vs. the orange from which the giant blackberry comes = energy ensuring extrasensory development) ,
and the exact center of Hell (giant egg with hole between two legs) for the causes of existential difficulties arising from the loss of the transcendent dimension of love (Fall into the obsession with animal mating).
All the symbolism is organized around these four poles:

The book dedicated to deciphering the triptych The Secret of the Future describes it more completely with a review of more than 300 motifs extracted from the table…