The decks are afloat.

And the rungs of the souls and the angels, what heaven and hell are all about. What the qlippot [shells] are and the sparks they contain which need to be freed to return to their holy sources.

In the Age of Exploration, it was proven that the Earth is round and hence circumnavigable.

He performed the piece remarkably, offering novel interpretations to its nearly cliched passages.