Monday, July 4, 2016

This Painting...




This painting by Fra Angelico portrays, 
I think, the whole process of Purification. 
On the left is Adam and Eve being cast out of the garden of Eden. 
They have eaten of the fruit of good and evil, 
that is they have identified with the trappings of life 
in the physical body and forgotten their souls. 
But Mary, who looks very like Eve, has attained, 
by the process of inner contemplation 
represented by the humble monastic cell behind her, 
a state of purity or spiritual virginity, 
and it is because of this purity she can hear the words 
of the angel and be pierced by the power of God. 
The purification of the machine 
is a constant task that we need to perform 
if we are to experience higher states of consciousness.

~H



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