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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