Posted in Art, God, History, Jesus, Mystery, Mysticism, Religion, World, tagged Christ, da Vinci, Dan Brown, doors, last supper, Leonardo, Mary Magdalene on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Not the da Vinci original but a copy from the protestant church in Haigerloch, southern Germany. The person to the left of Christ is clearly a woman. This painting is older than Dan Brown’s The da Vinci code but would lend itself very well to Brown’s interpretation.
And the door in the back, where does it [...]
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Posted in Hermeticism, Language, Life, Literature, Mysticism, Poetry, Religion, Words, tagged body, soul on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Why deny
this body
its rights?
It is this
soul’s one
and only
and best
container
this time
around.
– Niebla
A somewhat late response to “Body and/or Link” (Two for Tuesdays VIII).
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Posted in Bible, Blabla, History, Jesus, Religion, Satire, tagged Christ, Jesus, medium, Reaganomics, Republican, seer on March 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Swiss medium Beatrice Brunner, in a book I started reading and then put away speedily, claimed to have information that Jesus had not been a simple carpenter but a master builder with a bunch of employees and plenty of dough, i.e. an early entrepreneur fully compatible with the Reagan and Bush version of the Bible.
Had [...]
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Posted in God, Kabir, Life, Literature, Mysticism, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Syncretism, tagged intolerance, Kabir, mystic, Mysticism, Rabindranath Tagore, songs, tolerance on March 8, 2007 | No Comments »
I do not know what manner of God is mine.
The Mullah cries aloud to Him: and why? Is your Lord deaf?
The subtle anklets that ring on the feet of an insect when it moves are heard of Him.
Tell your beads, paint your forehead with the mark of your God, and wear matted locks
long and showy: [...]
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