This artwork belongs to Giulio Bonasone, an Italian painter. As Mircea Eliade so well put it in one of his works: “Mythology is the true history, because behind it are the authentic realities but expressed in an enigmatic way”.
Dearly beloved companions of the path: I am pleased to send you an explanation about a painting created by the Flemish Renaissance artist named Pieter Brueghel the Elder. It is called: The Misanthrope
According to tradition, San Marino was founded by a Christian stonemason, Marinus the Dalmatian or Saint Marinus. This occurred between the years 275 and 366 AD.
The ecstasy of Saint Cecilia
The painting shows us Saint Cecilia, dressed in a beautiful golden robe, raising her eyes to the sky and holding an organ in her hands. The organ was a highly revered musical instrument during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance because the music that this instrument emits is very spiritual.
The monstrance of the gothic cathedral of St. Moritz
Monstrance is the liturgical instrument that Catholic Christianity uses in its processions to show the power of the Holy Spirit. These types of instruments are very old and really belong to Gnosticism and not to Catholicism.
The sacred forces of God Mother
I am pleased, esteemed readers, to send you this sculpture made by an American artist named James Nathan Muir. We have named it as “The sacred forces of God Mother”
Numerology of Nature
I send you this beautiful engraving that appears on the frontispiece of a work called NUMEROLOGY OF NATURE
The soul, tied to a yoke, moving the stone of a mill or oil mill
Tomo la pluma para dirigirme a vosotros y, en esta oportunidad, para hablaros de dos grabados ─similares─ y que son originarios del libro Pia Desideria. En ambos se trata del alma, atada a un yugo, moviendo la piedra de un molino o almazara
Angel chained to the world
On this occasion we enter into this engraving that was made in Antwerp ─Belgium─ in the year 1624. It was entitled: Angel chained to the world
Child with bow and arrow and all-seeing eye of God
It was one of the most pious works known in seventeenth-century Europe. The central theme of these works was always divine love and the human soul, and many authors claim that the artist always liked to represent these virtues in childlike forms, whether associating their engravings with Eros Cupid or with the baby Jesus.