THE SEVENTH SEAL

I was inspired to draw the 7th seal after reading
"Occult signs & symbols" by Rudolf Steiner.
However, I was not expectecting the effect the CREATING of the artwork would have on me. The process was long and opened many doors in my mind, which lead to me creating & learning other deeper artwork mysteries.
(It was a heavy trip folks, Meditively speaking! )    
I think it is the VIRGO in me that loves the order and complexity of SACRED GEOMTERY.
The secret meanings interwoven into my artwork are vast and still not fully understood,
 but I will try to share with you what I have learnt in the hope that it inspires you to study more about it.

In the first quarter of the twentieth century, Rudolf Steiner offered an account of the spiritual origin & meaning of ART.He articulated & demonstrated the TRANSFORMATIVE capacity of arts as a sprirtual experience.
(The bottom line: All creativity will lead to a spiritual experience or awakening of somekind)

The world spirit in its essence is represented by the dove facing the Holy Grail.
It symbolizes the spiritualized fructification that will be active out of the cosmos when we have identified ourselves with the cosmos.
The complete creativity of this process is represented by the rainbow. This is the all-embracing seal of the Holy Grail.

The world secret is found in the circular inscription on the seal's outer edge, which shows how man in the beginning was born out of the primal forces of the world. This is expressed in the Rose Cross by E. D. N., Ex Deo Nascimur, out of God I am born.

We can see that within the manifest world a second is added to life, &  that is, death.
That we find life again in this death, we must find the death of the senses in the primal source of all that lives.
This is the center of all cosmic development because we have had to experience death in order to gain consciousness.
We will be able to overcome death when we find its meaning in the mystery of the Redeemer. Just as we are born out of God, so, in the sense of esoteric wisdom, we die in Christ - I. C. M., In Christo Morimur.

Because a duality is disclosed wherever something reveals itself, with which a third member must unite, the man who has overcome death will identify themself with the spirit that permeates the world, symbolized by the dove.
He will rise from death and again live in the spirit - P. S. S. R., Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus.

Here stands the theosophical Rose Cross.
It rays forth to those times in which religion and science will be reconciled. 
(Sounds like we are getting closer then?)

Man, (or woman!)  the Most Significant Symbol

The most significant of the symbols and signs that we have, and that has been acknowledged by occultists of all times, is man himself (or herself! :-) . The human being has always been called a microcosmos, a small world, and rightly so.

Next.......  The flower of life.    

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