Angels At Your Doorstep (Modern Applications for Ancient Spirituality Book 1)

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Yes, and a dark tunic. And I think, if I remember correctly, the story is that Matthew is a tax collector and he's sitting with his fellow tax collectors. Christ walks in and sees Matthew and basically says, "You, come with me. And there's this moment of conversion. This is this incredible moment of spiritual awakening.

Right, which is a very typical subject in baroque art. So, this notion of transformation. At this moment that Christ says, "Hey you, you're coming with me. Well, there's all kinds of negative implications, it's not just that he's working for the IRS for instance, right?

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A little bit more shady even of an era. It's much more shady. I mean, look at the environment they're in. This is so important for Caravaggio. He's not showing Christ in Heaven.

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He's not showing Christ in an elevated, plasticized environment. He's in this, what looks like the back room of a tavern or a bar. And when we look at it, it looks like he's surrounded by younger men who are counting money. Yeah, they're leaning over, sort of, greedily, the figure especially on the left, counting money. They're dressed in very fancy clothes.

Yeah, you sort of imagine one of them whipping out their swords any second and getting into a bar room brawl, almost. That's right, but there's this real sense that this money is not gotten legally. I mean, imagine if you walked into a bar now and you walked into the back room and there were very overly dressed, ostentatiously dressed young men with guns counting money. I think that's what makes this moment of conversion all the more wonderful. But how potent this must have been when this painting is made in , When Christ is being shown in really this much more contemporary environment and all of this is made real.

The figures are so removed from the idealized beauty of the high Renaissance. It must have been challenging, a little scary, but really exciting. When Caravaggio brings the spiritual down to everyday level that we can all totally relate to instead of that distance that was there in the high Renaissance. Which was really interesting. If you think that, you know, these are paintings in Rome with all the pomp and ceremony of Rome and Caravaggio is giving such a fresh I know, it's wonderful isn't it?

It's really fabulous, isn't it? The thing that I always think about with this painting when I try to relate it to living in the 21st century, I imagine sometimes, my own version of a greedy moment. Maybe it's the holidays and I'm supposed to be shopping for friends and family and instead I'm buying something for myself and I'm getting my credit card out. Try to imagine Christ walking in the door of Banana Republic and saying, "You.

So out of context. Look at the way that Caravaggio is handling light here. Because it's not just Christ walking in.

He is the embodiment of a kind of spiritual force in that, as he points to Matthew and your eye can go from his glance, across his hand to Matthew's finger Following that diagonal line. It seems to be pouring in, maybe a doorway that they've opened, who knows what. And it's as though that point of Christ almost, there sends this piercing rays to Matthew that gets to him, but also, in a way interrupts this moment of reality in the tavern so that he is, sort of, suspended between this moment of calling and transformation and conversion, but also this is so immersed in his reality, of course, that's also a very baroque characteristic of this caught, extreme moment of time and also what's very baroque about it that I appreciate this way that the divine has entered everyday life.

We see that in Saint Teresa and in so many other baroque paintings. In a sense, the baroque is taking these intensely spiritual forms that have come out of the Renaissance, maintaining the high naturalism and really building on the high naturalism of the Renaissance, but putting it in an environment where, as you said earlier, it is completely accessible and very, very real and immediate.

Almost sometimes, to me, not just real and immediate, but almost pedestrian and dirty. Some magicians have asserted it is the oldest language in the world, predating all other human languages.

In some circles it is considered among the most powerful strains of magic and is a method of contacting intelligences from other dimensions. Computer analysis have also shown Enochian to have a grammatical relationship to English. Texts in the Liber Loagaeth demonstrate phonetic features that do not appear in natural languages. The phonetic features are associated more with glossolalia, or speaking in tongues. The art of conjuring the dead and communicating with them, image of John Dee and Edward Kelley.

From Astrology by Ebenezer Sibly. Modern day occultists have found it difficult to reconstruct the Enochian system, although progress has been made by studying the original manuscripts found in Sir Hans Sloane collection. From these studies, various groups and authors have created a functional system of magic. Many Satanists have even included Enochian Keys in their rituals, some adopting the entire language for use.

The Enochian language was also studied by U. In the Enochian letters were used as glyphs to operate the arc angle in the film 'Stargate', one year before the US remote viewing program, 'Stargate', was made public. Another aspect of modern Enochian magic is Enochian chess.

It is both a game and a divination tool, derived from the original tablets of John Dee. It is a complex system that requires a strong foundation in the study of the Qabalah, Geomancy, Tarot, Alchemy, and Astrology.

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The painting of the three orders of the Angelic Hierarchy in all their glory: Accessed May 20, Not as dodgy as his mate Kelly, at the time calling himself Talbot, I think who was a convicted forger! Your knowledge regarding this subject sounds logical and i have read a lots book about this field.

Since my childhood i have many questions in my mind about God,Angels,Demons,and Satan. I am very much on the same path of question's of origin's and wtf is really going on in our everyday live environment. On the topic of mister Dee I recommend the book "Sorcerer: Register to become part of our active community, get updates, receive a monthly newsletter, and enjoy the benefits and rewards of our member point system OR just post your comment below as a Guest. By bringing together top experts and authors, this archaeology website explores lost civilizations, examines sacred writings, tours ancient places, investigates ancient discoveries and questions mysterious happenings.

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