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“The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.” — C.G. Jung ☩ Archangel Michael ☩ Talon Abraxas Archangel Michael ushers in the Will of God through his service of protection of Light Bearers world round. Awakening begins when the old stories collapse. In that silence, your origin and mission are remembered. - GalacticArrival

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The painting Saint Mary Magdalene reading, at a table with fruit and a golden tazza, by the Master of the Parrot, a group of Flemish painters, active in Antwerp, in the first half of the 16th century.

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Coptic Cross at the Temple of Isis at Philae

The Coptic Church, rooted in these early conversions, became a unique expression of Christianity, blending ancient Egyptian culture with the new faith.

The Temple of Philae, dedicated to the goddess Isis, was one of the last strongholds of Ancient Egyptian religion. Even as temples elsewhere fell silent, Philae remained an active centre of pagan worship well into the 5th century A.D., long after the Roman Empire had converted to Christianity.

To sanctify the temple and symbolically assert the triumph of Christianity, Coptic crosses were carved into the walls and over the reliefs. In many places, the faces of the old gods, especially Isis and Horus, were deliberately chiselled away, a practice known as defacement, to mark the end of their veneration.

Rather than demolish the temple, the early Egyptian Christians reimagined it as a Christian space. These crosses stand today as striking testimony to Egypt’s spiritual evolution, a place where the legacy of the pharaohs gave way to the Cross, and where ancient stone bore witness to a new chapter in faith.

Read more: https://egypt-museum.com/coptic-egypt/

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Mary Magdalene grotto

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"They pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture." Psalm 22:16–18

Artwork: Christ Displaying His Wounds, Giovanni Antonio (1697-1768), 1630.

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The Magdalene at the Sepulchre, c.1805, William Blake

The Morning of the Resurrection, 1886, Edward Burne-Jones

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The Swan Maidens by Walter Crane

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The Danaides by John William Waterhouse (1903)

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Flora by Valentine Walter Bromley (1874)

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The painting Sappho (1913), by Julius Johann Ferdinand Kronberg, and Fragment 147, by Sappho, translated by Anne Carson.

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Detail from the illustration from the 28th page of the book Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily & the Rose (1891), by Walter Crane, accompanied by the verses: