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From tomb of Ramses VI (KV 9)

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The beheading of John the Baptist, and the new-born Jesus Church of Debra Berhan, Gondar

Painted walls at the church of Debra Berhan, Gondar. (Debre Birhan Selassie Church) Country of Origin: Ethiopia. Culture: Coptic. Date/Period: 18th century. Place of Origin: Gondar. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive. Debre Berhan Selassie Church is the best known of the churches of Gondar for its interior paintings. It avoided destruction by the Mahdists in 1888.

Other pictures from Gondar:

St George mounted on a white horse, Gondar church, Ethiopia, 18th century

St George mounted on a black horse, Gondar church, Ethiopia, 18th century

A King and his Army, Church of Debra Berhan, Gondar, Ethiopia, 18th century

Ethiopian Cavalry, Church of Debra Berhan, Gondar, Ethiopia, 18th century

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Image: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by John Howe

The Green Man represents the mystical rebirth of the human soul upon Gnosis. Realizing we are One with Nature, and that the Supreme Architect of the Universe IS nature. Man can only attempt to understand her Law. Like the plant that regenerates on the Equinox, so too shall the Spirit of Man on his perilous journey towards his inner self, to cultivate the spiritual Seed that dwells within the living carcass (chrysallis) of his body. Almost every cell in the human body, including brain cells, are damaged, destroyed and replaced; reincarnated in cyclical fashion. It is not this corporeal substance which makes us wondrous (although it appears so). It is the Eternal Mind. The Spirit that IS. Once you have worked to find and cultivate your inner spiritual world, let it bloom and adorn Natures’ halls with your beauty. Die unto the physical world, and be awakened to the spiritual. The death of false illusion, caput mortuum: Do not let your soul wither to the false pretense of the world, for all that is corporeal, will change. All that is Manifest, will be Unmanifest. The Corpus Hermeticum states: “Now were It manifest, It would not be. For all that is made manifest is subject to becoming, for it hath been made manifest. But the Unmanifest for ever is, for It doth not desire to be made manifest. It ever is, and maketh manifest all other things.”

Be reborn in the understanding of Nature, reflect her Laws, and live forever. For she IS you.

Richard E. Gordon III, 32, PHA

Image source: http://www.theonering.com/galleries/professional-artists/other/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-john-howe

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A painting from the original Gawain manuscript. The Green Knight is seated on the horse, holding up his severed head in his right hand.

“The meaning of his greenness has puzzled scholars since the discovery of the poem, who identify him variously as the Green Man, a vegetation being in medieval art; a recollection of a figure from Celtic mythology; a Christian symbol; or the Devil himself. The medieval scholar C. S. Lewis said the character was "as vivid and concrete as any image in literature."[4]J. R. R. Tolkien called him the "most difficult character" to interpret in the introduction to his edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. His major role in Arthurian literature includes being a judge and tester of knights, and as such the other characters see him as friendly but terrifying and somewhat mysterious.”[4]

-Wikipedia