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| Pearl Finder | | Size (HxW) : | 100x80 cm | | Style : | Visionary | | Technic : | Oil on canvas | | Theme : | Imagination | | Category : | Painting | | Year : | 2022 | | Desc. : | "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold ALL that he had, and bought it. Matthew 13:45-46, KJV" "ALL that he had" - What did he have? Actually, just conceptions of this dual world. He exchanged them all for that, which is beyond them, beyond the conceptual mind. Why do I value the parable so much? I guess because it states that the spiritual path is quite free, direct, totally internal. A person is self-sufficient for that and to obtain the Pearl one does not need to be dependent upon any intermediaries. The Kingdom of Heaven is inside of you and you are ultimately the king there. The way, though, is mutual, synergetic and paradoxal, because the Initiative of the move is starting from "There", being initiated from "Here". I could not realize the strange "headdress" design which had come to me in the vision. Later I meditated on it and have got an understanding that this is a so-called "squaring the circle" - a metaphoric image of the solving of an unsolvable task. It has become the crown of the King of Heaven. Reading Saint Dionysius the Areopagite (Pseudo-Areopagite) we met a lot of descriptions of the Transcendental by means of the contradicting, conflicting, paradoxical at first glance, notions. These are the so-called "antinomies", which since the very early ages of Christianity were used to describe the Indescribable divine. Like the "ever-moving repose", "unfusibly linked and inextricably separated" etc This way the paradoxical notions of antinomy do neutralize each other, opening a space of the non conceptual divine mind. |
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