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23
Nov
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The Artist who Applied the Glow of the Divine with a Flat Brush: Michelangelo Buonarroti in the Sistine Chapel

When you study Michelangelo Buonarroti from the official books, you may not  often find it helpful if you are looking for something more than his techniques, superficial iconography, historical context and even his rebellious and sometimes said “hysterical” personality. From those books, it is almost impossible to reach his soul to really grasp what lies […]

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Tags: esoterism in the Sistine chapel, flat brush, initiate, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo in the Sistine chapel, Neoplatonic education, Neoplatonism, Pico della Mirandola, The Sistine Chapel, The talmud in the Sistine chapel, trompe l'oeil,
09
Nov
The viaticum: a journey to the Sacred

In ancient Rome, anyone who decided to start a journey would carry their own travel bag with them: the so-called viaticum. Over time, this word, viaticum, ended up suggesting the journey itself. Not necessarily the physical one and not even the travels we normally consume better than undertake them spiritually. A journey was only the […]

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Tags: a journey to the Sacred, cult, esoterism, fairy tales, initiate, Jacob's ladder, journey, kaballah, lack of self love, materiality and spirituality, Middrash, mistical teachings, mythology, Neoplatonism, philosophy, Talmud, the Sacred, uncounscious, viaticum, ying and yang,