Antigravity Mania

 

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Antigravity Mania Sweeps
Judeo-Christian Tradition!

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Wide Variety of Pious
Antigravitational Poses!

See Floating Figures
(No Strings Attached) in
Cosmic Drama Stretching From
Creation of World to End of Time!

Key Points in Salvation History
of Planet Earth Represented
in Chronological Order!

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or Requests for Donations!

(For Best Viewing, Kindly Click on These
Smaller Images to Reveal Larger Images.)


Michelangelo's "Third Day of Creation"
(detail, Sistine Chapel)
Genesis 1: 11-13


Giordano's "Dream of Solomon"
I Kings 3: 5-13


Angeli's "Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire"
II Kings 2: 11


Giordano's "Fall of the Rebel Angels"
Isaiah 14: 12-15, Revelation 12: 7-8


Lorenzo Lotto's "Anunciation" (detail)
Luke 1: 35 (& elsewhere)


Raphael's "Transfiguration"
Matthew 17: 1-3 (& elsewhere)


Chagall's "White Crucifixion"
(detail, with extra-canonical
figures floating above cross)
Matthew 27 (& elsewhere)


Gruenewald's "Resurrection"
Matthew 28 (& elsewhere)


"Ascension" from Saint Honore
de Thuison Monastery, Abbeville, France
Acts of the Apostles 1:9 (& elsewhere)


Michelangelo's "Conversion of St. Paul" (detail)
Acts of the Apostles 9: 3-8


Charonton's "Coronation of the Virgin"
(unattested in Scripture)


Memling's "St. John the Evangelist
on the Isle of Patmos"
Revelation 1: 9-11 (& throughout)


Bosch's "Last Judgment"
Book of Revelation 20: 11-13
(with a lot of extra nuts & bolts
thrown in for good measure)

That's all for today, folks!

 

The Flight of the Firebird

Here's another clue about
what's happening on this
sometimes mysterious blog:


(This image is worth clicking on
to examine close up, for it chiefly
consists of a photograph of the rather
gorgeous gilded phoenix that appears
in low relief on the facade of the
main Brooklyn [NY] Public Library.)

From our friends at Wikipedia:

“A phoenix is a mythical bird with a tail of beautiful gold and red plumage (or purple and blue, by some sources. It has a 500 to 1,000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. The bird was also said to regenerate when hurt or wounded by a foe, thus being almost immortal and invincible — it is also said that it can heal a person with a tear from its eyes and make them temporarily immune to death. The phoenix is a symbol of fire and divinity . . . [It eventually became] a symbol of Christ representing His resurrection, immortality, and life-after-death.”

"Sunrise" by Giangiorgio Cresponi