Greetings,
I am curious about how potent in "initiatic wisdom" the works of Bosch might be? Did Samael Aun Weor ever write or speak of him?
My girlfriend gave me a fairly large poster version of "The Garden of Earthly Delights" which i have had hung prominently in my music studio (and on the rest of the walls in the studio i have made a collage of art works/keepsakes/movie posters/postcards,record sleeves/ etc arranged around this poster, placed according to how each item seems to be aligned with "heaven, purgatory, and Hell")
His artwork seems to have quite a lot of meaning and effort/discipline invested in it, and it's like each section were intended to be looked at closely, and then integrated into a greater understanding of the whole work.. not to mention in this
particular work, there are certain aspect that seem to allude to symbols and themes which are far outside of the European Christianity of his time..
I have done this same thing in a lot of my art personally, before i ever was exposed to his work, even when i was a child..
I knew about the Garden of Earthly Delights for years, but i have had this poster for about a year now, and i honestly see it as being a large factor in my being drawn towards looking more into the Gnostic Lectures and writings on this site (which i honestly found through searching a peer-to-peer filesharing network, searching for Joseph Campbell lectures on the early Gnostics.)
What would you say is the practical value of viewing and making art in such a way, and even decorating one's creative space with a collage of "influences" from various sources (none of which are pornographic or violent necessarily, but do include everything from holographic depictions of Jesus Christ, to movie posters like The Matrix and Dracula - both of which are obviously on the "hell side of the room"
)
any feedback is much appreciated :]
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