Vincent Van Gogh – Starry Night (detail)
LORENZO… Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold:
There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still choiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls…
(William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice – Act V, Scene 1)
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Tchaikovsky – Hymn of the Cherubim (from the Liturgy of St. John Crhysostom)
Pablo Picasso – Constellations
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“… Joyful, as His suns fly
through the glorious order of Heaven
Hasten, brothers, on your way,
exultant, like a hero to victory.
Be embraced, all ye millions!
This kiss to all the world!
Brothers, above the starry vault
surely dwells a loving Father…”
Ode to Joy (Friedrich Schiller)
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Church of Santa Maria in Solario – Brescia, Italy
Let us prepare ourselves for a veritable jump into hyperspace!!!
In today’s heliocentric Heavens, Mercury, the Magister Musicae who connects and harmonises the High and the Low, the herald who tirelessly reflects the superior Model in all the hearts of the System, and the asteroid Urania, She who is celestial, the Muse who conveys the wisdom of the Heavens (inner and outer), are in conjunction on the initiatory summit of Capricorn; in their otherworldly dialogue, they are the stimulus and model for us to raise a hymn of infinite gratitude to the celestial vault (constant source of inspiration and mentor about the art of living for all creatures) and to bring its laws, values, principles and beauty into manifestation in our lives! Together they guide us in realising what the hermetic adage has always proposed to us as a life goal: “As above, so below, to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing”!
Giotto – Scrovegni Chapel | Padua, Italy
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Now that I’m under the branches of the trees,
And that I can think of the beauty of the skies…
Seeing my littleness and seeing your miracles,
I regain my reason in the face of immensity.
(Victor Hugo – In Villequier)
Nefertari’s House of Eternity – Luxor, Valley of the Queens
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Just as the heavenly vault is filled with the radiance of the far-off worlds, so do the fires sparkle above the crown of the head. By this the quality of psychic energy is refined. (Agni Yoga § 470)
Messier 68 (ESA/Hubble & NASA)
