The four that usually go together are the Angel, the Lion, the Bull and the Eagle. These represent the four evangelists. Angel: Matthew; Lion: Marco; Bull: Luke, and Eagle: John.
The Lion is well known from Piazza San Marco in Venice.
The cathedral in the town of Alba, northern Italy, has the statues of the four on its front elevation. In fact, I think that the the town was named Alba because of Angelo, Leone, Bue, Aquila.
I was in Bergamo recently, the town wall was rebuilt by the Venetians in the 15th century. The Lion featured prominently. Can you point me towards a picture of the Alba quartet?
The four also appear on the exterior of the Cattedrale di Cremona:
> Dating back to the most ancient epoch are the symbols of the Evangelists, of which we find a couple above the series of capitals of the splays (the ox – Luke – and the lion – Mark – even if in switched positions), while the angel – Matthew – and the eagle – John – are now embedded in the wall up above the archivolt.
These four statues will be on many churches and cathedrals.
When Hilary White talks about the four strange beasts, he called one a Man who looks like an angel. I think, however, that the first, Matthew, never was represented by a man, as he was one himself.
Revelation 4:7 describes the four creatures: like a lion, like an ox, a face **like** a man, and like a flying eagle. An angel has a face like a man, but if the respective creature had actually been a man, then the text would have said that 'the third **was** a man'. Similar in Ezekiel, who describes the likeness of the faces.
> The façade is decorated with four low reliefs showing the symbols of the four evangelists: from the left, there are Matthew’s angle, Mark’s lion, Luke’s ox and John’s eagle. Under the rose window there’s the statue of San Lorenzo Martire. These sculptures, realized in 1878, are artworks of the sculptor Luigi Cocchio from Milan.
My purpose at this time in reality is to simplify things, and it would take a deep dive research into the Lion, the OX, the Eagle and the Angel Man to simplify it.
As for your comment in regards to contacting Conscience:
The Whispers of "GOD", "Creation", "Source" or whatever name "YOU" wish to call it.
I call it "T-E-D-I-E" for The-Electro-Design-In-Everything.
But if you want you can call it "Conscience", please feel free😀
Ask out loud and listen to the riddled answers in your head in your own voice.
Remember to have patience and forgiveness for your childish innocence as well as the childish ignorance of others🫂❤️
Human = Aquarius, Lion = Leo, Bull = Taurus, Eagle = Scorpio; the four living creatures of the prophet Ezekiel. All of these can be found as one representation in Babylonian/ Assyrian art/ sculptures. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1851-0902-509
They represent the so-called Great Year. Assuming one will accept that humanity is older and was far more advanced earlier than what we are presently told.
Jesus Christ is "the lamb of God." Lamb and variants = Aries, in early Christianity Christ was represented as a lamb. "By the Sixth Synod of Constantinople (Canon 82), it was ordained that instead of the ancient symbol which had been the lamb, the figure of a man nailed to a cross should be represented. All this was confirmed by Pope Adrian I (772 - 795AD).
The Pope’s mitre symbolically represents a fish-head = Pisces.
I can recommend 'Species with Amnesia' by Robert Sepehr.
In All and Everything, Gurdjieff (who called himself an esoteric Christian) has his main character, Beelzebub, while traveling in Egypt, be reminded by the Sphinx of a statue he had seen previously on Atlantis, opposite an enormous cathedral. That statue had been constructed by the Society of the Akhaldans, a group whose name means "the striving to become aware of the sense and aim of the Being of beings."
The statue, the emblem of the Akhaldan society, was called "Conscience." It had the trunk of a bull and the legs of a lion. On its back were the wings of an eagle and where its head should be there were attached, with amber, the breasts of a virgin. Each part helped the members recall and awaken in themselves the impulses corresponding to the parts of the statue.
The bull represented the indefatigable labors required to overcome inherited and personally acquired impulses maleficent for them. The lion represented the feeling of courage and faith in their own might that a lion possesses. The wings of the eagle represented the height to be reached in meditation on questions not related to ordinary being-existence. And the strange head represented the idea that love that should predominate in everything they did. It was attached by a substance that represented impartiality because amber is one of "seven planetary formations" in which the three separate, sacred independent parts of the "Omnipresent Active Element Okidanokh" takes part in equal proportion. I believe that is a reference to electromagnetism.
That statue has always brought to my mind the sphynxes of ancient Assyria.
Sally, thank you for the exciting explanation. If I had to place myself on that map, I would say that indefatigable (great word!) efforts and mediation on questions are my strengths. The confidence in my own might could use some work :) and that love should predominate... seems maybe he is referring to a love that I need to learn much more about.
Can you provide some references to shpynxes of Assyria?
I don't know much about the sphinxes of Assyria, just that they were (are?) magnificent. I remember seeing some at the Met in New York. Originally they stood at the doorways of buildings, as guardians. If you google Assyrian sphinxes you will see some fabulous photos.
Scholars don't have much to say about their meaning. But I suspect people at the time thought of them as full of meaning. I wish we built things like that today.
Congrats on the artwork.
The four that usually go together are the Angel, the Lion, the Bull and the Eagle. These represent the four evangelists. Angel: Matthew; Lion: Marco; Bull: Luke, and Eagle: John.
The Lion is well known from Piazza San Marco in Venice.
The cathedral in the town of Alba, northern Italy, has the statues of the four on its front elevation. In fact, I think that the the town was named Alba because of Angelo, Leone, Bue, Aquila.
I was in Bergamo recently, the town wall was rebuilt by the Venetians in the 15th century. The Lion featured prominently. Can you point me towards a picture of the Alba quartet?
The four also appear on the exterior of the Cattedrale di Cremona:
> Dating back to the most ancient epoch are the symbols of the Evangelists, of which we find a couple above the series of capitals of the splays (the ox – Luke – and the lion – Mark – even if in switched positions), while the angel – Matthew – and the eagle – John – are now embedded in the wall up above the archivolt.
The cathedral website has an English version:
https://www.cattedraledicremona.it/duomo-esterno/?lang=en
These four statues will be on many churches and cathedrals.
When Hilary White talks about the four strange beasts, he called one a Man who looks like an angel. I think, however, that the first, Matthew, never was represented by a man, as he was one himself.
Revelation 4:7 describes the four creatures: like a lion, like an ox, a face **like** a man, and like a flying eagle. An angel has a face like a man, but if the respective creature had actually been a man, then the text would have said that 'the third **was** a man'. Similar in Ezekiel, who describes the likeness of the faces.
good distinction of "like a man", vs face "of a man"
This is a page in English: https://www.turismoinlanga.it/en/cattedrale-di-san-lorenzo-alba/
It explains:
> The façade is decorated with four low reliefs showing the symbols of the four evangelists: from the left, there are Matthew’s angle, Mark’s lion, Luke’s ox and John’s eagle. Under the rose window there’s the statue of San Lorenzo Martire. These sculptures, realized in 1878, are artworks of the sculptor Luigi Cocchio from Milan.
Thank-you Michael for the beautiful art work🫂❤️
You have a wonderful hand and artistic style🙂
My purpose at this time in reality is to simplify things, and it would take a deep dive research into the Lion, the OX, the Eagle and the Angel Man to simplify it.
As for your comment in regards to contacting Conscience:
The Whispers of "GOD", "Creation", "Source" or whatever name "YOU" wish to call it.
I call it "T-E-D-I-E" for The-Electro-Design-In-Everything.
But if you want you can call it "Conscience", please feel free😀
Ask out loud and listen to the riddled answers in your head in your own voice.
Remember to have patience and forgiveness for your childish innocence as well as the childish ignorance of others🫂❤️
Michael,
Human = Aquarius, Lion = Leo, Bull = Taurus, Eagle = Scorpio; the four living creatures of the prophet Ezekiel. All of these can be found as one representation in Babylonian/ Assyrian art/ sculptures. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1851-0902-509
They represent the so-called Great Year. Assuming one will accept that humanity is older and was far more advanced earlier than what we are presently told.
Jesus Christ is "the lamb of God." Lamb and variants = Aries, in early Christianity Christ was represented as a lamb. "By the Sixth Synod of Constantinople (Canon 82), it was ordained that instead of the ancient symbol which had been the lamb, the figure of a man nailed to a cross should be represented. All this was confirmed by Pope Adrian I (772 - 795AD).
The Pope’s mitre symbolically represents a fish-head = Pisces.
I can recommend 'Species with Amnesia' by Robert Sepehr.
In All and Everything, Gurdjieff (who called himself an esoteric Christian) has his main character, Beelzebub, while traveling in Egypt, be reminded by the Sphinx of a statue he had seen previously on Atlantis, opposite an enormous cathedral. That statue had been constructed by the Society of the Akhaldans, a group whose name means "the striving to become aware of the sense and aim of the Being of beings."
The statue, the emblem of the Akhaldan society, was called "Conscience." It had the trunk of a bull and the legs of a lion. On its back were the wings of an eagle and where its head should be there were attached, with amber, the breasts of a virgin. Each part helped the members recall and awaken in themselves the impulses corresponding to the parts of the statue.
The bull represented the indefatigable labors required to overcome inherited and personally acquired impulses maleficent for them. The lion represented the feeling of courage and faith in their own might that a lion possesses. The wings of the eagle represented the height to be reached in meditation on questions not related to ordinary being-existence. And the strange head represented the idea that love that should predominate in everything they did. It was attached by a substance that represented impartiality because amber is one of "seven planetary formations" in which the three separate, sacred independent parts of the "Omnipresent Active Element Okidanokh" takes part in equal proportion. I believe that is a reference to electromagnetism.
That statue has always brought to my mind the sphynxes of ancient Assyria.
Sally, thank you for the exciting explanation. If I had to place myself on that map, I would say that indefatigable (great word!) efforts and mediation on questions are my strengths. The confidence in my own might could use some work :) and that love should predominate... seems maybe he is referring to a love that I need to learn much more about.
Can you provide some references to shpynxes of Assyria?
I don't know much about the sphinxes of Assyria, just that they were (are?) magnificent. I remember seeing some at the Met in New York. Originally they stood at the doorways of buildings, as guardians. If you google Assyrian sphinxes you will see some fabulous photos.
Scholars don't have much to say about their meaning. But I suspect people at the time thought of them as full of meaning. I wish we built things like that today.
Wow, very nice. Thanks for sharing.