[Blog Post] An Allegory of Salvation (Koen Gheuens & Cary Rapaport)

[Barbrey]

Koen, in light of your Christian allegory interpretation and yours and Searcher's speculation further upthread re the right hand upper rosette.  I see a lot of interpretations re maps, etc, but that upper right hand sphere has always seemed to me to represent both the Kingdom of Heaven by its castles, and the Creation (both Judeo-Christian-Islamic and Hermetic as they share many of the same characteristics).  The central spiral is made of words.  In Hermetic creation the Word of God enters matter to create the earth, heaven, animals, etc., and similarly the Word of God is like a wind on the waters, etc., in religious creation stories. So similar in fact that the Church fathers accepted Hermetic tracts, thought to have been written eons ago in Egypt as mirroring their own creation story, as well as foretelling the birth of Christ. So that central spiral of words has always seemed to represent the Word of God to me, and its surrounding imagery the creation's artifacts and processes.