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The DaNichi Code Part II

Did you know Leonardo Da Vinci wasn't the only painter in our past intentionally hiding codes and secret messages in artwork? Renaissance painter Hans Holbein was renowned for his portrait of Henry VII, but I am interested in his mysterious painting titled The Ambassadors, a Tudor age portrait of two noblemen surrounded by: a crucifix, a distorted image of a human skull, a lute with a broken string, swastikas patterns in the table cloth fabric, several alchemist symbols, a Cosmati floor pattern, an open book displaying the words "Divide", a cylindrical sundial, an astronomical globe, a polyhedral sundial, a damask curtain, a compass and set squares, an empty flute case, a Lutheran hymnbook, a hymnbook showing The Ten Commandments, and a gold medallion depicting St Michael.

There is more, much more, but most fascinating to me are the musical clues I found throughout Hans Holbein the Younger' esoteric painting The Ambassadors, in the future, I might even incorporate a Holbein code into a song. As for Holbein himself, he was an enigmatic persona of the Renaissance era; he left the world with almost nothing to describe his life in great detail. Besides the intricately precise works of art, Holbein left no diary, journal, autobiography, or notebook, to help anyone understand him completely. It's like he existed on this planet for a singular purpose: to create art immortal.

Transposing art into science/occult symbology: Holbein codec - The Ambassadors

Keywords: conspiracies, occult, Tudor era, Polisy, Cabala, Catherine of Aragon, Order of St Michael, Henry VIII, St George, magic squares, Steinmetzen, masons, Anne Boleyn, Good Friday, trinity of threes, Shield of David, Magen David, Church of Rome, momento mori, Templars, Humanism, Martin Luther, Copernicus, Westminster Abbey, Fide Defensor, ancient Astrology, Hermetic orders, Jacques Lefevre, Alchemy, secret societies, metaphysics, Nicholas Kratzer, esoterica, speculative masonry, World Soul, Astrological squares, Cornelius Agrippa, Evangelical, freemason symbology, Cainites, De Occulta Philosophia, Renaissance sorcery, Magi, Anne of Cleves, Revelation 12:7, spatial paradoxes, Holly Grail, allegory, Collectanea Satis Copiosa

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Resources:

The Role of Scientific Concepts in Art

Jesus R. Soto

Leonardo, Vol. 27, No. 3, Art and Science Similarities, Differences and Interactions: Special Issue (1994), pp. 227-230

Doi: 10.2307/1576057

Abstract

The author examines how the new concepts of space, time and matter, put forth in science at the beginning of the century, can transform the imaginary world of artists. In this opinion, artists should not try to study the details of scientific theories or concepts, but should instead grasp the fundamental principles and general philosophy underlying these ideas and use them in artistic research. The author illustrates his discussion with examples of his artwork.

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Categories On the Beauty of Physics: Essential Physics Concepts and Their Companions in Art and Literature

Science writer & editor, Emiliano Sefusatti; collage artist, John Morse; fine art & literature reviewer, Hilary Thayer Hamann.

Published: New York, NY: Vernacular Press, c2005.

Edition: 1st Ed.

ISBN: 0974026638

Abstract

Categories On the Beauty of Physics is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary educational book that uses art, and information from a variety of disciplines to facilitate the reader's encounter with challenging material. It promotes scientific literacy, fosters an appreciation of the humanities, and encourages informed and imaginative connections...

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The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance

By Judith Veronica Field

Published 1997 Oxford University Press

Mathematics in art

250 pages

ISBN: 0198523947

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Mathematics in hieroglyphic art: http://letsplaymath.wordpress.com/2007/07/28/egyptian-math-in-hieroglyphs/

Clipeology, paleo-astronautic: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ufoart/esp_ovnis_arte_9.htm

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I leave you with a quote from Leonardo Da Vinci: "If the painter wishes to see beauties that would enrapture him, he is a master of their production, and if he wishes to see monstrous things which might terrify or which would be buffoonish and laughable or truly pitiable, he is their lord and god. In fact, therefore, whatever there is in the universe through essence, presence or imagination, he has it first in his mind and then in his hands…"

In another life I wrote: "Anything in existence, even it's most complex structure or form; anything can be analyzed down to its most basic elements to obtain a greater understanding of its universal meaning, and purpose."

Danichi Vam-Phyere

tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis - The times are changing, and we are changing with them

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If you do anything in life, try to learn something new each day…

       "Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging."
                                                                                  Martin Luther; "Table Talk"

       "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
                                                                                                  Sir Isaac Newton



     Deception is a terrible thing which leads us away from the Truth.  A life based on a lie is like a house built on sand.  In the end, it cannot survive.
    
       A new Christianity based on a new gospel is today's new grand deception or illusion.  Actually, it's an old show with a modern twist.  In 1985, opening with the "Jesus Seminar" -- this revival of ancient Gnosticism as true Christianity, caught the attention of major news periodicals such as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report; Discovery Channel gave it prime time coverage and Peter Jennings of ABC News thought it was significant enough to qualify as a TV special.  The world had discovered a new Jesus who was more human than the Biblical Jesus and people were delighted.
 
        Fast-forward 25 years after being bantered around in pop culture via mainstream media and various sects of the religious culture of our times--modern Gnosticism is having a field day in the public forum, publicly slandering the Church and historical Christianity as deliberate frauds who have squelched the truth about Jesus for centuries.  Jesus is not God and the Bible is a contrived fabrication to hide the genuine or "real" Gospel.  Christianity has supposedly terrorized the world with its exclusive message of a Divine Savior long enough.  Now, finally everyone can relax and enjoy life--guilt-free!

        Recently, there has been a meteoric rise in the popularity for the revisionist ideas of the Jesus Seminar--Dan Brown's novel, "The Da Vinci Code" and now the upcoming sequel this summer of "Angels and Demons"  -- is forging an indelible impression on our post-modernist culture with the same Gnostic ideas about Jesus.  With over 10 million copies sold, the "Da Vinci Code," with its new gospel has turned the Jesus Seminar into popular conversation.  The audience is wowed by this illusion and millions of people are loving the show.

     "Gnosis" is a actually a Greek word for knowledge and Gnostics were those who believed that ultimate union with God was achieved through special knowledge (or "hidden") and transcendent spiritual experiences.  Epiphanius (AD 310-403) was the first to use the term "practicing Gnostics"--giving the name to this strange heresy and teaching then.  Iraneus (AD 120-202) earlier described them as those who "overthrow the faith of many, by drawing them away, under a pretense of superior knowledge."

      The roots of Gnosticism sprouted in the early years of the Church.  Influenced by Plato and the ancient mystery religions, certain quasi-Christian groups claimed to have an inside track on spirituality as a result of secret knowledge obtained from various sources.  The apostle, Paul warned Timothy about the "opposing arguments of what is falsely called, 'knowledge' which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith."  (Tim.6:20-21)  The temptation to elitism through secretive knowledge that went beyond the teachings of the apostles were already present in the formative years of the Church.
 
      Yet, fully developed Gnosticism did not come into its own until the 2nd and 3rd century after Christ.  A well-defined system of esoteric Christianity eventually emerged as a separate and competitive force to the apostolic teaching of the Church.  Followers of this system claimed to have special insights gleaned from secret encounters with God that elevated them over the historic Church.  Epiphanius and Iraneous wrote against them in strong, polemic language and branded these teachings as heresy.  This was not your mainstream Christianity nor was it the original Gospel of Jesus.  It was an aberrant cult that reinterpreted the message of Christ by transforming it into the likeness of a mystery religion in the name of Christianity.

      So, Gnosticism is not a new thing.  What is new is the contemporary fascination of many with the writings of Gnosticism in the attempt to redefine Christianity as a man-centered religion; ie., humanizing Jesus' divinity, rather than the divinization of his humanity.  Humans are their own gods and the way to a utopian existence is to follow the path of enlightenment.  This is Gnosticism and it is the new Christianity that is posing as the true faith rediscovered.

       The catalyst for this resurgence of interest in gnostic thinking was a spectacular archeological find at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945.  It has taken several decades to decipher and translate the Coptic scrolls of this now famous Nag Hammadi Library thanks to NatGeo, History and Discovery Channel these past few years.  An English edition of these writings was published in 1977 and French and German translations have been published as well.  In fact, this project was the impetus for the Jesus Seminar launched by Robet Funk in 1985 and it is the foundation for the alternative Christianity espoused by Dan Brown in the "Da Vinci Code".  There is now a new Bible that reveals to us a new Jesus and a new Christianity and it's all the rage.
 
     Some people like this alternate Bible better than the one we're acquainted with--they like what it teaches about God, Christ, mankind and women.  This Bible gives permission to make God into whatever we want him to be.  This Bible accepts the divine feminine and personal esoteric knowledge.  At last, we are free from restricting doctrines such as the Virgin birth, the unique Deity of Christ and His Crucifixion and Resurrection.  This new Bible is broad enough to embrace our culture and lets us believe pretty much whatever we want to believe.

     So, Gnosticism is not Christianity and the Jesus of Gnosticism is not the Jesus of the Bible.  It is not the true version of the Gospel--far from it.  It is a corruption of the message of Jesus masquerading as the genuine thing--a magic show where illusion is presented as reality.  Very dangerous for these times we are currently living in.

    Our theme this week is on Gnosticism (go to "GnosticNotions" in our April Archives) and we will also be playing a special show this weekend called "The Battle for Your Child's Mind" where there is a lively discussion and Q&A portion on what books your kids are reading, especially Harry Potter and why it is much more dangerous reading and seeing these movies while society is immersed in a Pagan Worldview than a Christian/Catholic Worldview of a few decades ago.

    Join us tomorrow for a LIVE interview with our regular guest, Bro. Ignatius....