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The Mystery of Kings and Shepherds, a millenium commemorative, museum quality Print dated Christmas 2000. Dr. Rudolf Steiner described the Sophia as the purified astral body, and how the Mary Being carves out a pure etheric chalice from out of her oul to hold the astral light of the Sun Christ/Son). The Virgin Mother, Theotokas, is a central theme in Christian painting. It has been painted since 300 AD, most notably within the Eastern Ikon tradition. In Western Painting, it reached its climax in the work of Raphael. Rudolf Steiner stated that humanity sits between "two stools" -- that of the Ikon and the Madonna, but must arise; that is, and find the balance. This painting incorporates this statement. It implies that consciousness and vision must arise to fulfill a vision of beholding the innerness of things. joining the inwardness of the Ikon with the outwardness of the Madonna. The Ikon Virgin is wholly transcendental in Her Holy reality, while the Madonna is earthly in her pure, but sensual naturalism. At opposite sides of the painting are the Kings and the Shepherds who accompany the Nativity. The "Kings" represent a descending path from spirit to matter. This is a path of the intellect and of cosmic knowledge. The Shepherds represent feeling, an expansive ascending path of warmth lifting from matter to spirit. These paths are destined to unite in the human of Christ. The Mary-Sophia figure is given a cosmic identity as she emerges from, but remains connected to, a stellar world which carries Her. As the Mary-Sophia steps across the threshold of the moon into the World, the Christmas Sophia ushers forth the archetype of humanity, the Salvation of the World. – Leszek Forczek
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