@WeilFan420 @rosekhawal @nubianscribes @GabrielSaidR 2/ In effect, Khezr represents an archetype not of a weird, mystical trickster, but of a sympathetic awakening to the miracle of a hidden concordance mediating between inner/outer, visible/invisible, exoteric/esoteric worlds, all things and, yes, all religions and nations.
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Copy of tweet thread: Carl Jung & Depth Psych Quotes In 2013 I stood in front of Gustave Moreau’s St. George and the Dragon and watched this painting come alive. It’s very hard to describe, but there was more than just a flat canvas in the room that day. Incredibly, the person I was with also had the same numinous experience. Image of Moreau’s painting That's interesting! As an inter-spiritual archetype, St. George (or Khezr as he is known in Islam) represents a prototype of transcendent reality and empirical reality experienced as a co-existent, single state. I wonder if perhaps Gustave secured his aim? Quote Tweet end/ In essence, he represents a revelatory mode, heralding our 'belated' recognition of something essential and ordinary about us, a natural aspect of being with life where the worldly and spiritual, 'earthly and celestial', mix and match. Life as fundamentally co-evolutionary.
Much as Jeremiah was appointed “a prophet to the nations”, Qu’ran 2:136 projects prophetic radicalism upon a trans-cultural, universal, world-historical plane identified with a clear, planetary, political objective. bit.ly/367GLuW Art, acrylic inks on paper. 10/
