Illuminated Manuscripts

What Is an Illuminated Manuscript?

Illuminated manuscripts are hand-written books with painted decoration that generally includes precious metals such as gold or silver. The pages were made from animal skin, commonly calf, sheep, or goat. Illuminated manuscripts were produced between 1100 and 1600, with monasteries as their earliest creators. 

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The Bunting Clover Leaf Map, created by Heinrich Bunting in Germany in 1581, is a later Christian map. This map represents the world as an extension of the Christian trinity, with Jerusalem serving as the hub that binds it all together, rather than how it actually is.

The secrets of the universe live deep within our bodies — the robe of life and vessel of our soul, gifted to us from Gaia — so we may take this magical journey into the earth realm.

Yet we have been taught to judge our bodies, to ignore and override the messages our biological systems try to communicate to us. We think we know what is best. We feed our bodies toxic food, we streamroll over their natural cycles, we pump them with artificial drugs if they express pain. We follow beliefs, fads, rules that crash our natural harmony. We look outside ourselves to find the way, or we rely on our logical rational mind to navigate rather than our deep inner knowing.

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Many religions and spiritual systems deny the sacredness of the body, proclaiming its needs and desires to be the enemy of our spiritual pursuits, or, at best, a gross and temporary distraction from the true mission to save our eternal soul. Or the body is dismissed as merely an expendable container for the consciousness that lives on after we die. We have suffered greatly from these attitudes. Now is the time to honour and trust this miraculous form we inhabit.

How would you feel if someone gave you a spaceship built from pure gold, full of magical possibilities? What if someone built you a beautiful mansion that could fulfill all your needs and desires, and was the jewel of the universe? Would you be inclined to honour, value, and take care of it and appreciate the gifts it brought you? This is the incredible, but forgotten, reality of our lives. Our body is that priceless golden spaceship; our planet is that majestic mansion.

We have been told that matter is the lowest form of light. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Matter is the most precious form of light. It is embodied love, and is part of an incredible cosmic experiment to bring light into the deepest vibration of ecstatic expression, flowing as liquid gold. We have been taught to devalue our bodies and our earthly life, so that we lose access to this astounding gift. We have checked out into illusory mental realms of a false creation. Unwittingly, we have handed the keys to the queendom over to those who have misused power. There is an incredible cosmic mystery living at the heart of matter, waiting for us to remember.

The human body is infinitely intelligent; it was created through the original blueprint of life, and it still holds all the secrets of this knowledge. It is the cradle of our soul, and a direct translator and transceiver of all worlds. In every moment our body is communicating something to us, and these are messages from God.

📖 Excerpt from Womb Awakening by Azra Bertrand, M.D. & Seren Bertrand

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There is not *a* god. There is God. What you're saying is mental gymnastics. Everything you see was designed by God, and you must understand that he has no obligation to keep any of it around or treat his creation with kindness. You stand defenseless in the sight of the creator, who can do anything he wants to you. You have no upper hand, no way to defend yourself. That is reality, and that is why you should fear God.

Nothing of this world compares to what God can do. If you put your fear in God, you will not fear in the things of the earth.

Picture in Remembrance of Johann Emanuel Bremer by Caspar David Friedrich 1817

Gazebo by Caspar David Friedrich 1818

Philosophy and the Seven Liberal Arts by Herrad of Landsberg circa 1180

David With The Head Of Goliath by Alessandro Turchi 1578-649

"The truth is that any advance in science leaves morality in its ancient balance; and it depends still on the inscrutable soul of man whether any discovery is mainly a benefit or mainly of calamity. This is, perhaps, the strongest argument for a morality superior to materialism, and a religion that refuses to be bullied by science. Moral progress must still be made morally; and a modern scientist, who has invented the most complex mechanism, or liberated the most subtle gas, has still exactly the same spiritual problem before him as that which confronted Cain, when he stood with a ragged stone in his hand."

~G.K. Chesterton

“Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs. Those who care for something else more than civilisation are the only people by whom civilisation is at all likely to be preserved. Those who want Heaven most have served Earth best. Those who love Man less than God do most for Man.”

~C.S. Lewis