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“The problem with ‘religious art’ is that whenever you start to enthuse about it people put you down as ‘God Squad’.”
“And then impose their own conception of ‘God’ on you.”
“Which is usually a hideously naive one.”
“I’d be happier with ‘Spirit Squad’.”
“‘The spirit moves where it listeth’.”
“And cannot be tied down by any religious organisation.”
“Saint Michael isn’t a particularly Christain saint, he has his origin in Hebraic magic as an archangel.”
“The notion of sanctifiying an already holy entity is a curious one. Sanctification would normally only be appropriate for a human being.”
“It’s what might be termed an unholy error of hubris, perhaps, and has for it’s champion the ‘Vox populi’.”
“Which in itself is no bad thing.”
“It is not, though, the only mistake people make. They continually objectify when they should subjectify.”
“And they continually subjectify when they should objectify.”
“The depiction of Saint Michael subduing a dragon does not actually refer to any future or past time ‘out there’, but to an inner state which can be achieved by any and all. When it is achieved the ‘out there’ becomes irreversibly changed, for the better.”
“Which might even be described as something of a revelation.”
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Stuart France 
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Thank you…
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Some very interesting thoughts here, Stuart.
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Great post Stuart especially with choosing the Name of the Archangel Michael – it is not about religion in the narrow sense these names were attributes of the universal Godhood pervading each living thing on all the planes of creation. I found your words stirred deep within.
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Thanks, Paul… Mikael is associated with both heights and depths.
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