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THE PRIMORDIAL MOTHER II (1985)
ELUCIDATING JOHFRA’S
HERMES TRISMEGISTOS
When viewed in light of the Poimandres, the
images in Johfra’s painting gradually become
transparent. The central figure, we may now see, is
the Anthropos, the model of man. Or, to be more
precise, it is each of us, since we in our body and
minds are descended from the Anthropos.
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With one hand he points
upward, indicating his origin
in the upper aeons, and the
hope that he will rise up
through them to the One.
But, with the other hand he
points downward, indicating
that his body still belongs to
the Earth. This is the
HERMES
TRISMEGISTOS fundamental dualism of
Hermeticism.
The woman below him is Nature, who holds
both her hands downward to the Earth. As well,
her green mantle merges with the grassy Earth at
her feet, which is shadowy and in darkness. To
the right of her are the vegetalia (two trees) and
animalia (two leopards playing) which she
brought forth (first as androgynes, but eventually
as male and female).
We shall meet with this image of Nature again
in the article The Pantheist Johfra, where the
painting The Primordial Mother II re-appears.
The objects to the left are also part of
Nature’s progeny: the crystals and minerals that
she brought forth. Like metals tempered by fire,
the fundamental nature of all such mineralia may
be understood through the art of Alchemy.
Less obvious are the three geometrical
shapes. In the Timaeus (55d), Plato expounds
upon these geometrical figures, describing them
as ‘the elementary forms’ manifest in the four
elements, so that the earth is like a cube, fire like
a pyramid, and so on. The fundamental
Pythagorean doctrine, shared by Hermeticism, is
that all things emerge from these basic
geometrical shapes as well as the four elements.
At Nature’s feet is the earth. Meanwhile, at
the feet of the matriarch and patriarch to the left
and right, we find fire and water. The fourth
element of air is manifest above their heads, as
the ether and darkened clouds. Hence, Johfra
also offers for our meditations the four elements
which form all things.
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