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But, as we concentrate on the images along the
central axis, a new path is offered us in our
meditations. For, all these combinatory symbols
manifest masculine and feminine opposites in union.
And as we enter through them in succession, we
ascend the ladder of vision, and rise up through the
Chain of Being, so as to return in our meditations to
the Source of creation. The entwined serpents,
dragons, and eagles offer us more primordial and
animalistic images of unity. Moving from crawling
to winged beings, these figures slowly rise upward.
The entwining serpents – instinctually, in darkness
and unknowing – offer a more primordial vision of
unity. Still, as we enter through their image, the
serpents transform, acquire wings, and become like
the two dragons. As ‘serpents with wings’, the two
dragons offer us a ‘higher’ symbol of unity.
Then, as their wings expand, the dragons merge
into the two-headed eagle. Soaring freely across the
heavens, seeing all ‘from above’, the doppeladler
symbolizes yet an even higher vision of unity.
Finally, at the highest rung in the ladder of vision
stands man and woman in the form of the
alchemical hermaphroditus. This union of two
human forms symbolizes the Mysterium
Coniuntionis, the alchemical attainment of highest
knowledge. As such, we enter through this image
into a ‘knowing’ union with the One – now
understood as a union of God and Goddess in the
Unio Oppositorum.
As Johfra himself made explicit in his
description of this work:
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“In the representation of the
Gemini sign, I have especially
stressed duality, and used the
problem of duality as its main
motif... The task is to find their
Unity. Therefore, the painting is
built up symmetrically.
Everything positive is right;
everything negative is left, and
GEMINI
1975 arranged on various levels... The
two poles come together when
duality finds its solution in
Unity.”(Astrology p.21)
The majority of Johfra’s Hermetic works
were executed in the 1970’s. In the last two
decades of his life, he continued to paint works
that revealed Hermetic themes. Most of these
portrayed the resurrection that awaits the spirit
after the death of the body. But none of them had
the power or, I dare say, conviction of the images
just presented here.
Instead, he seemed to undergo a gradual
spiritual transformation, inwhich his thoughts
turned more towards the earth itself - to Nature,
and to a view of the world expressed by
Pantheism.
In the succeeding article, The Visionary
Revue examines The Pantheist Johfra.
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