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February 2005, Page 1.
Index of articles:
by subject,
by date.
In this issue:
(February 2005)
Vicar's letter,
Matthew,
Windsor Report.
The meaning behind
Last month I gave you a picture puzzle on page 1 of this magazine: William Blake's "The Ancient of Days" adapted by adding a planet. I asked the question "can you see the Link?" It seems that most readers could see the Link was a chain from the creator to the planet he had created, but few of you spotted that the chain spelled the word "Jesus" (the "J" being the hook at the top, and the final "s" holding the planet below). That's the trouble with the visual arts - you either see it or you don't.
So try your eye on this next picture. The original artist, so I'm told, said it was the answer to the ultimate question. Is that what you see in these strange shapes? You have to do a bit of lateral thinking to see the meaning.
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I sure Jesus thought the same about reaching the truth about God. Because why else would he have taught in parables? Although he did say quite a few things in plain language, most of what he taught about the kingdom of heaven was in picture language. I'm sure his words "if anyone has ears to hear, let him hear," were an invitation to people to look behind the plain meaning of the story and see if they could work out what was the eternal truth. If we want to plumb the depths about God, we will have to start by getting a longer piece of string than we usually use for working out other facts of life
If you still can't see the meaning of black marks in the centre of this page, try making a black frame to put round the picture, so that the message in white can shine out.
John Hartley