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EDIT: Sorry about the text in blue. I have since gone back and darkened it but for right now it's probably mostly illegible. It's basically describing what Keter is and how it relates to the other sephirot.

I decided to focus on the Tree of Life from Kabbalah instead of trying to do larger concepts that would probably be lost on most people. The beams of light coming from the disc represent the 10 sephirot or emanations of God. The text on the right is a kind of mantra, the 72 Names of God or 72 arcangels (I don't know how that works, but it's a cool idea). One thing that led to this format was a lack of sufficient canvas for the frame, so I sewed some scraps of canvas to a larger piece, creating 3 seams that broke up the space quite nicely, which I decided to work around. The text "Amen Ainsi Soit Il" is from the end page of a book that Alphonse Mucha did on The Lord's Prayer entitled "Le Pater." "Ainsi soit il" is basically another translation of 'amen,' that is 'so be it' or 'and so it is.' Acrylic, pencil, collage.

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December 5, 2008
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Nov 30, 2008, 8:15:31 PM

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