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Archangel Rafael in a Cusco painting & in a painting by Juan de Valdés Leal (1622 – 1690), Spanish.

Rafael or Raphael is an archangel of healing in Abrahamic religions. In Islam his name is Israfil. He often holds a fish, symbol of healing (he healed Tobit with a fish's gall).

Romantic winter landscapes by Albert Bredow (1828 - 1899), German-Russian

These flowers are often depicted in images of Crucifixion, alongside Virgin Mary. The red is the symbol of undying love. It can also be symbol of forsaken love. When white, this flower is a symbol sincerity, and when purple it is a symbol of protection from evil.

Kazakh Legends illustrated by Assol Sas
(Link: https://t.co/zBAnJfVBVJ)

Water signs: Pisces, Scorpio, Cancer

- Kamala -

Kamala is the last mahavidya & marks the journey of transcendent knowledge towards mundane & ordinary. She is the end of the journey. At this stage, humans they are to see the beauty beyond the forms - the beauty of Divine is seen & mundane becomes sacred.

- Chinnamasta -

Chinnamasta is fifth mahavidya (comes before Bhairavi & Dhumavati, I missed her out by accident). She is the goddess of very strong & fearsome iconography. Standing naked, with her two maidens, she removes her own head.

But as Tantra is non-dual & is not simply about transcending limitations but embracing & transforming them, Dhumavati represents both ignorance of darkness & the sacred darkness of Non-Being out of which creation arises.

"What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?”
— "Amadeus", Peter Shaffer

Art: Hilma af Klint (1862 – 1944), Swedish

“So long as she is obedient to a mother—actual or internal—who unconsciously wishes to annihilate her, she is in a state of possession by the witch; she has to differentiate herself out from that witch in order to live her own life.”
- Marion Woodman, "Addiction to Perfection"