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Victoria Ruzvidzo In Focus
Zimbabwe is now in an election period following Wednesday's proclamation by President Mnangagwa that the plebiscite will be on July 30. Previously, such pronouncements would have triggered trepidation and a lot of uncertainty economy-wide.
But what we find curious and exciting this time around is that, unlike in other years when business would be mourning about sliding into the red and the balance sheet not balancing because of an impending election, the story is actually different.
The correlation that has been there in the past is of a bad election run-up and a climate of mistrust that left the economy stuttering. Foreign investors would not want to hear about spending a dime on Zimbabwe, tourists would be fearing for their lives while multilateral and bilateral lenders would raise the risk factor on this country.
Many countries would issue travel warnings against Zimbabwe and news dominating the media space would largely be negative.
Even at family and individual level, a lot would be put in abeyance in anticipation of a bad election period that left people sitting on the edge. But the Zimbabwean story has changed.
The new dispensation has brought with it a lot of new trends, new targets and a completely new way of doing things.
Industry is not worried of any slide in performance between now and July 30. Individual companies are actually planning investments, retooling and engaging in a variety of expansion mechanisms. Previously they would all be saying we are waiting for the outcome of the elections, we cannot inject funds because we do not know what the outcome will be like.
We have also seen potential investors coming in droves to position themselves strategically for the post-election era. Some from China, Europe, the Middle East and other such markets are already keen to partake in the country's economic renaissance. The bulk of the $11 billion investments approved already are now at various stages of finalisation. The fact that elections are on in two months is something that does not worry them. In fact, it has given many the impetus to achieve.
Local firms such as Econet Wireless, Delta Corporation, Sakunda Holdings, Caps Holdings are optimistic and going about their business. In fact, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, which is sensitive to any positive or negative news, has remained unperturbed by the election season we are in.
For the record, market capitalisation has breached the $15 billion mark, the highest since dollarisation in 2009.
There is so much activity going on in the economy and this will yield results. Indeed, the economy cannot afford to go on pause, rewind or slow motion. If anything, all hands need to be on deck in terms of injecting more life. President Mnangagwa has not had a second to waste in this regard and we can all take a cue from him.
The economy has to usher in a better standard of living for the people, so focus should be on the goals and objectives that we have set ourselves to achieve as a country. Campaigning is critical but it should be within the confines of delivering a better Zimbabwe.
All candidates, whether Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance or from any of the 128 or so presidential hopefuls, should have the welfare of Zimbabwe uppermost in their minds. There is no need for destructive or self-defeatist strategies bent on scaring away investors or unsettling the economy or the country at large.
There is definitely no need for lies, sins of commission or omission or any such behaviour that could be harmful to the country but all should be guided by the need to get the country out of its present challenges.
Campaign strategies should not seek to leave the country in ruins as candidates and parties seek to outdo each other to endear themselves to the electorate and the international community.
The beauty of it this time is that the wrong perception about Zimbabwe is fast changing this time around and no amount of rubbishing will erase the stature that this country has assumed over the last few months.
For the voters, the candidates and the parties they represent, Zimbabwe is the only place we call home and we should all desire to protect our homeland and work for its prosperity before, during and after elections.
Zimbabwe is not a violent country, hence peace should be a currency that helps us attract investment, tourists and other goodies available on the global market.
So we need to guard against reckless statements and actions meant to destroy where others are building.
We do not need to narrate the challenges this economy has been experiencing over the last few decades. They are in black and white and all the colours we can fathom. The critical issue being that we should all endeavour to remedy the situation and put the economy back on track.
Cash queues, poor infrastructure, high bank charges, low exports, low productivity levels, use of obsolete equipment in factories, high imports and other such challenges will not go away through mere wishful thinking but the situation demands working hard, working smart and doing all we can within our respective spheres of influence to redress the challenges.
Elections are obviously about bread and butter issues. But more importantly, elections are about a better tomorrow and this can only be achieved if we make the right decisions today in all our conduct.
Zimbabwe has remained on its feet despite challenges and the last few months have brought hope and confidence that a brighter tomorrow is no longer a fallacy but a real possibility. The onus is on all of us to ensure we live the reality.
Posterity demands that we make sustainable use of our natural resources to hand over a better country in which future generations will prosper. There should be no gambling in this regard.
However, in all this discourse we should not lose sight of the fact that there are indeed investors and other interested parties sitting on the fence, waiting to see what happens during and after the elections.
They are waiting to see how the elections will be conducted and what the post-election period will be like. The outcome will then determine whether or not they will pour in funds into the economy.
This means the country will need to be at its best behaviour throughout the process so that we attract the capital that we so much need.
While parties are indeed preoccupied with elections, Government should proceed with its work while the private sector needs to spearhead economic activities.
No acts of sabotage are expected from any well-meaning and sober Zimbabwean. When democracy is at play, it remains to individuals, singularly or collectively, to make the right choices and actions in a responsible manner.
Elections are upon us indeed and these should take Zimbabwe forward not backwards. The mood so far is one of unity and progress except isolated cases and individuals who are quite excitable about the plebiscite. Let's all work together to ensure the post-July 30 Zimbabwe emerges the victor.
In God I Trust!


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AN IRISH MAN is set to appear in court in Leeds later today charged with attempting to engage in sexual activity with a person he believed to be a 13-year-old girl.
The man travelled to the English city at the weekend, where he was confronted by a group of people who had set up a fake online profile.
He is due to appear before Leeds Magistrates Court later.
RTÉ issued a statement last night, following a number of media enquiries, confirming the man was an employee of the State broadcaster.
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West Yorkshire Police confirmed a man in his 50s had been charged with "attempting to meet a child under 16-years of age following grooming" and "attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity".
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As we age our skin's natural cell renewal process slows down and cells which were once full of energy become sluggish, reducing radiance and tone.
Now a new glycolic peel kit from No 7 cosmetics at Boots promises to give "fast anti-ageing results" but is gentle enough to use at home.
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I found I was getting tired of the Caribbean setting as I got into this book. The series seems to have gotten bogged down in the tropics. I wanted Patricia Moyes to return to England with her plots. Or even the United States. The descriptions of gorgeous island scenery, smiling natives, and happy holiday sailors was beginning to bore me.
But Angel Dust turns is eventually full of action and exciting scenes on land and at sea. Another plus is Emmy, Chief Inspector Tibbett's wife, who show great resourcefulness and courage in helping her husband out of deep trouble.
The plot concerns the drug trade and organized crime. Abductions and murder add to the excitement. But in general I prefer domestic crime to international crime. No matter. I'm reading every book in this series regardless. All of them are cleverly contrived and have surprises to offer. Angel Dust is worth reading, if not the best book in the series.
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The winter season is soon to start and with it will come plentiful rabbit hunting opportunities. In some parts of the country, there is already snowfall, but the number of snowy locations will be increasing in the coming months. Once snow covers the ground, rabbit hunting becomes more fun and interesting for you and your rabbit dogs.
As the landscape turns white with snow, cottontails begin to stand out in stark contrast. This makes them easier to see and therefore easier to harvest. A brown bunny is far more noticeable in a world blanketed in white than he may be in an environment rich in hues of green and brown. Instead of staying in the warm house when the flurries start, make plans instead to seek and find cottontail rabbits. In the case of southern swamp rabbits, however, this may not apply as there are regions that rarely if ever see snow.
Although the cottontail is going to be easier to notice against a winter background, the snowshoe hare will be a trickier undertaking. The pelts of snowshoe hares will actually turn white in winter, making snow their friend and your foe. It takes a good eye and a good dog, of course, to spot a white snowshoe hare, but keep in mind that tough their bodies turn white, their ears do not. Keep an eye out for dark ears and eyes when seeking snowshoe hares in the dense coniferous forests they call home. Remember, too, that they are nocturnal and active at dusk and dawn.
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Regardless of the type of winter rabbit or hare you seek, there are a few things to remember. First of all, the same trusty standby locations should be kept in mind. These include thickets, brush piles, downed trees, and the like. Although some rabbits do live in holes, other rabbits prefer to make these types of locations their homes. Keep in mind that rabbits use several entrances and exits to their den, so just because a bunny shoots out of one place does not mean he didn't go back in another.
Whether it is your presence or that of your rabbit dogs that raises the rabbit alarm, once a rabbit is on the move, circling back is inevitable. It is a rabbit's natural inclination to do so, but your dogs will also run him back to you, so patience on your part is necessary as you wait for that to happen. Wait for a the best shot possible because the time it takes you to recover from a miss could cost you when your rabbit dogs do their job and run the rabbit into an area where a better shot can be taken.
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Informational Size and Incentive Compatibility
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- Richard McLean & Andrew Postlewaite, 2002. "Informational Size and Incentive Compatibility," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 70(6), pages 2421-2453, November.
- Richard McLean & Andrew Postlewaite, "undated". "Informational Size and Incentive Compatibility," CARESS Working Papres 99-14, University of Pennsylvania Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences.
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- Gul, Faruk & Postlewaite, Andrew, 1992. "Asymptotic Efficiency in Large Exchange Economies with Asymmetric Information," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 60(6), pages 1273-1292, November.
- McAfee, R Preston & Reny, Philip J, 1992. "Correlated Information and Mechanism Design," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 60(2), pages 395-421, March.
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Are you ready to die? If you knew today was your last day, would you be at peace, or would you be secretly terrified? Although this might sound like a particularly strange question, the truth is that none of us knows the exact moment our time is up, and each of us should, therefore, put our eternal affairs in order right away.
"…all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be." (Psalm 139:16b NIV)
Dying has been referred to as the moment we "meet our Maker," and indeed, it is. We are told, "…it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment." (Hebrews 9:27) There is a finality to it that causes many to instinctively and rightly feel that they are are not ready, yet counterintuitively, most of humanity gives as little thought to it as possible. This is not wise, for rather than avoiding this inevitable moment, we should prepare for it. But how are we to prepare for it? Is there something special we are to do? The truth is that there are two requirements that must be met for us not to fear the judgment that awaits every human being at the moment of his death.
The first thing we need to do in order to put our spiritual affairs in order is to repent–to make sure our life is really free from any sin we are aware of. (See http://www.christianity.co.nz/repent1.htm for an excellent explanation of repentance.) For those who have known God for a while, this may be as simple as honestly assessing their present behavior and turning away from anything that we've let slip. As Christians, we can't habitually live in sin. I John 3:9 tells us, "Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God." Yet perhaps we have unintentionally developed habits or behaviors or thought patterns that are not pleasing to God; upon recognizing them as such, these we should immediately abandon. For others who have never bothered to find out first hand what God says, it may involve sitting down for once in their lives and actually reading God's revelation to us, the Bible, so they can know what is sin–because you surely can't avoid it if you don't know what it is.
The second thing we need to do to put our affairs in order is to trust in the forgiveness Christ has earned for us through His death on the cross two thousand years ago. God tells us, "Therefore, as through one man's [Adam's] offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's [Christ's] righteous act [voluntary sacrificial death on the cross] the free gift [forgiveness] came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous." (Romans 5:18, 19) The death of the Savior, God's holy Son, Jesus the Christ paid for the penalty of sin in God's eyes.
Yet many have swerved from the truth of the Gospel. Rather than faithfully reading and studying the entirety of Scripture, some in the modern church have latched onto bits and pieces of it and watered it down to make it more palatable to a point where it seems ludicrous that any should be damned. Yet we know from Christ's own words that most will not be saved, for He said, "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." (Matthew 7:13, 14)
We have taken the doctrine of grace–of the unmerited favor of God–and have hammered home that all we have to do to be saved is accept the free gift of salvation to a point where our modern sensibilities actually believe we can do this without repenting–without ever changing, because changing requires work (sometimes quite a bit) and that would mean we've somehow earned our salvation. What contorted and damning thinking!
If you actually read the Bible, what it says, over and over and in many different words, is to repent. Right before His ascension into heaven, Jesus Himself told His disciples, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." (Luke 24:46b, 47) Repentance–a turning away from sin–always comes before the forgiveness of sins, and those who do not repent will not be forgiven! Do a search of the word "repent" on an online Bible site such as Biblegateway.com or manually in your Bible–there is no other way.
The Apostle John goes on at length about the interrelationship between holy living and belonging to Christ:
"And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil." (I John 3:5-8)
There was a plan to Jesus' coming. It wasn't just to take away God's punishment of–his wrath toward–sin. It was a master plan to actually save those who come to Him from sin. (Recall that the angel told Joseph, "And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." Matthew 1:21) It starts with our repentance, our turning away from the intentional commission of sin in our lives, and the forgiveness God bestows on us through Christ. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." (I John 1:5-7) God forgives us when we repent, not before–and certainly not if we don't repent!
But it doesn't end there–it ends on the day God removes us completely from even the temptation and presence of sin in eternity:
"And now, little children, abide in Him [in His teaching, in a lifestyle of repentance] that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him…Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure." (I John 2:28, 29, 3:2, 3)
The reason many people, even some who believe themselves to be Christians and saved, are afraid of death is because they haven't done one or the other of these two requirements. Either they haven't repented–they haven't turned away from sins they are doing–or they haven't trusted in the forgiveness God freely gives them because of the death and resurrection of Christ when they repent. So, are you afraid to die? You don't have to be! But you do have to make your peace with God, on His terms–the way He says to in the Bible.
Dear Lord,
"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts…see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." (Psalms 139:23, 24 KJV) Amen.
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I would like to use my Virtual Machine as a Bootcamp-machine on my MBP 2018.
The OS of the VM is actually Windows 7, 64bit.
The problem is, that bootcamp for MBP 2018 only supports Windows 10.
So Iam updating it to Windows 10 at the moment.
Next thing, is to transfer everything to get a running bootcamp-machine.
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Color affects everything! My work is about color relationships and the energy that color can generate...paintings on silk and on canvas
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Orange Chenille
Finally getting some photos on computer for potential blogs....today I spent much of the day in the gallery at Camp with open sign out, but few visitors. It was very cold without any heat turned on yet, but I wove...wove off the old warp, wound on a new one so very orange, the very colors I seem to exclaim over as we drive through the foliage change. I love winding the warp, choosing the colors to play together, to make the conversation of color mood I want to express. I use more colors in blending than most chenille weavers, because I have such a deep color love, but I cause myself some grief also as the threads tangle in their groupings and I am forever moving the tangles back as I weave forward. Bruce said, as he watched me today threading the loom, "There is so much more to weaving than anyone might imagine." It is a whole effort, but to combine threads like paint in subtle hues and then to pass the shuttle row by row and watch the inches grow into a scarf...there is some magic in it still for me even after more than 35 years of weaving....and folks still crave these chenille scarves so I continue to let them come through me as the days get cooler and the need for warmth is so present.
Posted by Maggie Neale at 10/01/2009
2 comments:
- Blue Sky Dreaming said...
This weaving is so beautiful and captures the season. I've always seen a patience and wisdom in weaving...an ancient and modern art.
- October 2, 2009 at 8:14 PM
- Angel Ray said...
Gorgeous hues - beautiful work!
- October 2, 2009 at 9:16 PM
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The only famous people I could give two hoots about serendipitously meeting here in Colombia are a very small number of politicians I respect and a few writers. Well, Shakira too (and her adorable son), but I'm never going to run into her in Bogotá. So, when Antanas Mockus (ex-mayor of Bogotá, defeated presidential candidate when I was here four years ago), who's like a rock star for me, arrived at the polling station on Sunday with his mother just as my roommate and I were leaving, I was in awe. I was very happy to listen to him talk for a few minutes and then bashfully shake his hand.
As I went around afterward blasting those two hoots, I was a little unsure of how to best express what had happened. I shook his hand, but in Spanish you don't use any of the verbs for shake: sacudir, temblar, agitar, menear.
A handshake is un apretón de manos. A hand squeeze. But could I say le apreté la mano? Nos apretamos la mano? Nos dimos un apretón de manos? The last thing I wanted to do was ruin my exploit by expressing it in some terribly nerdy way, but I was all thumbs.
The most recent book I read in Spanish was published in 1867, so I've got quite a bit of antique Spanish rattling around my brain. And since it was a tragic (and quite chaste) love story, everything was tearful embraces, fervent claspings of hands and impassioned grips that led nowhere between Efraín and María. The verb constantly used that I thus had emblazoned on my brain? Estrechar. I did tell one carful of friends I ran into that le estreché la mano a Mockus, but I felt kind of literary.
And then, by listening, I realized that it's the simplest thing in the world: you can just say dar la mano. Oh. Le di la mano a Mockus. Nos dimos la mano. I shook Mockus' hand (well, gave him mine and sort of made him shake it, really–the Spanish is more accurate here). We shook hands. Too easy.
As it turns out, all of these are perfectly valid ways of saying to shake someone's hand in Spanish. But what are you doing shaking hands? This is the land of the (single) cheek kiss, ¡aprovecha!
I don't have a picture, and, yes, I know this doesn't make up for my girl-who-cried-wolf faux pas from the last post. Sorry to be a tease and ultimately all blog and no action. Mea culpa. While we're on the subject, here are some other famous hands around town lately.


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In 2017 Dawn launched the #YouGotThisCampaign, which aims to empower the young women of South Africa and reaffirm that they 'got this'. I was among the 100 young women that Dawn chose to attend the first ever Dawn mentor-meet up. On the day of the event, I was among the eleven young women which Dawn chose through a raffle to receive long-term mentorship.
Dawn facilitated the mentorship program through a partnership with DreamGirls Academy, a non-governmental organization which focuses on encouraging young women to pursue a tertiary education and become independent, empowered and successful professionals or entrepreneurs who are catalysts for positive change in their communities.
The academy achieves its aims through one-on-one mentorship and workshops which focus on areas such as life design, goal setting, financial planning, professional advancement and personal development.
Life is challenging for young millennial women, we live in a land of opportunity so we are able to dream big and pursue our dreams.
In that process of pursuing our dreams, we often face triumphs and failures and that is why mentorship is important for all spheres of life, be it academic, professional or in a social aspect; we all need a little guidance at one point or another.
Mentor-mentee relationships are an honest exchange of experiences, which result in guidance, inspiration and occasionally tearful coffee dates.
The Dawn-DreamGirls Academy Dreamers to Leaders mentorship program exposed me to basic financial literacy skills, personal branding/networking classes and the tools that I need to present my best self at all times.
I have also learnt that it is important that I use my platform to uplift others, and that I should care for and love myself first because one cannot pour out of an empty cup.
Through this program, I learnt that sisterhood is important. I realized that I am not alone in my journey and that great things happen when women come together.
I am grateful to Dawn for this amazing initiative. I am grateful to DreamGirls Academy for facilitating the amazing workshops and I am grateful to the mentors who invested their time in this cohort of mentees.
The most important thing that I walked away with from this program is that leadership is devoting your life to others, in the words of my mentor, Leanne Dlamini, "everyone wants to lead but nobody wants to serve."
Be the change that you want to see in the world, volunteer at an NGO, use the platform which you have been given, use your voice, or perhaps consider becoming a mentor.
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The Comet MP20 is a medium pressure, twin diaphragm pump with universal drive face and mounting rails. This pump is made of anodized aluminum and is excellent for medium pressure applications, making it well suited for lawn care, pest control, agricultural, foam insulation, and heavy-duty applications. Easily handles a wide variety of fluids, including fertilizers, abrasives, herbicides, pesticides, de-icing materials, suspension products, and other hard-to-handle fluids.
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Yesterday instead of Black Friday shopping, we declared it "Craft Friday" at our house. We had fun making Christmas cards and a few other top secret projects.
The most fun for me was when my younger daughter and her friend were going to make Christmas cards and my daughter asked if they could make One Sheet Wonder cards. My older daughter has been making tons of One Sheet Wonder cards, so it was nice to see that the younger one has been paying attention. 🙂 I said yes, of course!
Once I set them up with their own stamping stations they picked their stamps and ink colors, then went to work stamping their own background papers.
IMPORTANT: When you are crafting with kids, it's important to encourage them and give them tips but please DON'T take over or tell them they HAVE to do something a certain way. Let them be creative!!! They might not do it the way you would, but they are making the card. Let them make it. It's okay if it looks like a kid made it… they did!
Once they had their backgrounds stamped, I helped them cut it up according to a One Sheet Wonder template. We chose the templates based on what they wanted: "one of those diagonal ones", and which direction they had stamped their paper.
Then they got busy making cards! When they needed a break they first decided that they needed to set up their cards to photograph them. Then they texted photos of the cards to my husband and the friend's mom. They were so proud!
Here's the first batch of cards they both made…
I helped them with some cutting and things first… like showing them how to use the Stamp-a-ma-jig and how to clean the stamps! Then I just let them go and was available if they needed help. I think they did a great job!
These girls are 9 and 10 years old. If they can do it, so can you. Learn the One Sheet Wonder method by taking one of my online video classes. I'll show you step-by-step how easy it is and you can make cards using any paper crafting supplies that you have.
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A designer based in Düsseldorf in Germany has developed carton versions of some major alochol brands. Jörn Beyer (aka Jørn) has created this 'Ecohols' series for Jack Daniels, Absolut Vodka and Jägermeister products.
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The Bad Teinach mineral hot springs resort church Baroque altarpiece, is one of the largest, most complex and most integrated visual manifestos of counter-reformation mystical Roman Catholic Christianity. The work is densely packed with Biblical, alchemical, astrological and kabbalistic imagery, integrated into the usual layer of political and social aspirations. This collaborative design was commissioned by Princess Antonia's circle of religious and academic advisors, painted by Johann Friedrich Gruber, court painter at Stuttgart in 1659 -1663, and installed 1673. Its designs now present an opportunity to test the structuralist art analysis axial grid model, based on the anthropology of Claude Levi-Strauss; and the psychology of Carl Jung; and the philosophical concept of archetype, as a pre-existent potential that guides natural and cultural expressions by subconscious inspiration. Triptychs have three views, perhaps analogous to the three planes of time and space and time (see polar triangles in the axial grids below).
Demonstration of a universal, subconscious standard structure in all complex art, and in some other cultural media (particularly myth and ritual) of all cultures and eras, from extant Ice Age art to contemporary art, challenges the conscious paradigm of all the human sciences. The triptych in Bad Teinach, in the Black Forest, was designed as a visual manifesto of counter-reformation mystical Roman Catholic Christianity. The design is a Kabbalistic teaching board, six metres tall, dominating the small church interior. Gruber was court painter at Stuttgart. Antonia's brother, Duke Eberhard, had established the church as a private family chapel, partly to house the artwork. The family took summer holidays in the bath town.
Royal patronage of esoteric philosophy, or scientific mysticism, was first recorded under kings Ur Nanshe and Gudea in Sumeria (Furter 2016); and was also prominent in the politics of medieval Italy and Renaissance Europe. Conscious and subconscious agendas in all cultural media perpetually divide economies, religions, and culture into stylistic differences. In addition, mainstream culture always fractures into craftic counter-cults. Gnosticism and Sufism remain distinct cults in Christianity and Islam. Speculative Masonry and other cults perpetually attempt vertical integration, but religion and crafts remain as repellent as science and esoterica.
While alchemy was developing into science, its labels, tables and formulae became conscious technology and academia, while its correspondence theories retained popular currency, notoriety, and at times suppression. The esoteric or Gnostic motto that Phil Norfleet cites about the Bad Teinach artwork, acquires new meaning in the context of subconscious expression: "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honour of kings to search out such a matter," after Proverbs 25;2.
Princess Antonia of Wurttenberg, her sisters, and the women of Bad Teinach, were mainly widows after the Thirty years' War. They embraced charitable and esoteric causes. Under its integrated layers of Judaeo-Christian, alchemical, astronomical and kabbalistic symbolism, the Bad Teinach altarpiece subconsciously expresses four sets of the universal standard 'grammar' or 'DNA' of art; three of these are stacked vertically in the central panel. Each cycle includes the sixteen archetypes; in their standard semi-circular sequence; with the eyes of typological characters on an axial grid connecting the pairs of opposites; and with the usual tri-polar structure of two mirrored triangles on five points, marked by certain limb joints. This subconscious structure, rigorous as usual, confirms that the core content of any complex artwork is standard; and that five layers of structure, and about 60% of 100 known optional recurrent features, are predictable in cultural works from any place and time. The same applies to rock art, modern art, and future artworks.
The structure of expression, and mechanisms of culture, is not an idle game. These features also appear in natural media, and thus in archetype. They reveal the structure of meaning itself, and offer a unique opportunity to raise subconscious behaviour to conscious study. On consciousness, Jung noted: "Without the existence of conscious concepts, perception is impossible. This explains numerous neurotic disturbances which arise when certain contents are constellated in the unconscious [named subconscious in the present study]; but cannot be assimilated, owing to the lack of perceptive concepts that would grasp them. It is extremely important to tell children fairy-tales and legends, and to inculcate religious ideas and dogmas into adults, because these things are instrumental symbols with whose help unconscious contents can be canalized into consciousness, interpreted, and integrated. Failing this, their energy flows off into unconscious contents which, normally, are not much emphasized, and intensifies them to pathological proportions. We then get apparently groundless phobias and obsessions; crazes, idiosyncrasies, hypochondriac ideas, and intellectual perversions, camouflaged in social, religious, or political garb".
Alchemists always have an intuitive grasp of the need to study the inherent structure of nature and culture, as they did before psychology was a science or even a word. Freud and Jung brought the eternal craft of spiritual therapy into science, where it lives uncomfortably close to secular chemical medicine. The Bad Teinach altarpiece, alchemy, astrology and kabbalah all seem distant from the conscious crafts of philosophy, self-improvement and scientific culture today. However the periodic table, at the root of chemistry, physics and medicine; and the standard model of physics (Furter 2016), are fruits of structuralism.
The structure of expression and perception, though camouflaged among our conscious obsessions, is more consistent than conventional symbolic features, such as vague correspondences between gods, stock characters, ritual gestures, devices, planets, constellations and colours. Subconscious expression never co-incides with conscious designs (as their different 'perspective' centres confirm). Expression usually partially confirms, and partially contradicts the conscious symbolism in artistic 'programmes' such as religious texts, alchemical stages, planets, and kabbalistic sephirot tableau.
In the alchemical work titled 'Cabala as mirror of art and nature' (Furter 2014) is an astrological cycle and a planetary cycle; both entirely contradicted by the artist's subconscious expression. In Poussin's Helios and Phaeton, his subconscious expression entirely contradicts an astrological band, which is mere decoration (Furter 2014). Most alchemists are artists rather than chemists; and most artists are not philosophers or esotericists. Culture operates on two distinct levels of consciousness, confirming some of the findings of Carl Jung regarding archetype (after Plato and others) in our psychic motivations. Structuralist analysis of artworks and built sites (Furter 2016) confirm some of the findings of Claude Levi-Strauss regarding our innate tendency to isolate elements of experience into natural categories. But the structure of perception and expression is now revealed to be much more detailed than Plato, Jung, or Levi-Strauss found. The combination of simplistic features (bent forward, or arms up, or juvenile, and so on); and complexity of combination of features (optionality, sequence, eye position, axial grid, relative orientation of polar elements), indicate that our subconscious mind 'sees and speaks' in natural categories of archetypal meaning; and is much better at spatial composition than our conscious minds could be.
The eye-hand-mind co-ordination of artists, including recognised masters, gifted amateurs, and unknown rock art masters, is an instrument for archetypal expression. Isolation of layers of rigorous recurrent features in cultural media, raise the need for a more comprehensive form of art analysis, terminology, and definitions of what art and culture is.
Princess Antonia and her advisors had made a fine art of esoteric crafts, at a more intuitive level than science. Art history, anthropology, psychology, sociology and the other humanities now has a model to isolate categorical archetypal core content, from ambiguous symbols, and from superfluous styling. A provisional scoring system to test the quality of structural art analysis, confirm that about 60% of the claims made about the hidden structure of artworks, are usually correct. Analysis scores range between 40% and 80%, or 40% variance, on a sigma curve. Scoring indicates only the quality of analysis, not the quality of artworks. Some works are remarkable for containing two, or three (as in the Bad Teinach central panel), or even four adjacent and interlocking mindprints.
Archetype in the Bad Teinach Philosopher's garden foreground
The Bad Teinach altarpiece central panel bottom register, or foreground, pictures a Philosopher's garden, with twelve sons of Jacob as patriarchs of twelve tribes; below some prophets at the allegorical college building. The caption below reports the underlying archetype, in the standard structuralist axial grid model and labelling format, here adding subconscious astrological analogues to the generic type names.
Type Number, Label, Decan; Garden character (noting archetypal features):
1 Builder or Taurus; Prophet Isaiah, as Rosicrucian leader Andreae (hero), in the mountain (cave) gate, with cup (rain), crown, scroll (book), spear (former spring marker).
2 Builder or Taurus; Prophet Ezekiel (hero) in the mountain (cave) gate, with survey plan (book), trumpet (thunder) and skeleton (more typical of 13).
2c Basket or Algol; Sephiroth's Glory (instrument, secret, school).
3 Queen or Aries; Sephirothic (school) Glory as a woman (queen), golden statue.
4 KingA or Pisces; Statue of Joseph (furnace) dreamer, at the right corner (rectangle).
4 KingB or Pisces; Christ (king, sun, 'twin' of John) on throne (squat, rectangle).
4 KingC or Pisces; John Baptist ('twin' of Christ. More typical of 5).
5a Priest or Aquarius; Healing snake (reptile) of Moses (priest) on a cross. And Moon (water) priestess (priest, assembly) half-cloaked (sash. See Tarot trump 21, World; 21 is a magnitude of 5 in base-8 with two fives).
5b PriestA or Aquarius; Sephirothic Eternity (assembly?), in green and brown (varicoloured), axis to his chest (heart, of 13 opposite).
5b PriestB or Aquarius; Statue of Joshua (judge), at the left corner, axis to chest (heart, of 13 opposite).
5c Basket Tail or Piscis Austrinus; A prophet, in prayer, with scroll (weave, reveal. See also the Heaven register), on a phoenix or dragon (tail).
6 Exile or Capricornus; A prophet, in the field gate, with scroll and oracle pot (sacrifice, U-shape).
7 ChildA or Sagittarius; Evangelist with eagle.
7 ChildB or Sagittarius; Evangelist with angel's (juvenile) head (beheaded, manifesting).
7g Galactic Centre; Agave flower on stem, hemp plant for making rope (rope).
8 Healer or Scorpius; Tribe Naphatli's antler hind deer (trance. See Tarot trump 9, Hermit with antler, or wearing antlers), with cornucopia (heal) on a tree stump (pillar).
9 Healer or Scorpius; Tribe Dan, with scales (of 10), with sword (strong), serpent (snake, heal) at his feet.
9c Basket Lid or Serpens; Dan's serpent (snake, reveal).
10 Teacher or Libra; Tribe Asher, prosperous (trade), shoes of iron and brass (metal, trade), linked to Phoenicia; one arm up (arm-up), a baker holding wheat (more typical of 11), near the gate (guard).
11 Womb or Virgo; Asher's midriff ('womb'), with bread? (wheat?)
11 Womb or VirgoB; Ewe's midriff (womb).
11 Womb or VirgoC; Princess Antonia's midriff (womb), as virtue (virginity) in the gate (interior).
12 Heart or Leo; Tribe Zebulon, 'Of single heart (heart), no double heart (IChron12:33), 'Fully armed' (weapons); 'Fought (war) at Merom to death (death)(Judges5:18); his axis to his chest (heart), with anchor (weapon, more often scythe).
13 HeartA or Leo; Tribe Judah, axis to his chest (heart), with lion (felid), sword (weapon).
13 HeartB or Leo; Tribe Issachar (of 14), axis to his chest (heart), with ass (of 14) and globe (summer?).
13c Basket Head or Leo Minor; Tribe Ruben, with shield (lid), near the centre (ingress, of 14).
14 Mixer or Cancer; Tribe Simeon, with two staffs (more typical of 9/10), wolf (canid, also of 9/10), near the centre (ingress).
15 MakerA or Gemini; Evangelist with a bull (more typical of 1 adjacent).
15 MakerB or Gemini; Evangelist with a lion (rampant. More typical of 13). Two types 15 (doubled), hold bull and lion (churn, order).
15g Gate; City gate (path, juncture).
Axial centre; Moon water font edge (juncture).
4p Galactic South Pole; Christ's foot (limb-joint).
11p Galactic Pole; Central Christ's elbow (limb-joint) at his cross. And Princess Antonia's dismembered heart in her hand (limb-joint).
Summer or Celestial Pole (cp); Luna's knee (limb-joint), horizontal to the axial centre. Theses markers place summer on axis 15 or Gemini, thus spring and the cultural time-frame in Age Pisces. The top central position of type 4 or Pisces, as Christ, and as John, confirm the time-frame.
A general theme in the garden register is type 4 King; typical of rectangle (here flower-beds); garden (see Tarot trump 19, Sun over a walled garden. A higher magnitude of 4 in base-8 with two types 5, is 19); furnace (college as alchemical furnace); and twins (axes 4v11, 5a v13, 6v14, and 7v15 are all doubled here). All five layers of structural expression are subconscious to artists, and members of any culture.
The analysis score in the garden register is 57/68 archetypal features; 26/16 axial points (excessive scores are accounted, usually neutralised by off-grid characters); 10/4 c-type sector features; 2/2 g-gate sector features; 3/5 polar markers; 2/2 planar or cardinal orientations; 1/1 correlation with the Age or Age prior to the work; 2/2 general themes; thus 103/100, minus 11 extra characters off the axial grid; total 92%, one of the highest scores found among about 750 analyses.
Archetype in the Bad Teinach Philosopher's college building
The Bad Teinach altarpiece central panel middle register pictures a philosopher's college. The list below gives the underlying archetype in the standard structuralist axial grid model and labelling format, adding subconscious astrological analogues.
Type Number, Label, Decan; College character (noting archetypal features):
01 Builder or Taurus; OFF THE GRID Golden ibis at an obelisk.
02 Builder or Taurus; Evangelist with lion (monster) and book (book).
02c Basket; A prophet in the city gate, with cup (container) and scroll (book, texture).
03 Queen Aries; A prophet with jug (sacrifice), a plan (book, of adjacent 2), and a scroll (school), head inclined (neck bent).
04 KingA or Pisces; Statue of Joseph? (sun?), at the hall right corner (rectangle), paired with Joshua ('twin').
04 KingB or Pisces; Right crucifix ('king'), paired with another (twin).
05a Priest or Aquarius; Aaron (priest) at an altar (assembly) recalling golden calf (bovid, hyperactive).
05b PriestA or Aquarius; Left crucifix, axis to its chest (heart, of 13 opposite), of snake (reptile).
05b PriestB or Aquarius; Statue of Joshua? (war, or 13 opposite), as cup-bearer (decan Aquarius, rare; water); at the hall left corner.
05c Basket Tail; Wall engraving (texture) of Queen Sheba (exile, of 6) of incense and myrrh (tree).
06 Exile or Capricornus; A prophet in the field gate, scroll, divination pot (sacrifice, U-shape), sextant (triangle).
07 Child or Sagittarius; Tabernacle of cloth (bag, rope, unfold), formerly Ark of Covenant (chariot?), later empty (eyeless).
07g Galactic Centre; Mt Sinai base (path, juncture).
08 Healer or Scorpius; OFF THE GRID Peacock bent forward, at obelisk. And engraving of Daniel in furnace.
09 Healer or Scorpius; St Michael in battle (strong) over Mt Sinai (pillar?).
09c Basket Lid; Angel with trumpet (instrument, metal, reveal, enforce, armlink). And Phoenix in nest (weave, disc) on obelisk (pillar).
10 Teacher or Libra; Justice (of 10 or 11), shield, sword (metal), arms up (arms up), at dome (disc) among procession (carousel).
11 WombB or Virgo; Love or Sephirothic Beauty's midriff (womb).
11 WombA or Virgo; Mercy's midriff (womb), at engraving of annunciation of her pregnancy (womb).
12 Heart or Leo; Blue angel (angel) with harp, axis to his chest (heart).
13 HeartA or Leo; Crane, axis to its chest (heart), with ? (weapon?), on spire of element water (water-work).
13 HeartB or Leo; Angel (angel) with trumpet (of 5 opposite), of heaven (death).
13c Basket Head; Halo (hat, lid, head) of secret book (time, oracle).
14 Mixer or Cancer; Microcosm of God's secret book (time), near the centre (ingress).
15 Maker or Gemini; Angel (winged) with Gospel (order, book of 1) and wand (sceptre). And (doubled) angel (winged) with millstone (churn).
15g Gate; Zion city gate (path, juncture), under God's microcosm (juncture).
Axial centre; Patriarch Jacob's throne.
4p Galactic South Pole; Crucifix hand (limb joint)
11p Galactic Pole; Beauty's foot (limb joint)
Summer; Pillar Jacin. Midwinter; Carved phoenix tail (limb joint). The horizontal plane confirms the summer marker between axes 15-1 or Gemini-Taurus, thus spring and the cultural time-frame in Age Pisces-Aquarius. However the vertical plane of the axial centre is in Pisces-Virgo, with Christ and St John as types 4 or Pisces, confirming and Age Pisces spring.
A general theme in the central or college building's register, is type 11 Womb; typical of gestation, domes or furnaces. Six women are on the lintel and facade, and two of these express type 11 Virgo, with prominent wombs on the axial grid; and one also expressing 11 in the upper register mindprint. All five layers of structuralist expression are subconscious to artists and members of any culture.
The analysis score in the mid register is 47/68 archetypal features; 18/16 axial points; 18/4 c-type sector features; 5/2 g-gate sector features; 3/5 polar markers; 1/2 planar or cardinal orientations; 1/1 correlation with the Age, or Age prior to the work; 2/2 general themes; thus 95/100, minus 8 extra characters off the axial grid; total 87%, above the top of the average range.
Archetype in the Bad Teinach Heaven register
The Bad Teinach altarpiece central panel top register pictures Heaven. The list below gives the underlying archetype in the standard structuralist axial grid model and labelling format, adding subconscious astrological analogues.
Type Number, Label, Decan; Heaven character (noting archetypal features):
01 Builder or Taurus; Wind angel, flying (twist, bird).
02 Builder or Taurus; Praise angel playing violin (twist).
03 Queen or Aries; Cherub in green.
04 King or Pisces; Yod letter on sephirot Crown (king. See Tarot trump 4, Emperor).
05a Priest or Aquarius; Cherub (winged) in red (colours, sash).
05b Priest or Aquarius; High order angel (winged), multi-winged (hyperactive, large).
05c Basket Tail; Cherub flying (horizontal, of 5), off the grid, as most c-types are.
06 Exile or Capricornus; Angel with long scroll (of 5c), far from the centre (egress).
07 Child or Sagittarius; Cherub (juvenile).
07g Galactic Centre; Golden angel sitting. And sun on dome top.
08 Healer or Scorpius; Cherub with palm branch, diving (bent forward).
09 Healer or Scorpius; Daniel's giant (strong, large) of steel (metal) with sword, at obelisk (pillar) of fire (smelt).
09c Basket Lid; Holy Spirit (reveal). And dome (lid, metal) with engravings (texture). And Ezekiel's four throne angels (instrument). And Justice (of 10/11) with shield, sword (metal), arms up (of 10), among procession (carousel).
10 Teacher or Libra; God?, arms up (arms), central (balance), in a trio (polar function), central on the dome (disc, guard, carousel), under the crown of God (metal), flanked by crowns of Holy Spirit and Son (council).
11 Womb or Virgo; Mercy's midriff (womb).
12 Heart or Leo; Cherub (angel) with palm branch (scythe shape), diving (invert).
13 Heart or Leo; Praise angel (angel) with harp, axis to his chest (heart).
13c Basket Head; Crane (oracle) with ? (weapon? Of 13) in nest (weave), on spire of element water (water-work).
14 Mixer or Cancer; Mt Zion base, eternal (time), tree-shaped (tree. See alchemical arbores), far from the centre (egress).
15 Maker or Gemini; Red angel (winged) with lute.
15g Gate; Green angel. And red angel (doubled, of 15), smiting (smite).
Axial; Unmarked, near Enoch.
4p Galactic South Pole; God's monogram, A/V (juncture).
11p Galactic Pole; Angel's foot (limb-joint), on the dome (juncture).
Summer; Unmarked, near the burning bush of Moses, horizontal from the centre. This marker places summer on axis 15 or Gemini, thus spring and the cultural time-frame in Age Pisces, confirming the other two registers. The top central crown as type 4 King or Pisces, confirms the time-frame.
A general theme in the heaven register is type 10 Teacher (here God the Father), typical of balance, elements, cycles, wheels (here the central rosette under type 10). All five layers of structural expression are subconscious to artists, and members of any culture.
The analysis score in the heaven sector is 34/68 archetypal features; 16/16 axial points; 12/4 c-type sector features; 2/2 g-gate sector features; 2/5 polar markers; 1/2 planar or cardinal orientations; 1/1 correlation with the Age, or Age prior to the work; 3/2 general themes; thus 71/100, minus11 extra characters off the axial grid; total 60%, on the universal average, despite some conscious and subconscious compromises with competing programmatic elements; perhaps compensated for by baroque opulence.
Archetype in the Bad Teinach triptych Egypt and Moses wings
The Bad Teinach altarpiece triptych wings interiors picture the holy family's Flight to Egypt with baby Christ; and an Egyptian princess finding baby Moses in the Nile. Some scholars (Rohl 2007) see Abraham as an Egyptian pharaoh; and Christ's foster father Joseph's name as more than coincidence, since prophet Joseph was vizier or acting prince of Egypt; and had invited his estranged family to visit, perhaps to stay in the Nile Delta. Some see Moses and the Exodus as Egyptian royal and Akhenaton priestly exiles; Jewish Testament books as hiding their Egyptian legacy from Babylonian masters; Christ as Egyptian royal descendant in exile; the New Testament as hiding this Egyptian legacy from Rome; and the Flight to Egypt as a futile attempt to seek asylum with estranged family. Renaissance scholars and astrologers were familiar with Egyptian esoterica, thus the triptych wings may have consciously intended to integrate Biblical history into this religious, cultural and artistic manifesto.
The two wing panels are fixed further apart than shown here, but they form a standard archetypal cycle and axial grid when spaced moderately, indicating that they were designed on one surface. General themes in this design include type 6 Exile, typical of egress (here of a design split into flanking panels); sacrifice (baby in basket, and baby escaping Heroid's genocide but destined for crucifixion), small (babies), tree (in both panels); and its axial opposite, type 14 Mixer, of egress, time (here similar episodes in the era of Abraham, Moses and Christ), transform (virgin to mother). Another general theme here is the four transitional or 'Basket' fields, 2c v9c and 5c v13c; typical of woven texture (here the basket, reeds, trees, lamp glass); container (basket, lamp); secret (identity of the child, or of the parents, hidden in oracles). The list below notes features of the underlying archetype in the standard structuralist axial grid model and labelling format, adding subconscious astrological analogues.
Type Number and Label; Egypt character (noting archetypal features):
1 Builder; OFF THE GRID Egyptian princess prefiguring Mary with courtiers (see Egyptian legacy notes above).
2 Builder; Egyptian slave (builder) gesturing (twist) from a tight group (cluster).
2c Basket; Princess' cloak (weave, arm-link).
3 Queen; Egyptian queen (queen) at the Nile (pool).
4 King; PrincessB (twin?) kneeling (squat) with golden cloak, her right eye.
5a Priest; PrincessB with red hair (colour), golden cloak (sash), her left eye (tailcoat-head).
5c Basket Tail; Key (secret, container, reveal) of princess. And princess C with hat or braids (weave, disc) finding Moses (reveal).
6 Exile; Baby (small) Moses, far from the centre (egress) in a basket (U-shape, sacrifice), later pictured with ram's (caprid) horns (horned).
7 Child; Donkey steed (chariot) with passenger (bag), child (juvenile), reins (rope); both eyes on the axial grid.
9 Healer; Joseph's lamp (lamp, trance. See Tarot trump 9, Hermit with a lamp. Recurrent features arise from archetypal inspiration, rarely from learning or conspiracy).
9c Basket Lid; Lamp cover (disc, lid, instrument, reveal, metal) held by Joseph (arm-link).
10 Teacher; Joseph holding (arms up) lamp and staff (staff), with hat (disc), escort (guard) of Mary and Christ.
11 Womb; Mary's midriff (womb).
12 Heart; Baby Christ's chest (heart), descendant of David of Judah, lion (felid), destined to die young (death).
13c Basket Head; Christ as prophesied (oracle), with halo (hat, weave); off the grid as c-types usually are.
14 Mixer; Mary, virgin yet mother (transform).
15 Maker; Egyptian courtiers A and B (doubled), empire (order) and slave masters (mace, smite).
15g Gal.Gate; Egyptian courtier C.
Axial centre; On the left inner frame or cut-line (juncture).
4p Gal.S.Pole; Egyptian princess' hip (limb-joint).
11p Gal.Pole; Mary's elbow (limb-joint), not labelled here to avoid clutter.
Summer and winter; Probably on the left inner frame or cut-line (juncture), thus on the vertical plane, placing summer between axes 14-15 or Cancer-Gemini, thus spring and the cultural time-frame in Age Aries-Pisces. Age Aries may be confirmed by the Egyptian queen on the right, who is uniquely shown in small perspective.
The analysis score in the two Bad Teinach wings is 34/68 archetypal features; 12/16 axial points; 14/4 c-type sector features; 0/2 g-gate sector features; 2/5 polar markers; 1/2 planar or cardinal orientations; 1/1 correlation with the Age, or Age prior to the work; 2/2 general themes; thus 66/100, minus 2 extra characters off the axial grid; total 64%, near the global average. Structuralist features of expression are universal, and subconscious to artists, architects, builders, crafters and members of any culture.
Archetype in the Bad Teinach Bridal procession
The Bad Teinach altarpiece triptych cover top two registers, picture a Bridal procession. The list below gives the underlying archetype in the standard structuralist axial grid model and labelling format, adding subconscious astrological analogues.
Type Number, Label, Decan; Procession character (noting archetypal features):
1 Builder or Taurus; Golden angel musician in group (cluster) on scroll (book).
2 Builder or Taurus; Brown angel trumpeter (twist, cluster).
2c Basket or Algol; Two trumpets (instrument, arm-link).
3 Queen or Aries; Blue angel trumpeter.
4 King or Pisces; Purple angel beating two (twin) drums.
5a Priest or Aquarius; Tan angel (winged) trumpeter (trumpet. See Tarot trump 20, Judgement with trumpet; 20 is a magnitude of 5 in base-8) in group (assembly).
5b PriestA or Aquarius; Dark blue angel (winged) reclining (horizontal).
5b PriestB or Aquarius; Purple-orange (varicoloured) angel (winged), axis to his chest (heart, of 13 opposite), in group (assembly) at scroll (sash).
5c Basket Tail or Piscis Austrinus; Scroll (texture) part three (reveal). And woven (weave) vase (container). And door into heaven.
6 ExileA or Capricornus; Woman in red and blue, neck bent (more usual at 3), further from the centre (egress).
6 Exile or Child extra; OFF THE GRID Woman with apple and skull.
7 Child or Sagittarius; Women kneeling with two children (juvenile).
7g Gal.Centre;Child's foot (limb-joint) on route (path) in cloud (water).
8 Healer or Scorpius; ChildB, squatting (bent forward).
9 Healer or Scorpius; Bridesmaid, sister Sybilla, named after an oracle (trance) in blue, inclining (bent forward), holding thorns or scourge (strength, 'heal').
9c Basket Lid or Lupus; Scourge (weave, instrument, enforce) and anchor (instrument, metal) held by women (arm-link).
10 Teacher or Libra; Bridesmaid (guard, council), sister Anna Johanna, holding up (arm up) an anchor (metal, market, 'staff').
11 Womb or Virgo; Princess Antonia's midriff (womb), crowned (law) bride of Christ.
12 Heart or Leo; Princess Antonia's chest (heart).
13 HeartA or Leo; Princess Antonia, bride of Christ of Judah or lion (felid),
13 HeartB or Leo; Christ of Judah or lion (felid) crowing Princess Antonia, carrying curved palm branch as scythe (weapon, death).
13c Basket Head; Scroll (oracle, weave) fist section (head).
14 Mixer or Cancer; Pink angel (angel) holding scroll.
15 Maker or Gemini; Red angel (winged) trumpeter.
Axial centre; Golden angel's elbow (limb-joint).
4p Galactic South Pole; Purple angel's shoulder (limb-joint).
11p Galactic Pole; Antonia's shoulder (limb-joint).
Summer; Pink angel's lower hand (limb-joint).
Winter; Unmarked.
The marker and the horizontal plane place summer between axes 13-14 or Leo-Cancer, thus spring and the cultural time-frame in Age Taurus-Aries, about BC 1400. This era, between the generally alchemical and astrological time-frames, support the theme of heavenly eternity. The golden angel as type 1 Builder is in the middle top, perhaps a spring marker confirming the time-frame as the perceived alchemical or eternal past.
A general theme in the Bridal procession is type 13 Heart, of death (afterlife), eternity (heaven), or platforms (registers of clouds). All five layers of structural expression are subconscious to artists, and members of any culture.
The analysis score is 35/68 archetypal features; 18/16 axial points; 15/4 c-type sector features; 2/2 g-gate sector features; 4/5 polar markers; 0/2 planar or cardinal orientations; 1/1 correlation with the Age, or Age prior to the work; 1/2 general themes; thus 76/100, minus 5 extra characters off the axial grid; total 71%, in the top half of the sigma curve of averages.
Structuralist data confirm visual 'grammar'
Structuralist analysis scores in the three mindprints in the central panel is 92%, 87%, 60%; in the Flight to Egypt wings 64%; in the Bridal procession 71%. Their total average is 75%, in the upper range, against currently known subconscious features in visual expression. If more universal average elements are discovered, score weighting between the layers may change. The scoring was designed to identify whether an analysis had identified the subconsciously 'intended' typological identifications; sequence; axial grid; polar markers; and time-frame elements. Any result above 80%, or below 40%; or consistently high or low results in artworks that could be grouped by place, time, style, or media, would indicate bias in the identified structure, or in the scoring. Given the complexity, and the consistency of about 700 test results in artworks from a wide range of cultures, styles, and eras, the method is deemed sufficient for confirming subconscious expression of archetypal structure. The unusually high score in the bottom two registers of this dense esoteric work by a team of advisors, could be ascribed to meditative integration.
Art expresses conscious and subconscious meanings
Over-conceptualisation alone (as in some paintings by Blake, and Poussin) do not achieve excessive scores, but lower some scores due to conscious interference between inspiration and design. Over-stylisation (as in many Mayan, Aztec, and some modern works) could also damage the structure of visual expression, unless it is integrated into the content and design by meditation, which in artists (as in poetry) could be defined as a process to suppress conscious involvement, and enable subconscious eye-hand-mind co-ordination. 'Conceptual' art typically has fewer than eleven characters, and express single types, not archetypal visual 'grammar'. Mindprint is as innate as Zipf's law (the frequency of words in any language follow a regular scale); or the periodic table of stable isotopes and transition elements; or the universal syntax and sub-systems in language, as Chomsky identified; or irregular cosmic geometry as Gombrich identified. Natural structure informs all of nature, including cosmology and culture. Thus most recurrent features in different works and in different media, are sustained by subconscious inspiration; while very few features are sustained by arbitrary convention (Furter 2016, in refutation of the trance convention theory). The Bad Teinach esoteric teaching board scheme contains many consciously recognisable universal features, such as planets, angels and gods, but no conscious construct or convention could explain the five layers of semi-optional features in hundreds, and probably in all artworks, built sites and other spatial media worldwide.
Double and triple grids usually interlock
Interlock between the three mindprints in the central panel, confirm each analysis, and confirms the middle register or 'college' mindprint twice. Interlock is never perfect, and adjacent axial grids never share any continuous axis; as if there were some lapse of orientation or time between every imprint. In complex works, the analysis scores are often lower due to lesser integration of conscious symbolism into the subconscious structure. But the Bad Teinach triptych is a masterpiece and a triumph of mediation, integration and esoteric craft.
Protestant, pagan, secular art, and rock art, has similar works, of similar subconscious complexity. No culture and no era has a monopoly on art, philosophy, alchemy, astrology, esoteric crafts, culture in general, or the expression of archetype.
- See a post on archetypes in Paris Notre Dame cathedral portals, windows, and floor plan, at http://www.edmondfurter.wordpress.com
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