Biblical tales II
"I looked and there it was: a floor lamp all in gold... 7 lamps are on the floor lamp... Near it are two olive trees, one on its right, the other on its left...
The Angel said: "These 7 are the eyes of Jehovah : they are in all the earth... (Zac. IV, 2,3, ...10, ...13)
The two olive trees are the two anointed ones who stand before the Lord of all the earth"...
Tree of Life with 7 flames and 2 olive trees / with two powers (77 x 34)) 1977.
“I looked and behold: there was a lampstand all of gold...
7 lamps were on the lampstand...
Near him were two olive trees, one on his right, the other on his left...
The Angel said: “These 7 have the eyes of Yahweh: they are throughout the whole earth... the two olive trees are the two anointed ones who stand before the Lord of all the earth” (Zac. IV, 2,3...10, ...13).
These are Joshua who represents spiritual power and Zerubbabel, temporal power.
The lampstand is here the Tree of Life that the bull on the right and the serpent on the left are looking at: it is located at the top of the mountain, from where the 4 rivers of Life.
At its foot, the cosmic egg in which its roots plunge.
The sun and the moon are symbols of the right-left structure.
(Text commentary by Charles Sahuguet).
"If you find a bird's nest with chicks or eggs on a tree or on the ground, let the mother go; you shall take the chicks for yourself" (Deut. XXII, 6, 7).
Man does not touch life, symbolised by the mother bird.
The Flight of the Mother Bird (47x33.5) 1981.
“If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, on a tree or on the ground, ... let the mother go; it is the young that you will take for yourself” (Deut. XXII, 6, 7).
The nest is in the Tree of Life whose orientation is given in relation to the Tree (right: sun, left: serpent), in the Garden on the banks of the River of Life.
Man does not touch life, symbolized by the mother bird.
(Text commentary by Charles Sahuguet).