Understanding the Connection Between Law and Creation
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
Hi. My name is Cursten Branden Lewis and I am a political scientist and author. My first novel was published in 2024 following my psychological renaissance- after manifesting extreme vulnerability. Pantheon is an exhibition-translation of the scriptures of the God of Israel.
The Oath of the Horatii Painting Jacques Louis David
Whoever does not obey the law of your God and the law of the king must surely be punished by death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.[a]
A panel from ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome. The panel shows the temptation and then expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. The ceiling was created between 1508 and 1512 CE by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE) and shows the story of Genesis from the Creation to the Great Flood.
In the beginning, I established all things. Every-thing was without form and void, and deep obscurity covered the face of the earth. The Spirit of Wisdom was hovering above the face of the waters: and so it began. I created the first house, where the sovereign ruler resides; the second, where the law is arbitrated by magistrates; and the third, where the people collectively create the rules of society.
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia), The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise (Painting: Tempera and gold on wood, Overall: 18 1/4 × 20 1/2 in. (46.4 × 52.1 cm))
My world is facilitated by a divine constitution that sets forth the standards of humane treatment of civilians. Behold, I have given every plant-yielding seed that is on the face of all creation, and every tree with seed in its fruit. All is good for ascertaining truth. I see everything that I have made, and behold, it is very good. Thus the world and afterlife are finished, and all the host of them.
Whatever the God of heaven has prescribed, let it be done with diligence for the temple of the God of heaven. Why should his wrath fall on the realm of the king and of his sons?
L’Amour et Psyché, enfants (1890) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau; William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
At last! All is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called America, because the nation is new and ready to reign forevermore. Now the evil one is more crafty than any other creation of reality that I have fashioned. He explained to the children of my creation that the tree of knowledge is good for food as well as a pleasure to the eyes.
In his deception, the evil one caused Man to stumble, cursing women and men with mortal children bent on manifesting evil through wickedness. To protect the path to the tree of knowledge I established a fiery sword of confusion to guard wisdom through understanding.
The Creation of Adam, a panel of the painted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City, Rome by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE). Made 1508-12 CE.
To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’[a]—just as I have received authority from my Father.
Behold, the man has become like me in discerning good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever- I must drive him out from my garden of creation to work the ground from which I took him. I drive out the man, and at the east of my garden of creation I placed the barn owl and a flaming sword that turns every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
Patrocles Painting Jacques Louis David
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.”
Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), Dream of Saint Mark (Pax Tibi Marce) (E&I 305) (c 1591), oil on canvas, dimensions not known, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, Italy. Image by Didier Descouens, via Wikimedia Commons.
Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642), Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice (1633), oil on panel, 142 x 210.8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. Wikimedia Commons.
Featured image: Peter Paul Rubens – The Fall of Phaeton, c. 1604-1605. Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 131.2 cm (38.7 x 51.6 in). The National Gallery of Art. Image via Creative Commons
Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), The Last Supper (E&I 310) (1592-94), media and dimensions not known, Duomo, Lucca, Italy. Image by Mongolo1984, via Wikimedia Commons.
2nd century BCE marble sculpture of the Ancient Greek god of war Ares (Roman name: Mars). Ludovisi Collection, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, Rome.
Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642), Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice (1633), oil on panel, 142 x 210.8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. Wikimedia Commons.
Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), The Last Supper (E&I 309) (1592-94), oil on canvas, 365 x 568 cm, Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy. Wikimedia Commons.
Hans Memling (c 1433–1494), The Last Judgment (panel from triptych) (1467-1471), oil on panel, 223 x 72 cm, Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku, Gdańsk. Wikimedia Commons.
Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), The Archangel Michael in Combat with Lucifer (E&I 287) (1580s or early 1590s), oil on canvas, 318 x 220 cm, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Wikimedia Commons.
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