Concepts Collection (page 6)

Cross and Rose
and rose with thorns

GREAT SAGE
The great sage Douban is versed in the wisdom of the philosophers, and also acquainted with languages, astrology and medicine

N D D avesnieres
Notre Dame D avesnieres

Sinner in Purgatory
A sinner in purgatory expiates his wickedness but hopes for better things as one of his companions who has served her term is released by an angel

Meditating Monk
A monk (of the Societe du Bon Jesus) contemplates a crucifix and meditates on the sufferings of Jesus

Concepts / Peace
The Angel of Peace flies over the ravaged lands

Spirit Sacrifice to Wine
Man in drunken stupour, surrounded by bacchic cherubs, preferring earthly pleasures in another glass of wine to heavenly promise

Stairs of Heaven
The Golden Staircase that leads to Heaven

Panic in the Year 1000
Panic in the church in the year 1000

CHERUBS
Two cherubs in the clouds

Jesus and Soldier
Jesus depicted as protecting the soldier (provided he is fighting in a just cause, of course)

Concepts / Religious / God
God is angered by the belligerence of the creatures he put on Earth

Concepts / The Cosmos
THE COSMIC TURTLE The Universe as conceived in Hindu doctrine - creation supported by a giant turtle

Angel Rescues Peter
An angel rescues Saint Peter from prison

Girl Prays / Angels Listen
Two angels listen while a child kneels on her bed and says her evening prayers

Involution / Evolution
The Theosophical doctrine of INVOLUTION and EVOLUTION, whereby man rises from the mineral to the spiritual

Angelic Kiss
Two cherubs kissing

Et Angels from Mercury
The angels in the Planet Mercury: " So drew full more than thousand splendours towards us." (Canto V, lines 99-100)

Concepts / Reincarnation
Making reparation in this life for sins committed during a previous existence

Deadly Sins / Lust

Deadly Sins / Vanity

Seven Deadly Sins / Envy

Deadly Sins / Avarice

Deadly Sins / Sloth

Deadly Sins / Gluttony

Deadly Sins / Wrath

Dismissed for Pregnancy
Pregnant, is she ? Well, you know the rules - tell her she needn t bother to come to work tomorrow

Lady Rescued from Den
An inadequately dressed lady is escorted from a den of vice by two concerned but disapproving friends

Eve of Day of Doom 1000
The panic caused in the Tenth Century by the belief Satan was about to be let loose to work the misery of men, having been bound for a thousand years (Revelation XX, vs 2, 3)

Lord Kelvin Speculates
Lord Kelvin speculates that life may have come to Earth on the moss-grown ruins of another world - brought here on a planetary fragment

Virgil / Dante / Cross Styx
Every day sees new arrivals on the banks of the Styx, forced onto the ferry which will carry them to unending torment

Jesus Source of Power
All power comes from Jesus, but he passes it on to rulers he approves of, such as the Byzantine emperor Romanus IV Diogenes and his wife Eudoxia

Oostacker-Lourdes
The virgin depicted on a card from Oostacker-Lourdes, a Belgian pilgrimage site created in emulation of Lourdes

Our Lady of the Apparition
NUESTRA SENORA D APARECIDA - Our Lady of the Apparition - a Black Virgin from Brazil

Concepts / Millennium
William Miller predicts the Second Coming - but his followers are disappointed

Judgment Day
the saved and the damned

Mary / Galleus
Depicted showing the infant Jesus a single rose. Two angels hover above holding a crown over her head. Her gown is covered in stars

Our Lady of Flanders
OUR LADY OF FLANDERS Wears a cloak that bears the arms of Flanders. In her hands she holds the infant Jesus & a model of the Abbey of St Peter & St Paul, Dendermonde

Monkeys Reincarnated
Two Japanese monkeys, anxious to know the life of Buddha, help a scholar to copy the Buddhist bible, and the senior, later reincarnated as a man, completes the task

Church Triumphant
Popes, saints and religious folk of all kinds applaud the triumph of the Christian Church

Mary, Baby, Angels
with her child and a pair of hovering angels, one of whom is offering a flower to the baby

Mary and Child
Mary with her baby, who is showing her a flower : she is standing on the new moon, with the sun behind her, and a pair of angels are adjusting her halo

The Great Brain
In Laurence Mannings story The man who awoke, set 8000 years hence, everyone and everything will be controlled by the Great Brain, anti- cipating Orwells Big Brother

The Wheel of Fashion
The wheel of fashion

Angel and Demons
An angel looks down in wonder at the noisy demons below

Rainbow (Grandville)
Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, spreads her fan

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