The impulse to beauty in our hearts helps us to be by degrees an ever more brilliantly colored, beautifully formed, and sweetly fragrant Christ-like Flower of Paradise.
Christians Created Abstract Art 2000 Years Before Kandinsky - And Were Better At It!
Sacred number in art: St Matthew’s tells us there are 14 generations from Abraham to David, 14 from David until the Babylonian exile and 14 from the Babylonian exile to Christ. Matthew wrote in Aramaic. In this language, the characters of the alphabet are also used for numbers. This allows for every name to characterized both in letters and numbers. When the letters that comprise the name David are treated as numbers and added together it creates the number 14. This numerical symbolism emphasizes the fact that Christ in a king in the line of David, as prophesied.
