Phillip Medhurst presents 098/788 James Tissot Bible c 1899 Pharaoh notes the importance of the Jewish people Exodus 1:10 Jewish Museum New York. By (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902. Gouache on board.
Phillip Medhurst
A Pilgrimage to Truth
Tag: exodus
Jul 13, 2016
The Apocalypse Revealed 12
The new Exodus began in fact with Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Thus the “great crowd” carrying their palms (Revelation 7:9) are compared implicitly to the throng who acknowledged Jesus as the Messiah and hailed him as he embarked on the series of events which will saw him crucified by the false religion of Babylon (Revelation: 7:4-10, 14:1). The New Jerusalem is founded on both the “old” and the “new” covenants (Revelation 21:12-14): Gnostics of all ages of history are able to recognise that higher Truth and imperative which inevitably leads to martyrdom at the hand of those religious Powers-that-Be which, though unmasked by the knowledge of Truth inherent in the Gnostic, have a Protean ability to form new images of themselves to worship (Revelation 13:13).
Mar 23, 2016
Passover
We pass over unknown lands
Eastward bound.
We see nothing.
Tunnels echo the rattle.
The wherefore fades
Of our herding to
This trembling wagon,
Rubbing shoulders
Bolt upright.
I still hope, regardless,
For a little red house,
A little white house,
Music playing
In snow-showers, fine as ash.
For then we shall be free –
Work shall make us so –
From fear incontinent.
But only a chimney I see.
Where is the pillar of cloud?
Where is the column of fire?
Will the cyclone be
The fiat “not-to-be”
From the powers that be
As I scramble, naked, up
A mound of sacrifice,
My nails scoring a riddle
On those blank walls?
Feb 18, 2016
Exodus
O Christ, thy crown is broke in two pieces:
Give half to me, O give half to me.
O Christ thy cloak is riven in pieces:
Give some to me, O give some to me.
And I will mould a smaller crown,
And patch a cloak for me.
And I shall go down, down,
Down unto the sea.
And the sea shall part for me.
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