THE MIRROR OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES AND PAINTINGS

THE MIRROR OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES AND PAINTINGS

By Hugo A. Conzi y Horacio s. Conzi

If you can't see the hidden face on the Virgin Mary, it's because you
didn't understand the spiritual message of the Bible.

The biblical deaths are not the death of human beings but the death of
the vices that occurs when intelligence defeats them with the virtues
of reasoning.

Leonardo da Vinci, Museo National Gallery of London.

The face of prudence, strength, temperance, justice and mercy.
Philo of Alexandria is the father of the logos of the gospel of Saint
John and of the biblical philosophy. He is the master of the
psychology of the human thought and he reveals throughout his
scientific treaties that to be able to see the invisible face hidden
in Mary's shoulder one must use a mirror, symbol of the faculty of
reasoning and of science that only unveils to intelligence through its
works.

This spirit of fearful appearance is the symbol of the virtues of
prudence, strength, temperance, justice and mercy that protect the
soul from the heart's rage and from carnal appetites. Philo explains
that the history of the Bible was conceived with a considerable amount
of philosophical content, imperceptible to intelligence, where the
invisible world of the virtues of rational thought that protects the
intelligence in the struggle against the irrational vices of the body
is described.

"Our soul includes three parts, which are reason, irascibility and
appetite. The head is the headquarters and where the rational part
resides; in the chest resides the irascible part, and in the belly
resides the appetitive part, and for each one of these parts a virtue
of its own has been adapted: prudence to the rational part, since it
is in reason's own nature to possess the knowledge of the things that
can and can not de done; strength to the irascible part; and
temperance to the appetitive part, since it is by means of the
temperance that we cure and heal ourselves from our desires. And, just
as in our body structure the head is the first and most elevated part,
the chest second and the belly the third; the virtues have the same
distribution, the first is prudence, that belongs to the first part of
the soul, in other words the rational part that resides in the first
part of the body, the head; the second is strength, because it
concerns the second part of the soul, which is anger, where the heart
resides; and the third is temperance, and its sphere of action is the
belly, where the appetitive part resides, and which has been assigned
to the third part of the soul. These three parts of our soul are in
reciprocal harmony when they are controlled by the superior part; in
other words, when the irascible and appetitive parts are guided, like
two steeds, by the rational part, then justice overcomes, because it
is only fair that the direction be in the hands of the superior part,
which is rational, and that it be obeyed by the inferior parts, where
anger and appetite reside. But when, on the contrary, anger and
appetite rebel and emancipate, and due to the violence of the
onslaught they knock over the conductor, which is the rational part,
the inferior passions take control of the reins and injustice
prevails; because, fatally, due to the inexperience and the lack of
capacity of the conductor, the riders are driven uncontrollably
through steep places and ravines, in the same way that experience and
efficiency avoids them. (Legum allegoriae, 70 ss.)
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