Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: Eternal Verities Hanging onto the roof of the Sacred Tree. . . . edition 2 2/2 21 images 11 pages of text drawing, collage, individual laser printing mounted on archival paper, vellum by Audra Skuodas 1995. AA
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: It may not be that one little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds. -- Black Elk
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: "The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer stand in awe is as good as dead." -- Albert Einstein "But in that half forever instant The light of lightening shriller than the sun The jagged canyon changed to a radiant valley I wandered peacefully and all alone And myth-white, mystical beyond belief My eyes beheld a child, a naked boy Spiking a hollow horn from a sapphire bull To the amber gloss of the trunk Of a cone pine tree The luminous boy child filled the hollow horn With white, white flowers
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: Religare -- to bind back Religion defined as Spirituality is not a craft for the preservation of priests and of bigotry and of sects but a means of relation to the Mystery of Life, the Sacred and the Divine. . .
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: Do you weep at Aclepius? There is worse to come, Egypt herself will have yet more to suffer, she will fall into a far more piteous plight, and will be infected with yet more grievous plagues: and this land which once was Holy and which loved the Sacred and wherein alone, in reward for her devotion, the gods deigned
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: to sojourn upon earth, a land which was the teacher of mankind in holiness and piety, this land will go beyond all in cruel deeds. The dead will far outnumber the living; and the survivors will be known for Egyptians by their tongue alone, but in their actions they will seem to be men of another race. O Egypt, Egypt, of thy religion
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: nothing will remain but an empty tale, which thine own children in time to come will not believe; nothing will be left but graven words, and only the stones will tell of thy piety. And in that day men will be weary of life, and they will cease to think the universe worthy of reverent wonder and of worship. And so religion, the greatest of
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: all blessings, for there is nothing, nor has been, nor ever shall be, that can be deemed a greater boon, will be threatened with destruction; men will think it a burden, and will come to scorn it. They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which he has built, this sum of good made up of things
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: of many diverse forms, this instrument whereby the will of God operates in that which be has made, ungrudgingly favoring man’s welfare, this combination and accumulation of all the manifold things that can call forth the veneration, praise, and love of the beholder. Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven ; the pious will be deemed insane, and the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good. As to the soul, and the belief that it is immortal by nature, or may hope to attain to immortality, as I have taught you, all this they will mock at, and will
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: persuade themselves that it is false. No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven and of the gods of heaven, will be heard or believed. And so the gods will depart from mankind, a grievous thing!, and only evil angels will remain, who will mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches by main force into all manner of reckless crime, into wars, and robberies, and frauds, and all
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: things hostile to the nature of the soul. Then will the earth no longer stand unshaken, and the sea will bear no ships; heaven will not support the stars in their orbits, nor will the stars pursue their constant course in heaven; all voices of the gods will of necessity be silenced and dumb; the fruits of the earth will rot; the soil will turn barren, and the
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas Image: very air will sicken in sullen stagnation. After this manner will old age come upon the world. Religion will be no more; all things will be disordered and awry; all good will disappear. -- Asclepius - Hermes Trismegistus We must obey the laws of the earth if wish to know the truth of the spirit. -- Rada Krishna Small is the number of those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. -- Albert Einstein
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
Untitled by Audra Skuodas
  • Audra Skuodas
  • Untitled, 1995
  • snake print paper, fabric, color pencil, archival paper, vellum, graphite pencil, laser prints
  • 15.5 x 11.7 in
  • Inv: 000560BOOK
  • Available
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  • Subject Matter: Intersect of Eastern Philosophy, Western Philosophy and Social Science
  • Collections: Artist Books
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