Grand Nudger:
I want you to look at the images below.
This first one is the façade Of the cathedral of St-Lazare in France:
![[Image: Figure-4-1024x709.jpg]](https://thepilgrimsguide.com/wp-content/uploads/Figure-4-1024x709.jpg)
This is the day of final judgement. The end of days. The people where all illiterate at the time. So they took the New Testament and made it into pictures so the people could understand at least the very basic stuff:
Here is a detailed picture of the West-Side:
![[Image: 95e7e6aeca1a8ffa97e8269425afab88.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/95/e7/e6/95e7e6aeca1a8ffa97e8269425afab88.jpg)
The angels are bringing the souls to another angel that is weighing the souls. Some medieval cathedrals have huge fat demons eating the souls of the damned.
This is the top of a column in the cathedral: Am angel is going to the “Three Magi” in the story of jesus Capar, Melchior and Baltazar to announce them the birth of Christ:
![[Image: ibr-1530508.jpg]](https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/074fa8c3fb1a6dcb191985f314eb0fa8/ibr-1530508.jpg)
- Now did I go crazy all of a sudden? – No. The people who did this where not evil. If you ever get to see those Gothic Cathedrals for yourselves you will see that they are all covered with images. The aim here is pedagogical more than artistic beauty. The people were illiterate. Life expectancy was about 30 years. Few had enough to eat for the next week or so.
So they simplified. Broke it down into images. Well into the Renaissance they took stories of creation and made it into comics like stories all over their greatest buildings (they had tapestries full of images to depict so major historical events too).
So they took the story. Over simplified it. Made it into dogmas. And inscribed them into the minds of their listeners.
It was not that different in Islam. Even today, people will pay to learn medieval Arabic and then read the Quran as it was written 1,5 millennia ago. But must people have ritualized the process completely. They will read and read and read thinking that this will magically help them. “Magic Book” remember?
So my proposal is that we are 21st century people now. Don’t get me wrong. There are no Da Vinci Code or anything of the sort. But there can be a better approach.
I see myself as having a better approach.
I want you to look at the images below.
This first one is the façade Of the cathedral of St-Lazare in France:
![[Image: Figure-4-1024x709.jpg]](https://thepilgrimsguide.com/wp-content/uploads/Figure-4-1024x709.jpg)
This is the day of final judgement. The end of days. The people where all illiterate at the time. So they took the New Testament and made it into pictures so the people could understand at least the very basic stuff:
Here is a detailed picture of the West-Side:
![[Image: 95e7e6aeca1a8ffa97e8269425afab88.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/95/e7/e6/95e7e6aeca1a8ffa97e8269425afab88.jpg)
The angels are bringing the souls to another angel that is weighing the souls. Some medieval cathedrals have huge fat demons eating the souls of the damned.
This is the top of a column in the cathedral: Am angel is going to the “Three Magi” in the story of jesus Capar, Melchior and Baltazar to announce them the birth of Christ:
![[Image: ibr-1530508.jpg]](https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/074fa8c3fb1a6dcb191985f314eb0fa8/ibr-1530508.jpg)
- Now did I go crazy all of a sudden? – No. The people who did this where not evil. If you ever get to see those Gothic Cathedrals for yourselves you will see that they are all covered with images. The aim here is pedagogical more than artistic beauty. The people were illiterate. Life expectancy was about 30 years. Few had enough to eat for the next week or so.
So they simplified. Broke it down into images. Well into the Renaissance they took stories of creation and made it into comics like stories all over their greatest buildings (they had tapestries full of images to depict so major historical events too).
So they took the story. Over simplified it. Made it into dogmas. And inscribed them into the minds of their listeners.
It was not that different in Islam. Even today, people will pay to learn medieval Arabic and then read the Quran as it was written 1,5 millennia ago. But must people have ritualized the process completely. They will read and read and read thinking that this will magically help them. “Magic Book” remember?
So my proposal is that we are 21st century people now. Don’t get me wrong. There are no Da Vinci Code or anything of the sort. But there can be a better approach.
I see myself as having a better approach.

![[Image: 7151bc275de2d3d422106a4008215efe.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/51/bc/7151bc275de2d3d422106a4008215efe.jpg)