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Сообщение от Magnolia; 2664181"

Particularly informative illustrated message from NinaKlimentevna. He would have to move here!

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Hello, dear friends!
I ask this question: What does the symbol of an eye in a triangle from which emanate rays. The image of such a symbol often found in Orthodox churches, and not only on the icons. The Internet could "dig" a little: it is an image-Seeing Eye, which is (picture) came from the West, is found in Masonic rituals and Cao Dai. The truth of the Cao Dai are mixed, including Christianity, so it is of no interest. But how is it involved in the Masons, from the XVIII century there was this character in the Orthodox Church?

The All-Seeing Eye of God - is a centuries-old image of Christianity.

First of all, this image has a foundation in the Scriptures:

Here, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him and hope in His mercy (Ps.32: 18)
I will counsel you with my eye upon you (Ps.31.
But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they do not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer in this case (Ezdr.5: 5)

All-Seeing Eye is in the picture of Hieronymus Bosch "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things" 1485

The central part of the picture consists of four concentric circles symbolizes the all-seeing eye of God, in which the pupil - the risen Christ, pointing to the wound.
In the second round you can read the Latin inscription Cave, cave, Deus videt - «Be afraid, be afraid, for the Lord is watching."
In the third - the rays shine from Christ.
The fourth is divided into segments with the image of a 7-Deadly Sins.

All-Seeing Eye - by way of "Supper at Emmaus" painted by Pontormo, written between 1523 and 1527 years

In the west, and later the east and the image of the All-Seeing Eye is distributed in the form of an eye, inscribed in the triangle is a symbol of the Trinity:

Dome Cathedral in Aachen, Germany
Sampson's Cathedral in St. Petersburg
In St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg

In the late 18th century, a complex symbolic and allegorical composition symbolizing the all-seeing God, appears as Western borrowing in Russian Orthodox churches as the dome image on top of the roof or any part of it.

And then it goes out of the dome in the image, full of as an icon

So that the eye in the triangle - totally Christian way.


Personally, I do not see an eye in a triangle on the painting Bosch, secondly, could write like a man who firmly believes in the symbols of the Christian faith, as sober see that the geometric symbolism borrowed, so a triangle with an eye to this day do not canonized! Third, look into the more ancient mysteries you see this symbol, and many others (for example the sun for a triangle), and this has been taken "adopted" by secret societies. Therefore, I answer the lady did not seem very interesting and original.