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To: markomalley
- I meant to add that St Michael appears androgynous (genderqueer) trait supposedly started by the pre-Rafaelite Brotherhood. John Ruskin (occultist) was their benefactor. Ruskin was also Cecil Rhodes mentor who founded the Rhodes Scholarship where Bill Clinton and others attended. The pre-Raphaelites revived the poet Blake who was also an occultist...his demonic poety became popular. Carmen Paglia wrote a terrific article about pre-Raphaelites. Well worth a read...she wrote it for Salon but I found the same article here... http://privat.ub.uib.no/bubsy/astro.htm
24 posted on 08/31/2011 7:33:38 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: markomalley

Guido Reni painted that depiction of St Michael - he also painted this one of David...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Guido_Reni_016.jpg


25 posted on 08/31/2011 7:59:24 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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