The Mirror Of The Sacred Scriptures and Paintings

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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist, The National Gallery, London.

This painting, at plain sight, is the symbolic representation of the soul that Da Vinci places within the brain. The two women, according to Philo of Alexandria are the virtue and pleasure (represented with human figures) that are the two sensiblities that reside with the intelligence (man) within the mind of the human being. Mary represents the virgin sensibility that gives birth to the virtues when the woman abandons the vices of the body.

John the Baptist, the child, represents the intelligence that’s receiving the baptism of the divine reason (the Christ) from God, which is a fearful god that exterminates all the people and nations (Dt 7:21, 28:58; Ez 39:24ss; Is 5:25; Na 1:2) that conform the vices of the body.

Mary far from being afraid of this face is proud that the Lord has placed his eyes upon her to protect her of the vices of the body, according to the canticle of Lk 1:48 ss. The human reason is the sword and the divine word that’s born when the intelligence is instructed, and penetrates Mary’s soul according to Lk 2:35 and it brings salvation to her people, which is the virtuous soul identified with the name of Israel. This face is the one that according to Ez 39:29 revelas itself to spill his spirit over Israel (the human soul).

This invisible face is the allegory of the god Jahveh that can only be seen with a mirror, his glace inspires fear in the minds, that due to a lack of instruction do not understand that the fearful, destructive and exterminating god of the Old Testament protects the soul of the body’s vices.

This face that no person can see and continue to live according to Ez 33:20, is an allegory of how the vices must die to be able to meet the true face of god when converted to virtues. Through this image Da Vinci represented the fearful face of the human reason (the god of the Old Testament) that exterminated the people and nations (the passions of the body) that tried to seduce the soul of Israel.

John, the child, observes without fear this fearful face that the virgin proudly carries engraved in the memory of the soul, after being promised by the Lord and king of kings that the vices of the human memory would be erased (ez 17:14), which is the image of the passion, identified with the name amalec, just as shown on the painting of John the Baptist.