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Is Mona Lisa an Image of God?
For over ten years, Leonardo carried a painting with him wherever he went. No matter what he did, he always returned to examine this painting, as if it were a source of his inner peace and strength.
Leonardo da Vinci is considered one of the most brilliant characters of the human history. More specifically, Leonardo epitomizes the curious mind: thirsty for all kinds of knowledge and overflowing with creativity. There is much speculation about Leonardo’s stance on God. In his monograph on Leonardo, Giorgio Vasari comments that perhaps Leonardo thought it better to be a philosopher than Christian. Perhaps so. After all, we know that Leonardo assumed an unprejudiced relationship to both Science and Art, which made him the Renaissance man, leaving us an unparalleled legacy of art and inventions.
Through the Mona Lisa we realize that irrespective of his relationship to Christianity, Leonardo treated the question about God with a similar curious and passionate outlook with which he explored everything else. Our study Mona Lisa – Image of God introduces Leonardo da Vinci as a student of not only of the Bible, but of Ancient Egyptian knowledge and Jewish mythology, which were strictly banned by the Catholic church of his age.
The Mona Lisa is a large collection of Knowledge. The Knowledge is encoded in symbols, mathematics, ratios and geometry, all eternal and universal. The same ones which can be found in the most precious and unique monuments of human history – the Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge and the Eiffel Tower. They are testimonies of the existence of one common source of Truth and Life, and including them in the Mona Lisa makes Leonardo but one in the line of many wise men to have used symbolic language in communicating ancient truths.
The Mona Lisa leads us to an inner journey. This study is, in effect, a spiritual roadmap. We are introduced to a Way of Truth, a process of profound transformation, even transfiguration. Our understanding grows as we open our minds – trained for logical, rational and skeptical thinking – to the lost language of symbolism. Understanding and decoding the language of symbols requires putting our egos aside.
In Cosmos, we can observe the elements of different languages, numbers, measurements and common denominators. This is the foundation from where to proceed in order to achieve a wider understanding. It does not matter who was the first to square the circle – the question is not who or when, but why. Why units of measurements play such a remarkable role in Biblical texts? Why did Leonardo draw a sketch of the Mona Lisa with a reed in her hand?
Why were Mona Lisa’s elements chosen to agree with the elements of the Great Pyramid in Giza and the temples described in the Bible? Could the Mona Lisa be a copy of the Duat? An image of God?
In his journals Leonardo says: ”Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.” Thus it is highly possible that Leonardo chose to the width of Mona Lisa the exactly one (1) Royal Cubit. This is the unit of measurement that was used building all the temples in the Bible and pyramids in the Ancient Egypt. Another unit of measurement that the Ancient Egyptians used was Reed, the same plant, which is in Mona Lisa’s hand
below.
Mona Lisa paintings have hidden references to the Pythagoreans, Hermeticism, Alchemy, Astrology and Mathematics. For example the Eye in the Sky, colors of the Sun and the Moon, together with the spiral and normal pyramid shapes in the background are clearly visible. Even the name “Mona Lisa” is an anagram for alchemical concept “Anima Sol”. In image below is also proved that Mona Lisa holds the geometric shape of the Golden Gnomon and thus also the exact Golden Ratio is now, at the first time, located in the painting.
Leonardo constructed the Mona Lisa as an Image of God. The Mona Lisa is his attempt to describe the universe and the depth – the Mona Lisa is Leonardo reaching eternity. In the language of symbolism it can be said that Mona Lisa is the inner Christ, Buddha and Krishna of Leonardo da Vinci. That is why this painting held an almost sacred position in Leonardo’s life and therefore acted as source for his inner peace, refreshment and
serenity. When a person builds, on purpose, the copy of Du’at in one’s life, it means also that a person walks the Way of Truth (the way of self-purification) at the same time. This is also how a person him-/herself transforms into a copy of Du’at, or an Image of God. That is what Mona Lisa truly is – an Image of God.
“Whoever shall make a copy of the Duat, and shall know it upon earth, it shall act as a magical protector for him both in heaven and in earth, unfailingly, regularly, and eternally.” -The Book of What is in the Duat
Just when we might begin to think that Mona Lisa is merely a 500-year-old water under the bridge, we see that the water flows into the Primeval Sea and rises to Heaven. Eventually, the Mona Lisa will rain upon us again, making us like wet dogs in the backyard. We have nowhere to take shelter from the all-seeing-eye. That is why the Mona Lisa is immortal. Or at least until the decay of the canvas and paint. However, the Truth behind Mona Lisa is eternal.
Source: Isa-Av’ain from House of Truth, Mona Lisa – Image of God. (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016)
