This is the first time that this unique and highly sought after painting has been made available for purchase.
Original Canvas (37 x 26 inches) – Acrylic on canvas, framed in soft wood.
 
The Gnostics and the later Cathars of 12th Century France considered the world to be a fabrication of three forces that ‘project or create’ the Cosmos. The English word ‘Trinity’, which is derived from the Latin ‘Trinitas’ (meaning the number three), is the most common symbolism for these three forces. Other systems consider them to be three primary forces, described as positive, negative and neutral.
 
The wandering Cathar priests (many of which were women), taught gnostic beliefs about ‘duality’; that people should live a simple life with no posessions. Their motto was: ‘be perfect’; hence, why they were often referred to as 'the parfait'.

Gnostic and Manichaen sects emerged in the formative days of Christianity and were persecuted as heretics by the Orthodox Church. The burning of the great library at Alexandria was a deliberate attempt to destroy the evidence of Gnostic belief. The Gnostic texts not only oppose more orthodox doctrines, they offer insight into the true nature of reality. Gnostic and Manichaen beliefs surfaced again in 11th Century France with the Cathars, who tragically, were destroyed by the orthodox Roman Catholic hierarchy Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), the father figure of Christianity, was publicly accused by leading Gnostics of involvement in Pagan Manichaen rituals. Priests, like Augustine, and other `artist monks’ who drew up the plans for temples and cathedrals, understood how esoteric symbols can change, alter or manipulate the human psyche.