Dear Listeners! Today I want to tell you about the allegory of mercy. In my research I have come across various images of mercy. The ancient form of representation was a breastfeeding woman. So mercy nourishes her children. Another picture that comes to mind is the Merciful Father, this wonderful painting by Rubens, which can be seen in the original in St. Petersburg in the Hermitage. But what does mercy mean? We tend to confuse mercy with a certain kind of indifference or co

Dear Readers! The Allegory of the Christ Spirit Today I tell you about the allegory of the Christ Spirit from the Mozart oratorio "The Obligation of the First Commandment". The Christ Spirit is the allegory for Jesus. He begs and pleads with Justice and Mercy for their help, for it pains him to see the lukewarm Christian living towards his own abyss. After Justice and Mercy are initially unconvinced that they can help him at all, he sings his first aria, "With sorrow I must l

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