The Unicorn Tapestries

A museum in Paris, once called the Cluny now the Musée National du Moyen-Age, has a set of six 15th century tapestries called 'The Lady and the Unicorn' that illustrate the giving up of sensual desire: taste, sight, touch, smell, hearing, and the last: À Mon Seul Désir (meaning perhaps that love desires only beauty of soul). They are as spectacular as 'The Unicorn Tapestries' in the Cloisters in New York. The unicorn is said to represent Christ, but perhaps she is just a unicorn, a mythical creature of the spirit world. In the first set the unicorn is there to inspire the lady to find her higher self. In the second set, the unicorn is captured and killed. These are powerful images for the present time as we approach the Aquarian age in 2012. Whether it is to be a peaceful revolution or Armageddon depends on whether people are willing to give up hatred and greed that have been so strong in recent times. I was a part of the hippie revolution. The drugs made some people more aware of themselves and the world around them, but for some it was just getting high. Fortunately, many did understand the correct path of peace, love, and hope, but in the end it failed because greed and hatred turned us into cynics. There is a principle of the universe that the more that goodness pushes us forward, the more that badness pushes back. Look at the losses: Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, John Lennon and so many others. This time peace, love, and hope must triumph over hatred and greed because otherwise we will destroy this planet. I opened this blog to bring a positive voice that might rise above the me-first generation of sex and money and bring people hope that, yes, there is goodness in people and, yes, we can create a new world! Barack Obama did not make this up; it is there for all to hear if they listen.

Links:
'The Lady and the Unicorn'
http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/ang/

'The Unicorn Tapestries'
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Unicorn/hunt_unicorn_transcript.htm