Ilya Repin - Follow me, Satan (Temptation of Jesus Christ) - 1895
Persona - Ingmar Bergman
1966
“It is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you…. It leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.”
— Clement of Alexandria
The syndrome of kali yuga is marked by the fact that it is the only age in which property alone confers social rank; wealth becomes the only motive of virtues, passion and lust the only bonds between the married, falsehood and deception the first condition of success in life, sexuality the sole means of enjoyment, while external, merely ritualstic religion is confused with spirituality.
Nothing can be forced to live.
The earth is like a drug now, like a voice from far away,
a lover or master. In the end, you do what the voice tells you.
It says forget, you forget.
It says begin again, you begin again.