The Sequence of Pictures

The paintings have been arranged in an order which carries some meaning but bears no relation to the order in which they were painted.

The first few show our Divine Parents coming closer to the earth. With ‘The First Born’, the first born Son of God, The Christ, is introduced and shown to be concerned with the development of the understanding in His younger brothers and sisters. The work of The Christ, The Son-Daughter of God, is to prepare us so that we can know God directly for ourselves. Therefore ‘The Rainbow Spirit’ begins a cycle showing The Christ also coming closer to earth and its people; thence to one particular person, who does not notice Him, in ‘The Unknown Watcher’.

The pictures then describe the spiritual nourishment which The Beloved Son brings to earth, ending in two ‘Last Supper’ themes. The first showing an external action of washing the feet of the disciples. The second showing an internal reality of the Divine Sun within the spirit of man, called ‘The Manna Within’.

‘The Transfiguration’ deepens this personal friendship theme and ‘Thy Will Be Done’ suggests the inner understanding which it is based upon which supplies the faith and strength for the next picture ‘The Crucifixion’ through which we share with God the suffering and birth pains of God’s children. This leads to four different ways of the crucified individual being crowned with the fruits of the Divine Spirit, ‘As we Forgive Them’ with thorns, ‘The Once and Future King’ with jewels, ‘Hallowed be Thy Name' with the wings of the spirit and ‘As it is in Heaven’ with beauty.

Then comes a cycle depicting the feminine aspect of the Divine Love, expressed in the enfolding and caring attitudes leading to the masculine and feminine wholeness of Christ in ‘Thy Kingdom Come’ in which the waterfall of life is seen to be pouring out through the Christ nature. The waterfall that follows, called ‘The Living Water’, shows the waters of the spiritual life on their own and the flame-like response from the earth burning upwards in the mood of aspiration.

Next there follows a sequence showing the deeply loving and beautiful nature of God as it is able to be perceived as a spiritual presence about and within the significance of landscape. Then ’The Christ Child’ and ’The Gardens of Heaven’ repeat again the whole theme of Divine purpose and the way it is carried out.

’The Treasures of the Soul’ starts a series of joyful pictures concerned with a holiday feeling of happiness, ending with the enigmatic figure of ’The Business Man’. Then ’The Saviour’ and ’The Victory of Light’ direct the theme more completely into landscape where the Divine quality of God’s Person is intimated in various ways which the reader will have become familiar with.

Lastly there are a number of the specifically teaching pictures which are painted to help with the conceptual side of the philosophy of the whole book, showing ’The University ’The Pool of Creation’ and ’The Classrooms’ which describe how the environments we are placed in enable us to adjust our understanding to the nature of The Great Gift. After which ’The Philosophers’ introduces further paintings which are not in any order of significance.