Alliance
Ascension and vertical lines
Retour
T36 La Chambre Haute
To the centre of the picture a stanza of the hymn of the soul of The dark Night where Jean of the Cross (1560) evokes the breakthrough - out of the space, out of the time - of the conscience toward his Lord at the time where my home was already in peace.

By one night full dark of distress and flaming of love
Oh! The happy! I fate left without being seen.
While my home was already in peace... /...
Oh night that guided me!
Oh more agreeable night that the dawn!
Oh night that united the adored with his beloved
who has been transformed as Him!

This Peace in the intimate home of the heart, is the one that offers the Christ called as the King of kings "regnant on the reigning" evoked here according to the medieval iconography in Greek by the four B of Basileus, basileon, basileuon, basileuousi. The high room is the one where disciples were going to meet Jesus around the institution of the Eucharist - communion to the Presence...