Writing #8 Due April 15 Content Who was Abbot Suger and what was his "lux nova?

" How did this artistic contribution affect the construction of cathedrals?

Writing #7 Due April 10 Content An icon may be defined as an "object of uncritical devotion." Thinking of today's society, find an image that today could be considered an icon. If possible include a picture or drawing. Describe in writing how the image has taken on the status of an icon.

Writing #6 Due March 27 Content Compare and contrast the ivory carvings on pages 251 and 252. Look at them in terms of physical reality versus conceptual reality, Give your opinion as to why one is more realistic that the other. =========================

========================== Pagans, Vegans, Vagrants, New-Age Section Dwellers, schizophrenics, Crowley's grandchildren, Teenage Hermetic Guitarists, hippies, Lodges, the CIA, and suburban "vampire" cultists all have made some contemporary use of the great-horned-man-goat Baphomet icon. In contrast with the Abrahamic traditions, demonology tends to recommend idolatry, and it revels in a corrupted state of tradition, when numerous disparate practices become mixed, under a common image. If the worshipped image takes the place of an understood tradition, generally it is not looked upon askance to view this as a useful shortcut, rather than a blasphemy. Or, rather, blasphemy is fondly regarded. The name Baphomet may simply derive from Mohamed, and the appearance of Baphomet in the Templar lore was probably no more distant a heresy than this. Although it was sufficient to have them burned, beheaded, racked, hung, flayed, and otherwise tortured. But in the modern terms, linked to that episode merely by an image and name, the icon, and its indistinct associations, you have all of the aforementioned contemporary groups, which fall in line around the goat guy. The image is more resonant than any history -- to worshipers. And yet some similar practices, drawn to the flame of the image, are seen throughout. Animal sacrifice of lambs, parents (in the case of the very rare actual-ratherthan-mythic teenage horror cult), or some kindergarten class's stolen gerbil.