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Spirit Message, 1843, Anonymous

(one more from) Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs, The Drawing Center and UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001

Dieu

Aux tout-petits qui vivent avec Dieu, Collection ecole de Catechistes d'Ottawa, Ottawa, 1966

I'm looking for lasting relations with green-fly, spider, or maggot

Bill Fay. Beautiful. This!, this! and this! ...Everything.
I could never say enough about this man's music. Thank you, Mr. Fay.



Garden Song and Tiny from the compilation From The Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock (a collection of outtakes and demos 1966-1970) (now, sadly, out of print), Wooden Hill, 2004. (If any of the invloved parties would like me to remove the audio, please let me know.)

GOTT IST DIE LIEBE

Marvelous Grace private press LP, Altona, Manitoba, no date (Kenneth Unger & Darlene Friesen, accompanied by their teacher Mrs. Dora Doell) (Thanks to M.Langlois so long ago.)

Howard Finster: The Night Before Christmas/This Wicked World

(endpapers, illustration details, and photo of Howard Finster from) The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, illustrated by Howard Finster, Longstreet Press, 1998.
Along with Moore's original text, Finster has bordered each page with his own handwritten messages: "THE FURTHER YOU PUSH GOD BACK THE WORSE IT WILL GET"

also here at Curious Pages (with entertaining commentary)

Vestments and chasubles

( Vestment for Mass by Alfred Manessier/Vestment for Mass by Alfred Manessier/ Vestment for Mass by Sister Augustina Flüeler/ Chasuble by Alfred Manessier/ Chasuble by Henri Matisse/ Chasuble by Henri Matisse )

The sacred vestment in its disguising activity and artistic expression is an irradiating creative element, which is to be taken into consideration by the church architect.

from New Trends in Church Architecture, Justus Dahindren, Universe Books, NY, 1967

James Hampton's Throne

Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millenium General Assembly by James Hampton (Images from Naives and Visionaries, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1974) The total altar-like construction, a symmetrical arrangement of shrines, pulpits, lecturns and wall tablets covered or wrapped in gold and tin foil, was assembled in a Washington, D.C. garage, 1950-1964

3 in 1 (A picture Of God)

3 in 1 (A Picture of God) by Joanne Marxhausen, illustrated by Benjamin Marxhausen, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, 1973

Shaker Trees

Visions of the Heavenly Sphere: A Study in Shaker Religious Art by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews, Winterthur Museum, Virginia, 1969.

see also

Le Cinéma Et Le Sacré by Henri Agel and A. Ayfre, Editions Du Cerf, Paris, 1961

The Antediluvian Or Serpentine Musings by A Descendant Of Noah, G.P.Putnam's Sons, NY, 1874. "TO MY BROTHER AND SISTER DESCENDANTS OF NOAH (CARDERS AND SPINNERS THROUGH THE CURSE), This Poem is Fraternally Committed by the Author."

cover detail

Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs, The Drawing Center and UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001 (prophetic signs, the word of the savior by signs, the narrow path of zion, dove with rings, drawing of visionary dance)

"...the season of the Spirit Drawings whose messages are now hidden in the deep things of God."