Comments on: Florensky’s Iconostasis

By: Florensky on Gold « Unurthed

Florensky on Gold « Unurthed — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:10:34 +0000

[...] more icons (see previous post), and Florensky (again, Iconostasis) on the use of gold-leaf in [...]

By: Greg Pass

Greg Pass — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:03:47 +0000

Yes, that is the key: yellow is a color, but gold is NOT. More to come…

PS — as far as colors go, though, yellow is my 2nd favorite.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:28:53 +0000

And I knew that you knew.

That is indeed the very core of his message: to a man of gold (as he most certainly was) all things appear to be immersed in pure gold, to BE gold.

I wait with trepidation to your next post.

PMac

PS Yellow is by no means my favorite color. It has taken me way too long to realize that gold is not yellow, that gold is GOLD. What a terrible fool I have been…

By: Greg Pass

Greg Pass — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:16:51 +0000

PMac —

I knew you’d raise this very point! But only a temporary omission: indeed, my next post will specifically cover Florensky’s knowledge of iconic LIGHT and GOLD.

This is a text, BTW, that demands to be read in full.

By: PolyMathicus

PolyMathicus — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:02:35 +0000

Thanks go to you, dear Greg, for your contribution in raising web awareness around this astonishing man and his Work.

He knew all too well that all colors are good, but all are prismatic sections of one great tonality:

PURE LIVING GOLD.

Best

PolyMathicus

PS I shall also post on the Blessed Pavel Florensky in my blog. Topic? Time in dreams.