David Chaim Smith
"The Sacrificial Universe" draws upon David Chaim Smith's experience to present us with a devotional approach to ecstatic visionary mysticism. Ranging from intellectual treatises on sacred geometry, biomorphism and the symbol of the serpent in kabbalistic theory and practise, to a poetic twilight language of ecstatic devotion.,Produced as a lavish small folio with generous margins and a classic typographic style, "The Sacrificial Universe" presents Davidâ€™s key artworks of the last four years as full-page images, with the triptychs and quadriptych offered as folding plates. The complex and evocative iconographic symbolism is also explored through commentaries. And yet "The Sacrificial Universe" is more than a homage to those seventeenth century books of hermetic mysticism. Structured according to the classic kabbalistic text Sefer Yetzirah, "The Sacrificial Universe" may be approached on three levels (world, year, and soul) to offer the reader a view of gnostic surrender within a vision of the self-consuming nature of phenomena.
Philosophy,Art,Nonfiction
The Sacrificial Universe