Chapters from the Grail romance by Maria Rustica

'The Woman Who Loved God, or A Tale of Two Sons' is a chapter from "A True Jasmine", a Grail romance by Maria Rustica, taking place around the year 2000. This chapter is a little story inside the story, told by the incurable storyteller Vasily Severyanin, possibly in response to the question: "What is a knight?" The book is not yet available in full in an English translation. As a preview, I publish selected chapters on my channel in an audio-visual form. © The text is copyright of the author 2024. All rights reserved. The music snippets at the beginning and end are from Alfred Schnittke: "Declaration of love", composed for the Aleksandr Mitta film "A Tale of Wanderings" ("Сказка Странствий", USSR 1982). The music is copyright of the owner and is here quoted solely for entertainment and educational purposes, and to recommend the film to people. Watch it, it is outstanding. The images are from Wikimedia Commons. 00:00 Joy Agyepong: Nzulezo 2 - Ghana. 4:23 and 34:41: Henri A. Ferguson: Joy Bridge (Boston Public Library). 4:30 Anika Meyer: Mother and young child with a disability 4:34 Daderot: Mother and child - Statues in Okayama City, Japan. 4:38 Paul Peel: Mother and child. 4:47 and 29:07 Neapolitan Mother and Child. (Possibly by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake.) 4:54 Charles W. Bartlett: Mother and Child, Kashmir. 5:00 and 28:21 Henry Essenhigh Corke: Mother and Child. 5:11 Peter Vilhelm Ilsted: A Mother and Child in an interior. 6:20 and 29:40 Ken Lund: Devils Garden Trail Between Landscape Arch anf Double O Arch, Arches National Park, Moab, Utah. 6:36 Albert Bierstadt: On the Sweetwater near the Devil's Gate. 8:29 Vyacheslav Argenberg: Wadi Rum Desert, Jordan, The "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". 9:39 og 14:25: William Bell: Devil's Anvil, Sheawitz Crossing near foot of Toroweap Valley, River 3000 feet below, Colorado River. 13:24 Kathryn Woodman Leighton: Desert Verbena. 17:09 Vyacheslav Argenberg: Sinai, Egypt, Canyon through the moutnains, majestic desert landscape. 22:48 Gerard van Honthorst: The mocking of Christ. 27:39 and 30:51 Ivan Kramskoi: Христос в пустыне. 33:50 Photochrom Print Collection: At Devil's Bridge, Aberystwith, Wales.

'Leviathan' is a chapter from "A True Jasmine", a Grail romance by Maria Rustica, taking place around the year 2000. The book is not yet available in full in an English translation. As a preview, I publish selected chapters on my channel in an audio-visual form. © The text is copyright of the author 2024. All rights reserved. The English translation of Swedenborg is by Maria Rustica © 2024. Video material: The clips of the sea and its creatures, and of the sunny wood, are quoted from Leo Richards' documentary "Into the Midnight Zone", Natural World Facts (YT); the sea footage originally being by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, Edi Frommenwiler, Mark Benfield, Indoona (YT). I warmly recommend watching the entire documentary, as well as visiting the SOI site which contains a wealth of unique revelations of life in the deep. Copyright belongs to the owners. I quote the clips as an instance of fair use, solely for entertainment and educational purposes, to act as reference points for my existential commentary on the deeps of the spirit. The fire clips are from: https://www.vecteezy.com/free-videos/camp-fire 10:32: Thamrongpat Theerathammakorn: Bonfire in the Dark. 11:01 and 14:35: Okan Akdeniz: Barbecue Wood and Coal Fire like Hell. Photos: 6:40: Henry Essenhigh Corke: Mother and Child (Wikimedia Commons). 12:06: N. Roerich: Christ's Descent into Hell is from https://www.rbth.com/arts/335725-paradise-hell-russian-art (Russia Beyond) 12:17: Crocus © Maria Rustica 2022. 12:22: Crucified Crocus © Maria Rustica 2022. 13:05 and 14:55: Graham Crumb: Another perfect day. https://gallery.imagicity.com/freswota-another-perfect-day-11.jpg The remaining photos are from Wikimedia Commons: 06:37 and 14:38: Henry Essenhigh Corke: Mother and Child. 13:22: Globetrotter19: Mother and Child statue by Garányi József in 1995. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother_and_Child_statue_by_Gar%C3%A1nyi_J%C3%B3zsef_in_1995._-_Simontornya.JPG 13:43: Guilhem Vellut: Saint Savior in Chora @ Istanbul https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Savior_in_Chora_@_Istanbul_-_8322181754.jpg 15:16: Edmund Blair Leighton: The Shadow. 15:22: Chris Downer: Lamb Holm, George and dragon detail. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamb_Holm,_George_and_dragon_detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2764435.jpg 15:31: Sir Frank Dicksee - The Two Crowns - Google Art Project. 18:12: Nicu Buculei: Baby in the Grass. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baby_In_The_Grass_(48435328).jpeg 18:16 Robert Whitehead: Mother-Child face to face. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother-Child_face_to_face.jpg 18:23: Patafisik & Elena Tartaglione: Automa Manzetti 1840 dettaglio. 18:43: Andrea del Verrocchio: Madonna and Child. Bargello. Florence. The music snippet is from Alfred Schnittke: "Declaration of love", composed for the Aleksandr Mitta film "A Tale of Wanderings" ("Сказка Странствий", USSR 1982). The music is copyright of the owner and is here quoted solely for entertainment and educational purposes, and to recommend the film to people. Watch it, it is outstanding.