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A picture inspired by my Jewish Mysticism class. I drew line art from memory, so some of the details of Sephiroth's pod in the Northern Crater are off (ie. I forgot the roots) but otherwise it is well researched. The connected circles which overlay Sphiroth's body is one of two ways in which the Sephirot (The ten emanations through which God reveals himself) are represented in Kabbalah. The title at the top is Hebrew for Sephiroth and the quote at the bottom is obviously from FFVII.

The last important feature of this picture is the text in the background. It is an excerpt from pages 62-63 of "The Heart and the Fountain" by Joseph Dan, one of the texts that I have been reading for my class. This excerpt immediately stuck out to me, as it adds deeper layers of meaning to Safer Sephiroth's (the final boss') form as a seraph. In case you are curious about what it says, here is the unobstructed passage:

“Metatron, according to this narrative, was originally Enoch, son of Jared, who was called to heaven to serve as a witness to the evil-doings of people before the deluge, thus justifying the ferocious divine punishment that they received. He is a latecomer to the divine realms and therefore he is called “a youth.” The text gives no reason why God did not preserve him as a witness and nothing more, but continued to transform him, step by step, into the greatest divine power besides him. He is endowed with superhuman intellectual qualities, the knowledge of all languages, including those of animals and birds. His body begins its transformation, his limbs turn into fire, he grows numerous wings and in each of them many eyes, which burn like the sun. He is given a throne and a chariot with horses of fire, and is clothed, like God, by a garment of light. God gives him a crown, on which “the letters by which the heaven and earth were created” are engraved, and the name of God – YHVH. He was given the task of sitting and judging the nations, thus mastering all the attributes of God himself.”

It should be noted that the context of this excerpt is a discussion of the Book of Enoch.

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If you managed to get through all of that boring stuff A. Thank you for reading about my intent, and B. I would just like to say that OMIGOD that lifestream was hard to make. Figuring out how to draw lifestream in a style that it is not usually rendered in was a lot more challenging than I expected it to be. After two days slaving away at the stupid green squiggle, I'm really proud of how it turned out.
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BlackMageLeah's avatar
Oooh. This is super sweet.