Letter 12: The Hanged Man

"The certainty of faith springs from the actual meeting with truth and its persuasive and transforming action, whilst that of certainty due to sound reasoning is only a degree -- raised to a greater or lesser extent -- of semblance of the truth, because it depends on the validity of our reasoning, and on the completeness and exactness of the elements which serve as its basis...At the same time, the certainty of faith has nothing hypothetical about it: it is absolute. The Christian martyrs did not die for hypotheses, but rather for the truths of faith of which they were absolutely certain."  --VT

"Martyr"
oil on paper  15"x22"