Letter 16:
TOWER OF DESTRUCTION

"...every man who is not a saint or fully righteous man builds a kind of "tower of Babel" which is his own. His actions, opinions and aspirations -- autonomous or personal -- constitute a "private world" that he has built and that he bears with himself into the spiritual world after his death. This subjective world must there pass through the trial of meeting with trans-subjective spiritual reality -- the thunder bolt. And this meeting of subjectivity with spiritual reality is the essence of the post-mortem stage known by the name "purgatory".  --VT

"Purgatory"
pastel  11"x15"