Leonardo Da Vinci – The Resurrection of the Gods is an astounding work. Like Dostoyevsky, here is the author setting the dialectic of the God and the Devil against one another. Whether sinful pride in your adoration of God is a mark of the devil itself? Are knowledge and truth, the devotion of the scientist and the seeker of truth (Here Da Vinci) not a sign of heresy? Truth, truth alone will dispel everything and truth comes from knowledge, from the Sciences, the Mathematics, the laws of the Universe and from the prime movements of the world which the maker or God has ordained.
Yet who is competent enough to comprehend the mysteries of God’s creation; one must adore and sing. But in your adoration let not the evil insignia of pride land upon you that your adoration and devotion are far higher than the others. God also loves the meek and the humble. (The lion and the lamb shall be together).
Although truth can be simple and pristine in nature, the discovery of truth is fraught with complexities. Like the grand masters of Russian fiction, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gogol and Dostoyevsky, Merezhkovsky revels in dialogue and in exploring the nuances of truth, religion and morality; the subjectivity of truth and propriety in a world marred by power and struggle. The novel follows the life of Leonardo Da Vinci; the Renaissance genius and in many ways the symbolic modern intellectual. The novelist’s style lends a philosophical touch to the novel befitting the subject of the narrative whose insights into creation bordered on the infinite and the eternal. (To be continued)