Quote Originally Posted by sleepless
it is suggested in the book that bosch was part of a semi-cultlike group [like the masons] and points out a large number of anti-christian symbolism and occult imagery within these paintings that we miss due to our ignorance of medieval beliefs.......
The Adamites?

Quote Originally Posted by sleepless
one further note on the temptation of st anthony, it was origially hanged in the walls of a medieval sanitarium. i didnt even know they had them then, and i doubt putting up vivid pictures of the hellish torments you are going to suffer in the afterlife would have done the patients any good at all.
lol

You'd LOVE my friend.