Art Gallery: Martin Luther

Caelia, Caelia, Caelia (A Portrait of Martin Luther) (1999, 582 x 772 pixels, JPEG, Compressed - "For Rudi")

Martin Luther describes the circumstances when he was convinced of justification by faith: "This knowledge the Holy Spirit gave me on the privy in the tower"* (Cited in Brown, p. 202). Norman O. Brown points out that anal weapons were later employed by Luther in his fight against the Devil (Brown softens the language): Luther told the Devil to "lick (or kiss) my posteriors" or that he would "defecate in his pants and hang them round his neck"; further, he threatened to "defecate in his face," and even to "throw him into my anus, where he belongs" (Brown, p. 208). "Scatet totus orbis," said Luther, seeing the Devil as lord of the world and the world as a manure heap (Ibid, p. 226). NORMAN O. BROWN. LIFE AGAINST DEATH — THE PSYCHOANALYTICAL MEANING OF HISTORY. 2nd Edition. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1985. CELIA, CELIA, CELIA - From "The Lady's Dressing Room" by Jonathan Swift *The original German clarifies this, that it was Luther and not the Holy Spirit on the privy. IF YOU WANT TO PAY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO US FOR THIS ARTWORK, PLEASE WRITE FOR OUR MAILING ADDRESS.