So he got this picture out of the vault, and I saw that there was a great similarity between it and the painting. In the ceiling over the altar, there was a round window, brilliant with the light shining through it, as I had seen it in the dream before the visit to Mrs. Ivey's apartment.

He said, "But I want to tell you this. I feel that what she meant was that you should go back maybe two thousand years in the history of the Church." He said, "Any revelation of this kind coming from God to help you means something great-it can't be just one small thing-it can't be just one church-it has to mean something big because it wouldn't have happened otherwise."

He said, "You must go back maybe two thousand years in the history of the Church, and there you will find the answers to your questions. I can't answer you just now about why you should put yellow wings on the angels or why the feet of the angels looked the way they did and why they were crossed in the same way, nor why they were circling in a white mist. It sounds something like Dante's 'The Circles.' You must go back and study the history of the Church."

God had used Linda to bring me back to the church-a sure way to get me there! I saw His Hand in the evolution of the painting. He had to bring me back to the church! He used different people and many different ways and the placing of the tools in my hand for the painting.

There were many bypaths-Louise, Mr. Lynch, the high school, and the roads I walked-before I found out clearly that I was meant to return to the church! And the second visit had come about. I knew now that next I had to study.

I got started. For the first time at Walters Art Gallery, a course was being offered, beginning in February, by Miss Dorothy Miner, an authority on the medieval, illuminated manuscript, which, of course, takes you back to the beginnings of the Christian Church and the history of the Jewish Church. Being interested in painting and wanting to learn all about the illustrations of the history of the Church, I was very lucky that she had consented to give this course.

She was starting in a couple of weeks. I signed up for the course and started to study the history of the Church by studying the medieval illuminated manuscript. I started studying the history of the Christian and Jewish Churches, and then I found, through the assistance of one of the professors, Dr. George Boas of Johns Hopkins University, the references to the use of yellow and other colors in the Church.

Yellow-the color of gold-always meant, from the very beginning, a direct revelation from God. St. Peter was always clothed in yellow for that reason. Yellow means the goodness of God, and it has many attributes.

Then I found out about the feet of the angels in the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite. There were two men known as Dionysius. One, Dionysius, the Areopagite, was the first convert of St. Paul, Saul of Tarsus, the Jew, who was converted and ordained by Christ to teach the message of the gospel. He traveled all over the places where the message was to be carried and was one of Jesus' appostles, of course. He is mentioned in Acts 17:34. The other Areopagite was Pseudo-Dionysius.

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