Fit out the LETTERS OF CHRIST
with expressive illustrations?
«The #Path to #Christ #Consciousness is outlined in these #LETTERS»https://t.co/1BvhuINh1m
AS THESE ARE THE #SEEDS, SO YOU ARE THE #GROUND! pic.twitter.com/B7rAMyDuiL
— laVITAlaVERITÀlaVIA (@RitornaCristo) 1 aprile 2017
Neither a dream nor a project born as such. A real undertaking.
The hypothesis would have seemed unlikely to me a priori, if I only think of the banality of the many images attributed to him, from the nostalgic human form to the humanoid projection of the figure of Jesus among the clouds.
In reality, I have not attempted in the slightest to depict the steps of the story that He tells us about Himself, of His presence in Palestine – a hackneyed thing under multiple spotlights of a light distorted by erroneous beliefs, which cannot respect his true narrative.
In editing the 9 LETTERS in a renewed editorial format, more suited to the reading and assimilation of the many passages in which every word has a weight, I felt I had to spread them, like The Good News of two millennia ago, submitting as many passages as suggested it to everyone's eyes, through the simple, direct and immediate instrument of Twitter.
From the tweets of Twitter's @Ritornacristo
I opened the @RitornaCristo profile while I was still optimizing the translation into Italian; but once structured, reworking the original into an even more advanced standard took over in its most far-reaching language, with a much broader horizon, up to the 900th tweet.
After the first uncertain posts, it became natural to me, thanks to the special arrangement of the paragraphs, to extract and focus on the salient contents, also proposing them through basic graphics, as long as it was able to focus attention on precise concepts, which in continuous reading would slide like the clear water of a stream, or the views of the landscape from the window of a moving train.
At times, even in just one of the 333 pages in which the text now unfolds, topics of such singular importance emerge that others fade away; and if the essential black-on-white of the first PDF , drawn up by RECORDER via Word™ could not help but unite them in an overall view, not always easy to meditate despite the available accents that She carefully adopted, even the new drafting could not have held the mind for long, precisely because of its strong invitation to keep on.
So I began to fix some of them against the background of figures, which had no common style, no connection to a criterion of continuity, no correspondence other than an imaginary one to the passage they hosted, stimulating with their content the interpretation and the memory.
They were tweets.
A production rhythm that I could define as casual, uncoordinated except by the flow of months of work; sometimes a jumping from topic to topic, following calls of the moment and associations of ideas.
Soon such an exercise contributed more and more to the search for special images, to enliven the teachings themselves with more or less intuitive scenarios.
So, conversely, I happened to come across images that suggested relevance to certain passages, probably already illustrated weeks before in another way, but that precisely for this reason remained in my mind for their importance; and since the nature of tweets was to overlap in a short time, and to have to be replaced by new ones, I seized the opportunity willingly.
#Learn how to become the #world you want, from the highest #ineffable #LOVE Source!https://t.co/TvwMnwIlyO pic.twitter.com/jO2vggwLRV
— laVITAlaVERITÀlaVIA (@RitornaCristo) February 1, 2017
Of the 900 tweets accumulated up to the day of the 8th birthday of @RitornaCristo,
notified to me by Twitter on Apr 26, 2022 – with a tweet whose symbolic content went well beyond what Twitter could have suspected – some disappeared for technical reasons, external links etc. Of these, 169 are reproduced in the PDF, since quite a few had been retweeted over the years, and many were dictated by personal traits or interactions due, always and exclusively in the name of the Master and his teaching.
Only two or three comments appear in the PDF , of my own initiative and signature, that is, not extracted from the LETTERS .
Their distribution among the pages is therefore not homogeneous, sometimes there are clusters of replies of arguments around them, leaving large empty spaces between the other pages.
There was no shortage of challenges; among the most heartfelt was certainly that of Jun 2, 2017, in which Christ describes His experience in the desert… (there are 3 figures, to be seen on X).
The style of each tweet was therefore more than ever heterogeneous, sometimes inspired, but always based on improvisation, of characters, shades of colors, special effects tending to be refined with practice. From the first, each tweet was accompanied by some descriptive or introductory phrase to the link to the source page.
from images made of screen dots, to the real PDF
Certain creations required more than a few hours of attention, sometimes days, in order to be meditated on and made effective.
Necessary care then, but which multiplied to reproduce them in the context of the 9 LETTERS , since while a tweet was nothing more than a bitmap image, in which effects and resolution are forced and limited in size, in the real PDF I could not treat the texts in the same way, but I had to reduce their graphic overlaps often used for tones and shadows, to a single text that did not present graininess when zoomed in, and was indeed readable when searched (except special cases), just like that of the pages, while maintaining their special effects.
Furthermore, at a certain point in the conversions, I realized that each paragraph in the image had to be related to the same one in the real text, so as to be able to reconnect to the context, thanks to the new editorial composition with nested numbering of verses and their parts.
There was no reason or way for this to happen before the new version matured; and the very idea of combining tweets and text to enrich readers' reflections had taken me by surprise, too, since it was nothing planned.
That it had a complete meaning seemed more and more likely to me, even if initially it had arisen from the intention of not leaving so much work to chance, according to the increasingly less probable fate of the new X, in which I considered my work concluded.
It may please more or less, since it is a work without precedents or rules, perhaps in step with the universality of the times; but I believe that it will not fail to stimulate and at the same time to pace the minds to more inviting, relaxed reading times, interspersed with figurations that have always traditionally fulfilled a complementary function.
I must point out that if sometimes the text superimposed on the image gets confused or does not stand out clearly, this is intentional, with the aim of inducing the reader to ponder each word slowly and confidently, exactly as the dictation of the Light has taken shape.
These tweets are treated as posts, but they are not disposable flyers.
from tweets to the “Moments”
Almost in support of this, Twitter's "Moments" allowed from 2015 and for some years to collect and present together the most significant tweets in relation to a particular title-topic. Tweets that could therefore be easily recalled, regardless of their publication date and consequent position in the general list. I describe them on the site that I dedicated to what I was able to obtain of the entire archive, but of course they have no weight in the work on LETTERS . On the other hand there are applications for reading PDF , which allow a search for words or phrases, even offering the list, and accept bookmarks.
managing images in the PDF
The images do not intersperse the text: each one is a poster and occupies a separate page, leaving the original layout unchanged. Thus the number of pages from 334 rises to 503, for an optimized file of about 280Mb.
Their dimensions are varied, based on the 391pt × 631pt format corresponding to the golden ratio Φ adopted for the e-book.
This means that to facilitate scrolling and containment, combining the best graphic quality with the least overall weight, the short or long side have been uniformly calibrated to one side of the page, and almost always overflow onto the other, although there are some figures that, due to the format and content, do not adapt to a sharp horizontal restriction, but would be too large to be adapted to the maximum vertical.
Naturally, landscape images are rotated 90° counterclockwise (or they would be very unsightly if forced into the width of the page), so viewing them will require a rotation of the view, easily obtainable with a simple keyboard command; or a manual one on the mobile device (if its automatic screen rotation is disabled, otherwise the opposite effect would be obtained).
How to enjoy this unique work
Considering that any browser can reach and open the page of an e-book only by loading it in its entirety, it is not conceivable to offer direct online access; even if the global file will be conveniently divided into three parts, which can be downloaded at will, however one at a time.
To escape this automatic and unprofitable maneuver, which could put many devices as well as the server itself in crisis, the files will be made available only in compressed ZIP format.
They will be lighter than the PDF they contain, only by 94%, but once downloaded they can be extracted or even read from within, with the Explore command of the system in use.
I have also made available a 5-page extract containing 2 illustrations with different orientations, in order to verify the practicality of use of the larger downloads, and also get an idea of what I described. For those who do not find it convenient to download a single complete file, here is the list of the four files:
excerpt PDF CHRIST-LETTERS_Illustrated-sample.pdf
5 pages, readable online by browser 3.7 Mb
excerpt ZIP CHRIST-LETTERS_Illustrated-sample.zip
–5 pages, not readable online 2.9 Mb
Lettere 1,2,3 CHRIST-LETTERS_1-2-3_Illustrated.zip
–not readable online 56.8 Mb
Lettere 4,5,6 CHRIST-LETTERS_3-4-5_Illustrated.zip
–not readable online 67.1 Mb
Lettere 7,8,9 CHRIST-LETTERS_6-7-8_Illustrated.zip
–non leggibile o line 64.4 Mb
Those who prefer the full illustrated file (181Mb) can find it here.
Hopefully, we can make each image visible over time alongside individual pages online.
Vers. 3.15.EN indicates some minor typographical corrections to the text - Revision March 31, 2025 indicates the progress date of the illustrations, which may be increased in the future, updating it.
work in progress…
with expressive illustrations?
«The #Path to #Christ #Consciousness is outlined in these #LETTERS»https://t.co/1BvhuINh1m
— laVITAlaVERITÀlaVIA (@RitornaCristo) 1 aprile 2017
AS THESE ARE THE #SEEDS, SO YOU ARE THE #GROUND! pic.twitter.com/B7rAMyDuiL
The hypothesis would have seemed unlikely to me a priori, if I only think of the banality of the many images attributed to him, from the nostalgic human form to the humanoid projection of the figure of Jesus among the clouds.
In reality, I have not attempted in the slightest to depict the steps of the story that He tells us about Himself, of His presence in Palestine – a hackneyed thing under multiple spotlights of a light distorted by erroneous beliefs, which cannot respect his true narrative.
In editing the 9 L
From the tweets of Twitter's @Ritornacristo
I opened the @RitornaCristo profile while I was still optimizing the translation into Italian; but once structured, reworking the original into an even more advanced standard took over in its most far-reaching language, with a much broader horizon, up to the 900th tweet.After the first uncertain posts, it became natural to me, thanks to the special arrangement of the paragraphs, to extract and focus on the salient contents, also proposing them through basic graphics, as long as it was able to focus attention on precise concepts, which in continuous reading would slide like the clear water of a stream, or the views of the landscape from the window of a moving train.
At times, even in just one of the 333 pages in which the text now unfolds, topics of such singular importance emerge that others fade away; and if the essential black-on-white of the first
So I began to fix some of them against the background of figures, which had no common style, no connection to a criterion of continuity, no correspondence other than an imaginary one to the passage they hosted, stimulating with their content the interpretation and the memory.
They were tweets.
A production rhythm that I could define as casual, uncoordinated except by the flow of months of work; sometimes a jumping from topic to topic, following calls of the moment and associations of ideas.
So, conversely, I happened to come across images that suggested relevance to certain passages, probably already illustrated weeks before in another way, but that precisely for this reason remained in my mind for their importance; and since the nature of tweets was to overlap in a short time, and to have to be replaced by new ones, I seized the opportunity willingly.
#Learn how to become the #world you want, from the highest #ineffable #LOVE Source!https://t.co/TvwMnwIlyO pic.twitter.com/jO2vggwLRV
— laVITAlaVERITÀlaVIA (@RitornaCristo) February 1, 2017
Only two or three comments appear in the
Their distribution among the pages is therefore not homogeneous, sometimes there are clusters of replies of arguments around them, leaving large empty spaces between the other pages.
There was no shortage of challenges; among the most heartfelt was certainly that of Jun 2, 2017, in which Christ describes His experience in the desert… (there are 3 figures, to be seen on X).
from images made of screen dots, to the real PDF
Certain creations required more than a few hours of attention, sometimes days, in order to be meditated on and made effective.Necessary care then, but which multiplied to reproduce them in the context of the 9 L
Furthermore, at a certain point in the conversions, I realized that each paragraph in the image had to be related to the same one in the real text, so as to be able to reconnect to the context, thanks to the new editorial composition with nested numbering of verses and their parts.
There was no reason or way for this to happen before the new version matured; and the very idea of combining tweets and text to enrich readers' reflections had taken me by surprise, too, since it was nothing planned.
That it had a complete meaning seemed more and more likely to me, even if initially it had arisen from the intention of not leaving so much work to chance, according to the increasingly less probable fate of the new X, in which I considered my work concluded.
It may please more or less, since it is a work without precedents or rules, perhaps in step with the universality of the times; but I believe that it will not fail to stimulate and at the same time to pace the minds to more inviting, relaxed reading times, interspersed with figurations that have always traditionally fulfilled a complementary function.
These tweets are treated as posts, but they are not disposable flyers.
from tweets to the “Moments”
Almost in support of this, Twitter's "Moments" allowed from 2015 and for some years to collect and present together the most significant tweets in relation to a particular title-topic. Tweets that could therefore be easily recalled, regardless of their publication date and consequent position in the general list. I describe them on the site that I dedicated to what I was able to obtain of the entire archive, but of course they have no weight in the work on Lmanaging images in the PDF
The images do not intersperse the text: each one is a poster and occupies a separate page, leaving the original layout unchanged. Thus the number of pages from 334 rises to 503, for an optimized file of about 280Mb.Their dimensions are varied, based on the 391pt × 631pt format corresponding to the golden ratio Φ adopted for the e-book.
This means that to facilitate scrolling and containment, combining the best graphic quality with the least overall weight, the short or long side have been uniformly calibrated to one side of the page, and almost always overflow onto the other, although there are some figures that, due to the format and content, do not adapt to a sharp horizontal restriction, but would be too large to be adapted to the maximum vertical.
Naturally, landscape images are rotated 90° counterclockwise (or they would be very unsightly if forced into the width of the page), so viewing them will require a rotation of the view, easily obtainable with a simple keyboard command; or a manual one on the mobile device (if its automatic screen rotation is disabled, otherwise the opposite effect would be obtained).
How to enjoy this unique work
Considering that any browser can reach and open the page of an e-book only by loading it in its entirety, it is not conceivable to offer direct online access; even if the global file will be conveniently divided into three parts, which can be downloaded at will, however one at a time.To escape this automatic and unprofitable maneuver, which could put many devices as well as the server itself in crisis, the files will be made available only in compressed
They will be lighter than the
I have also made available a 5-page extract containing 2 illustrations with different orientations, in order to verify the practicality of use of the larger downloads, and also get an idea of what I described. For those who do not find it convenient to download a single complete file, here is the list of the four files:
| excerpt PDF | CHRIST-LETTERS_Illustrated-sample.pdf 5 pages, readable online by browser | 3.7 Mb |
| excerpt ZIP | CHRIST-LETTERS_Illustrated-sample.zip –5 pages, not readable online | 2.9 Mb |
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| Lettere 1,2,3 | CHRIST-LETTERS_1-2-3_Illustrated.zip –not readable online | 56.8 Mb |
| Lettere 4,5,6 | CHRIST-LETTERS_3-4-5_Illustrated.zip –not readable online | 67.1 Mb |
| Lettere 7,8,9 | CHRIST-LETTERS_6-7-8_Illustrated.zip –non leggibile o line | 64.4 Mb |
Hopefully, we can make each image visible over time alongside individual pages online.
Vers. 3.15.EN indicates some minor typographical corrections to the text - Revision March 31, 2025 indicates the progress date of the illustrations, which may be increased in the future, updating it.
work in progress…