| A | B |
|---|
| head | thoughts, mind, intelligence; Christ's headship; major powers, rulers, governments |
| heart | center of life, seat of emotions; true love, charity, understanding, piety |
| blood | life of the flesh & the human soul; sacrifice |
| eye | spirtual vision, discernment; wisdom, understanding; ever-present, all-knowing God |
| ear | spiritual hearing, entrance to the soul for faith; symbol of Passion |
| hair | glory, covering; (loose, flowing) penitence |
| forehead | thought, reasoning; memory, imagination; mind |
| nose | breath; discernment |
| shoulders | seat of God's government; eldership; strength |
| belly | emotions; love, hate, etc. |
| arms | support, strength of the body; enabler of ministry |
| hands | deeds, works; power, service, ministry, and giving |
| legs | support and strength of the body |
| thigh | equalizing one's walk; promise |
| knee | reverence and humility |
| heel | power to crush |
| foot, feet | humility, bondage; spiritual walk in life; the Church |
| loins | strength in action; reproduction; lineage |
| reins | motives of the heart; seat of will, affections |
| bowels | the inner man; mercy |
| skin | (Christ's) righteousness |
| body | the Church |
| face | favor |
| hand emerging from clouds | presence of God the Father |
| hand emerging from clouds with three fingers extended downward | Trinity & an act of blessing |
| open, enclosed in crucifrom nimbus, hand emerging from clouds | God the Creator giving His blessing |
| closed hand emerging from clouds & holding tiny bodies | souls of righteous in the hand of God |
| clasped hands | union, marriage |
| finger across mouth | vow of silence |
| hair on head | energy, vitality, fertility, higher forces |
| hair on body | baser forecs |
| breasts | motherhood & attributes of love, norishment, & protection |
| flaming heart | religious fervor |
| pierced heart | contrition, repentance, devotion under extreme trial |
| nudity (nuditas naturalis) | natural state of humans as they are born into the world |
| nudity (nuditas temporalis) | the lack of wordly goods & possessions |
| nudity (nuditas virtualis) | nudity as a symbol of purity & innocence |
| nudity (nuditas criminalis) | nudity as symbolic of lust, vanity, & absence of all virtues |
| skeleton | (often with a scythe or hourglass) death |
| skull | transitory life on earth; vanity of earthly things; conemplation of death |
| stigmata | supernaturally impressed marks resembling the five wounds of Christ |
