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So what does our guild name is all about?
The Seven Seals is a concept of Christian eschatology, which comes from the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible, where a "book" or "scroll" with "seven seals" is described in Revelation 5:1. The seven seals were opened by the Lion of Judah. Each opening of a seal is followed by some event or series of events.
When each of the first four seals is opened, a horse and its rider appear and are described. These are commonly referred to as the Four Horsemen / Four Horses of the Apocalypse.
The opening of the fifth seal is followed by a vision of those that were "slain for the word of God". (Revelation 6:9)
When the sixth seal is opened, there is a "great earthquake," and signs appear in heaven. (Revelation 6:12-6:14) Also, 144,000 servants of God are "sealed ... in their foreheads" in Revelation 7.
When the seventh seal is opened, seven angels with trumpets begin to sound, one by one. The events of the seventh seal are further subdivided by the events following each angel sounding their trumpet. This seal is opened in Revelation 8, and the seventh angel does not sound until Revelation 11.
In summary:
First Seal - Conquest, White horse
Second Seal - War, Red Horse
Third Seal - Famine, Black Horse
Fourth Seal - Death, Green or Pale Horse Fifth Seal - Vision of martyrs
Sixth Seal - Cosmic disturbances: sun turns black, moon turns blood red; sealing of the 144,000
Seventh Seal - Prelude To The 7 Trumpets of 7 Angels & The Final Judgement
The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is also a 1957 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death, who has come to take his life. Bergman developed the film from his own play Wood Painting. The title refers to a passage from the Book of Revelation, used both at the very start of the film, and again towards the end, beginning with the words "And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" (Revelation 8:1). Here the motif of silence refers to the "silence of God" which is a major theme of the film.
The film is considered a major classic of world cinema. It helped Bergman to establish himself as a world-renowned director and contains scenes which have become iconic through parodies and homages. The Jesuit publication America identifies it as having "began a series of seven films that explored the possibility of faith in a post-Holocaust, nuclear age". Likewise, film historians Thomas W. Bohn and Richard L. Stromgren identify this film as beginning "his cycle of films dealing with the conundrum of religious faith.
** Post edited by Cheos on 1/28/2011.
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