I would also say, since I have taken the time to observe a point that is, perhaps, incidental to this painting’s meaning, and yet is still capable of providing insight, that Dalí’s allusion to the carnality of the human body, or to the notion of it as ‘flesh,’ in the sexualized or erotic sense, is not an indication that Christianity regards our bodies as an obstacle to faith, and something to be hidden or chastised, and never admired or enjoyed, for that isn’t the case, but only that, like anything in creation, but especially like those things that would appeal to our appetites or drives, they can, when objectified, or reduced to a tool for pleasure (so that the dignity of their purpose is lost, ignored, or forsaken), be appropriated by that spirit of possessiveness that, seeking to reverse any momentum we might have toward God, would trade us momentary satisfactions for an increase in our habituation to it, and so bring our souls to disorder.