Summary: The Christian iconography requires the guidance of theological and spiritual patterns for a better understanding. The missionary art of the first century in New Spain reveals its roots in the mystical theology of Ramon Llull and his “Ars”, which develops an ordered theory of the work of God, grounded in the so called “order of benefits”. Such a theory was received by the first missionary Franciscans in America through the easier interpretation of Sibiuda, and applied by the famous bishop of Mexico, the Franciscan Zumarraga.