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Without distinct faces and lost in "Sin" the masses are as chained slaves.
"The soul which has been perfectly illuminated by that indescribable beauty of the luminous glory of the face of Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit ...is all eye, all light, all face."
Macarius the Great
The object of Christian Hope is Salvation. This is the liberation of the "creation" from it's bondage to decay and the Transfiguration of the body through resurrection. The Greek Fathers teach that to partake of the Divine Nature, the Human must partake of that attainment to the likeness of God for which Humankind was created in God's image. The awaited Saviour ... The Lord Jesus Christ ... will change the chosen Human body to be as his body by the power which enables him to subject all things.
The Classical Triad of the Beautiful, the True and the Good resembles closely the Biblical Triad of Jesus Christ ... the Way, the Truth and the Life. "I am the Way" ...the Path to Salvation ... the True Light that touches everyone and the Life which can be the source of all authentic goodness.
In Art ... form strikes the Human as splendid due to the delight it arouses which is grounded on the deep Truth and Goodness of reality which shows that Life offers itself as something infinitely precious and fascinating. To really percieve form in Art one must see it not just a detached Gestalt. It must be recognized for it's radiance and it's glory of being.
In the contemplation of Artistic and Human Form one can be entranced or even ravished by the depth which appears in it and through it. There is analogy in this which can even result in making it's understanding a revelatory event. Concrete Form can be created to transfigure Humankind.
In and through music the mystery of the word can be invoked and made Song. Within the eyes of our mind and the ears of our heart ... Music can acknowledge other realms unseen by most men.
The eye of the mind is "Light" empowered by our Creator and ourselves. With this Light we can recognize what is communicated in a visual medium as well as other Art forms. In this there is a type of "vision" which carries us from the visible to the invisible reality. This discovery is self-revealing or at least it should be. Such Discovery is never made without evoking a progressive transformation within the person who "sees".
In all aesthetics there exits a Doctrine of Perception. What is beautiful is regarded in this Light and Perception. No one can truly percieve any of this without self-transcending to some extent. This can result in an estatic element of rapture which defies reason in it's passion or invokes confusing ambiguity and self doubt. This is what is called "The Light of Faith" which can only be seen when it falls upon the Eyes of Faith which is the "Portal" into the Spiritual. The Dark side of this is The Doctrine of Ravishing Power. Both are ordered to one another ... the Light and the Dark.
When those who regard both the Light and the Dark speak of the relationship of Humankind to it's Creator, they do not speak about something which can be seen in the physical or material world as a created thing. Anyone can see such and know such for themselves. Instead they rely on a type of communication which can in no way be inferred or even deduced from the "empirical realities of the Physical Dimension.
What all this means is simple ... there can be no spirituality if there is no communication and revelation upon this basis. Art can for some provide this. In this way Art is Sacred. Art can draw you out of yourself and into the realm of Beauty and Spirit. Art is Spirit made visible. Art has the potential to renew Humanity. Humanity was set over the entire world in all it's wonder. Art is but an expression of this ... an expression of Humanity.
As long as there is Humanity there will be Art, Life and Freedom. The love found within True Humanity is invincible and reveals the power of Creation over all the powers of Evil ... even Death itself. Divine love should be reflected in Human Love and often Art is the mirror.
Beauty is subtle in it's power to attract and Call us. Beauty is a precondition for all concrete Human achievements. Beauty is at the very heart of all Human motivations, decisions and actions for the True Artist. We do not decide and act or create unless we are moved by the attractiveness of a particular good ... this for the Artist is Right Action.
Every vocation is but a response to the Good or Evil that calls or beckons us. True beauty in Artistic Creation is the appealing and motivating attractiveness of a Good and Right Action that draws us to adherence, commitment and genuine Artistic Achievement. If Evil were to triumph in this world then Life would be without beauty, unmotivated, mere drift and less than truly human.
Artistic Creation motivates human life and development in the intellectual, moral, and self-transcendent which all constitute Human authenticity. Evil is bereft in it's power to transform Human Life into something beautiful, Good and Right. The "macho" bias tends to disregard beauty as superfluous, ornamental and feminine.
This overlooks the power of beauty and Art and their abilities for the attainment of Human happiness and fufillment. We can not live without beauty. The need for beauty is felt in the most basic demands of the Human mind and heart. Art can satisfy these needs providing The Portal to the Transcendental Precepts. Be aware, alert and attentive. Be intelligent, contemplative and critical in thought. Be responsible, dutiful and Loving. Be Honourable, Right and swift in action.
Courage is the power of good to command. Responsibility is the power of focus and sustaining the attention neccsary. Respect is the power to motivate. Benevolence is the power to understanding. Honesty is the power to reflect and make judgement.
The Arts of Living and Dying should demonstrate Human Achievement and excellence, inspiring admiration and respect ... fear in your adversaries. True Love and Friendship along with commitment and community are all related to Art and Beauty. Plato maintained that beauty is the quality that makes someone or something the object of possible Love.
"Only the beautiful is loved ... we cannot help loving what is beautiful."
Augustine
"pulchrum est quod visu placet" ... to be beautiful means pleasing to see.
The Creative Power of Beauty itself is reflected in the procreative power of Human beauty and sexual attraction. Aquinas on his commentary on the Divine Names of Pseudo-Dionysius ... claims that divine beauty is the motive of creation.
Being or "esse" comes from Form. Aquinas affirms that beauty is the course of the existence of all things. We associate beauty with images often. Yet when we speak or sing the Light of our minds shines forth in our words and gives them clarity every bit as powerful as an image. Our words are clear to the extent that our thinking is clear ... hence their image is clear.
The word of the Creator took visible form when it was made flesh and lived amongst us in the form of the Creator. Aquinas states that Christ had the beauty of the moral virtue, especially justice and truth.
The Art of Beauty entails definite presuppositions. Creation is where Creation acts. Creation acts wherever anything exists. We create by our inner seeing ... our painting is it's expression. The Artist does not merely see and record a scene of beauty ... they create it. What we see is enriched by our seeing and comes into it's own by our vision of it. It is the same with hearing and music. In all this our knowledge is finite.
Our creations are held into being by our Creator. There is a hierarchy in an absolute sense with Artistic Creations because they cannot be the final cause of all reality. No Creation is an inherently "good" creation in an absolute sense. It may be Good or Evil or it may be Good and then corrupted and used for Evil purpose. Conversely if it is Evil then it remains so and can not be used for any good due to the nature of it's conception. This is one reason why the world will ultimately fall to Evil.
Humanity is being transfigured by Evil. Denial of this only allows greater ease for it to become reality. The universal actuality of our Creator is the transcendent "Common good" towards which all good creations of the universe are oriented and from which they recieve their character.
The eventual Evil transfiguration of Humanity was the keystone of Byzantine Doctrines. These were the prototype of our future ... transfigured Humanity. The man-made icons of Byzantiuym-Constantinple-Istanbul clearly demonstrate this Evil being manifested in humans. Through these and other such icons the image of our Creator has been deeply engrained in us. All this has over time defaced the Creator's True Image. This Fall began with our First Parents.
The true resemblance of humans to their Creator results from Humans acquiring the sacred and holy development of Spirit. Those who do not achieve this revert quickly to an animal state which makes them susceptable to Evil and it's machinations. This results in a loss of ability to do so and an ensueing blindness to what is good and what is Evil.
By the act of Creation and it's nature Artists are not inherently Evil... yet. But once this world has Fallen sufficiently this will change and the Nature of Creation will no longer be pure and Good. This "change" has begun to occur now in earnest everywhere in this world. It is obvious in music and song.
This is why Artists have to date been immune to the Fall and not afflicted to the extent of others. In the act of creating, an Artist strives to achieve something. This process is never a simple one and often it is so difficult that it seems insurmountable to most. The masses look at this as obsession but in fact it is not. Failure to understand this results in failure to understand Art, Creation and Life itself. The masses work only in the physical and material world whilst the True Artist in striving exists within the Spiritual Realms.
Artists in this sense regard the physical and material from a Spiritual perspective. Most priests can not really even do this in their sheltered lives sucking upon the tit of the Monuments to Spiritual Slavery ... the churches and religions of man. An Artist possesses a keen sense of observation and independence ... a priest does not. There are now several human priesthoods aside from the catholics, jesuits and lucifereans. Scientists and techies are the newest group elevated by humans to the Priesthood of Man.
Artists need no lessons in "Sacrifice" or "Faith" or "Comminment". They do this daily throughout their lives to be able to create. Conversley the religions and churches of man do not create, they destroy, murder, steal, enslave and cannibalize Humanity. They are the most Evil Institutions ever created by mankind and have laid a bloody swath through all history which drips with pure Evil.
Most humans do not know the true meaning of strive yet most Artists do. The masses do not strive for they are inherently lazy and they only reject. Even the masses do not strive towards Evil. But they achieve Evil by not tending towards anything but by turning away from something and rejecting it. This mass rejection has been nurtured by Evil to include Duty, Responsibility, Right Action, Honesty, Honour, Loyalty, Respect and Benevolence.
Discoveries are now always utilized monetarily and weaponized. Just as a human or thing can be called Good by reason of it's participation in Goodness ... so a human or thing is called Evil by reason ot it's turning away from good. This rejection, denial and ignorance is cowardice to do anything in the face of Evil. For a dwindling number this remains personal choice but for the majority it is nonexistent now as the result of Evil using Conditionalism and Greed upon Humanity.
For me I realized the true nature and meaning of this blindness when at 9 years old I read John Wyndam's "Day of the Triffods". Since then I have yet to find someone who regards that book in a similiar way. I have known the reason for this since then ... do you ?
Spiritual Beauty and Ugliness are much different than physical and material Beauty and Ugliness. Hence the True Artist finds and sees beauty even in what others may percieve as ugliness and visa-versa. The cities have all been made now into "Hell Mouths". LEAVE THEM NOW. An Artist with no knowledge of History is but a Child. A Leader or Ruler without any knowledge of history is Evil.
Very few now recognize that Evil can be so powerfully attractive and seductive that most cede and consent to it's temptations. The Cities have been made the New Churches and as such are Evil places destined to be dead wastelands. They are being made and laid as traps and snares for the ignorant who flock to them for material gain. LEAVE THEM NOW.
Even the desert monks of Ancient Christendom associated devils and demons with seductive beauty. They described such as bequiling, tempting creatures who represented all the enticements of the world and it's beauty. They understood "The blindness" of which I have previously spoken of and knew in reality without their glamour these monsterous beings were Evil and would harm them.
The Political filth who rule over this dying world are the minions and representatives of the most diabolical and Evil Power that exists. They are Seducers and very soon there will emerge "The Grand Seducer" who will not be presented as human but as SupraHuman ... as a person of astounding beauty as an Angel of Light. This Seducer/Tempter will be presented as "Good".
Artists of the Middle Ages understood this and being so aware preferred to portray the Evil, the devils and demons ... as ugly horrifying monsters. This demonstrates that they were aware of the "rejecting" and it's effectiveness. So they stressed the effects rather than the cause of humans succumbing to Evil's temptations. Artists showed their True nature by "striving" in a most clever way to use the knowledge and the sight they possessed in the blindness of what is called The Dark Ages.
I believe that at this moment Humanity has entered it's Final Dark Age and so I have come to refer to it always as The Darque Age. The masses failed to see what the Artists saw even then, thereafter and at present. With knowledge and inspiration coming from the past, present and future ... Artists Create. One eye is in the physical and one eye is in the Spiritual to put it into simplistic terms. The same can appy to the ears by the way.
Understand what the Artists really portrayed in medieval times as deformed, quasi-bestial and less-than-human were not just representing the effect of turning away and rejecting what is Good ... but it was also a glimpse into the future or our world at this moment with it's cloning, dumbing down and polluting of humanity and life within our world. H. R. Giger was inspired by his dreams and visions which to others would be nightmares. He was not portraying aliens or alien worlds as you are told to think. He portrayed the future and the opening of the Abyss.
These monsterous images, subhuman shapes, part human, part animal, cloned and corrupted symbolize how Evil alters and deforms our natural corporeal and Spiritual integrity. Giger's babies were not aliens and neither were his aliens. In Art as in our existence ... If Evil were taken away from some part of our universe, then much of Evil's perfection would disappear. Evil's beauty arises from the orderly union of Good and Evil whilst Evil springs from the waning away of Good.
True Artists are not manufactured artists, employees, slaves nor demons. Our Creator in foresight assures that Good always follows from Evil just as the Song recieves it's sweetness from "The interval of Silence" Technology has long been compromised by Evil and as such "musicians" are either not or have lost their Souls to Evil.
Humanity has been led by Evil .......to Love the Darkness.
to Love their lives
to Love Human approval
to love the world
These can be taken to a degree of disordered self-love ... becoming ego centric and independent of the Creator and all resulting in the "love" of the forces that resist and oppose what is beautiful and good. Refusal to accept the Light is motivated by the love of darkness. Artists have no choice in either accepting both light and dark and their relationships with colour and tones. or rejecting these and embracing Evil.
The masses flock now to the darkness dimming their world and ours. Artists have warned of this, seen this in vision and dream and now some have begun to deny the light without which there would be no colour in favour of embracing the darkness without which there would be no light. Because humans are free to leave the encroaching darkness, the refusal to represents a decision to remain in the darkness and embrace it. By remaining willfully in the state of darkness and walking in the darkness means living and acting in a state of opposition to what is Good, to Light and the denial of Reality and Spirit.
Darqueness is the state of human conciousness which results from an attachment to works done in opposition of the Creator. Evil loves the darkness and not the light. To make a choice one must be acutely aware of both Light and Dark. To see colour and use it creativly one must also have a sense of both. To express one or the other artistically then you must recognize both.
For the Artist every creation is a matter of choice and expression. Grey is my favourite in that it combines both light and dark into yet another noncolour but grey can be tinted, toned and coloured in such ways that the power of it's expression is far greater and widespread that any colour ... more akin to reality I feel. More like the world I have lived within. But now the grey is growing darker and quickly.
The Political Filth are liars, dishonourable and they seek only self-advancement and self-exaltation being primarily concerned with human approval and their own glory. This is all illusionary and false so they will fall victim to Evil. The longimg of the flesh and eyes along with the haughty airs born of ego are the prime enemies of the Artist in this world. Be wary of the craving for self-satisfaction and self-exaltation. These may condemn and restrict your spiritual development.
It is far better for the Artist to Love the Light and their Creator than any self-seeking Darkness. One must always retain the ability to return to the source ... the source of their being. Many Artists fall ... victim to wayward lives when seduced by the material and physical while being denied the Spiritual. This explains some of their rather tumultuous lives.
Some Artists glimpse Supreme Beauty whose vision inspires theirs. The Creator is the source of Beauty within the world. Ancient Pagans condemned themselves for believing and worshiping the sun, moon and stars as gods and creators in much the same way some Artists worship themselves.or Evil.
There is a nobility in conception and a beauty of the realization. To achieve Salvation from the Evil of this world, there are no classes, no priests, no popes, no leaders, no churches ... there is only the Self and the Realization of such which drives one to select their Path. The "Last Generations" are here and even dying now. True Artists have a keen sense of observation ... look around you and contemplate your life lived and most of all consider your approaching inevitable DEATH which is racing prematurely towards you faster and faster every day, every night.
I no longer have the time or luxury to trouble myself with the masses who flock to Evil. I am no Social Worker. I seek only those who "know" what TRUTH is and what GOOD and RIGHT ACTION is and in "Light" of this choose their own Path with their Hearts and understand that they live in the very midst of The End of this world. These are Epic Times and as such require Epic Art.
Ta Live Well Die Well... sunt enim ultima tempora.
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