Daily Meditation: Thursday, July 12, 2001

In the past many artists received a teaching from an …

07/12/2001

In the past many artists received a teaching from an initiatic school, which revealed to them how to rise to higher realms in order to find forms, colors and sounds. When their works of art succeeded in translating what they had received during their meditations and contemplations, they would influence human beings, inspiring in them a desire to embark on the same path towards celestial heights. That is why for centuries these creations have continued to move us. Nowadays artists graduate from Academies with all kinds of diplomas, but, having no knowledge of initiatic laws, they invent all sorts of theories to explain, for example, that their 'abstract' art contains a philosophy, a thought that the masses cannot grasp. You look at a picture, you turn it in all directions... What does it contain? What does it express? Nothing, stupidities, absurdities. Artists themselves do not know what art is anymore, what is its function, its mission. And yet it is simple, it can be summed up in very few words: the mission of art is to inspire human beings, so as to encourage them to turn back to their celestial homeland.