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Similarly it is that during those periods of spiritual dryness we can, if we | <blockquote>Similarly it is that during those periods of spiritual dryness we can, if we | ||
have so trained ourselves, commune with God through various forms of Art, for | have so trained ourselves, commune with God through various forms of Art, for | ||
Art fundamentally is a revelation of the Divine Nature, it reveals what Plato | Art fundamentally is a revelation of the Divine Nature, it reveals what Plato | ||
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beautiful image in a temple, that somehow as they offered their adoration to it, | beautiful image in a temple, that somehow as they offered their adoration to it, | ||
the image was like a wonderful window through which they looked into the Divine | the image was like a wonderful window through which they looked into the Divine | ||
Nature.<ref> | Nature.<ref>Jinarājadāsa, Curuppumullage. Discourses on the Bhagavad Gita (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1953), 99.</ref></blockquote> | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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Revision as of 15:38, 27 July 2012
Primary Gods and Legends
H. P. Blavatsky and Myths
Modern Analysis
Similarly it is that during those periods of spiritual dryness we can, if we
have so trained ourselves, commune with God through various forms of Art, for Art fundamentally is a revelation of the Divine Nature, it reveals what Plato called the Idea or the Archetype. The ancient Greeks were particularly sensitive to this aspect of Art. If they looked at a statue of Apollo, the sun-god, it was not merely to them a statue of some handsome youth, but there radiated from the statue a mysterious influence, so that they came to feel the influence of God. Similarly with the goddess Minerva; they felt, when there was an adequately beautiful image in a temple, that somehow as they offered their adoration to it, the image was like a wonderful window through which they looked into the Divine
Nature.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Jinarājadāsa, Curuppumullage. Discourses on the Bhagavad Gita (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1953), 99.