If all this is accurate, any writer willing to ponder the accord between Beauty & Truth can evolve their craft. . . and their soul life. In this digital frontier, it'll be like panning for gold.
We need those prospectors more than ever now.
“If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends."
This part is especially useful for those tasked with writing about the ugly:
"Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory-disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness.”
"The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world."
"All genuine art seeks the spirit."
"What we apprehend with our senses does not need to shine for us; it exists. It is the spiritual that shines, radiating into the sensory, proclaiming its being even in the sensory."
"Thus, the genius of language reveals itself.
And we should ask. . .what is our goal?"
In lecture GA276 (1923), "The Arts & Their Mission-Lecture VI," Rudolf Steiner writes more on this subtle relationship between Beauty and Truth in the context of the ugly.
He writes,
"[B]eauty reveals inwardness through outer form; a shining radiates outward into the world. . . ."
Even if you toil in an industry led by algorithms, maybe, after undergoing an inner process of your own cultivating Beauty, Truth emerges--effortlessly, as art.
Maybe Beauty is the way, and Truth, like the dawn, is what follows.
He's pointing to something there. That perhaps, if you make your inner life beautiful, that Truth will find you and shine through whatever you create.
Truth is elusive when sought for outwardly in a race against Time and one’s own better nature.
The Romantics got this. Didn't Keats write, "‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty,’—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"?
A lot of empty theorizing in a cascade of tacit one-upmanship. Post after post after post, a sputtering black cloud of exhaust fumes.
Where's the Truth? Where's the Beauty?
Let's say you're an honest writer in pursuit of the Truth, grinding for the media machine. Your industry is tough & soul-killing. Newsworthy events = fresh kill & blow flies. Your spin on any story quickly dogpiles w/ others' louder voices.
The result?
🧵 So much online writing hooks up w/ ugliness when it could be courting Beauty.
If Beauty were the muse, there'd be a lot more Truth to consider as we scrolled our daily screens.
One becomes two, two becomes three, out of the third comes the one as the fourth.
- Axiom of Maria Prophetissa
Day 12: The Archetype of the Apocalypse--by Edward F. Edinger
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What is the best source of his you would recommend for an in-depth discussion of this?
Very interesting! Will need to read up on Sanford then.
We can also project very positive qualities onto admired others--dimensions that can be better developed in ourselves.
The integration of these positive projections is equally important as working through the negative ones.
Apollo & Clytie or Eros & Psyche come to mind. Light can be blinding!
Re: 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 and eros – reminded me of something Tom Cheetham wrote:
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“There are ... some signs in Western culture—albeit a minority subculture—of a slowly emerging trend, a paradigm shift beyond scientific materialism to greater self-awareness & mental receptivity; to interest in meditation and the intersection of psychology and spirituality ...”
~ Radmila Moacanin.
With an astrological viewpoint, we can look beyond ourselves and into the world for signs of where to go and what to do. We can listen for suggestions from the world, of which we are a part, rather than initiating everything from subjective will and consciousness. This is the ethical dimension in enchanted living: deepening our sense of morality by learning the ways of nature. Astrology is in essence not a belief, a method, a science or pseudoscience, or even an art. At base it is a form of relationship between human life and the world, a relationship in which we learn about ourselves by observing the sky. Inverting the idea that we have a sky within, we could see the heavens as our interiority turned inside out. In the mysterious dynamics of macrocosm/microcosm, the sky has a soul that to some measure overlaps with our own soul. From Thomas Moore's book, 'The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life' which includes a section with may be of particular interest to astrologers and those with an interest in astrology. Those with an interest in Jungian psychology and depth psychology may also find much value in Moore's book.
How beautifully Thomas Moore writes here about astrology.
[W]e hurry into meanings. We have difficulty staying in a state of 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨, a state that is essential to reverie. Not knowing is an eros moment, and if we linger there psyche begins to speak spontaneously.
— Russell Lockhart, Psyche Speaks: A Jungian Approach to Self and World
Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.
Day 11: Till We Have Faces--C.S. Lewis
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Carl Jung - Individuation As A Mystical Source Of Meaning | Agrippa's Diary. Video (22 min 19 sec) ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JGj...
Day 10: Gnosis I, II, III--by Boris Mouravieff
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Day 9: The Philosophy of Freedom--by Rudolf Steiner
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