22. Art

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The sense of the human activities is not to cultivate a piece of land, to breed animals, to teach a few people or to build a house. As these activities are self-oriented, people do this for their own benefit and the resulted benefit supports them. Behind this activity is the individual ego's interest. By pure labour, it is not possible to achieve unity with the One and Only. Added spiritual value is essential for what we call creation or the various arts. The sense of creation means a voluntarily undertaking, like building our own the family house, bringing a kind of sacrifice, thus offering a piece of the world to the One and Only. Only then is the blessing of the One and Only and can grace the creation. It depends on the man if a creation, art or a simple work leave his hands, also how can he distinguish between creation and work, how can he recognize if the purpose of his creation is the raising of a piece from the material world to the One and Only, to the starting point, (re- spiritualisation) thus taking part in the process of order making in the material world. 

There are opinions that an artistic creation must give a cathartic experience, and as such have an awakening effect. Among the various arts, music may be considered the most capable of cleaning the soul, because of its ability to “speak” the sounds, use the frequencies and waves that resemble with the frequencies and waves of the soul. Not without reason, music supports the meditation. We know that music waves and has rhythm. The artistic creation ought to support awakening, something that is beyond life and time, to support something from the timeless, the existence, if nothing else than passing over from life and it’s continuation in existence. Recognizing the passing over means being awake, the consciousness of the moment, the feeling of woops: here's something I haven’t known so far. The creation, art must reflect the soul which creates it, that the artist is in his creation. Would it be a composed piece of music, a painting or construction of a house, the work of art in itself should be his signature. Only then, we can talk about creation, otherwise it is just a piece of work.

The art of experiencing existence cannot be operated on the principle of utility, because the beginning of art is the end of utility. The product such as a music composition, or building a home, is not for the time being, nor for the creator himself, but for those who come after us and all others following us. A creation is first of all not a supernatural activity, but a minimal effort to reach to nature’s level, should a creator find the rhythm of order, voice and colour of nature. Utility was invented by man for his own benefit. There is no utility in nature, animals and plants do not seek anything to benefit from, and they rather coexist for sustaining themselves and trying to preserve their reproductive conditions. The apparent battle is on for water, food, air and not for utility. Utility is a matter of principle, animals have no knowledge of it. It was the principle of Darwinian fight for life which was translated to society by Marx. In our society this principle was introduced either by the author’s ignorance or by conscious misinterpretations within the divide and conquer (divide et impera) ideology, eventually being explained as the class struggle. By using this concept Marx sunk man from the level of creature to the level of an animal.

Art begins when the creator detaches himself from utility, in order to show something from the everlasting. Could he understand here below, what is being said above, and then he is able to map and transmit that image and sound to the earthly being. To do this, man must be free, which we can call the artistic freedom, because by commanded order and ideologies, artistic creations are possible, but without transcendence. If the creator succeeds displaying the existence, then he is the one who can bring heaven to the earth. He is the one who is able to present the transcendental, who can taste the existence in life and help people to recognize the wholesome life (life and existence together). The artist can help man to find himself in the horizontal and vertical levels of the cross, in the finding of the centre, which is a condition for reaching the One and Only.

A few examples. Nutrition can be similarly viewed as cult and art. For the prehistoric man, nutrition was one of the most profound cults, therefore they attributed such a great importance to common meal times. The meal was a real ritual, when food seemed to sacrifice itself to man, de facto, man lowered themselves into the material (the food) in the same time thanking the One and Only for it. Out of all kinds of nutritional elements, the four sacredness –earth, light, air, water- are concentrated mostly in vegetables, thus by their consumption, we enjoy the sacredness and our universality is expressed. The miracle is that the food gives itself to the man, so the two, food and man are united, as they give themselves to each other.

Love is also creation and art, when a woman gives herself to a man and the men to her, and then they become three, together with the One and Only. Women were not given the man as property, but to complement each other and experience the ancestral creation, the existence of Adam and Eve together, to be the mirror image of each other and raise themselves to the One and Only. The restoration of duality is when the two parties form a unity in marriage, and are able to become one in both spirit and body. Their task is to cultivate love in each other, for each other's delight and pleasure. To a father and mother, the child was not given as servant or property, but to cultivate his/her spirit, to raise his/her soul to the One and Only. The child isn’t parent's property, but belongs to the community he/she is from. This kind of education, the upraising is a cult like love and learning, nutrition and agriculture. Cult is also the writing, the arts, and indirectly physical education as well, as the results of these activities is spiritual and invisible.