Invitation to Art; 15; The Gods

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This too I vow. And this shall ever be. I will be true despite. Vice site. And be. A man. Railing against time which changed us all. For man and his mortality desires to be immortal. To step outside time. And become. Times. Seen the expression of that wish. For God. Life has been described as a brief union between two doctors. And in their. Brief lead in there is wonder. And Joy and sorrow and pain. And there is also more. For the world as in all some places we are bound to the cycle of the seasons bound us to a great wheel from which we contemplate. And look upwards perhaps to the heavens. Whether God's most to leave well. For the

heavens in the sky that can become. An image of Terra will take. A new turn or silence of those infinite spaces terrify us. As well as us. And we can ask a question that H.G. Wells asked of one of his. Characters. When he said. What spark is in him and we may ask what is in us. To face the immensity. Men. Have. Created. God. And men have become God. There is no greater monument to man's wish for immortality than there are to Egypt. And here it's important to have ability gives no hint of the urgency of the belief that this mess all of this artifact show a hole or so. After Death. And if there is no vessel to receive it first so I shall wander in darkness. And among them.

So in this case from Alabaster so that it shines and leans like satin. There are as many things. There is an interpenetration of the human and the divine. When the end of eternity of the new rule in the book. It was my serving as sixth king of the great Fourth dynasty with the interface that springs the lines and stuff. From the rigid formality of the rest of this colossal statue and the face seems modeled with the strangely gentle hand and the curved surface locks into her with such certainty that it seems to move and turn. And this extreme subtlety turns up enough in the kindom state to spur us to see behind it an individual in an individual mind and individual school of sculptors who differ from the stronger broader modeling of this. Slate have done myself in years. The same face but differing from the other as perhaps the likeness of alabaster differs from the ducks and liberty

of the slate. Here again is art for the turn of the art as a part of ritual and belief perhaps its highest function as the nexus of which the natural and the supernatural. There are many ways to achieve immortality one has to hold so tightly on to the moment that it stretches into infinity and infinity that leaves no memory of the tender moment which wipes away all. Records. To produce eventually faces. Is the which of us small lenders like the faces of the dead except here the faces look. Not at us. But beyond us. Egyptian art. Changes a little. Because men. And the world around him have in this art come to an equilibrium which is workable and safe. So formula perpetuates itself. Custom persists because it is

merely. A custom. Within these narrow limits. It changes but the limits itself. Are not a. Better world outside than. Other cultures. Where to discover. Death. For the Egyptian was a monument. At the end of life. Which cast its shadow. Over all of life. And every Egyptian was born. But the king was a mortal. The king was the personification of the living Horus. And after death. Takes his place among the gods. Man becoming God and the religion of the huge options and their gods is a confusing thing where guns emerge they merge one with the other they disappear and they are reincarnated. And in the men animal in the world around mix in a mysticism which is never explicit but full of contradictions which can exist side by side. Come up with us. Heliopolis Memphis they will

produce a primitive type of religion so that natural phenomena are observed in their affairs but not investigated in their causes. Facing frontally again is the same myself swearing the crown of Upper Egypt this time not with a muffled woman his queen but with a goddess with special protection. And. Pay for. Her a half hour mistress of the sycamore tree and she has his particular take on it. Is the beloved of pepper and the inscription reads post-speech. I have given you all good offerings of the site. For if. You would for sustenance in this limbo of afterlife which will enable life to continue in the afterlife as was promised by this personification of the hair on. The hair and no more problems. In a body to the Capitol how much its symbol the hair about the hymn.

That's why it's called the here and now. And then and other symbols of hatha mother goddess that was symbolized occasionally by a. Hero only by the home. Between the horns. Something that shines through and on most of the Egyptian. The sun. And it's the suns of this. And then this man is becoming God. And takes his place beside a goddess. There she is larger than he is in a child's drawing. Importance swells of figure to weight proportions while an important shrinks to nothing. As a child we do it and this sense of proportion is something that was never solved in Egypt. To achieve that through democracy both in art. And life. The importance of the individual the rights of the individual all these still are thousands of years away. But here as we said man is becoming a god a god in a world of contradictions where the gods partake partly of

men of animals and of nature for the gods of Egypt seem to me very often to be personifications of natural forces or other conflicts of man and nature rather than personifications of a conflict within his own small universe. Actually. We can say. With the sculptures that made this. And with artist. And his 30th. Makes it a monument to a raise or a New Years. I have raised a monument to a more lasting one. And they have resisted the oblivion of haunted darkness which the Egyptians must feel. We are walking out of the darkness and confusion of rejection into the sunlight where the gods are like men and women made in the image of men perfect raised to an idea of where they see as personifications of the multiplicity of memories.

Single. And. As we are in Greece. Is that all some face of the father of a god. The mighty Zeus here imperturbably on. The face which. We cannot from behind their marble farting. And it's removed from the world of mortality and who though he is capable of desire and anger and love and human impulses he is even in the inscrutable and remote as a father would be to a child. And one might describe this as the archetype of a father figure to father was truly father of the world. And of the gods. And men. As Virgil said of Jupiter the the Romans imps Earl thou who ruled us the fortune both of men and of the gods with an ending sway and terrify us with life fundable. This shaped piece of marble is a reflection of what was perhaps one of the very greatest statues of antiquity. The statue

of Zeus at Olympus. By the greatest of the century masters cities this is a fourth century Cup. And the fourth century differs from the first in one word it is subject to. Hideous end at all and remoteness. Some of the OR and remoteness in this copy has passed away from the face but it is still powerful impressive. Surely a face of the father of a god. There is a story that when Phineas was asked how he would put phasers it applied by quoting the life of Homer which emphasize his remoteness His Majesty and his then spake the mighty Zeus and bowed his dark brows. And the rosy Olaf's waves from the Kings in mocking it and he made to go right to Memphis check. This is the just the other whose also Majesty is approachable through his mercy. And to go beyond the home to

the gods of Egypt. We come upon a God who is closer to human forms who can be influenced by supplication and sacrifice and whose come justice speaks of a new balance between reason and emotion between fear and understanding in the face of this God we can see now and I mean the mission of him. With a fourth century research it got to become more human as does this god it was the entire notion of the most human of a motion of Aphrodite goddess of love and the style of the most sensitive and gentle of fourth century masters prac cities and the orders passed away. Leaving only a direct human communication as if the cheek of this marble. Were warm with life. And in the complete incarnation of the Gods there is danger because society is always forming new ideas modifying old ones. And if

these ideas are in conflict with the ideas which sustain the gods then the great God says to the gods of Greece they die. As William James say's when we cease to admire or pool the definition of a deity implies then we end by deeming that deity created. And out Aphrodite This years of surpassing beauty. She is no longer. A great. Transcendental mystic. She has become human. The mystery of her face is now a human mystery. And she will never become a great and powerful goddess again. Cause men must believe in something. That is larger than himself. Something that goes beyond him and to which you can submit. His belief. That curiosity and restlessness of his which probes are mysteries which makes them probes and mysteries that is his particular blessing and his

particular class. And the more knowledge he gets and the father he goes on the road of knowledge in some strange irony. One of the strangest of life the less he had the more we know the less we know. For one step we take on the road to knowledge. Knowledge itself. Takes two steps away from it. So in all this it is good to have the still in moment in this living tissue of marble so perfectly proportioned that we don't notice it at first and its only the slightest symmetries which insert this we allies in the future so subtly suggestive that they seem to have all the sweetness of the face that is lost in the overs of these eyes slightly shadowed a mouth so delicately with an expression that it seems to move as one's own changes. A subtlety that is carried all over this marble is the luminous almost tensed air and marble on the cheek changes

subtly to suggest the texture of hair. It is a complex of subtleties which go farther than any in the earth statement of. The goddess. Aphrodite. For Gods and Men. The Greeks were obsessed with the relationship between the gods and men and with. The concept of freedom is that of divinity which shapes our in to the gods. All of us in that is man simply an atom in a meaningless universe. Our is the God in man which sits in. At a stop or so this there is a life. That is higher than the measure of humanity. Man will live it not by virtue of his humanity but by virtue of something in him that is. Divine. To live as he said. According to what is highest in.

The Greeks who gave us so much this sun like World of the Greeks was it always sunlight where there is sunlight there must be shadows and perhaps the sunlit world of the Greeks that we have is an illusion. Because whatever man brings light he also brings shadow with a man withdrawn into the darkness behind their backs. William James disowns a piston ism as to what is the joy and unmixed. Of necessity. The years are the two sides of the green corn. There is another religion which is Ministry which is so many signs that it is like a great turning tool. And once again we pass to a mind which is capable of. Tolerating contradictions which can contemplate the incompatible. With you can equanimity. And. So we go. To remind again that unlike the Greeks which always stretched out and prolong the

line to reach a conclusion goes inside which returns always to the same starting point to the same mystery to the same question. But there is one thing in common the Buddhist thought has with the tops of earth years a sense of moderation a balance struck the harmony of the middle part as Buddha called it after his enlightenment. And that was what he said to His disciples. And his first sermon after his unlikely he said. There are two extremes brothers which he was given up of up to avoid what are these two extremes. There is the extreme of pleasure and of pleasures and lusts this is vulgar degrading since you will ignoble and profitless and the extreme of mortification. This is painful ignoble and profitless. By avoiding these two extremes of brothers. I have come to the knowledge of the middle which leads to insight which

leads to wisdom which produces the. Knowledge. To supervene enlightenment. And this is all put better perhaps in a Buddhist proverb which summarizes it. Oneself. Conquer. Is better than the whole world. Conquer. What course was the young and princely Siddhartha gulped and the Prince the young Prince Saud announced both modification. And pleasure to find the middle way. After six years of searching for the riddle of life finally come the six year olds were. By his forty nine days meditation under the beauty. Then he achieved in life. For 45 more years he preached and he teached and then he passed on to no one. Between the time he achieved in life and in the time he enters no vanity he is called. A body. Bodhi means enlightenment such as one

whose essence is enlightenment. Ender's Buddha. Other body suffers. Enlarged to order the usurpers of the past and of the future. Here. We have one of them. It comes. From India as Buddhism and but it came from India. And. The ideas of Buddhism came fully formed so that in China they had to shape an art to express them to fit them to give them light. And their struggle to do this results in China in the only primitive buddhist the primitive at all it undivided sincerity. Well here is the face of one million or more Buddhist sects agree he is the most approachable the most human the one most capable of compassion and mercy and protection and it would he said looks with the withdrawn and inward gaze of all oriental lot for the idea behind all the Saudis

contemplates a voyage into the interior world. No one else can follow. But if we can change the world outside we can change it. The Indians had a counterpart to this one year in which they called and then a team. And. Since mostly and compassion are more feminine than male The Chinese still have a separate goddess. Opinion only tend later to turn into something more feminine. But anyway a boddhisattva has developed so far in spirit that he is beyond the limitations of sex and has the power to manifest himself as male or female. So this image of the just essentially it has an archaic force of belief which demands belief from us and so when we touch the invisible the same point saves the invisible it must be understood by the visible and rich. List spiritually perhaps in this but again the visibility suppression of Buddhist thought is this

magnificent one year a few centuries away from the other but more sumptuous standing on a lotus pedestal which you can see at the moment that Lotus which he holds in his hand in the lotus. Whose form and rhythm bends toward Chinese art. He has hung with ornaments and looked with chains and when this was covered and overlaid with gold. Her face is less abstract than the other it is a ritual up to a snus her brows matching the loader for my placid and smiling lips bracketed by symmetrical creases. Must you dare to compare an image of peace that passes. Understand. The wake of a mystery that is greater than man and to which you can thus submit to his belief. It is. Time. When we see you on the headrest here. An image of boredom to look at the face of this man who was in full certainty who was gone beyond riches and possessions was withdrawn to that place in the spirit

of ideals and ideas and sensations have ceased to be. To find of we shall go to the Great looked up period the greatest period in Indian up to the 5th century A.D. which we see here. In all its mess of solidity with these broad plains a face each locking one into the other with a tremendous short. Yours or Mark. So great that the astrologers foretold the first clip which occurs always to the right. The bump of wisdom the signifying the capacity of these intimate and nothing to do with these day but simply a relic of these frontally days the lobes of the years stretched. By. The yearnings of the war. Face with the wrong the wisdom to wisdom which comes from disciplined meditation and meditation which is enumerated finally by the flash of enlightenment in Zen men so at one with the universe with such an effect on the equilibrium of the world that when Zen man loves.

The whole world. But in this fertile future of India there are other gods. Gods who are old. When I was young gods who give substance to faith. And to believe. Faith as St. Paul tells us is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Here to Willie and another father of the universe. Here's the evidence. Thing is NOT see this is Brahma the Eternal Spirit. Whose deity informs and infuses all these worshippers to give them participation in God here. They become part of the whole. Aspect of his infinity. Of this God. The old scriptures say Thou art the seasons on the seas. Just

abide with all pervading this. Where. All things are born. Here is four faced facing towards the four directions these four are. Seated on a lotus pedestal of calling the Lotus birth the Agni the god of fire. With which Brahma is identified. Many faces many many powers many aspects of God. Well her finally be destroyed by fire and water. And will return to Brahma was aspect ramen and will recreate the world will set it in motion again will set another cycle of life in motion far to the in the Hindu. Life is always in motion like the earth around and engaged in a continual rebirth. As are all living things. See how a religion grasps an aspect of life and holds it with such intensity that it becomes its vision which is placed over the world.

In all this there is no progress for Titan is a pool a pool in which many contradictions are resolved. Pleasure and Pain Gain and loss victory and defeat. They are one and the same. In this the individual soul however may make progress progress towards freedom from this round of rebuts progress towards moksha. For the yogi in union with God it has passed beyond time and space beyond good and evil. There are many other gods to wonder. At in this Hindu pantheon which is more gods than any other religion. That is sort of arty. The wife. That we saw a short time ago she is the patroness and Goddess of the Creator. There are many other gods. Two of them with Brahma and join together to make the Hindu Trinity

which is simply three aspects of Brahma. That is Vishnu the Preserver and Shiva the Destroyer. Shiva's wife has many forms. In some she is motherly and feminine as in woman and. In others she was cool and terrible as in Holly and door God. Here she stands on the buffalo head. Which conquers you. And she seems to emerge from the stone. And take on like just as the Hindus imagined. Life itself to emerge from the formless substance of the universe. We have seen many aspects. Of man's wish for the motel. And out of this single question What is this man's fate have come in the diversified forms of ritual and religion

in Tanita these ideas has made the invisible visible and. Is the instrument of a search for an answer. And yet strangely its fulfillment. The evidence of the divine. It man. These religions of it many forms many believers. Yet they have all had one thing in common one thing which at a stop of meant when he said that men shall live by virtue of something in them that is divine. When Buddhism said oneself conquered is better than the oh well conquered. Another to each other greatest of all say is it. When you say is. The kingdom of God cometh not with observation neither should you say Lo. For behold I say to you. The kingdom of God. Is within.

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