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TOPICS:
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Thought
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Image
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Symbol
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Symbolism
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Signs
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Artists
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Art’s Value
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Presence
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Method
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Color
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Interactions
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Painting
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Geometry
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Structure
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Magic
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Interpentrations
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The
big picture
Is
made from the colors of millions of
carefully
placed dots:
Notes
of music, watercolor drops, pencil points
Paint
dabbling, marks on a canvas.
By
a mind filled with all kinds of stuff.
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[83.1] 4TH
Day: The Extraordinary THOUGHT
Luminous Rays =
halo
about the head/
glow
enveloping the body … Stigmata … Psychological colors … Colors reflect
emotions-Passions … each hue a different meaning as defined by
clairvoyants …
Dramatic in twig
light dreaming Streaming
Sensations
Shining
Objects
Image Clusters … Image Bursts
… Light Pathways
Belief Paths
Idea
streams
after
images … the Silver Disk Color-sound-Image sets
The
angel of a soft yellow blue and gold
Silver
and Gold’s splashing with sparkling tiny things
Reds
Screaming-Reaching
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[83.2] 4TH
Day : The
Extraordinary IMAGE
1/ Images play a complex role in language and is
difficult to define the difference between proper and metaphoric usage.
2/ The psychological use of images subtle and complex
in religion imagery functions as
symbols, that is, they speak to the faithful existentially and find an
echo in the inarticulate psyche.
3/ Symbols communicate through their
evocative powers. They convey meaning apprehended as non-conception,
subliminal.
4/ Symbols transform the horizons of
humankind integrate the perception of reality and alter the scales
values, reorient loyalties, attachments, and aspirations greater than
conceptual thought.
5/ Helps us to FOCUS our attention
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[83.3] 4TH
Day : The
Extraordinary SYMBOL
1/Symbols are instruments of knowledge,
the most fundamental form of expression. International language that
stretches over time from culture to culture containing the dreams and
aspirations of past peoples and races.
2/Symbols: always presents
reality, renders the
“understandable” enunciates the whole expresses the Unity it represents.
3/Symbolism has the power to
reveal aspects of reality which escapes other forms of expression: hand
signs for the deaf, pictures in lieu of words- stain glass windows, and
an alphabet for the spoken word.
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[83.4] 4TH
Day : Extraordinary: SYMBOLISM
1 / Symbolism often leads the
individual receiving the message within the symbol to immediate and to
direct apprehension.
2/ Never a mere form as in a sign
understood in the context of its religious-metaphysical background.
3/ Symbolism leads us into the
‘unity of life’.
7/ Pathways to
Truth/Life/Light.
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[83.4a]4TH
Day :
Extraordinary SYMBOLISM
Symbolism: Symbolism
is the signifying of something so that it may be more clearly understood.
Takes many forms based upon: climate, geography, earth/sky Gods, and
natural phenomenon. Opens multi-levels of understanding [i.e. Why do we
say ‘ a little bird told me’ the tooth fairy]. Usually present several
meanings and definitions a 2-way journey quest of mind and spirit inner
depth and outer height immanent and transcendent. Goes beyond the
individual ego to the universal into the life of the spirit. Religious
and meta physical context(s).
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[83.5] 4TH Day : Extraordinary: SYMBOLS
Symbols: An emblem
of religious, spiritual truth. Used to represent persons or mysteries and
must reveal some essential part of the subject to be understood. Contains
ever-expanding realm of possibilities and makes perception possible.
Captures and integrates abstractions placing them into context with both
esoteric and exoteric meanings [reveals and conceals simultaneously].
Expresses direct experience of
life/truth that leads beyond itself to light, illuminate, the Cosmos
[symbols of the cosmos].
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[83.6]4TH
Day: The
Extraordinary SIGNS
Signs: An action
performed or objects observed which has religious significance. Signs
instill a spiritual response in the observer: Emblems, allegory: portrays
the concrete and includes: consecrations, bowing, kneeling, hands
blessing.
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[83.7] SACRED ART: 4TH
DAY: ARTISTS
1/ As artists spend
years refining their styles, techniques, and skills that could never be duplicated by
the novice.
2/Few artists live in
the lap of luxury many must pay for all expenses associated with their
gifts loosing valuable time
in the sale & exhibit of their work their work is a really good deal.
3/Artists,
Architects, Holy Persons pursue the beautiful: Committed to of an authentic
mind and heart filled with ideas.
4/ Ideas
are the reflection of an important compelling experience of the spirit
expressed in paint, stone, sketch, word, and sound.
fulfill a
vision
5/
Creating individual works: Architecture, Art Sculpture, Music and
Literature are the prayers of the inner spirit longing for unity and
harmony, and communion in the creator.
6/ The reflection on The Good, The
True, and The Beautiful is vital for all of us, in all walks of life, and
at all times.
7/ We must nurture all those among us who are
‘passionately dedicated to the search for the new “epiphanies” of beauty
so that, through their creative work as artists, they may offer their
gifts to the world.
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[83.8]SACRED ART: 4TH
DAY: The Value of
art
Some
are given the role of being the master of their own works- responsible
for the moral value of their work. But, with the artist it is another
thing to be possessed by the creator. Called on day & night
responding to the urgings of the divine. Accepting, submitting, obedient to the urgings of the
Spirit.
Ready
to produce objects and images that are capable of molding the human soul-
awaking the ancient rituals of love, truth, spontaneity forming and
evolving a renewal of one personality while actualizing one’s productive
capacities in the flashing forms.
Creating
the “clean aesthetic” without stopping for days the notions of body &
mind. Spirituality is being formed and is growing.
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[83.9]SACRED ART: 4TH DAY : The Value of art
Sacred images, places, signs, and symbols form the
mystical language within our “Celestial Palace”:
Our personal sanctuary for
prayer, meditation, creativity, and contemplation.
Sacred Art and Architecture The splendid ministry.
Echoes of God’s own creative act:
…Writing, Music, Dance, Glassmaking, Tapestry,
Weavings, Gold and Silversmith, Vestment, photo, Vessel craft, Book
design,
Painting,
Sculpture, and Architecture …
Humankind has been given a glimpse of the divine within
the order and wonder of the universe within the personal accomplishments of its artisans.
People are privileged to embrace the Images of Grace as
it enters the work
and then to experience Heaven’s :
Splendor, Radiance, and Beauty.
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[83.10]SACRED ART: 4TH
DAY: The Value of
art
Who
Am I FOR God’s sake?
As an architect I do not just
call out something into a work: I am revealing something of myself: my
person.
My personality by the means of
this or that work. Space, image, form color, light becomes for me the spiritual
experience- a spirituality is being formed and is growing.
Message: beauty & goodness
Images, spaces, scribbles, and
written words are moving pictures of the stories of my life- and in
knowing the stories you may come to know me. That is you want to know my
inner life. Well, “Beauty is the visible sign of the Good and the Good is
the condition of Beauty”.
The Greeks coined this
phrasing: kalokagathia “Beauty-Goodness”
1/Profits or undeserved
popularity is not the drivers of the work.
2/ The search of God maybe is
the crying out to the divine for unity for the face of God to shine on
me.
3/ Artistic services becomes a
way of life.
4/ Beauty & Goodness
expressed with enthusiasms is what keeps me alive.
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[83.11]
PRESENCE
The spiritual exercise (not a
prayer) to cultivate the habit of
invoking God’s divine presence:
1/ Silent acts of love without
interrupting the activities of the present moment.
2/ The act of the intellect
where we place our self in the Presence of God. And, then raise the
heart/ mind to God in adoration, love, contrition, thanksgiving,
loving-kindness, gratitude.
3/ Averting to God by an act
of faith.
( This is an act of intellect
supported by prayer)
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[83.12]
PRESENCE
Doctrine: The practice of the Presence of God in all things by His “Immensity”, “
divine Indwelling”, and “Eucharistic Presence”.
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[83.13]
PRESENCE/Method
Modes of presence:
1/ Senses: sun, stars,
flowers, sea, rainbows,
mountains, storms-
God’s immensity
2/ Acts of the Will:
“Imaginative” presence- images that invoke and summon
the Presence in the Present Moment by thinking about God.
3/ Intellectual Presence: The Act of Faith
approach. Thought through faith and reason- no use of the imagination or
image.
This is accomplished through
by Faith, His immensity, or Indwelling.
4/ Affective Presence: The
mind simply thinks about God by turning toward God in the here and now.
The act of spiritual communion (i.e. that is being willing to receive
Christ- present in the moment, Eucharist, Sacraments).
The saints and spiritual
counselors recommend the cultivation of the affective method.
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[83.14]
Color interactions
To
accomplish the color interactions that reflect my personal internal response
to those great MOMENTS of PRESENCE:
The
promises of life: those emotions that lift the human spirit, that
includes:
Spontaneity, joyfulness,
creativity, openness, intimacy, life, giving-ness, loving kindnesses,
good things, ecstasy, delight, bliss, excitement, hospitality, community,
authenticity, openness, enjoyment, pleasure, harmony, peace of mind,
faith in the unknown, beauty, goodness, truth, happiness, pleasure,
enchantments, MYSTERY, fantasy.
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[83.15]
paint and emotions
Should
we reconsider those destructive and crippling emotions that have
dominated the work of the artisan?
Those
emotions that work to destroy the aspirations of the human spirit.
Suffering,
anger, pain, death, evilness, depression, anguish, fear, animosity,
jealousy, war, envy, animosity, depression, dread, terror, murder,
Could we move toward those
emotions that reflect the higher aspirations of the human spirit? Or,
seek to enter into the
visual expression of these negatives.
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[83.16] Painting
1/THE PLACE OF SOLITUDES
2/A SEQUENCE OF COLOR
EXPERIENCES WHILE MOVING ABOUT THE AMBER LIGHT
3/ THE PATH THAT PROCESSES
INTO AND OUT OF TIME
4/FLOATING WITHIN THE
IN-BETWEENS
ECHOES OF THE ETERNITIES
5/ IMPULSES OF INTUITIONS
SPONTANEITY AND EMOTIONAL
6/ HOMAGE’S TO THE EMERGING
FORMS THAT
BIND TIME- SPACE- SHAPE
7/ THE INTEGRATIONS OF THE
PIECES OF THE SEEN IN
SHAPE, COLOR, FORM
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[83.17] Geometry
Artists, Architects, Holy
Persons pursue the beautiful. Committed to fulfill a vision of an authentic
mind and heart filled with ideas. Ideas that are the reflection of a
compelling experience of spirit expressed in paint, stone, sketch, word,
and sound. Creating individual works of Art, Architecture, Literature,
Sculpture, and Music become
the prayers of the inner spirit longing for unity and harmony, and
communion in the creator.
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[83.18] Structure
The integration of architecture and faith is a lifetime
initiative. Geometry
provides structure and influences design. Design in its turn establishes order and results.
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magic
Once upon a time Magic invaded all things that existed
and we looked, and we experienced the Sacred and the Divine. This was
Sacred Time: the intersection of the supernatural with the earthly: the
Ordinary and Transcendent became One.
The Impenetrable Pyramid occupied by spirits carried life energy into the
future to herald all that had existed “before” the Present Moment: “Now” came and stayed.
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INTERPENETRATIONS
Objects that are placed or found within holy places: Sculpture,
paintings, carvings, tapestries, stained windows, relics of the saints,
remind us of the Presence of God.
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