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Old 04-06-2008, 07:29 PM   #4
enlinnyGoob

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mainstream education would probably never go into discussions of an esoteric nature, yet there is material out there that addresses the deeper layers of sacred geometry, and it's up to the individual to search.
at least in western civilization there are no book burnings, something to be grateful for, and now anyone with enough curiosity can find answers to these kinds of questions for free on the internet.

for instance, in a book by p.d. ouspensky called "in search of the miraculous" which was published in 1947 and which is now available as a free pdf document online:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ar...miraculous.pdf

one can find some interesting quotes about the difference between subjective and objective art.


"do such works of objective art exist at the present day?" i asked. "of course they exist," answered g. "the great sphinx in egypt is such a work of art, as well as some historically known works of architecture, certain statues of gods, and many other things. there are figures of gods and of various mythological beings that can be read like books, only not with the mind but with the emotions, provided they are sufficiently developed. in the course of our travels in central asia we found, in the desert at the foot of the hindu kush, a strange figure which we thought at first was some ancient god or devil. at first it produced upon us simply the impression of being a curiosity. but after a while we began to feel that this figure contained many things, a big, complete, and complex system of cosmology. and slowly, step by step, we began to decipher this system. it was in the body of the figure, in its legs, in its arms, in its head, in its eyes, in its ears; everywhere. in the whole statue there was nothing accidental, nothing without meaning. and gradually we understood the aim of the people who built this statue. we began to feel their thoughts, their feelings. some of us thought that we saw their faces, heard their voices. at all events, we grasped the meaning of what they wanted to convey to us across thousands of years, and not only the meaning, but all the feelings and the emotions connected with it as well. that indeed was art!"

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