AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors. This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC).
On The Philosophy Of Aesthetics
At the appointed time, necessities become ripe. That is the time when the Creative Spirit (which one can also designate as the Abstract Spirit) finds an avenue to the soul, later to other souls, and causes a yearning, an inner urge.
This yearning — this inner urge — acquires the power to create in the human spirit a new value which, consciously or unconsciously, begins to live in the human being. From this moment on, consciously or unconsciously, the human being seeks to find a material form for the new value, which already lives within him in spiritual form.
In this process, the spiritual value, searching for a form of materialization, finds matter. Matter is merely a storeroom. It is from this storeroom, that the spirit chooses what is specifically necessary for it to reveal itself — just as a cook chooses what he needs from a pantry.
Products of artistic labor exhibit a three-part structure comprising five moments of attention-arresting report:
Prologue:
Introduce the actors/themes.
Narrative:
1- Present a mishap.
2- Find the cause.
3- Execute the cure.
Epilogue:
Describe the Elysium.
Prologue, Narrative, and Epilogue may also be denoted as Preparation, Tension, and Release, respectively.
The intellectual and emotional experiences elicited by these five moments of attention-arresting report may be narrow with little variation, or wide with much variation, or variably narrow and wide with little and much variation spread over the duration of the five moments of report.
The same intellectual and emotional experiences, elicited by these five moments of attention-arresting report, may themselves, and internally to one, open upon vistas of seemingly new report numbering from few to many and eliciting a richness of satisfaction ranging from little to much.
The great works of art elicit the most and most sublime intellectual and emotional experiences because they themselves are created from the inner, foundational truths of our own nature and destiny and of existence generally.
That is, the great works of art are accounted as such because of a concurrence among those who experience them — to include their creators — that they produce in one the most numerous, the most expansive, the most wonderful, the most persisting, and the most enduring satisfactions.
In a word, the great works of art bring one into something of direct experience, albeit anticipatory and ambiguous, of the numinous now, which is the Presence of God, because in their formulation they themselves, the great works of art, are of the same ontos as that Presence is.
Great works of art give one to experience one’s own truth, who one is, where one came from, and where one is going. They are exciting and silencing at one and the same time. Mysterium fascinosum and mysterium tremendum in the same instant of intellectual and emotional experience.
At university, I enjoyed one course only: The Philosophy of Aesthetics. Professor Dr. Leslie P. Spelman (and by a former organ student of his) taught the course. Dr. Spelman was Dean of the university’s school of music, in those days of regional and national estimate largely because of Leslie P., as we affectionally spoke of The Old Man.
Mine was a group major in Philosophy, Religion, and Literature. I also studied organ during those four years, sang in the University Choir for three years, was a founding member of the reconstituted Chapel Singers of the University Choir for two years, and was organist to Trinity Lutheran Church, Hemet, CA during my final two years at university.
Dr. Spelman introduced me to Wassily Kandinsky and Ananda Coomaraswamy (The Dance Of Shiva). This experience grounded and directed my decisions and career thenceforward and ever since. It was, as Kandinsky might have it, lebensformend, materialisierter Geist, life-and career-forming.
In one sweep, in one university classroom, in one school of music, I met the two other life-forces, Russia and India, comprising what became the Three Brothers Doctrine of present and future geo-political authority: USA, Russia, and India.
My parents paid $10K — a salient sum in the early 1960s, particularly for my parents — to give me that experience, which they came to abhor. India called to me twice again, while I was at graduate school, before calling me straight to herself two years after I completed the course there.
At Dr. Spelman’s class on the philosophy of aesthetics I came face to face with the truth and liked it very much, felt right at home. The next time I had that feeling was six years later, at Lower Manhattan, inside a dingy, repulsive apartment, surrounded by persons I would not invite to Sunday luncheon — nor, for most, would they me — seeing on overexposed, grainy 8mm film for the first time the eyes of Sathya Sai Baba.
It was the appointed time, and necessities had become ripe. New forms had to be made to materialize the inner necessity of the new spiritual value brought forth by the Creative Spirit.
The Church was re-forming fresh away from formerly helpful but now harmful materializations, habits, and expectations. Prelates and clergy had welcomed — in some cases invited — ideologues, merchants, queers, and other murderers to operate inside the parameters of liturgical and theological respectability. So the temple had to be torn down and rebuilt elsewhere and elsehow.
It was time appointed to dive deep into the still waters of the soul, so to speak, while swimming steadily at the periphery — but not outside — of mundane affairs, there to saturate in the truth one is in The Almighty Eyes.
Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind bullies that they do not have matters as sewn up as they represent to themselves that they do. Hurray for the genius of the species!
Βασιλεία του Θεού
Update 1: VDH: The Military-Intelligence Complex