Tag Archives: Rudolf Steiner

alchemy of art: jangling the keys of solomon

With secret sound. The liberation of the subjective self. Magic squares and alchemy in art lending hermetic interpretations to deciphering works of art.It was the irresistible  lure of certain of the Magic Squares of the Third Book, and their tendency … Continue reading

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king of the wood: return to the grove at nemi

In James Frazer’s The Golden Bough, one is caught up in the drama of a dark and sleeping earth warmed into renewed life by the reviving sun, which also seems in the end to symbolize, for author and reader of … Continue reading

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VIENNA & MISGUIDED GENIUS: Ambiguous Dreams and Joyful Apocalypse

Although scholars agreed that Vienna was not the only place where Modernism achieved sweeping successes, it was still common practice to regard “Vienna as the focal point of European Modernism” . Scholars consider that European Modernism reached its purest and most concentrated expression in Vienna … Continue reading

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HOWL with GURDJIEF: “YOU ALL DIRT!” & Dirty Dancing

Did my Karma run over your Dogma? All is not lost; when one has a metaphysical poop scoop. Even dog doo has consciousness. Who is the unique idiot? Along with Helena Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and Aleister Crowley, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff and … Continue reading

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“TO AWAKE. TO DIE. TO BE BORN”

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born in about 1872  in the Caucasus region of what is now Russia. The so called “rascal sage” heralded the coming of ancient and esoteric Eastern teachings to the West. Neither a modernist nor a purveyor … Continue reading

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TRACKING DOWN THIS “SOMETHING ELSE”

Many contemporary counterculturalists and psychologists who trend towards the ” human potential” camp of that vocation – are obsessed with the idea that people need to be deprogrammed or de-brainwashed from the inherited percepts of their culture, as well as … Continue reading

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FROM THE CENTRE OF THEIR OWN CRYSTAL

The mad person as a symbol is a living, breathing reproach to the skeptical, scientific view of humanity and the universe which underlies everything that used to be known as Progress. The mad person as metaphor is also the one … Continue reading

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ECSTASY OF GEOMETRY: READING BETWEEN THE LINES

What was the nature of the quest that moved the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) to abandon the representation of nature in favor of an art of pure abstraction? What, exactly, did Mondrian believe that he had achieved? In any … Continue reading

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MONDRIAN:INCONVENIENT PARADOXES & STRATEGIES OF CONCEALMENT

“As time progressed, however, so did the indoctrination as to the new role of art. In the established media journals we were told by critics such as Clement Greenberg and Leo Steinberg, that Art “challenges previously held assumptions,” and that … Continue reading

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MONDRIAN: THEOSOPHICALLY PAINTING THE GOLDEN CALF

Art for Piet Mondrian( 1872-1944) was a cultural product and a cultural weapon, a privileged instrument for the construction of an urban and, in the best sense of the word, artificial order. Yet Mondrian’s perception of the world, no matter … Continue reading

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