First we have G. stating that they are connected with consciousness of unity of all things. If we review the System we’ll find that we can only perceive objectively with the higher emotional centre.
The sentence: “Do not love art with your feelings.” was probably directed at students at the Prieurie who tended to perceive art from the jacks of centres instead of the kings and “subjectify” the experience instead of “assimilating” it in the sphere of the I and remain in the kings. I’m using “assimilating” meaning allowing the experience to permeate one’s being without identification but at the same time with acceptance and openness. In the process of “subjectification” through identification, the individual makes his own self, his or her thoughts and emotions the focus of the experience and loses the opportunity to experience the work of art or life in general, objectively. “Life” is in the work of art and the individual can express how much HE likes it and all the things that happen to him or her while looking at it or they can let it impregnate their being. There is an objective current of impressions between the work of art and the individual, life and the individual. That objective current of impressions is what the conscious individual can take in consciously and the unconscious individual takes in unconsciously. The current is the same and people are feeding on these currents of impressions or energies all the time, knowingly or unknowingly. There are different degrees of energy or “hidrogens” in the Greek temples or other “conscious” works of architecture and a simple little house. The sacred temple is designed to place the individual within a structure of objectivity that aligns his own self with the many dimensions within his own self and the world outside. The simple little house is more in “essence” than the temple and in the modern shopping malls that have replaced the temple, the “unity” experienced in temples is lost. Each little shop attracts different parts of centres and the “separation” of life experiences is enforced. The “market” has disconnected from people’s sphere of communication in communal life, it has “objectified itself” beyond the community and strengthens individualism. Oneness arises where both the inner and outer world meet in the individual. Conscious works are designed to remind the human being of his own self in the physical as much as the spiritual dimension. The laws within the physical world coincide with the laws in the spiritual world, the “metaphor” of life is the “metaphor” of spiritual dimensions.
In the subjective state of consciousness the individual places himself in the “identification with his own self” as “centre of the universe”. In the objective state of consciousness, the individual lives both in the periphery of unity and in the central axis of his or her being. There is no difference between the periphery or the axis, these are simply “symbols” with which an idea can be expressed. In the central axis of a human being’s being is the Universe or periphery: wholeness.
Feelings in the lower emotional centre or subjective feelings are such because they are filtered through the individual’s “ego” or “false personality” (in the system). False not in terms of “bad”, simply in terms of not real. It is not real because the human being’s destiny is to develop full consciousness and in the meantime, the “persona” occupying the seat is “subjective”, “false”. False and subjective is talking about a moment in a process, not a reality, the spiritual aspects of the human being are still in this subjective human being whose is hence, no less “sacred”. To be subjective is not to not be human, it is simply to be a human being in a certain state of development. Emotions in this phase of development are not objective because impressions “die” in the superficiality of his or her being touching only the external I or the I connected and identified only with the sphere of the physical dimension and his or her own personality within that dimension. There may be “happy” emotions but not “positive” emotions. “Objective emotions” as presented in the System are emotions that cannot become negative, that are not under the law of accident. “Love” as understood in states of identification is not experienced in states of consciousness because there is no separateness between beings and therefore no desire or longing. Love is then experienced as “life” or “objective reality”. The experience of delight before conscious works is different to experiences in the lower emotional centre in that “delight” touches directly the sphere of the I and not the sphere of subjective feelings. Delight I believe is: “of light”, “from light”. Just as negative emotions tend to enforce the development of false personality, “positive” emotions in the higher emotional centre tend to enforce the development of true personality. Conscious works of art are meant to enforce the development of the human being as an individual as much as a community. Temples, cathedrals, were not meant for individualism to spread but for consciousness to evolve but individualism, like the ego and subjectivity are just a phase in the process.
I’d like to further address your posts but this is already long, maybe tomorrow. Thank you for the opportunity to share and clarify these things for our selves. Elena
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