The Lord in His Divine Human is that Wisdom (Light) from Love (Heat).
As He said: “I am the Light of the world.” (John 8:12) It is only in the light
of Divine truth that we can see natural things, and our own human nature,
truly; that is, perceive their spiritual origin and significance.
The human nature the Lord took upon Himself by incarnation in this
world could be made Divine because it was conceived by the Divine as its
Father. It was glorified by being united with the Divine from which it came.
(We can be conjoined with the Divine, but never so completely united with it
as the Lord could be because of His Divine conception.)
We can see a somewhat similar pattern – but on a distinctly different
level, of course – in the way art is created. It is conceived when the artist is
inspired by the life, order, harmony and beauty of creation itself (which
encompasses the spiritual and natural worlds). These spiritual qualities are
from the presence of the Divine in creation. The artist strives to express and
communicate something of this spiritual reality in an external, physical form.
Thus a work of art is born; it is something essentially spiritual but clothed in a
form composed of natural material.
The viewers who are affected by the work of art are then, by means of it,
made aware in some degree, of the spiritual or heavenly spirit that inspired it.
In fact, the viewer may see more in the art of the “something beyond” from
which it came, or by which it was conceived and to which it refers, than the
artist himself was aware of.
In so far as those who view the art are affected by it with something of the
glory of God and a sense of Divine beauty, it is “glorified” in their minds. The
natural object exists in space and time, but the essence or soul of it is from a
higher realm, and it is that spiritual life in it that touches our life.
No work of art inspired by the artist’s love of self and his own ability could
serve to communicate heavenly qualities in this way. “Innocence” is not a word
normally associated with art, but the greatest art, or most spiritually useful,
must have that quality in it as its very soul. Only then can art serve its highest
use, to further our development as truly human beings by strengthening our
connection with the only source of humanity, the Lord in His Divine Human.
The Rustic Beauty of the Word
The Word in its letter is primitive, crude, paradoxical – less perfect than the
elegant writing of various philosophers, poets and other authors. Pseudoscriptures (s