David Myatt
The reality of the present is that personal feelings, based on
personal relationships, and the personal struggles and/or
sufferings of individuals, have all been described by artistic
means in the past two millennia or so. There are centuries and
centuries of work concerning and created because of personal love
and personal relationships - and the problems of ordinary living
in society - in literature, music, drama and so on. What has
needed to be said, written and expressed about such things, has
been said, written and expressed by the many great artists of the
past two millennia.
What is needed now is to build upon these foundations - to
turn outward, and away from the inner world of the personal psyche
and the world of mundane society. What is needed is to describe
and express what is relevant to the next stage of our
evolution, as human beings. This next stage is the stage of new
adventures, of new worlds, of new ways of living brought through
striving for a numinous and supra-personal goal.
The personal life should take care of itself - if there is a
numinous goal to strive for. In brief, the great Art of the past
has enabled us to achieve an understanding of ourselves - it has
brought us to individuation, to the wisdom of a genuine
Adeptship, a genuine Enlightenment, founded upon a reconciliation
of opposites. We have discovered and learnt to know ourselves -
and have discovered the unity, the wholeness, which lies beyond
the Shadow and the Self. We have learnt that we are - or can be -
both Destroyer and Creator, both Lucifer and God, as we have
learnt the natural necessity of both of these forces of creation,
and destruction, and how renewal and re-birth proceeds from them.
We now need to and should go beyond this - for anything else is
unhealthy and a waste of our life. It is also the negation of the
work of those great artists which has allowed us this
understanding.
Thus, there is no longer any need for those who desire to be
great artists to endure or expect or desire personal suffering to
aid their development and their understanding, as there is no
longer any need for individuals to describe their inner suffering,
their personal development and their personal understanding
through artistic means. What should and must be understood in the
personal sense now can be rationally understood through an act of
will - through a conscious understanding of the works of Art of
the past two millennia.
There needs to be a whole new artistic movement - or many such
movements - which seek to go beyond this personal understanding
and which seek to develope new forms of Art to express and
describe what must be expressed and described in the numinous
realm which lies beyond this personal understanding.
We need to free ourselves from the mundane world of the past, and achieve a real understanding of and a real balance with Nature herself. We need to strive to free ourselves of this planet of ours, at first in artistic visions and dreams, and then in practical reality as we reach out toward other planets and stars. We need to dream great visions again, as we need to strive to make these visions real. Thus do we need to become inspired by greatness - we need to dream of and create new civilizations, new aeons, new Empires to stretch ourselves in, to explore and discover, and to use to create an entire new species of higher beings who are fulfilling the promise of existence latent within us and them.
In essence, we need to capture and express the numinous itself through unique works of Art.
Anything less than this is unworthy of us.