Ars Magna: The Crown Jewel of Gnostic
Art
W hat is
Ars Magna?
The Latin phrase: Ars Magna means the Great & Magnanimous Art.
Although the phrase “Ars Magna” is not in common use, it is the only one
I have ever encountered that accurately describes an elect class of works of
Works of Ars Magna are concentrations
of the fantastic energy of the impetus of a culture’s soul into a few
works of art, like a full spectrum of prismatic color, concentrated into a
single point of white light. They are portals, similar to the concept of worm
holes, which are entrances to the manifold planes that constitute the
multidimensional reality of the universal life force. (Please see Wikipedia:
entelechy, monadology, worm hole.)
Ars Magna/ Age
Defining Art:
Certain works of Art so completely epitomize the values of their age that they transcend the time from which they emerge. “La Pieta”, Michelangelo’s Magnum Opus defined the genius of his age, yet is eternally and universally relevant. La Pieta is the pure magnanimous compassion in the form of exquisite marble contours, the soul of Europe, underlying the barbarisms of her history.
La Pieta is the epitome of mans’ nobility; a love transcendent of the desire and cravings that bind the soul and spirit from attaining the heights and depths of wisdom; so universally relevant, a stone age Aborigine would fathom the depths of wisdom immersed in the gravitas of transcendent grief for the suffering of all sentient life, embodied by “La Pieta” as fully as a person of the European Renaissance or the present.
La Pieta is far greater than
Michelangelo’s crowning achievement, or a magnanimous symbol of the grief for
all the worlds suffering; for it is imbued by the power of the Logos that
passed through the chosen channel of manifestation, Michelangelo, to create a
portal to eternity wherein lay the schemata of the Universal Master Plan.
Few artists are destined vehicles of what the ancient Greeks
called the daemonic; which is simultaneously demonic and Devine, indivisible in nature. Although there certainly have been many great artists and works of art through the ages, very few of those works of art, even those which were commissioned for religious purposes, regardless of their excellence of design or virtuosity of craftsmanship have any extraordinary spiritual power or could accurately be characterized as portals to other dimensions. Works of Ars Magna are magnanimously transpersonal, beyond value judgments of personal taste or opinion and are far more spiritually potent than the greatest egocentrically created works of art emanating charismatic powers of enchantment.
Many people who behold a work of Ars Magna are peripherally aware of a sense of awesome majesty imbued upon the inert materials, yet there are a tiny minority who are so deeply sensitive, spiritually awake or evolved, to be transported beyond ordinary waking reality into the planes and dimensions to which these great works are portals.
The artist cannot decide to create a masterpiece of Ars Magna, for posterity alone may choose the artist to materialize the wisdom of the ages. The creation of a work of Ars Magna is essentially the same as the cycles of all sentient life. It is a birth of the Logos; the true immaculate conception of a seminal idea in a field of pure potential that is so fertile it periodically becomes pregnant with an idea and after a time of gestation, gives birth to perfectly articulated manifestations of pure potential, inspiring whole new generations of Art while providing the genetic material for the next generation of Ars Magna.
A confluence of spiritual and historical forces converge in an appointed time and place to manifest the pure idea, of which the chosen artist as the channel, is but one part of the living organism. Works of Ars Magna cannot be rushed because they in essence have lives and destinies of their own and sublime lineages that influenced and nurtured their growth through the ages until the appointed time of manifestation.
I do not presume that every work of Art that I have created is a Work of Ars Magna. That claim would be preposterous; the unmitigated hubris of an egomaniac, for only a small handful of artists through the ages could claim the distinction of creating one work of the caliber of Ars Magna. However, the logo I designed represents Ars Magna as the driving force of divine inspiration which I hope would if not permeate, at least touch everything I create.
