Beyond Bounds – Feb. 18, 2021
“Music at its best… is the grand archaeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us–beyond language–to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.” –Cornel West, The Cornel West […]
Creativity – Feb. 17, 2021
“The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world […]
Transformation – Feb. 16, 2021
“As I sat quietly in the garden, I realized the power of transfiguration—of God’s transformation—in our world. The principle of transfiguration is at work when something so unlikely as the brown grass that covers our veld in winter becomes bright green again. Or when the tree with gnarled leafless branches bursts forth with the sap […]
Transfiguration – Feb. 15, 2021
“The central idea of the Eastern Patristic fathers was the idea of “theosis”, of deification (“obozhenie”) of the creature, of the transfiguration of the world, of the cosmos, and not the idea of personal salvation… Only later did the Christian consciousness hold in greater esteem the idea of hell, rather than the transfiguration and theosis […]
