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Separate the Earth from Fire, the Subtle from the Gross, gently and with great Ingenuity. It rises from Earth to heaven and descends again to Earth, thereby combining within Itself the powers of both the Above and the Below.
Thus will you obtain the Glory of the Whole Universe. All Obscurity will be clear to you. This is the greatest Force of all powers, because it overcomes every Subtle thing and penetrates every Solid thing.
~ Thoth
“ When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realize, why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death…”
– H.P. Lovecraft , Dagon
BEETHOVEN FRIEZE; Gustav Klimt
executed in 1902 for the 14th Secession exhibition – The Beethoven Exhibition
The 14th exhibition was centered around Max Klinger’s sculpture of Beethoven. The goal of the artists was to transform the Secession building into a temple dedicated to the composer.
Gustav Klimt’s contribution was a large-scale mural (which he didn’t have time to finish) called Beethoven Frieze. It was based on Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, which was about humanity’s yearning for happiness.
“The Three painted walls form a coherent sequence. First long wall: longing for happiness. The Sufferings of Weak Humanity, who beseech the Knight in armour as external, Pity and Ambition as Internal, driving powers, who move the former to undertake the struggle for happiness. Narrow wall: the Hostile Powers. The giant Typhus, against whom even the Gods battle in vain; his daughters, the three Gorgons. Sickness, Mania, Death. Desire and Impurity, Excess. Nagging care. The longings and desires of mankind fly above and beyond them. Second long wall, longing for happiness finds repose in Poetry. The Arts leads us into the Kingdom of the Ideal, where alone we can find pure joy, pure happiness, pure love. The Choir of Heavenly Angels.”
-Catalogue entry for Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze
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Actually, art and magic are pretty much synonymous. I would imagine that this all goes back to the phenomenon of representation, when, in our primordial past, some genius or other actually flirted upon the winning formula of “This means that.” Whether “this” was a voice or “that” was a mark upon a dry wall or “that” was a guttural sound, it was that moment of representation. That actually transformed us from what we were into what we would be. It gave us the possibility, all of a sudden, of language. And when you have language, you can describe pictorially or verbally the strange and mystifying world that you see around you, and it’s probably not long before you also realize that, hey, you can just make stuff up. The central art of enchantment is weaving a web of words around somebody. And we would’ve noticed very early on that the words we are listening to alter our consciousness, and using the way they can transform it, take it to places we’ve never dreamed of, places that don’t exist.
