We are a letter from the stars to God, a poet said.

Or, who knows, maybe my memory extracted the honey from several poems I read, recombined some words and made me think that this is a poet’s verse.

Or these words do belong to a poet. Maybe Rumi, maybe Tagore, maybe Rilke…

Who’s the real Author

It can happen to anyone, right? Now, let’s forget the name of the poet, the musician, the painter, the actor, the dancer, the director whose creation impressed us.

But when the message conveyed by the artwork touched our soul, we don’t forget what we experienced, what vibrated in us.

The echoes of true art are prolonged and can accompany us our whole lifetime. They can modulate for us understandings we haven’t had before. They can reveal inner territories that we have never explored.

When we forget the name of an artist whose creation has touched our soul, I think it is once again an opportunity to remember that the artwork has an author on Earth, yes, but that man is actually a translator and a bearer of inspiration coming from the Supreme Author, the Creator of all creators.

The artwork itself is an expression of a higher message. In fact, this was the essence of art: to convey a message encoded in the language of Beauty, about the great mysteries, the great truths and the great meanings of existence.

This is also the goal of the sublime initiatory art, so much needed in this century to come back to life.

The contemporary artist is afraid to have a message

In contemporary art, however, if he is not a leftist, concerned with feminism or backing some minority, the artist does not usually consider the issue of the message, as he looks with suspicion at what he calls the “engaged art” or the art having a social message.

In many situations, the creator of today even has aversion to the propagandistic art because it contains a message that serves the political and economic interests, not spiritual enlightenment or superior aesthetic delights.

However, either social or political or spiritual, the message of the artwork is a concept that many contemporary artists are not attracted to, not concerned about, as they fear that their freedom of expression could be restricted.

Moreover, they have made of this freedom of self-expression their ultimate ideal. They imagine that in order to create an artwork it is enough to expose their own drama, crises, suffering, pessimism or cynicism.

In fact, it is a captivity in the cage of the ego which, this kind of artists raise to the rank of a king, a sovereign of their own being, and they want to grant it the privileges that a king has.

Art and responsibility

By living in a desacralized manner the relationship with their own being, many artists come to live in a desacralized way their relationship with their work and with life.

It is one of the reasons why they no longer feel responsible for what they communicate to the public through their work.
And they do not even consider the fact that they are in fact responsible for the message they convey to the audience, for what they suggest to people through their artwork.

In many cases the work of such artists has simply become the psychoanalyst’s couch on which they stretch and expose their personal frustrations. And they believe that their talent and the uniqueness of their experiences entitle them to communicate their intense pain, confusion and discouragement that impregnate their vision about existence.

Another reason why this kind of artists dismiss any idea about the message is the fear that a message would impregnate their creation with a didactic tone and that it would increase the moral character of the work but it would affect its artistic quality.

However, truth is different.

The influence of the collective subconscious

An artwork without a message is like a blind desire for auto-expression. It’s as if the artist wanted to go on a journey but he does not have a ticket, has no destination, nor does he choose a means of transportation.

And then, what could the artwork express if the man who gives it life stops at the surface of his own being, stops at the masks by which he tries to defend himself from old and new emotional wounds, who never ventures beyond the automatic mechanisms of the ego?

An artwork without a message is under the spell of the artist’s personal subconscious which, in fact, suffers a continuous and not necessarily beneficial influence from the collective subconscious.

So the artist does not even express himself, he expresses the suffering inflicted upon him by all the imbalances and distortions of the society in the mental field of which he is trapped, even if he consciously wants to be outside the social system that he feels so harmful.

An artwork without a message is a sort of blindfold game, an apology of the hazard that will impregnate the work with this dark vision – and will therefore suggest to its public that life itself is a hazard, life itself is a labyrinth of the night, of the crisis and fear.

Genuine message can only come through higher inspiration

The paradox is that even when the artist does not propose a message, as he imagines that this way he can maintain his freedom of creation, his work will still have one – but this one will only communicate about the artist’s own state of dissatisfaction.

But when he has a spiritual vision, the human creator will choose a higher message, a message that is useful for others, one that opens the others to a wider perception of the world and life.

He will not reduce the world to his own suffering, he will rather merge in a superior sense with the world in order to communicate a message about the multidimensionality of the world and its infinite nuances.

An initiate artist understands that the message of his work can have a greater impact on the public if he has a higher vision, closer to universality, to the realm of essences, archetypes, ideas that are eternal and true in a divine sense.

This connection with the spiritual source is possible by inspiration, by the opening of the artist for the state of relay, when he lets himself be flooded by the genius of the Supreme Creator.

A great Romanian poet, Nichita Stănescu, had a very good advice for those who wanted this state of grace – “Clean the field so that the angels have their space to land.”

The field is the artist’s own consciousness, own being. Angels are the symbol of divine inspiration.

Art and spiritual transformation

Nichita Stanescu’s advice reflects a principle of Alchemy that works perfectly in art too – the more careful an initiated creator is to elevate his inner universe, to heal his fears, to acknowledge his weaknesses and not to turn them into toxic sources to feed a horizontal inspiration for his work, the more he is convinced of the necessity of a spiritual practice and the more persistent he is in pursuing it, the greater his chance to become permeable to divine inspiration.

The message involves a set of values that actually constitute the foundation of the vision about life, art, man, divinity.
For example, a message could not contain the idea of spiritual evolution through love or the idea of attaining the glorious androgynous state by practicing the tantric path if the artist himself didn’t have these concepts clear and did not believe that they are truly possible and achievable.

That is why the spiritual message of an artwork is a force-idea that the public perceives as an extremely powerful suggestion, as a subtle invitation to open up their soul and consciousness to a higher reality.

A strong and clear message (clear not in the sense that it is explained in the artwork as a scientific disquisition but in the sense that the artist needs to formulate it consciously, assuming it very concretely with all those details that give its uniqueness and charm) has a revealing force when it arrives to the audience.

And this opens up the chance to impact the global consciousness of humanity (called by certain initiates the noosphere) and to plant in it bright, spiritual aspects for a collective transformation that art can help in its unequalled way.

Sublime art, springing from a sacred vision, has the mission to awake, to connect with the Divine Truth. The message is a forming, a modelling factor in the process of creating the artwork and in the preparation for receiving the artwork.

A poet said that we are a letter from the stars to God. We could transform our artworks in letters from God to the soul of people.

Are you ready for this?