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A Study on Art and Aesthetic Intuition : focusing on H. P. Blavatsky and C. Jinarâjadâsa

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2010, 31(), pp.373-399
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Published : June 30, 2010

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ABSTRACT

Theosophy, founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, is a doctrine of religious philosophy approaching spiritual issues from the inner perception in opposition to positivism. It is a spiritual movement through which Blavatsky tries to address and discover all religious, scientific, and moral problems within humanity, not the external world. Blavatsky argues the universe is not created by someone in the external world, but self-generated through the attribute of the Trinity space holds, and man as a microcosm is also created by this attribute. The idea that we humans remains separated from the universe is derived from our limited perception, and humans as part or being of the universe are organically associated with its all life forms. In Blavasky’s theory the primary ways of perception are ‘karma’ and ‘reincarnation’. ‘Karma’ is a principle of the universe that may result from shattering its balance while ‘reincarnation’ is a crucial way humans and the universe perceive themselves, breaking away from the state of unconscious beings. C. Jinarâjadâsa alludes that an artistic act is humanity’s natural talent, and keep humans aloof from all troubles, as yoga does, making humans realize they are part of the universe by disclosing their divine nature. It is not a sort of intellectual knowledge secured through the imitation of objects, but presents archetypal ideas through aloofness, and liberates the soul of humans. He asserts that the archetypal idea refers to humanity’s original ego we can discover through innumerable incarnations, and humans may escape from the restraint of karma at the moment they present an archetypal idea through artistic activities. In other words, artistic actions are not to perceive an a priori world separated from nature, but to recognize an archetypal idea through which humans become one with nature. Aesthetic intuition is the awareness stemmed from the unity of man and nature. In theosophy, the perceptual basis of artistic acts is found in the theory of sound and color. According to this theory, sound and color are not something physical but like the mother’s body from which all life forms of the universe derived. As this theory of sound and color is not physical but spiritual, any artistic deed based on sound and color becomes a perceptual act to present an archetypal idea, and can be a medium to stimulate human evolution. Rephrased, in theosophy man and the universe are the same being generated from space, and art is humanity’s inborn nature, and a way to associate man with the universe. Blavatsky’s theory that sees man and the universe have the same spring of generation, and the universe is an orgasm deserves to be re-illuminated at the present time human’s survival is seriously threatened by environmental, ecological problems.

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