Daily Meditation: Monday, April 7, 2025

Inspiration - the ability to capture a divine spark

04/07/2025

The rules that are taught to students in the academies of music, painting or sculpture are useful, but they tend to make life stand still. Great musicians, like all great artists, are governed by other laws, for they have access to higher worlds from which they draw their inspiration. All the great creators were beings who were able to rise to the realms of the spirit and transcribe what they saw and heard there. This is true inspiration: the ability to capture a divine spark with which to illuminate human souls. For the most part, modern artists no longer seek that kind of inspiration; they simply manipulate, combine and play with things. They demonstrate a great deal of imagination and originality, no doubt, but we get no sense of a divine spark. Why not? Because they have no real spiritual criteria. Those who feel that they have an artistic vocation should be very clear about this: before trying to create, they must know that it is necessary to rise to a state of inner purity in order to photograph or record, as it were, a heavenly state of being, to capture and render in colour, form, melody or movement, this harmony of the higher worlds.*