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    This document discusses Nicholas Roerich's art and philosophy which centered around panentheism and the sacred fire. Panentheism holds that God is in the universe but the universe also has its own identity and ability to effect change. Roerich saw artists and poets as receivers of divine revelation who could relink the world to divine transcendence through their work. The document explores these ideas through quotes from philosophers like Berlin, Baader, and Fabre d'Olivet and discusses how Roerich incorporated panentheism and esoteric themes into his artwork and philosophy.

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    This document discusses Nicholas Roerich's art and philosophy which centered around panentheism and the sacred fire. Panentheism holds that God is in the universe but the universe also has its own identity and ability to effect change. Roerich saw artists and poets as receivers of divine revelation who could relink the world to divine transcendence through their work. The document explores these ideas through quotes from philosophers like Berlin, Baader, and Fabre d'Olivet and discusses how Roerich incorporated panentheism and esoteric themes into his artwork and philosophy.

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    Sacred Fire - Roerich

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    This document discusses Nicholas Roerich's art and philosophy which centered around panentheism and the sacred fire. Panentheism holds that God is in the universe but the universe also has its own identity and ability to effect change. Roerich saw artists and poets as receivers of divine revelation who could relink the world to divine transcendence through their work. The document explores these ideas through quotes from philosophers like Berlin, Baader, and Fabre d'Olivet and discusses how Roerich incorporated panentheism and esoteric themes into his artwork and philosophy.

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    Sacred Fire:

    Panentheism in Nicholas
    Roerich’s Art and
    Philosophy

    Sasha Chaitow
    BA Comm, MA Eng.Lit.
    MA Western Esotericism
    Act I: A Kiss of the Earth
    The Augurs of Spring
    Ritual of Abduction
    Spring Rounds
    Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes
    Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One [the
    Sage]
    The Kiss of the Earth
    The Dance Overcoming the Earth

    Act II: The Exalted Sacrifice


    Mystic Circle of the Young Girls
    The Naming and Honoring of the Chosen One
    Evocation of the Ancestors OR Ancestral Spirits
    (Ritual Action of the Ancestors
    Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)
    Joffrey Ballet
    reconstruction
    of the original
    choreography for
    “Rite of Spring”
    Pantheism: God is the (living) universe
    and is in the universe. God can affect the
    universe, but not vice versa.

    Panentheism: the whole is more than a


    sum of its parts: all is within God – but has
    its own identity , purpose, and will, and can
    effect change.
    The Perennial Philosophy: “Divine Truth is
    one, timeless, and universal. The different
    religions are but different languages expressing
    that one Truth.”
    William Stoddart
    “The universe [is] the self-development of a primal, non-rational force that
    can only be grasped by the intuitive powers of men of imaginative genius.”
    Isaiah Berlin

    [The damage caused by the inherent duality of the universe] “was first noted
    by poets and artists,
    and in this way poetry and art or sculpting may have been invented.”

    “this striving after the primal inner aspiration of an Ideal […] should be the
    focus for all outwardly effective creations of poetry and art of man.”
    Franz Xavier von Baader

    The poet is: “the recipient and transmitter of revelation and a divine
    universal language”
    “a priest who will lead humanity to its eschatological fulfillment by
    relinking the world here below and divine transcendence.”

    “Poetry is the intuitive faculty of penetrating the essence of beings


    and things.”

    Antoine Fabre d’Olivet, La langue hebraïque restituée, (1815-1816)


    F. Schlegel, Novalis, Athenaeum (1798-1800)
    Life thunders - be watchful
    Danger! The soul hearkens to its warning
    The world is in turmoil - strive for salvation
    In creation realise the happiness of life,
    and unto the desert turn thine eye
    Try to unfold the power of insight
    That you may perceive the future unity of mankind
    We possess the power to create and destroy obstacles
    Thought is lightning
    The spirit in revolt shatters the bolts of the prison
    If a common myth haunts the minds of poets and initiates, it is the
    myth of Prometheus: the man who wins divine powers and achieves
    his own salvation, and the salvation of the entire universe, through
    his own efforts.
    Albert Beguin – Robert G. Cohn

    Above all, poiein (ποιείν), means to create.


    Antoine Faivre
    Sacred Fire: Panentheism in
    Nicholas Roerich’s Art and
    Philosophy

    Sasha Chaitow
    BA Comm, MA Eng.Lit.
    MA Western Esotericism

    [email protected]
    www.sashanonserviat.net

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