Conscious Artists

Conscious Artists

Human beings have sought and attained consciousness since prehistoric times, but not all conscious beings have left traces. We can, however, find the traces of teachers and philosophers who have recorded their thoughts, of artists who have left works.

A conscious artist like Rembrandt painted using hydrogens 12 and 6. These hydrogens permeate the painting, and we can draw on them by looking at one of his works in a museum. Rembrandt's higher centers speak to our higher centers across the centuries. In this way we are taught by a conscious being, although, in most cases, we are speaking here of influence B, not C, since the consciousness of C influence has been diluted, mixed with the stream of unconscious life. [For more information on “Hydrogens” and “A, B and C Influences,” visit the Fourth Way Glossary under Files on this Facebook page. Look at entries under Worlds, Higher Centers, and Influences.]

Our experience of the painting depends on whether or not we are present when we look at it. The more present we are, the more we can receive. Even if we are not present, something may penetrate us, and we are attracted or fascinated, even though we don’t know why.

Studying the works and life of a man who has been pointed out to us as conscious is extremely interesting. We can get a glimpse of what it means to live one's life through higher centers. We can begin to see the enormous denying force, the difficulties and tragedies that, transformed through unceasing efforts, have allowed the person to access the highest possible states for a human being. Through his works we witness the growth and maturation of the artist’s being. Often full consciousness is manifested in old age, the highest energy appearing as death nears.

The Fourth Way proposes that a fully conscious human being survives the death of the physical body. This opens the possibility that our higher centers can have some form of contact with conscious beings who are no longer living. Needless to say, this theoretical possibility lends itself to extreme forms of imagination. When we succeed in experiencing long periods of consciousness from our own higher centers, we may be able to verify whether or not this theory is true.

It also appears that—whether through schools, direct influence, or writings and artworks—conscious beings have, after death, contributed to awakening other men and women, creating chains of conscious influence. Virgil and Dante, Plato and Goethe are two of many possible examples. Socrates and Christ may be responsible for the evolution of many conscious beings who have come after them.

Sergio Antonio, A Question of Presence

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Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt