From:    Chen                                   Area: ENOCHIAN
To:      Azoth                                  11 Aug 92 19:48:08
Subject: Abyssal                                UpdReq 

 C> Just read today in Sardello's book that the Abyss is the
 C> source of all creative expression in the world.  Demons-Daimon.   
   
 A> I wonder, though, if it's really the Abyss, or our
 A> collective squirming to be out of it, that's the Prime Mover in
 A> artistic expression; cracking the Egg, so to speak....
O.K., so Mike Ripple says that Choronzon is the seeming embodiment or 
conglomerate of all that the heroic-ego-complex has repressed out of the 
polytheistic personality.  These repressed archetypes of the personality come 
back to us at "death" moments especially-- such as blackouts--and blind-side 
us; seem to be EVIL.  How do we face this evil?  How do we move out from the 
encounter with Choronzon?  Ripple is starting to convince me that the way is 
through artistic imaging.  We learn to allow the polytheistic images to exist 
in their multiplicity.  Accept them as they ARE.  
     Ceyzanne said:
     "The landscape mirrors itself, thinks itself within me...   perhaps this 
is all nonsence, but it seems to me as though I myself were the   subjective 
consciousness of this landscape.  But if the artist intrudes, if   he dares 
to interfere in the process of translation, he will only bring his   own 
personal unimportance and insignificance into it... He must silence all   
voices of prejudice within himself, forget, forget, make silence, be a   
oerfect echo."  David Sardello adds:"Now if one has this outlook and in   
addition has great talent, then one is an artist, that is to say, a maker of  
 what is real."
     No wonder to make art feels a bit like dieing (or so I would guess.)  No 
wonder people find the images I make threatening.  No wonder it is so hard to 
remain present in the image and not ruin the experience by trying to insert 
intellectual translation and analysis.  No wonder the monster at the door 
stops scratching when the brush is in the hand...
    Well, it's alot to think about, and this is probably all intellectual 
theory anyway.  But maybe it'll give me my rant for october's B.P.'s!
                                   LOVE/WILL
                                   CHEN


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