Calvinism a life-system - pagina 214

CALVINISM AND ART.

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Our capacity

the bearers of His Image.

Him and

after

what He

may

in

We

lines

and

in

tints,

;

in

our

to reproduce

fashion,

to embelHsh

animated

life,

to transfuse the

our Painting;

mystical spheres in our Music and in our Poetry.

because the beautiful

all this

own

in

a kind of

create

monument;

Architectural

our

nature's forms, in Sculpture

by

So we,

imitate God's handiwork.

cosmos,

can only consist

created,

of art.

the unreal creations

to create after

And

not the product of our

is

fantasy, nor of our subjective perception, but has

an objective existence, being

itself

the exprassion of a

God saw

Divine perfection.

After the Creation,

things were good.

Imagine that every human eye were

that

all

and every human ear stopped up, even then the and God sees it and hears it, for, not

closed

beautiful remains,

only "His Eternal Power", but also His "Divinity", from

very creation, has been perceived

the

An

both spiritually and somatically.

he

how

his

in his creature,

may

artist

own

notice

capacity

this in himself.

If

depends upon

having an eye for art, he must necessarily

come in

We

art-

to the conclusion that the original eye for art

God

and

his

realizes

Himself,

Whose

capacity

art

is

is

all-producing,

Whose image the artist among men was made. know this from the creation around us, from the

after

firmament

that

overarches

us,

from

the

luxury of nature, from the wealth of forms

abounding in

man and

animal, from the rushing sound of the stream and from

the

song of the nightingale;

beauty

exist,

the

beautiful in His

His

own Divine

own

how could all this One Who preconceived

for

except created by

Being, and produced

perfection.^

Thus you

see

it

from

that the

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