"And if from the nature of the Universe we pass to what is called its order, which is supposed to necessitate an Ordainer, we may say that order is what there is, and we do not conceive of any other. This deduction of God's existence from the order of the Universe implies a transition from the ideal to the real order, an outward projection of our mind, a supposition that the rational explanation of a thing produces the thing itself. Human art, instructed by Nature, possesses a conscious creative faculty, by means of which it apprehends the process of creation, and we proceed to transfer this conscious and artistic creative faculty to the consciousness of an artist-creator, but from what nature he in his turn learnt his art we cannot tell."
Miguel de Unamuno, "The tragic sense of life", Chap, 8 (From God to God).
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I see the threshold separating light and darkness, but not quite a separation. Light and darkness meet, and the threshold explodes into a reality familiar to us all in another reality. A place where nothing is hidden; we are true to others, and most of all ourselves.
Well, since the quote points to the relation between the created object and the creative faculty of nature/artist, you comment comes very to the point of the latter. Very cool.
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