/lit/ - Literature

>>18806874
>>/lit/thread/S18076492#p18077197

I'm reminded by a short conversation with Frater. An analysis of the symbolism of the children's film "Secret of Kells" may prove useful in developing an aesthetic of Naiveté....

>>18077060
Now that children’s film, “Secret of Kells”, despite it’s so-called target audience, is so immeasurably profound I have not the intellectual fortitude to give it justice in interpretation of it. All I know, is that it has a WHOLE lot to say about the aesthetic thing you speak of. It might, as a platform, launch a serious discussion of which I do not have the power or knowledge to engage in, quite honestly hah! A story about an **illuminator** gradually growing to the point to complete the **Book of Kells** and illustrate and conceptualize Logos for crying out loud. Anyways what you’ve wrote reminds me of the “atmosphere” of it all, nature and aesthetics and whatnot, so I mention this film given media being a platform into these sorts of things.

>>17328394
Secret of Kells
>inb4 someone recommends the Book of Kells

>”If you choose to lump all flowers together, lilies and dahlias and tulips and chrysanthemums and call them all daisies, you will find that you have spoiled the very fine word daisy. If you choose to call every human attachment comradeship, if you include under that name the respect of a youth for a venerable prophetess, the interest of a man in a beautiful woman who baffles him, the pleasure of a philosophical old fogy in a girl who is impudent and innocent, the end of the meanest quarrel or the beginning of the most mountainous love; if you are going to call all these comradeship, you will gain nothing, you will only lose a word. Daisies are obvious and universal and open; but they are only one kind of flower. Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal”

>>17033112
>spend enough time with the Celts
>convert to Catholicism
Like that movie: Secret of Kells. Paganism is demonic and antinatural. The Pagan God kills nature and is a bane of the Irish and a friend to the demon Vikings. The Christian monk is tasked to bring light to darkness, to incarnate God, the Logos, Order, vía his art, via
his trade as a scribe. He firstly befriends nature, God’s creation, and practices drawing vegetable figures. This gives him the strength to trap the demon in hell. Coming closer to nature he comes closer to God. By analyzing the fallen nature of the demon, he extracts geometric and mathematical figures from the natural forms he is familiar with: in other words, starts drawing knots instead of vines. The demon had an angelic nature but was fallen. By defeating the demon he approximated to the angelic. That is, closer to God. With this insight he begins the Book of Kells.Vegetation is abstent in the book of Kells. Only higher-order concepts like geometric figures. Geometry extracted from nature. Logos incarnating in art. What was his page? The CHI RHO page. Which is Christ’s represented as an incarnated monogram. This page has figures of animals eating communion hosts. It is a cosmological view of Christ. He brings light to the darkness and destroys the Pagan and brings joy and happiness to the oppressed.
The path to God:
>befriend and understand nature
>defeat the demonic, get closer to the angelic
From vines and leaves to geometric shapes and knots. From natural to angelic

> “The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth a strange touch of lightness that is almost frivolity. Nature was a solemn mother to the worshipers of Isis and Cybele. Nature was a solemn mother to Wordsworth or to Emerson. But Nature is not solemn to Francis of Assisi or to George Herbert. To St. Francis, Nature is a sister, and even a younger sister: a little, dancing sister, to be laughed at as well as loved.”
G.K Chesterton
Orthodoxy