Creative activities

Art in all its various forms : painting, theatre, dance etc is particularly aprreciated in the teaching of the Universal White Brotherhood.
Performance of a play by William Shakespeare
Artistic workshops and performances are regularly organised : concerts, exhibitions, theatrical performances… Art workshop during the summer congress at the Bonfin. The laws governing true artistic creation are identical to the laws of spiritual creation. As artists work to create their masterpeice they undertake a work of spiritual regeneration identical to that of spiritualists. Inversely, in their efforts to attain perfection, spiritualists accomplish a creative work on themselves that is identical to that of artists…
The mission of art 12th July 2001	In the past many artists received a teaching from an initiatic school, which revealed to them how to rise to higher realms in order to find forms, colors and sounds. When their works of art succeeded in translating what they had received during their meditations and contemplations, they would influence human beings, inspiring in them a desire to embark on the same path towards celestial heights. That is why for centuries these creations have continued to move us. Nowadays artists graduate from Academies with all kinds of diplomas, but, having no knowledge of initiatic laws, they invent all sorts of theories to explain, for example, that their ‘abstract’ art contains a philosophy, a thought that the masses cannot grasp. You look at a picture, you turn it in all directions… What does it contain? What does it express? Nothing, stupidities, absurdities. Artists themselves do not know what art is anymore, what is its function, its mission. And yet it is simple, it can be summed up in very few words: the mission of art is to inspire human beings, so as to encourage them to turn back to their celestial homeland.
Make your life a work of art 28th December 2004	When people meet artists – painters, poets, musicians – whose works they admire, they are often surprised to discover that they as people and their behaviour are completely devoid of the beauty found in their creations: they emanate neither light, nor poetry, nor harmony. Why? Because for the most part, artists are content to create works outside themselves using materials exterior to themselves. It is on this outer material that they concentrate their efforts. Well, this is insufficient. Art must not merely be confined to certain works, but it must also exist in life. The true artist is one who can use himself as the material for his creation. All the methods of the spiritual life are at our disposal, to help and inspire us in this work. Yes, it is in ourselves first of all that we must create poetry and music, harmonious forms and movements and sparkling colours, so that all those around us, in the visible and invisible worlds alike, can benefit from them.