”All sing, all build, and all hearts beating together flood with such life the secret God that inhabits them, that His form appears.”—Elie Faure, last sentence of The Dance Over Fire And Water

  Stupendous symphonic lines by the good doctor.   

  And no, I’m not talking about a doctor of philosophy, art history, or whatever branch of the humanities you might think. The early twentieth century French author of the classic four volume series The History Of Art and then the summarizing Spirit Of The Forms and The Dance Over Fire And Water was a genuine take your pulse and depress your tongue medical practitioner. 

  That’s to say he was not part of the Art Establishment, as every line of his writing attests. 

  He was an outsider. 

  And here at the Cafe we celebrate outsiders as individuals who have gone on the voyage and DONE THE WORK! 

  So why draw the curtain on his essentially six volume celebration of humankind’s plastic expression of our relationship with the Great Unknown with the lines : ”All sing, all build, and all hearts beating together flood with such life the secret God that inhabits them, that His form appears[?]”

  Because like Joseph Campbell he is singing of what lies ahead for all of us, the groundswell of hunch and intuition that is rising in more and more people’s hearts around the globe. 

  It’s a slowly blossoming sense in seemingly diverse people’s breasts that we are in truth One with one another and with Life as a whole. 

  And don’t get worked up over the ‘His’ form appearing. That’s the way people wrote a hundred years ago. 

  Something is taking shape…

  With a capital ‘S.’

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