{"id":2668,"date":"2011-06-24T18:07:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T23:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2014-12-14T20:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:15:48","slug":"tripartite-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/tripartite-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripartite Being"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"The Sea is the Body, the two Fishes are Soul and Spirit", engraving from The Book of Lambspring, by Nicholas Barnaud Delphinas, 1599, illustrator unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

The Sages will tell you
\nThat two fishes are in our sea
\nWithout any flesh or bones.
\nLet them be cooked in their own water;
\nThen they also will become a vast sea,
\nThe vastness of which no man can describe.
\nMoreover, the Sages say
\nThat the two fishes are only one, not two;
\nThey are two, and nevertheless they are one,
\nBody, Spirit, and Soul.
\nNow, I tell you most truly,
\nCook these three together,
\nThat there may be a very large sea<\/p>\n

This is from the first plate of the 1599 publication The Book of Lambspring<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The excerpt from the text is translated by Arthur Edward Waite.\u00a0 In Europe in the 16th<\/sup> and 17th centuries alchemical craft and the Hermetic philosophy<\/a> were expressed in \u201cemblem books<\/a>\u201d, which consisted of series of often surreal images and baffling texts full of mythological and religious allusions, in which the language of chemical operations and that of spiritual transformation are inseparably alloyed.<\/p>\n

The alchemical style comes from a pre-scientific era, when the study of Nature was called \u201cnatural philosophy<\/a>\u201d, and principles were described analogically rather than analytically.\u00a0 The modern scientific method, with quantification and controlled variables and testable hypotheses, was just beginning to be developed. \u00a0It would soon prove far more efficacious than the old analogies, but the transition was not instantaneous.\u00a0 Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most important figures in the development of analytical science, was also an alchemist<\/a> and wrote extensively in the alchemical mode.<\/p>\n

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Three-headed monster in an alchemical flask, from "Splendor Solis", 1582, by Salomon Trismosin<\/p><\/div>\n

Alchemical writings are deliberately confusing, to protect \u201csecret knowledge\u201d, which could include trade secrets of craftsmen as well as heretical philosophy.\u00a0 I suspect the emblem books were intended to be used as teaching tools within an oral tradition.\u00a0 Some of the weird images are not so far from the kind of thought-illustrations, such as Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat<\/a>, used by present-day scientists.<\/p>\n

Nowadays we mostly lack the initiates who can explain alchemical writings and illustrations to us, but I\u2019ve had a long fascination with these old riddling texts and strange pictures.\u00a0 They emerge from deep study of the nature of material and spiritual transformations, and they retain the power to stimulate imagination and insight.\u00a0 C. G. Jung adapted alchemical concepts<\/a> to the methods of depth psychology, and alchemy has informed the work of many modern and contemporary artists, such as Anselm Kiefer<\/a>.\u00a0 After all, creative work cannot be reduced to a purely analytical approach, and thinking about it still takes place largely through analogy.<\/p>\n

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Resurrexit, 1973, by Anselm Kiefer<\/p><\/div>\n

Let\u2019s return from that tangent to the Book of Lambspring<\/em>.\u00a0 Its images are simpler and its way of speaking more direct than the typical alchemical style.\u00a0 It consists of a series of animal images and an odd parable of a son reborn after being devoured by his own father.\u00a0 It all seems to be based around the central idea of Hermeticism, that everything is in reality one thing, and that a process of separating and recombining can reveal this fundamental unity of the all.\u00a0 (The entire text and illustrations are available here<\/a>, it’s easy to read the whole thing in one sitting.)<\/p>\n

The first division the book makes, and to which it returns again and again, is of our own being into three parts:\u00a0 body, spirit, and soul.\u00a0 The body is clear enough.\u00a0 It is our physical being, our material aspect.\u00a0 Mind and matter<\/a> is a distinction that makes sense to us and that we still use today.<\/p>\n

But what is the distinction being made between spirit and soul<\/a>?\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at the words.\u00a0 Spirit means breath, as in the root of respiration, inspiration, expiration and aspiration.\u00a0 Most of the ancient languages describe spirit as breath.\u00a0 In Greek the word for spirit is pneuma, in Hebrew ruach, in Arabic ruh. All of these words mean breath. \u00a0 The concept is similar to the Chinese qi and the Sanskrit prana.\u00a0 The salient characteristic of breath is that it is a current that moves through us but is not of us.\u00a0 To live we must continuously take air in, and let it go.\u00a0 It represents a vital force that flows through everything.\u00a0 When we die, the breath stops moving through us, but it does not stop moving through the world. \u00a0It is energy and movement, universal and eternal.<\/p>\n

The soul is anima in Latin, the root of animal and animated.\u00a0 In Greek it\u2019s psyche.\u00a0 It\u2019s nephesh in Hebrew and nafs in Arabic.\u00a0 It is the self, the essence of a being.\u00a0 It is personality, character, individuality.\u00a0 It is the part of us that experiences the highs and lows of the human condition, and that relates to others through compassion.\u00a0 Unlike the spirit, the soul is bound to the body.<\/p>\n

Returning to our more modern distinction between mind and matter, then, is mind soul or spirit?\u00a0 It is both.\u00a0 The flow of experiences and sensations, the experience of time, the constant current of ideas and thoughts with which our intellects engage, are spirit.\u00a0 All of these things exist independently of the individual, yet our lives consist of their constant coming and going.\u00a0 Our particular tastes, our individual responses to experiences, the character we build through our struggles with the world, our memories and our achievements, are soul.\u00a0 (Others may understand these terms differently; this is the distinction that speaks most clearly to me.)<\/p>\n

But this is an art blog.\u00a0 What does all this mysticism have to do with art?\u00a0 For me, it informs my way of seeing things.\u00a0 It\u2019s an attempt to see multiple levels of reality together.\u00a0 Since I\u2019ve built my own creative process around figurative drawing, let\u2019s see how this tripartite view of being would apply to drawing.<\/p>\n

For me, a drawing of a living being must have body, spirit, and soul.\u00a0 If it is missing any one of these aspects, it is an incomplete depiction.\u00a0 There is nothing wrong with an incomplete depiction, of course.\u00a0 Here are some lovely examples of such one-faceted images.<\/p>\n

An anatomical illustration shows the structure of the body.<\/p>\n

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Torso, from "Livre du Pourtraiture" by Jehan Cousin, 1608<\/p><\/div>\n

A gesture sketch depicts the energy of the body.<\/p>\n

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Gesture drawing by Bill Shelley, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

A caricature focuses on the individuality.<\/p>\n

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Frank Sinatra, by Al Hirschfeld, date unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

I usually strive to get all three aspects, and to get them unified.\u00a0 To me there is a magic that happens when all three of these aspects of the human can be seen harmoniously portrayed in a drawing.<\/p>\n

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Aimi, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

I think a similar criterion could apply to other artforms.\u00a0 A playwright, for instance, might try to convey the physical reality of a setting, the action of outside forces upon characters, and the individuality of their responses.<\/p>\n

Remember the point of Lambspring<\/em> is that these three aspects are really one.\u00a0 Making the divisions reveals to us the underlying unity.<\/p>\n

We can see similar three-part divisions in the Christian holy trinity, in the Ayurvedic gunas (sattva, rajas, and tamas), in the shamanic three worlds, and so on.\u00a0 They\u2019re all really arbitrary divisions of a continuum.<\/p>\n

One particular continuum, the color spectrum, was divided into seven parts by Newton, into six by Goethe, into five by Munsell, and into four by Hering\u2019s opponent process theory.\u00a0 But the division by three has been most useful for practical methods of industrial color reproduction.\u00a0 Three legs are just enough to make a stool stable, three dimensions just enough to give us space.\u00a0 The number three has the power of simplicity and the beginnings of complexity.<\/p>\n

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Color wheels based on the divisions of Newton, Goethe, Munsell, and Hering, from left to right respectively<\/p><\/div>\n

Dividing the whole helps us to move within its dimensions, to explore its facets and work with its qualities, and finally to restore its oneness.<\/p>\n

All the illustrations in this post that are not my own work were found on the web, and clicking on the pictures links back to where I found them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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