Ghanatman n.° 4

“Be careful with your drawings,” the spirit of Ghanātman—condensed soul in Sanskrit—warns Hilma, “they are submerged images waiting for your eyes and ears to be able to experience messages.” And so, little by little, the artist begins to grasp the manifold forms of invisible realities: pyramids of light, otherworldly beings, halos, prisms, angels, spectral spheres. A luminous geometry that only reveals itself to those whose bodily channels are open, traversed by the sublime tonality of light.

Unlike the original, in this design we want the two halves (orange and fuchsia) to shine, with no shadows to contain them. These are the colors the artist chooses to speak of life in its fullness. In The Ten Largest, pinks and oranges tint youth and maturity, the body’s energy, earthly love. If gold was the Sun and blue the moon, this is now the moment they cross on the horizon, when the sky burns. Duality no longer pits light against darkness, but two energies that converse and reflect one another, returning the world multiplied according to the angle and the gaze. What if the afterlife were also made of fire?

You will find it in Mahatmas, Series II, 1920.