Calligraphy, Orthodoxy, and Archetypes

<p>Welcome to our newsletter, dear reader,</p><p>• The first of our library selections this month is <a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org/library/calligraphy-as-way" title="Calligraphy as a Spiritual ‘Way’">a brief piece by calligrapher Gina Jonas, “Calligraphy as a Spiritual ‘Way’”,</a> exploring the incorporation of Buddhist insights and methods into the practice of Roman lettering.</p><blockquote><p>By approaching calligraphy as a Way—a spiritual tool or discipline—practicing became satisfying in itself. The effort of discipline became more like a discipleship; daily, I was motivated by a desire to discover its teachings. Thus the terms ‘practice’ and ‘discipline’ were freed from their common, and at best ambivalent, connotations. By employing calligraphy as meditation, a Way of training the mind in awareness and concentration, I found a path to directly experience its vital nexus—the interplay between mind, body and writing tools.<br> <img src="https://www.themathesontrust.org/images/Johnston-LetUsPray.jpeg" width="300" alt="Calligraphy and illumination by Edward Johnston"><small>Calligraphy and illumination by Edward Johnston.</small></p></blockquote><p>• Next we present <a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org/library/chesterton-orthodoxy" title="Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton">the well known <em>Orthodoxy</em>, by G.K. Chesterton,</a> “a sort of slovenly autobiography” and one of the most vital and beloved works of Christian apologetics in modern times.</p><blockquote><p>I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century. I did, like all other solemn little boys, try to be in advance of the age. Like them I tried to be some ten minutes in advance of the truth. And I found that I was eighteen hundred years behind it. I did strain my voice with a painfully juvenile exaggeration in uttering my truths. And I was punished in the fittest and funniest way, for I have kept my truths: but I have discovered, not that they were not truths, but simply that they were not mine.</p></blockquote><p>• Finally, coming back to calligraphy, we present <a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org/library/archetype-as-letterform" title="Archetype as Letterform">a chapter by Brian Keeble on the profundity and metaphysical depth of Edward Johnston’s art and “dream”</a>.</p><blockquote><p>We might look to the example of Johnston to learn more of the depths of this ancient, universal craft. Johnston’s was an example that prompted one of his pupils to claim of his inspirational teaching that it came as if out of “eternity and infinity”… Speaking of the ultimate objective of his work, Johnston himself said: “Life is the thing we all want and it is the desire for life that is behind all religion and all art… Our aim should be… to make letters live… that men themselves may have more life.”</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themathesontrust.org%2Fcalligraphy-chesterton-johnston&amp;linkname=Calligraphy%2C%20Orthodoxy%2C%20and%20Archetypes" title="Facebook"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/whatsapp?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themathesontrust.org%2Fcalligraphy-chesterton-johnston&amp;linkname=Calligraphy%2C%20Orthodoxy%2C%20and%20Archetypes" title="WhatsApp"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themathesontrust.org%2Fcalligraphy-chesterton-johnston&amp;linkname=Calligraphy%2C%20Orthodoxy%2C%20and%20Archetypes" title="LinkedIn"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/bluesky?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themathesontrust.org%2Fcalligraphy-chesterton-johnston&amp;linkname=Calligraphy%2C%20Orthodoxy%2C%20and%20Archetypes" title="Bluesky"></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org/calligraphy-chesterton-johnston">Calligraphy, Orthodoxy, and Archetypes</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org">The Matheson Trust</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org/calligraphy-chesterton-johnston" target="_blank">- Enlace a artículo -</a></p> <p>Más info en https://ift.tt/YIsgGiM / Tfno. & WA 607725547 Centro MENADEL (Frasco Martín) Psicología Clínica y Tradicional en Mijas. #Menadel #Psicología #Clínica #Tradicional #MijasPueblo</p> <p>*No suscribimos necesariamente las opiniones o artículos aquí compartidos. No todo es lo que parece.</p>