Letter 17: THE STAR

"Two things fill the mind with ever anew and increasing admiration and awe…the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me." (Immanuel Kant)

"The light-force which emanates from the star -- constituted through the marriage of contemplation with activity, and which is the antithesis of the thesis that "there is nothing new under the sun" -- is hope. It proclaims to the world: "What has been is that which prepares what will be, and what has been done is that which prepares what will be done; there is only that which is new under the sun. Each day is a unique event and revelation which will never be repeated."

Hope is not something subjective due to an optimistic or sanguine temperament, or to a desire for compensation in the sense of modern Freudian and Adlerian psychology. It is a light-force which radiates objectively and which directs creative evolution towards the world's future." --VT

"Light-force"
watercolor  15"x22"