Mysticism
New York with Moon, 1925
In November of 1925, Stieglitz & O’Keeffe moved in at the Shelton Hotel on Lexington Avenue, and become aquainted with their neighbor Claude Bragdon, architect, writer and spiritualist in the circle of Krishnamurti, Ouspensky and Gurdjieff. The three artists often had breakfast together in the Shelton cafeteria on the 16th floor.
O’Keeffe certainly said: “There are as many philosophies as there are temperaments and personalities“, so she wasn’t the type to go for just any guru, as we should know by now, but she seems to have received information that she found very exciting from this mystical architect. In a letter to a friend she wrote, according to Peters, soon after she met Bragdon:
“I am learning something about myself – I don’t know clearly what it is – but if I knew – if I could give it form it could cure you – it is laughable – but I am sure it is true.”Bragdon had written the introduction to Tertium Organum, by Ouspensky. The book was translated from Russian and was originally published in 1920. It deals with subjects like
- The Mystery of Time and Space;
- Shadows and Reality;
- Occultism and Love;
- Animated Nature;
- Voices of the Stones;
- Mathematics of the Infinite;
- The Logic of Ecstasy;
- Mystical Theosophy;
- Cosmic Consciousness;
- The New Morality;
- Birth of the Superman.
Tertium Organum can be read online here.
Books
Tertium Organum: Or, The Third Canon of Thought and a Key to the Enigmas of the World
(Introduction by Claude Bragdon.)
Tertium Organum: The Fourth Dimension as the Esoteric Nature of Reality (Forgotten Books)
Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture
Republished by Old Post Promoter
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