of individual development.

Primordial man's efforts to depict that which delighted his soul
were crude indeed, compared with the creations of your world's
foremost artists today. But in a relative sense only, for the
state of your art is as far behind the art of the Martians as are
the carvings of your prehistoric cavemen behind the productions
of your Michael Angelos. As man unfolds spiritually there is a
corresponding advance in his artistic point of view.

This is evidenced by the fact that art has flourished more on
your Earth among those races and individuals who are spiritually
inclined. The products of the monastery and cloister in the
Middle Ages are witness to this fact.

Amongst a materially inclined people whose selfish instincts have
stultified their souls; a people whose ultimate goal is the
acquisition of material things; a people whose only ambition is
to satisfy self: a people whose ideas of real happiness are the
pursuit of material pleasures, art has little place except as a
fad.

This is the condition today in many parts of your world, and
especially so on your Western continent. Prize fights and the
sensualities of the stage interest many more people than do Art
galleries and the beauties of Nature.

The fact that God is the Supreme Artist of the Universe can be
established not only with the microscope, but with one's natural
eyes. Divine Art is expressed in every atom comprising the