The Experience Of The Divine Mystery

The fight with the inner adversary that shackles you all your life becomes the goal of the creation that keeps the imprint of its owner over time and periods.

Any decent child, Serghei Eisenstein paradoxically remarked, destroys objects, opens the bellies of dolls or dismantles watches to see what is inside them. Unlike these “good” kids, I was a bad kid, precisely because I didn’t do any of this. This is probably why I had to become a director.

And that’s because the so-called good children exhaust their insatiable curiosity, primitive cruelty and aggressive assertion during that period. Unconsummated then, these tendencies erupt later. In place of the dismantled clock appears the passion for researching the mechanism of creation, the destruction of objects is replaced by irreverence for authority.

The question then arose: “How am I inferior to others?” And the unconfessed assertion: “not everything is done by the gods”. But this rebellion that gave rise to the need to assert oneself did not come together with youth. It accompanied him all his life. It is not surprising that, once he became a director, the entire period of creation of the film “Ivan” is a period of struggle, more precisely “the fight with the ghost”, as he himself testified, the struggle to free himself from a phenomenon that once aroused him, springing from an outside force. The fight with the inner adversary that shackles Eisenstein all his life often becomes the goal of creation, born from personal inner calculation.

Can you function in the relative form of creation that you experience in the “hiddenness” of a world that depicts vicarious reality, by capturing the non-material essence of a perfect creator?

The divine essential is the result of the fight with the “ghost”, symbolizing the extent of a conflict we have with ourselves in the field of a science that seeks the essence of man, and the way we deal with it. It is man’s struggle against nature that becomes a symbol of knowledge, a metaphysical symbol. In other words, the essential divine is the force outside you that you must submit to your own control, under the guidance of a Rayahuas Esqueryo Usharphys, assumption of creation in your own divine being, in no case mixing with the particular elements of a destiny perceived as insignificant.

Envied by many, Eisenstein was trying to penetrate the secrets of a science that pursues truth and justice, that is, a science that, taking shape especially towards the end of the century that has just ended, still has a lot to say for the understanding of the complex world that surrounds us. Being a director does not only mean discovering life and putting it on the screen, but must be relevant in inventing new artistic currents, causing a reaction of determinism among people and the society we live in, a reaction of revolt against the formalism of commercial shows.

The divine essential is the inner fulfillment due to an act of shaping an archetypal, magical consciousness that “wakes up from the sleep of death.” Undoubtedly, man’s influence on the world arises from the contact of a receiver of messages from the unknown dimensions of the Universe – with that sublime action of controlling matter, a fact that does not contradict the views of a creator whose divine nature is suggested by the noun “magician”.

At the visible end of the decision process is the triple seal of a magician who, achieving the impossible, suddenly sees himself doubled by the consequence of a causal chain of which he was predestined to be a part.

The non-material essence of a perfect creator is the reflection of one’s own life experience in a vision that firmly dominates the whole. Traversing the presence-absence of the all-encompassing performance space of being authentic in whatever role you tackle. With certainty, the life story of the director Eisenstein, becoming a testimony of the achievement of a Promethean activity, corresponding to unexpected objectives, had to pass the temporary barricade of a superficial society to meet the basis of a lasting victory.

Of course, the creation you experience in the “hiddenness” of a world that depicts indirect reality depends on the circumstances in which chance intervened to hide the refusal of causes, a fact that allows you to have your own autonomy. Where you’ve never had any inclinations, that’s exactly where your talent might be hiding. Your weakness could be your strength, which in Eisenstein’s case proved to be the job of the magician from which the bunny emerges.

And let’s not forget one thing. The one who performs miracles is the magician who aspires to the highest perfection in a certain science. And this magician, symbolizing enlightenment, intellect, endless knowledge, knows how to make full use of the “Keys of Enoch”, having at the same time the power to provoke or control certain natural phenomena, just like Prospero, the Duke of Milan, the protagonist of the play “The Tempest” by Shakespeare. And the magician always carries a triple seal: that of an actor, screenwriter and also a director.

Do you direct your energies towards the assumption of a creation in your own divine being, making the reality that surrounds you the perspective of a consciousness that has traveled the road to the level of the concept of “Cause of Causes”?

Some of those people who had no inclination to study end up being the staunchest defenders of science, but also aces in various fields. And most of those who studied like crazy all the time (even as small children), continuing with studies abroad, they do not manage to move their thinking in the light of science. It simply bypasses its divine essence, the relationship between intellectual pursuits and spiritual experience.

More precisely, what is the divine essence? It is the limited space available to you for any “remedial” intervention in the course of the world, in the context of the union between a vision centered on the past, because “everything comes from there”, and the perspective centered on a divine-human spiritual communion, which transcends time and space.

All the more likely, the divine space designates the mystical state that influences the perception of a reality whose only meaning is the vivid and convincing image of a possible new beginning, an own creation starting from the image of a life that embodies a call to keep hope and faith.

And look, that’s the way things have always been, and they’ll never change. According to this consideration, the greatest influence on which all the virtues are built, all the parties involved in the process of change, usually remains hidden. And not only that. In leadership, the “Cause of Mystical Causes”, Mystica Mysterium do Santosis, is constituted as a reaction to the pressure of external influence, constraints, limits or circumstances that no one can foresee.

Leadership goes beyond the intention phase, visible in an artistic creation, and asserts itself as the structure of a life experience that clearly shows that people grow and are formed among people, but only some of them, those who step discreetly between the fantastic and the magical, they end up being transformers of reality.

At least one of them, Sergei Eisenstein, was a translator of the divine plan into earthly human reality.

The Experience Of The Divine Mystery permeates the work of a creator of new worlds, seen through the projection screen of fascinating images that, forming a coherent whole, come to life, enrich the soul and invite you to rediscover a world full of color.

The question arises: how does one get from the status of a completely ordinary man to the status of a titan of cinema? Here is the divine secret, an unwritten law that governs the life of those who soar towards the blue heights of the sky, dotted here and there by a few white clouds.

Can you bravely soar to the heights of the pure, inspiring, beneficent air of noble ideas, like an eagle that rightfully claims its crests as its own?

* Note: Ion Barna - Eisenstein, Editura Tineretului, 1966.