Spiritual Artistry

[novapsyche]

"Like circles of artists today, gnostics considered original creative invention to be the mark of anyone who becomes spiritually alive. Each one, like students of a painter or writer, expected to express his own perceptions by revising and transforming what he was taught. Whoever merely repeated his teacher's words was considered immature."

--Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, p. 19.