Jean Hani, professor emeritus at the University of Amiens - where
he taught Greek civilization and literature - has long labored to
recover and illuminate various aspects of Christianity. His
findings have been presented in several works: Divine
Craftsmanship, The Divine Liturgy, and The Black Virgin (all
published by Sophia Perennis), as well as Aperus sur la Messe, La
Royaut, Du Pharaon au Roi Trs Chrtien, and a collection of articles
entitled Mythes, Rites et Symboles. His aim has been to integrate
the latest findings in the history of religions with the
perennialist spiritual perspective of such writers as Ren Gunon and
Frithjof Schuon. That sacred art no longer exists today is all too
clear, despite the intense efforts of some to make us believe in
the value, in this respect, of the most questionable productions.
We can perhaps speak of a religious but certainly not a sacred art;
indeed, between these two notions lies a radical difference rather
than a nuance. True sacred art is not of a sentimental or
psychological, but of an ontological and cosmological nature. This
being so, sacred art will no longer appear to be the result of the
feelings, fantasies, or even 'thought' of the artist, as with
modern art, but rather the translation of a reality largely
surpassing the limits of human individuality. Sacred art is
precisely a supra-human art. The temple of former times was an
'instrument' of recollection, joy, sacrifice, and exaltation. First
through the harmonious combination of a thousand symbols founded in
the total symbol that it itself is, then by offering itself as a
receptacle to the symbols of the liturgy, the temple together with
the liturgy constitute the most prodigious formula capable of
preparing man to become aware of the descent of Grace, of the
epiphany of the Spirit in corporeity. It is a matter of urgency,
then, to recall what is true sacred art, especially since - praise
God - here and there more and more active signs of resistance to
the anarchy and subversion manifest themselves, and a pressing call
is felt to recover the traditional conceptions that must form the
basis and condition of any restoration.
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