Abdiel Leroy Author And Poet

THE GOURMET GOSPEL. Art operates in the pre-Law state of innocence that preceded knowledge of "good" and "evil", to bring about "a heavenly effect in an earthly actor." There is no place for rules, whether in writing, language, acting, or any other form. If the artist becomes aware of doubt, returning to innocence comes about by an act of imagination—or "intense visualization"—such as turning one's focus to a symbol. The artist is a priest, embodying the ministry of that Christ-like god Dionysus in his death and resurrection. Meanwhile, the true critic—or preferably, reviewer—is as a "handmaiden" serving art, but those who "could not win the mistress, wooed the maid." Some even earned themselves a place in Inferno for their Violence to Art!