The Theosophist a Magazine of Brotherhood Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism January 1908

Never was such a place for interviews ; they were incessant ; a lecture in the late afternoon and a question meeting in the evening alone broke the stream ! The same thing occurred next day varied by a meeting in the morning another in the aftenoon and an English lecture also in the afternoon in the great studio of the famous sculptor Cay. [...] It is the esppcial task of the philosopher to demonstrate the probability of what he thinks to be true and of the man of science to demonstrate the unquestionable accuracy of this belief but it is for the artist when once he has accepted some belief whether by scientific proof or by philosophical discussion to express the beauty that underlies it. [...] It should therefore be the aim of the interpretive musician to rise up into the loftiest of the moods and by the medium of appropriate music to lift the souls of his hearers to a similar point. [...] In pitoportion to the imperfection of his art will the mood of the musician be weakened as it passes into the soul of another but if the voice of the singer were perfectly responsivelo the mood and the soul of the listener were absolutely still then song singer and hearer would for a while be blended in one. [...] Art should be to the artist as are the systems of yoga to the rest of men and after the completion of any undertaking no genuine artist would be capable of acting ignobly : he will have striven to embody the very best within him and in the endeavor he will have lifted himself beyond the range of earthly desires.