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In our day and age, when so much of true art is being eviscerated and trivialized, the words of George MacDonald become increasingly poignant:

“A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean.”

And:

“One difference between God’s work and man’s is that, while God’s work cannot mean more than he meant, man’s must mean more than he meant.”

George MacDonald, a Scottish author, poet, and one of the founders of mythopoetry believed that all true art must mean more than it says. In other words, true art is a fractal — you look at one piece and suddenly recognize the same patterns everywhere.

True art expands indefinitely.

G.K. Chesterton said something very similar:

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything. Like the sun at noonday, mysticism explains everything else by the blaze of its own victorious invisibility. G.K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy)

There is a secret literary theory behind the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield who believed that when words are spoken aright, they invoke the invisible reality from behind the veil of the world.

Words effect what they name.

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