[332] and this country generally, is not too near to the visual arts---it is much nearer to music and to literature. For this reason I think it would be good to show you not only one example for each, but many examples. So let yourselves slide into the atmosphere of the artistic realm, and something will then come upon you, I hope, and give you a feeling of what I have explained in one of these lectures as artistic symbols,^a and in some of these levels, then, the relationship to religious symbols^b. We start with the first level: naturalistic style ^cand secular subject matter. 1) LANDSCAPE, by Ruben^d---I start the consideration of this realm with landscapes because in them the duality of this level is especially easy to be seen and to be understood. We called this level "naturalistic style and secular subject matter." Nevertheless I want to show you---but it cannot be shown---I want to ask you to try to understand that in such a picture there is something present of the level which art reveals---it isn't a copy of any real landscapes---but the MEANING of landscape,

the essence of landscape, seen through a special artistic patternment [??], is present in it. And then you can go even beyond it---this is my main point---namely you can feel that in such a picture there is also present ULTIMATE reality, because ultimate reality is not a reality BESIDE the concrete and finite reality, but it manifests itself THROUGH finite LESS-ultimate reality. The power of being ^ein such a picture is manifest to everybody who goes into it. And of course, in order to enjoy a picture, one must go INTO it, not into it as if it were a photograph or a landscape, in which you want to take a walk or have a picnic or read a newspaper, but some of the power of reality which reveals itself in this picture.