In the Louvre in Paris is a large Rembrandt painting of a rabbi. This painting is not a famous Rembrandt. I don't feel it's particularly well structured or composed. Still, I stood before it a very long time. It touched a deeper sense of feeling and consciousness in me, as if a creative power was making itself felt.
In a very real sense, art—whether it be music, poetry, painting, or any other medium—can bring to us a moment of revelation. It can lift us to the recognition of a deeper truth. Creativity, then, relates to insight!
When we realize this, we are ready to understand how creativity can be cultivated through the study and practice of divine metaphysics. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, gives us these thoughts about spiritual perception to ponder: "As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible." Science and Health, p. 264.
