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Hermeticism and Pantheism in Johfra's Art

The document discusses Johfra's painting The Adoration of Pan and how it represents his interest in Hermeticism and pantheism. The painting depicts four groups of figures emerging from the classical elements of earth, water, fire and air, all swirling towards the central figure of Pan. Johfra was interested in reconciling opposites through a higher union, as represented by Hermes Trismegistos in the painting pointing both up and down.

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Hermeticism and Pantheism in Johfra's Art

The document discusses Johfra's painting The Adoration of Pan and how it represents his interest in Hermeticism and pantheism. The painting depicts four groups of figures emerging from the classical elements of earth, water, fire and air, all swirling towards the central figure of Pan. Johfra was interested in reconciling opposites through a higher union, as represented by Hermes Trismegistos in the painting pointing both up and down.

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VISIONARY REVUE http://visionaryrevue.com/webtext2/jofworks17.

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VISIONARY REVUE PARIS - SPRING 2003

HERMES AND PAN AND


HERMETICISM PANTHEISM

In his autobiography, Johfra quotes from Faust


and his lament that “Alas, two souls dwell within my
breast, and each longs to sever itself from the other.” JOHFRA PAINTING THE ADORATION OF PAN
(Faust l.1112) On the one hand is the love of Nature
as grasped through the senses, on the other is a
higher longing for Heavenly existence. Johfra felt A closer examination of The Adoration of Pan
this dual longing in himself accutely - a dualism reveals an order amidst the swirling chaos. There
which he had inherited from his studies in are in fact four distinct groups of figures. On the
Hermeticism, which polarized existence between left, they emerge from the earth, in the middle from
body and spirit, earth and heaven, Nature and the the water, on the right from the fire, and at the top
Transcendent. left from the air - the four fundamental elements.
It is for this reason that Hermes Trismegistos, in All swirl towards Pan (‘the All’) in the centre, as if
Johfra’s rendering, points upward with one hand toward the unified source of the elements. In the
and downward with the other. Hermeticism sought future, Johfra will become obsessed with these four
the reconciliation of opposites by transcending them elements - as the fire spirits, fairies, water nymphs
in favour of a higher union. The god Pan, and woodsprites that invisibly inhabit and enliven
meanwhile, sits firmly upon the earth and with both nature.
outstretched hands he knowingly gestures
downward. For, he knows that - all that exists, exists
here! This is the only world.

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