It is ironic how the ancients brought about the modern in art.
The existence of a reality that transcended the material world was precisely the selling point of Madame Blavatsky’s ‘secret doctrine’: ‘In the 21st century this earth will seem a paradise compared to what it is now,’ she wrote. ‘Literature, music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which the spiritual revelation will be felt.’
Kalichakra 
Madam Blavatsky
