The Meaning of the Creative Act
True creativity is of spiritual and existential freedom.
Creativeness is the overcoming of the world,
not an adaptation to the necessities of the world.
Creativeness is transition beyond the limits of this world,
an overcoming of its necessity.”
Creativity is inexplicable and mysterious,
a creation out of nothing,
an undetermined, addition to the
existing energy of the world.
Enslavement and bondage of the
world’s hierarchy of beings
submit man to lower,
moribund levels of being;
they compel man by their
material heaviness. This bondage,
this heaviness of the lower hierarchy
conceal from us the creative secret of being.
We see the world in an aspect of necessity,
of moribund and petrified materialization.
But is creativeness possible for necessity,
and out of necessity?
We’ve already seen that in the realm of necessity
only evolution is possible—the rearrangement of
a given quantity of energy.
Only freedom can create absolute
increase in the world,
only the free man creates.
The determinism which is so compulsively
forced upon us is false because freedom
of personality does exist, and breaks
the chains of necessity.
by Nicolas Berdyaev
From Poetic Outlaws
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