How can a human being spiritualize matter?

Question: How can a human being spiritualize matter!?
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I have never heard the question put like that, but it makes sense!. As to the answer, another author says it best for me:

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By a selective re-creation, art isolates and integrates those aspects of reality which represent man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence!. Out of the countless number of concretes—of single, disorganized and (seemingly) contradictory attributes, actions and entities—an artist isolates the things which he regards as metaphysically essential and integrates them into a single new concrete that represents an embodied abstraction!.

For instance, consider two statues of man: one as a Greek god, the other as a deformed medieval monstrosity!. Both are metaphysical estimates of man; both are projections of the artist’s view of man’s nature; both are concretized representations of the philosophy of their respective cultures!.

Art is a concretization of metaphysics!. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts!.

This is the psycho-epistemological function of art and the reason of its importance in man’s life (and the crux of the Objectivist esthetics)!."
“The Psycho-Epistemology of Art,” The Romantic Manifesto, 19

"It is a common experience to observe that a particular painting—for example, a still life of apples—makes its subject “more real than it is in reality!.” The apples seem brighter and firmer, they seem to possess an almost self-assertive character, a kind of heightened reality which neither their real-life models nor any color photograph can match!. Yet if one examines them closely, one sees that no real-life apple ever looked like that!. What is it, then, that the artist has done!? He has created a visual abstraction!.

He has performed the process of concept-formation—of isolating and integrating—but in exclusively visual terms!. He has isolated the essential, distinguishing characteristics of apples, and integrated them into a single visual unit!. He has brought the conceptual method of functioning to the operations of a single sense organ, the organ of sight!."
“Art and Cognition,” The Romantic Manifesto, 47

The same applies to all art!. When I listen to Mozart, I visualize nothing!. When I listen to Rachmaninoff, I visualize all of life!. But that's just me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

To think that spirit is tractable - dangerous naivete in this case!. Still, you didn't deserve to have tedious Randisms shoved down your throat, an act of very poor taste!.

The premise here is Creation proper!. And because you've not treated it in the question, it is a material imposition on the works of three men referenced!.

A created thing must be contrasted with being!. Knowing must be contrasted with what is intractable, unknowable!. If the philosopher does this properly, the human beings emerge in a sublime relation to nature!. Beethoven, Da Vinci, Wagner - these men astonish us in direct proportion to a re-cognition of the effort made to win dry land from uninhabitable swamp!. With Rand and her toadies, you'll sink back into the swamp!.Www@QuestionHome@Com