American Watercolor
AMERICAN WATERCOLOR
  • The one who was ignorant was not so by mistake, but because their spirit was blind.
  • Therefore, when the fire was kindled, they saw with an eye that had never seen.
  • Ignorance dissolved into the smoke, and as if it had never existed, it vanished in an instant.
  • The Gospel of Truth. The Nag Hammadi Library.

The chapters below were transcribed by Olivier Vilaspasa with a blue jay feather that the Serpent dropped during the first ceremony. The text is first written in American English, then automatically translated by GTranslate into other languages, including French.

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  1. Thus, in the starry night of June 20, 2020
  2. In a cave, shrouded in utter darkness, on the northern coast of the island of Ibiza
  3. I drank from the cup the Acacia Magia, the thorn and its root, and saw divine visions
  4. The Zephyr blew upon my eyes, and they closed
  5. I saw a fiery storm, red and white, and in the midst, a fire
  6. The flame was a vehicle, illuminating the sky and its universe
  7. It approached me in a silent curve, and I trembled with fear
  8. Time stood still, the Serpent revealed itself, he was the knowledge in the light
  9. Then a woman appeared, dressed in an indigo blue veil, in the twilight of her expectancy
  10. A purple aura wound around her and two wings enveloped her
  11. She was the source and the delta, she called herself Maha, and spoke to me in thought
  12. North of Ibiza (Spain), June 21, 2020

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  1. Olivier, you have seen beyond the ephemeral, open your eyes
  2. Look at the book and write, chapter after chapter, what I will reveal
  3. Contact those who have forgotten me and those who cannot see me
  4. For the first ones, the oaths of childhood have been devoured by the matter
  5. The others are young shepherds who do not yet know the morning star
  6. They dwell in doubt and await a sign of fire
  7. You will show, but few will open their eyelids
  8. Let your right hand be guided by the spirit of your left hand
  9. Then the smoke from your paintings will sow images in the clouds
  10. Water has the power to ignite the consciousness of the sleeper
  11. The visions will be revealed by the one who desires to be awakened
  12. North of Ibiza (Spain), July 20, 2020

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  1. As the sun set, I drank the cup of divine milk and opened my eyes
  2. The vehicle appeared, four interlocking circles sliding over each other
  3. Maha was seated in the midst of green flames and she said to me
  4. Watercolorist, you are the painter of inner visions
  5. When you present your images, they will burn for the one who sees
  6. By creating within the smoke, the one who sees will open their eyes
  7. The images will be revealed through spontaneous contemplation
  8. By disrupting what should be, another will be uncovered
  9. Like an apparition, images have the power to open the eye completely
  10. As a discreet agent, this light insinuates itself towards the origin
  11. It restores sight to the one who desires to see the top seen from the bottom and the bottom seen from the top
  12. North of Ibiza (Spain), September 17, 2020

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  1. The serpent spoke and circled in a humming of blue wings
  2. The water will lead you, you will paint the visions on damp paper
  3. It is the hand that shapes your painting, become spectator
  4. Arabic gum in water will be your medium
  5. The paper will be stretched over a sycamore wooden board
  6. A brush made of white rabbit hair to disperse the ink and pigments
  7. You will measure the prototype in a harmonious dimension
  8. The size will be adapted for both the eye and the journey, suitable for a close-up view and distant travel
  9. The prototype will be enlarged into a polyptych of 36 panels
  10. Each panel will be independent, but once assembled, it will form the whole
  11. The panels will remain movable so that they can be disassembled for the journey
  12. North of Ibiza (Spain), December 30, 2020

V

  1. While I was infusing the root up to its spine
  2. I lifted my eyes and saw the Serpent on one of the pillars
  3. It spread its wings and carried me into a nocturnal vision
  4. The darkness turned ethereal, the night a iridescent vermilion
  5. Watercolorist, put away your brushes by day, paint after midnight
  6. Paint in solitude, only a gecko might observe you
  7. It’s a moment of intimacy and creation within oneself
  8. Dive into this nocturnal water like a rope into an open mouth
  9. Let the pigment engulf the line, become color, and then transparency
  10. To the opposing twins, to your right eye and to your left eye, you shall say
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    North of Ibiza (Spain), February 27, 2021

VI

  1. Beloved, Maha continued, take some paper and paint the visions
  2. Let a river of fire flow from your brush
  3. Let the smoke rise to the sky to form the clouds
  4. Let the silty water overflow to become in flood
  5. May it invade the soluble dye and prevail
  6. A blurry mutation will grow under your gaze
  7. An eternal prayer for a revelation
  8. A powder projected into a wedding wine
  9. The transformation of death into morning
  10. The fire is splendid in the burning color
  11. It’s a theater in flames, an eternal prayer, it’s also childhood
  12. North of Ibiza (Spain), March 27, 2021

VII

  1. Wear a black linen garment and leather sandals for your pilgrim feet
  2. Let your hair grow and gather it at the highest point
  3. Travel light, the superfluous would weigh down your presence and slow down your quest
  4. Two trunks will suffice for your watercolors and painting supplies
  5. Display your images made of water and pigments for everyone to see
  6. The vision is inside a cube called a prototype, in essence
  7. Once unfolded, it becomes a polyptych, multiplying the visions by the number 6
  8. The polyptychs will be assembled during a ceremony to form the complete image
  9. Unroll the 36 prototypes in a spiral, starting from the top-right and moving towards the center
  10. They will be built in reverse to the flow of time and deconstructed in the opposite direction
  11. Then place them out of sight between two black sycamore boards
  12. North of Ibiza (Spain), May 11, 2021

VIII

  1. In the tranquility of a garden planted with roses and carob trees
  2. I continued to paint the watercolors after midnight
  3. The flower was picked, and the seed was weighed in the north of Ibiza
  4. Then a card was drawn, adorned with a Spanish key, without a name or number
  5. Who, I am sure, opens and closes the doors of destiny
  6. So I went down the double spiral staircase
  7. Those going up and those going down cross paths
  8. Without ever seeing each other in the encounter
  9. They produce effects through causes in accordance with the law
  10. The fragrance of the Poniente blew along the path
  11. I went out through the garden gate, the third year, on St. John’s Day
  12. North of Ibiza (Spain), August 22, 2021

VIIII

  1. Write the chapters, show the visions, address the assembly
  2. Master your language because it is your watercolors that speak
  3. Free your mind, for it is through your arms that I will show you
  4. They will ask you for meaning and rationality
  5. And your response will be a question
  6. Do you see within the swirls of smoke?
  7. The one who sees will be a seer with knowledge born of childhood
  8. And the non-seer will consider themselves educated and cultured
  9. The experience of the image is a convergence at the top
  10. Seized by an invisible intuition, a clairvoyance
  11. It’s about illuminating the water through fire for the one who wishes to see
  12. North of Ibiza (Spain), November 4, 2021

X

  1. The golden arrow turns, guiding you on your pat
  2. Opposing energies forge the spirit in incarnation
  3. The cosmos when you want it in a drop of water
  4. Earth and sky in one presence
  5. A sacred wheel, time by the star at its center
  6. 2 letters for the substance that will be dissolved
  7. Reversed in a revelation by the number
  8. It contains in the words a great truth
  9. It spins invisible in a circle of water
  10. It is a nocturnal dream, that of cyclical time
  11. Art is a language of fire, it is the breath that moves without the Word
  12. North of Ibiza (Spain), february 19, 2022

XI

  1. I will place the words in the palm of your hand
  2. I will hold your mouth half-open, for the word will belong to the one who sees
  3. Look at the infinity that crowns my head and the ivy that winds around yours
  4. Art exerts a considerable influence, akin to a solar disruption
  5. Like an eruption, watercolor has the power to ignite consciousness in their darkness
  6. An opening towards the prototype and capable of performing miracles
  7. The images reveal themselves to the observer through the power of eternal awe
  8. Show courage and determination for this quest
  9. Let your fear come, it will course through your entire being, reaching the tips of your fingers
  10. Until the end of your brush spreading colored water, you will let fear unfold
  11. Let the fear saturate the sheet of paper, and by morning, it will have been revealed
  12. Paris (France), April 30, 2022

XII

  1. In the maze of the kasbah of Tangier, you cast a different gaze
  2. Suspended between sky and earth, between two worlds
  3. It’s a reversal of currents; accept this new law
  4. In a reversal of your choice
  5. An interworld, a stance towards a new resolution
  6. It’s a necessary moment of introspection
  7. Taking ownership of oneself by looking inward
  8. To project outward what you have seen in the light
  9. Look within, it’s the mirror of art
  10. Your right eye looks at its left eye and your left hand becomes right
  11. And the hand that paints, in the mirror, becomes the one that thinks
  12. Tangier (Morocco), June 14, 2023

XIII

  1. Silent is the desert of the Meseta where you died
  2. Across the arid lands of Spain, in the field of stars
  3. For the third path, you wept for the end, the eternal end of the way
  4. A memory of twilight and then nothing, barely a shadow
  5. The end of childhood, like a shedding you left in Fisterra
  6. Embracing the fleeting moment in the intensity of a fraction
  7. But it is the dissolution that comes, the decomposition of what constituted you
  8. You will dive into the water of the night, and the illusions of your former world will float
  9. A necessary descent toward a deeper self
  10. And in the morning, at the meeting of the two waters of the strait
  11. Your head will roll in the waves of Blaras beach
  12. Tangier (Morocco), October 28, 2023

XlIlI

  1. You will swirl the wine of Volubilis in the mixed waters waters of the strait
  2. The currents must flow again, an illumination comes
  3. Go like the rain invoked by the eyes of the thirsty
  4. The last night of April in the burning flame of the first day of May
  5. Cast sparks to ignite the spirits of those who seek me
  6. For the year ahead, you will first immerse yourself in the great river of Egypt
  7. You will immerse yourself for a baptism, transforming what once constituted you
  8. Keep the memory of what you were, forget what you were about to become
  9. A transformation is coming, leaving the ruins behind for a new beginning
  10. They will rename you, for you shall pass through the M, and it is through the M that they will name you
  11. And it is through the A of the golden arrow that you will find your direction
  12. Tangier (Morocco), March 25, 2024

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XV

  1. Secretly, the Serpent revealed its name to me and asked me to keep it hidden
  2. As I opened my right hand, He painted a translucent star with gum arabic
  3. The brush, which He called Sayfsura, was placed in my left hand
  4. Under the scale of visions and operations, the Serpent balanced them carefully
  5. Regarding the process, the water and pigments of the prototype were weighed with carob seeds
  6. Nothing was left to chance as the paper’s essence merged to reveal the weight of the whole
  7. Crucible of the square has been prepared to access the golden crucible of proportion
  8. Origin winds guided the path through higher crucibles beyond the fontanel
  9. Merging the seven colored pigments into the gold of the earth, united by the fire of water
  10. Expect a couple, experts in images, to come and assist you
  11. Surely, you will recognize them by their hands; they will bond with you
  12. Mzoura cromlech (Morocco), December 31, 2024, at Midnight

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