I found a very fine collection of cave paintings and other prehistoric art in Journey Through the Ice Age, by Paul G. Bahn and Jean Vertut. There is a breathtaking simplicity and grace to many of the paintings.
“Lord, these cave paintings also have an aura of holiness.”
That is right. My first approach is to give humans the sense that nature is special, sacred, that there is something more than trees and clumps of grass, that there is also a spiritual presence.
“Lord, were the cave-paintings inspired by You as a way of expressing how You saw animals?”
These questions about whether I caused something or the person did are not as valid as you think. I often think through people. Your thoughts are often My thoughts. Remember that, in a sense, everything is a manifestation, not just an effect, of Me.
In spite of my own experiences, I was still disturbed by the idea of God being present in or entering people and things. “Lord, Your spirit entered the cave artists?”
Well, if you want to put it that way. But it is not like possession or automatic writing. At times, individuals are “filled” with Me, “in-spired.” What they do at those times is therefore also something I am doing.
“So these inspired individuals saw animals the way You do?”
They saw them as they are. They saw their souls, their moving spirits, like looking into the eyes of your beloved. These animals have beautiful souls.
