Giriş
Sanat eserleriyle ilgili rüyalar—resimler, heykeller, mozaikler ya da yaratma eylemi—doğal olarak Hristiyan hayal gücünü yakalar. Sanat Kutsal Yazılarda zaten anlamla doludur: güzellik, ibadet, çağrı ve Tanrı'nın sureti konularına işaret eder. Yine de Kutsal Yazılar bir rüya sözlüğü değildir; bireysel imgeler için birebir anahtarlar vermez. Bunun yerine, Tanrı'nın vahyi ışığında bir rüyanın ne anlama gelebileceğini toplumların ve bireylerin ayırt etmesine yardımcı olan sembolik çerçeveler ve ilahî temalar sunar. Bir sanat rüyasına kutsal yazılar açısından yaklaşmak, Kutsal Yazıların vurguladığı temaları dinlemek demektir: Yaratıcı ve yaratılan, ibadet ve putperestlik, işçilik ve çağrı, ve dikkatli ayırt etme gereği.
Kutsal Yazılarda Sembolik Anlam
Sanat eserleri ve sanatsal yetenekler, teolojik öncelikleri ortaya koyan biçimde Kutsal Yazılar boyunca mevcuttur. Yaratıcı olarak Tanrı dünyaya biçim, düzen ve güzellik verir ve insan yaratıcılığı bu yaratıcı çağrıya katılır. Yetenekli zanaatkârlar çadırı ve tapınağın etrafındaki kutsal işler için görevlendirilir; bu da ustalığın kutsal bir hizmet olabileceğini gösterir. Aynı zamanda, imgeler ve putlar Kutsal Yazılarda sert bir uyarı taşır: ibadeti yaşayan Tanrı'dan saptıran temsiller kınanır. Son olarak, Kutsal Yazılar sıkça sanatsal ve zanaat mecazları—çömlekçi ve çamur, işçilik—kullanarak Tanrı'nın insan hayatlarını şekillendirmesini açıklar.
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13And the evening and the morning were the third day. 14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: 3And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, 4To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 5And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Biz Allah’ın eseriyiz; O bizi Mesih İsa vasıtasıyla ruhen yeniden yarattı. Çünkü hazırladığı hayırlı amelleri işlememizi istiyor.
1The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. 3Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. 4And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 6O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Bu referanslar birkaç tutarlı temayı öne çıkarır: Tanrı'nın egemen yaratıcı etkinliği, kutsal görevler için çağrılan usta yapıcılara verilen onur, putperest görüntülerin tehlikesi ve insan oluşumunun ilahî imgesi. Bir Hristiyan sanat rüyası gördüğünde, bu temalar yoruma ilişkin ilahî sözcük dağarcığını oluşturur; mekanik bir kural kitabı değil.
Kutsal Yazı Geleneğinde Rüyalar
Kutsal Yazılar birçok rüyayı kaydeder—bazıları ilahî iletişimin aracı gibi görünen, bazılarıysa belirsiz olan rüyalardır. Kutsal örnekler, rüyaların çeşitli rollere hizmet edebileceğini gösterir: duyurabilir, uyarmak, öğretmek ya da yalnızca insan deneyiminin bir parçası olmak. Bu yüzden Hristiyan teolojisi rüyalara dikkatle yaklaşır ama temkinli bir tutumla: rüyalar Kutsal Yazı'ya göre denenmeli, kilisenin yaşamı içinde yorumlanmalı ve kesinlik yerine alçakgönüllülükle karşılanmalıdır.
5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. 6And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 7For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. 8And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. 9And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. 10And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? 11And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
1And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. 2Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. 3And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. 4Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation. 5The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. 6But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof. 7They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it. 8The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. 9But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof. 10The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. 11And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. 12For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. 13And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain. 14Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon: 15He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. 16Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation. 17Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: 18That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. 19Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 20Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: 21And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: 22He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. 23I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter.
Böyle düşününce Rab’bin meleği Yusuf’a rüyada göründü; ona şöyle dedi: “Davud oğlu Yusuf, Meryem’le evlenmekten çekinme. Onun rahmindeki, Mukaddes Ruh’tandır.
Kutsal Yazılardaki eğilim, her rüyayı doğrudan vahiy olarak kabul etmek değildir. İncil'deki peygamberane veya revelasyon niteliğindeki rüyalar açıklıkla, Tanrı'nın karakteriyle tutarlılıkla ve sıklıkla Tanrı'nın halkından gelen bir onay sözüyle birlikte olur. Kilise tarihsel olarak ayırt etmeyi teşvik etmiştir—dualarla test etme, pastoral danışma ve Kutsal Yazı'ya itaati—rüyaya ilahî ağırlık vermeden önce.
Rüyanın Olası İncilî Yorumları
Aşağıda bir sanat rüyasının neyi sembolize edebileceğine dair birkaç ilahî olasılık sunulmuştur. Bunlar kehanet veya garanti mesajlar değil, İncilî imgelerle köklü yorum seçenekleri olarak verilmektedir.
1) Yaratıcı Meslek ve Emanet Sorumluluğuna Çağrı
Dosdoğru bir yorum, sanat yaratma ya da sanatla karşılaşma ile ilgili bir rüyanın Tanrı tarafından verilmiş yaratıcılığın onayına işaret etmesidir. Kutsal Yazı, kutsal mekanlarda hizmet etmeleri için seçilmiş zanaatkârları onurlandırır ve tüm inananların iyi işler için yaratıldığını öğretir. Rüya sanat yapmaya odaklanıyorsa, bu hediyeleri hizmet ve güzellik için kullanma yönünde Tanrı'nın daveti olabilir.
30And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 31And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; 32And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 33And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. 34And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. 35Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Biz Allah’ın eseriyiz; O bizi Mesih İsa vasıtasıyla ruhen yeniden yarattı. Çünkü hazırladığı hayırlı amelleri işlememizi istiyor.
2) Yaratıcı-Yaratılan İlişkisinin Yansıması
Rüyada görülen sanat, Tanrı'nın yaratıcı eylemini ve bizim O'nun suretinde yaratılmış olarak katılımımızı simgeliyor olabilir. Biçim verme, tasarlama veya düzenleme vurgulayan rüyalar, Tanrı'nın yaratılışı şekillendirdiği ve insan emeğinin bu düzenlemeye katıldığı ilahî gerçeğini yansıtabilir. Bu tür rüyalar şükran ve Tanrı'yı Bir Sanatçı ve Sürdürür olarak yeniden fark etmeye davet edebilir.
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13And the evening and the morning were the third day. 14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
3) İbadet ve Putperestliği Sorgulamaya Yönelten Bir Uyarı
Kutsal Yazı, ibadete engel olan görüntüleri yasakladığı için, rüyalardaki sanat eserleri aynı zamanda ilahî bir ihtar olarak okunabilir: yaratıcının yerine yaratılmış güzelliği mi seviyoruz? Dikkat çekici ve itaati talep eden imgelerin yer aldığı rüyalar, öncelikler ve olası putperestlik eğilimleri konusunda özdenetimi davet edebilir—bu deterministik bir okuma değil, tövbe ve düzeltmeye yönelten pastoral bir uyarıdır.
4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
15Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 18The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: 19And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
4) Oluşum ve Kutsallaşmanın Sembolü
Özellikle birinin şekillendirildiği veya yoğrulduğu sahneler, Kutsal Yazı'nın ruhsal oluşum için kullandığı çömlekçi ve çamur imgesiyle okunabilir. Bir figürün heykel gibi biçimlendirildiği bir rüya, Tanrı'nın hayatları şekillendirme ve yeniden biçimlendirme temasıyla rezonans kurabilir; bu, inananları kutsallığa ve yenilenmiş kimliğe çağırır.
1The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. 3Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. 4And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 6O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Elbette çömlekçinin aynı kil öbeğinden hem asil işlerde hem de sıradan işlerde kullanılacak çömlekler yapmaya hakkı vardır.
5) Topluluk ve Hizmete Davet
Eğer rüyadaki sanat eseri kamusal ya da toplu bir ortamda görünüyorsa, bu hediyelerin yalnızca kişisel ifade için değil, bedenin yararı için verildiğine işaret edebilir. Kutsal Yazı, ruhsal armağanların ve yeteneklerin karşılıklı inşa için emanet edildiğini öğretir; dolayısıyla bir sanat rüyası kilise yaşamına veya hizmete katılmaya teşvik edebilir.
Her biriniz Allah’ın lütfettiği bir mevhibeye sahipsiniz. Bu mevhibelerle birbirinize hizmet edin. Böylece Allah’ın çok yönlü lütfunu iyi kullanmış olursunuz.
Allah her birimize farklı mevhibeler bahşetti. Peygamberlik mevhibesine sahip olan, imanı ölçüsünde peygamberlik etsin.
Pastoral Yansıma ve Ayırt Etme
Hristiyanlar sanat gibi canlı bir imgeyle rüya gördüklerinde, pastoral bilgelik derhal hüküm vermek yerine dua ile ayırt etme adımlarını önerir. Önce Kutsal Yazı ile başlayın: rüyanın temalarını kutsal öğretiyle karşılaştırın. Rüyanın önemini tartmaya yardımcı olabilecek olgun imanlılardan ve pastorlardan danışmanlık isteyin. Alçakgönüllülük ve açıklık için dua edin; rüyanın itaati, tövbeyi veya armağanların sadık kullanımını mı teşvik ettiğini sorun.
Kısa bir ayrı not: psikolojik ve kültürel etkenler rüyaları etkileyebilir ve bunları ilahî düşünmeyle birlikte değerlendirmek mümkündür—ancak ikincildir. Bir rüyanın canlılığına dayanarak öğreti inşa etmekten veya hayat kararları vermekten kaçının; bunun yerine sonraki adımları belirlerken Kutsal Yazı ve kilisenin rehberliğine izin verin.
Sonuç
Bir sanat rüyası yaratıcı meslek, Yaratıcı-yaratılan dinamiği, putperestlik uyarıları, Mesih'e benzerlikte form alma ve topluluk hizmeti gibi çeşitli İncilî temaları uyandırabilir. Kutsal Yazı, Hristiyanların bu tür rüyaları yorumlamasına yardımcı olan zengin imgeler sunar, ancak onları tek bir cevaba indirgemez. Sadık yaklaşım, Kutsal Yazı'ya dayalı düşünme, dua ile ayırt etme ve pastoral danışmayı bir araya getirir. Bu alanda rüyalar korkunun ya da kesin bir kestirimin kaynağı olmaktan ziyade Tanrı'nın güzelliğine, emanet sorumluluğuna ve çağrısına yeniden yönelme fırsatları haline gelir.