Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Wednesdays, June 3 - 24, 2026
7:00 - 8:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$140 Paid Patreon Members / $150 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
"I am so small. I am so insignificant. But the force that flows through me is so powerful that I must go forward... the experiments I have undertaken will astound humanity." Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944)
Between 1906 and 1915, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint created a staggering work of spiritual and artistic genius entitledThe Paintings for the Temple— 193 paintings of varying dimensions, the largest measuring ten feet tall by seven feet wide. A solitary woman working outside the Parisian art movements of her time, Hilma pioneered abstract art years before Kandinsky or Mondrian. Yet her work was never an intellectual exercise. She painted visions received from the spiritual plane, channeling messages from the “High Ones,” and believed these images contained a message for humanity — one she spent the rest of her life striving to decipher. That responsibility, she believed, would eventually pass to others.
This four‑part course offers a comprehensive exploration of Hilma af Klint’s life, her most significant paintings, and the esoteric cosmology that shaped her artistic vision. We will trace her evolution as a spirit medium withinThe Five— a private Spiritualist group of women dedicated to receiving transmissions from higher realms — and examine the complex spiritual framework that informed her perspective. Along the way, we’ll confront key questions: Was Hilma the ultimate embodiment of the artist as shaman, the one who channels hidden knowledge into visible form? Did her work link to secret societies such as the Rosicrucian Order? Who or what was she truly channeling? And how might we begin to decode the vast symbolism and spiritual messages embedded within her paintings?
The goal of this course—led by MJ Dorian, host and creator of the podcast Creative Codex—is not only to cultivate an appreciation of Hilma af Klint’s revolutionary art but also to engage in a broader mystery — to cultivate the sensitivity and symbolic tools needed to draw meaning from the transcendent language of her work and, in doing so, to glimpse the spiritual message she left for humanity.
MJ Dorian is a multidisciplinary artist known for his work as host & creator of the podcast Creative Codex. An imaginative lecture series about the most consequential creative geniuses in history. Creative Codex paints a sonic portrait of each figure, exploring their life and work through a humanistic lens.
Images: Photograph of Hilma Klint; Paintings by Hilma Klint.
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Wednesdays, June 3 - 24, 2026
7:00 - 8:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$140 Paid Patreon Members / $150 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
"I am so small. I am so insignificant. But the force that flows through me is so powerful that I must go forward... the experiments I have undertaken will astound humanity." Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944)
Between 1906 and 1915, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint created a staggering work of spiritual and artistic genius entitledThe Paintings for the Temple— 193 paintings of varying dimensions, the largest measuring ten feet tall by seven feet wide. A solitary woman working outside the Parisian art movements of her time, Hilma pioneered abstract art years before Kandinsky or Mondrian. Yet her work was never an intellectual exercise. She painted visions received from the spiritual plane, channeling messages from the “High Ones,” and believed these images contained a message for humanity — one she spent the rest of her life striving to decipher. That responsibility, she believed, would eventually pass to others.
This four‑part course offers a comprehensive exploration of Hilma af Klint’s life, her most significant paintings, and the esoteric cosmology that shaped her artistic vision. We will trace her evolution as a spirit medium withinThe Five— a private Spiritualist group of women dedicated to receiving transmissions from higher realms — and examine the complex spiritual framework that informed her perspective. Along the way, we’ll confront key questions: Was Hilma the ultimate embodiment of the artist as shaman, the one who channels hidden knowledge into visible form? Did her work link to secret societies such as the Rosicrucian Order? Who or what was she truly channeling? And how might we begin to decode the vast symbolism and spiritual messages embedded within her paintings?
The goal of this course—led by MJ Dorian, host and creator of the podcast Creative Codex—is not only to cultivate an appreciation of Hilma af Klint’s revolutionary art but also to engage in a broader mystery — to cultivate the sensitivity and symbolic tools needed to draw meaning from the transcendent language of her work and, in doing so, to glimpse the spiritual message she left for humanity.
MJ Dorian is a multidisciplinary artist known for his work as host & creator of the podcast Creative Codex. An imaginative lecture series about the most consequential creative geniuses in history. Creative Codex paints a sonic portrait of each figure, exploring their life and work through a humanistic lens.
Images: Photograph of Hilma Klint; Paintings by Hilma Klint.
