In January 1906, a Swedish artist named Hilma af Klint began to receive requests from spirits during séances to create a series of paintings which would depict the spiritual plane. These spirits—named Amaliel, Gregor, and Ananda—were conveying messages to her from the ‘High Ones’. Af Klint wrote in her notebooks “I am so small, I am so insignificant but the force that flows through me is so powerful that I must go forward.” And in another passage: “The experiments I have undertaken…will astound humanity.” Hilma saw this series of paintings as the most important work of her life. But the nonrepresentational and abstract style of the works was decades ahead of its time. What is the spiritual message of Hilma’s Paintings for the Temple series? And how do we understand the intersection between spirituality and art? That is the ambitious purpose of this presentation.