Mount of Flame, 1932

Barbara Haskell: Mount of Flame is a work that represents Pelton's study of Agni Yoga, which is a spiritual discipline.

Narrator: Curator Barbara Haskell.

Barbara Haskell: Agni is a Hindu word meaning fire, so it's a yoga of fire. In the theory of Agni Yoga, fire was a very mysterious form that was the vessel for spiritual awareness. It was a substance that was both powerful and yet it dissolved into air. So this image of Mount of Flame, this flame being the symbol of the inner strength that would guide people to the world through those windows of illumination into the world of ethereal understanding of the divine reality.