Just found this too. Do you remember the Creator book? It opened up discussing the words of Paul Gauguin.
*** ct chap. 1 p. 5 What Can Add Meaning to Your Life? ***
HAVE you dreamed of enjoying a better life, whether in your home area or in a tropical paradise? At one time or another, most of us have.
In 1891, French artist Paul Gauguin went to find such a life in French Polynesia. But reality soon set in. His dissolute past brought disease and suffering to himself and others. As he felt death approaching, he painted what has been described as a “final affirmation of artistic force.” The book Paul Gauguin 1848-1903—The Primitive Sophisticate says: “The spectrum of human activity encompassed by the painting spans all of life, from birth to death . . . He was interpreting life as a great mystery.”
Gauguin named that painting “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”
Well here's some info about Paul Gauguin - he was a Rosicrucian and a Theosophist - oh and a Free Mason.
Paul Gauguin's baphomet self portrait Freemason , Eliphas Levi, Madame Blavatsky Van Gogh Fakes