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To Find Highest Beauty Is to Find God

... that which we are seeking through beauty is in the end that
which we are seeking through religion, the Absolute, the Divine.
The search for beauty is only in its beginning a satisfaction in
the beauty of form, the beauty which appeals to the physical
senses and the vital impressions, impulsions, desires. It is only
in the middle a satisfaction in the beauty of the ideas seized,
the emotions aroused, the perception of perfect process and
harmonious combination. Behind them the soul of beauty in us
desires the contact, the revelation, the uplifting delight of an
absolute beauty in all things which it feels to be present, but
which neither the senses and instincts by themselves can give,
though they may be its channels, — for it is suprasensuous,—
nor the reason and intelligence, though they too are a chan-
nel, — for it is suprarational, supra-intellectual, — but to which
through all these veils the soul itself seeks to arrive. When it
can get the touch of this universal, absolute beauty, this soul of
beauty, this sense of its revelation in any slightest or greatest
thing, the beauty of a flower, a form, the beauty and power of a
character, an action, an event, a human life, an idea, a stroke of
the brush or the chisel or a scintillation of the mind, the colours
of a sunset or the grandeur of the tempest, it is then that the
sense of beauty in us is really, powerfully, entirely satisfied. It is
in truth seeking, as in religion, for the Divine, the All-Beautiful in
man, in nature, in life, in thought, in art; for God is Beauty and
Delight hidden in the variation of his masks and forms. When,
fulfilled in our growing sense and knowledge of beauty and de-
light in beauty and our power for beauty, we are able to identify
ourselves in soul with this Absolute and Divine in all the forms

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