Beauty: Sensing the Sacred
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
—Dante
A change of emphasis seems to be taking place in our understanding of
beauty at the moment. No longer is it only ascribed to great works of
art, literature and garden landscapes—the objective creations of
talented individuals. The concept is widening to include a growing appreciation of
what these things prepare us for—beauty as a sense of
the sacred, both in the mundane and the transcendent alike. This sense of
the sacred is the growing ability to see through the changing nature of
all things to the soul within, the eternal point of peace at the heart of
all forms. Here, the archetype for beauty rests in the body of
light, “not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
As beauty rests in light, its passage into the world requires forms that are
free from impediment and aligned with their spiritual archetype. The association
of the diamond with beauty lies in its perfect symmetry that allows light to
flow through it unimpeded and to be refracted into pure scintillating colour.
And this symbolises the future perfection of all things; for through the
evolutionary process, the etheric body, the energy structure upon which the
physical form is built, tends steadily towards a geometrical pattern—a
symmetry that releases the soul's radiation. With gaining intensity, the pure
light of the universal soul is raying forth into the world steadily manifesting
“the new heavens and the new earth.”
Those who can penetrate beyond physical appearances into the realm of
energies can sense beauty in a state of latency and emergence. It is as
if they see the blueprint, the divine Plan to which the kingdoms of nature
are in process of conforming. To understand this spiritual evolution of the
world, to see beauty emerging from the struggle and conflict of the life
within each form, is to sense the sacred, and, as Dante says, this awakens
the soul to act—to participate in the steady consecration of the whole.
Could this be the inspiration behind our Triangles service? Each day we aspire
to connect ourselves to the fountainhead of beauty and bring it into the
world as a flow of light. In this way humanity is helped into alignment with
the symmetry of the divine Plan and towards a unification with the source of
all things. Thereby the great promise that lies behind the Plan of evolution
is fulfilled; the entering into a state of beautification as each of us are
‘made whole’ or holy—the true meaning of the term ‘to
make sacred.’
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