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The physical world is the world of form, and the perfection of form is beauty. Its role is to put the manifested nature in contact with the Eternal through the perfection of the form. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p2</ref>
The divine Divine expresses itself as knowledge on the mental plane, power on the vital plane, love on the psychic plane, and beauty on the physical plane. When we rise high above, we discover that these four aspects unite with each other in a single consciousness, full of love, luminous, powerful, beautiful, containing all, pervading all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/the-divine-working-in-the-universe#p6</ref>
The master and mover of our works is the One, the Universal and Supreme, the Eternal and Infinite, the unexpressed and unmanifested Ineffable above us, but He is also the self of all beings, the Master of all worlds, the Light and Guide, he is the All-Beautiful and All-Blissful, the Beloved and the Lover. Though we know it not, we ourselves, are the being of his being, force of his force, conscious with a consciousness derived from his; even our mortal existence is made out of his substance and there is an immortal within us that is a spark of Light and Bliss that are forever. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-master-of-the-work#p1</ref> It is this spark in us, the soul, which turns towards Truth, Good, and Beauty because it is by these things that it grows in stature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-origin-and-remedy-of-falsehood-error-wrong-and-evil#p14</ref> One feels a deep detachment for all things in the world, an imperious need to find something truly beautiful, good, and fresh, this quite naturally develops into a spiritual aspiration. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/9-april-1951#p18</ref> When the soul becomes visible in the physical, it gives this dignity, this beauty, this majesty; then, even things that have no particular beauty put on a sense of eternal beauty. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/july-1958-1#p2</ref> Beauty is a thing that moves and evokes a great respect always. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/july-1958-1#p2</ref> But beauty alone is not sufficient, it wants to become divine. A pure sense of beauty can be acquired only through purification and gets its full power only when surrendered to the divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/beauty#p13</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/beauty#p8</ref> This sense of love, joy, and beauty are also what comprises the very stuff and nature of delight. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/indeterminates-cosmic-determinations-and-the-indeterminable#p17</ref> To bring the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda in the world is, indeed, the whole crown and essence of the Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p1</ref>