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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The physical world is the world of form and the perfection of form is</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">beauty</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''.'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Beauty interprets, expresses, manifests the Eternal. Its role is to put all manifested nature in contact with the Eternal through the perfection of form, through harmony and a sense of </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">the ideal which uplifts and leads towards something higher.</span>
<ref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p2]</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">On the physical plane the Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane through knowledge, on the vital plane through power and on the psychic plane through love. When we rise high enough, we discover that these four aspects unite with each other in a single consciousness, full of love, luminous, powerful, beautiful, containing all, pervading all.</span>
<ref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/the-divine-working-in-the-universe#p6]</ref>
<div style="color:#000000;">For all joy, beauty, love, peace, delight are out-flowings from the Ananda Brahman,—all delight of the spirit, the intellect, the imagination, aesthetic sense, ethical aspiration and satisfaction, action, life, the body. And through all ways of our being the Divine can touch us and make use of them to awaken and liberate the spirit. </div>
<ref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-ananda-brahman#p4 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-ananda-brahman#p4]</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Beauty is a great power. Beauty does not get its full power except when it is surrendered to the Divine.</span>
<ref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/beauty#p8 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/beauty#p8]</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">To bring the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda into the world is, indeed, the whole crown and essence of our Yoga.</span>
<ref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p1 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p1]</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">...this beauty of soul that is visible in the face, this kind of dignity, this harmony of integral realisation. When the soul becomes visible in the physical, it gives this dignity, this beauty, this majesty, the majesty that comes from one's being the Tabernacle. Then, even things that have no particular beauty put on a sense of eternal beauty, of it the eternal beauty.</span>
<ref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/july-1958-1#p2]</ref>
<div style="color:#000000;">All Beauty in the world is there the beauty of the Beloved, and all forms of beauty have to stand under the light of that eternal Beauty and submit themselves to the sublimating and transfiguring power of the unveiled Divine Perfection. </div>
<ref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p16 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p16]</ref>
<div style="color:#000000;">(The Mother, 25 May 1955)</div>
<ref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/25-may-1955#p39 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/25-may-1955#p39]</ref>