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= What is Beauty? =
The physical world is the world of form and the perfection of form is beauty. 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 [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/H#HARMONY harmony] and a sense of the ideal which uplifts and leads towards something higher. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p2</ref>
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On the physical plane the [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/D#Divine 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 [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/C#consciousness 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>
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There is a psychic world—a sort of Heaven of [[P#Peace|peace]] and beauty and harmony. It is also a place of rest for the soul between two [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/I#INCARNATION incarnations] in which it absorbs its past experiences and becomes ready for another birth. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-psychic-being#p100</ref>
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