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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">All these gods are representations which Sri Aurobindo calls "aesthetic and intellectual"―a way of conceiving the universe. (The Mother, 16 May 1956) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/16-may-1956#p21</ref></span>
<div style="color:#000000;">"In any cult the symbol, the significant rite or expressive figure is not only a moving and enriching aesthetic element, but a physical means by which the human being begins to make outwardly definite the emotion and aspiration of his heart, to confirm it and to dynamise it. (The Mother, 1 August 1956) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/8/1-august-1956#p54</ref></div>
<div style="color:#000000;">Always the symbol is legitimate in so far as it is true, sincere, beautiful and delightful, and even one may say that a spiritual consciousness without any aesthetic or emotional content is not entirely or at any rate not integrally spiritual. In the spiritual life the basis of the act is a spiritual consciousness perennial and renovating, moved to express itself always in new forms or able to renew the truth of a form always by the flow of the spirit, and to so express itself and make every action a living symbol of some truth of the soul is the very nature of its creative vision and impulse. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p11</ref></div>
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