What is beauty? How do we perceive it within our environment and our life? It is said that beauty is above all in the eye of the observer. In this case it would therefore be subjective and relative. Unique to everyone. But what would then be the perception variables? The judging criteria? Would there be common points for the same shared personal appreciation? Beauty would not be personal but universal, therefore rather objective and absolute. The proportions, shapes, harmony, sounds, colors, context… It would reflect grace, elevation, transcendence, the echo of something larger. The same beauty for everyone. Absolute standards. Models of beauty are then everywhere: in nature, in man… By perceiving these models, we open ourselves to the beauty of the absolute, through a painting, a face, a an event. Love of truth, beauty as a mirror of the divine: they emanate from eternity to emerge surreptitiously in matter.
These emanations can teach us, affect us, make us discover truths beyond themselves, elevate us above them. The observed reality is therefore beauty, because it is a temporary and unique reflection of atemporal causes, the results of fleeting projections of eternal principles. In this logic, reason and madness are two facets of the same eternal principle. Growth and decadence. Construction and destruction. Our world descending into violence and confusion, conflict and division; is then a part of the reflection of the divine. The same beauty, because it responds to a celestial harmony, that of the higher law of cycles and renewal. The decline of a civilization then becomes its outcome, even its accomplishment if its destruction is experienced consciously. Its turn is over, it has served enough and must renew itself. It begins a crystallization, a rigidification of its structure: institutions and governments can no longer evolve because they serve an elite for its exclusive profit, values are reversed, the masses meticulously destroy centuries of civilizing constructions. The correct relationship to this situation would be to capture the celestial causes, of which the observed decline would be the effect. From being dramatic, this end-of-the-world phase becomes a divine expression. It becomes beauty because it is in harmony with the higher laws. Because something can be beautiful, whether we like it or not, whether we appreciate it or not. Our value judgment is subjective.
If we perceive its root and its effect (here the cyclical principles and the destruction of a civilization) we can be part of it because we can then merge with it through our perception. Our recognition and deep acceptance of all that is, as part of the same divine plan. The beauty of the absolute elevates us, participating in it makes us witness to the divine in movement. It is not a question here of resisting the march of the world, nor of actively participating in its destruction, but of simply observing it as the deployment of a higher principle. We can little by little renounce our human illusions, encourage us to get closer to our higher aspects closer to this beauty: the courage to face it, to renounce our achievements and our certainties, to abandon our illusions and our possessions . By loving deeply and humbly, we welcome this reality at each moment as an experience of matter, a beautiful and fleeting emanation of the divine. Everything that is old, inharmonious, ugly, because it is out of step with this higher reality, disappears and is destroyed. Everything that is in phase with this logic of transcendence endures.
The force that elevates is the same as that which degrades, the force that builds is the same as that which destroys. The beauty of what is built is also revealed in its destruction. Birth and death proceed from the same eternal principles. The beauty that overwhelms them, making them disappear until reduced to dust, is the same as that which made them hatch and grow, until leading them to their summit. The love of the divine is similar through what it creates and what it annihilates. The blossoming of a flower is as beautiful as its death. Once its life cycle is completed, its birth and disappearance are as much in harmony with the principles of life. What appears and grows in matter is condemned to decrease and dissipate, to return to dust. Life and death, growth and decline, creation and destruction are the two facets of the divine drawing its imprint on matter.