Beauty
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Beauty is always triumphant over ugliness in the hearts of all who are illuminated by the love of truth. 156:5.5
Beauty aroused the envy of spirits; it betokened sinful human pride. 87:5.7
We can consciously augment Adjuster harmony by sincerely basing the human life on the highest consciousness of truth, beauty, and goodness, and then co-ordinating these qualities of divinity through wisdom, worship, faith, and love. 110:3.7
The concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness are not inherent in either physics or chemistry. 195:6.11
The discernment of supreme beauty is the discovery and integration of reality: The discernment of the divine goodness in the eternal truth, that is ultimate beauty. 2:7.8
Jesus impressed upon his apostles the great value of beauty as an influence leading to the urge to worship, especially with children 167:6.5-6
The understandings of truth, beauty, and goodness, morality, ethics, duty, love, divinity, origin, existence, purpose, destiny, time, space, even Deity, are only relatively true. 115:1.2
Beauty is most religious when it is most simple and naturelike. 167:6.6
the mortal attempt to depict the human recognition of divine beauty can never be truly satisfying if ununified 44:7.3
In the Urantia Book
Pleasing surroundings contribute to happiness (140:4.10)
- service of beauty is not a substitute for genuine religious experience, spiritual reality 196:3.23
- The sincere pursuit of goodness, beauty, and truth leads to God. 195:6.17
- Truth, fact, and relationship are intellectually inseparable and associated with the philosophic concepts of beauty. 44:7.2
Variety is essential to the concept of beauty. (56:10.3-4)
Defined as
- beauty is the discernment of goodness in truth 2:7.8
- represent finite maximum of ideational experience 117:1.7
- embraces the harmonious relations and rhythms of the cosmic creation 56:10.9-11
- represents man’s effort to discern God in mind, matter and spirit 56:10.2
- Universal beauty is the recognition of the reflection of the Isle of Paradise in the material creation 56:10.17
- embrace the revelation of Deity to the realms of time and space 0:1.17 56:10.9
- The spirit which the Father and Jesus send into the world is not only the Spirit of Truth but also the spirit of idealistic beauty. 155:6.11
- The supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature. 56:10.3-4
- it is a value-realization of God-consciousness 111:3.7
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Make a new covenant in heart and mind 156:5.5 — Heb 8:9-11.
- Old overcome by new 156:5.5 — 2 Co 5:17; Eph 4:22-24; Col 3:9-10.
- Overcome evil with good 156:5.5 — Ro 12:21.
- By choosing the Divine 110:3.7 — Is 55:1-3; Mt 5:6; Mt 6:33; Lk 12:31.
Where it appears
Beauty is linked in 5 paragraphs of the text.