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RE: BEAUTY ISN'T JUST PRETTY

in #beauty7 years ago

Bravo!

And from the viewpoint of faith, we know there is nothing ugly, nothing disordered, nothing foul, nothing dirty, nothing repulsive or repugnant in God. God is Beauty, even as He is Love. Since it is a quality of Him, it can be known, it can be defined... but never as ugly. Never as evil. Never as dark. Never as the absence of any good and perfect quality. Such things do not exist in God, Who is the epitome of beauty. This is why beauty cannot be subjective, any more than virtue can be. We have their highest model and example, and from Him, we learn the true nature of those things. (In this case, beauty like the things you listed!) One of them is indeed what we might call internal beauty... beauty of soul.

Ugliness, I think, exists so that we can better appreciate the beauty, and so that we have something to represent to us the ugliness of evil and sin... that which mars, which is disordered, which disfigures, which is horrific, and which is dark and brings darkness.

And, "Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." - Isaias, Ch. 5

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