The reflection of the supra-formal in the formal is not the formless; on the contrary it is strict form. The supra-formal is incarnated in forms that are both 'logical' and 'generous' and thus in beauty.

Forms allow of a direct, 'plastic' assimilation of the truths - or

of the realities - of the spirit.

 

The geometry of the symbol is steeped in beauty, which in its turn and in its own way is also a symbol.

 

The perfect form is that in which truth is incarnate in the rigour of the symbolical formulation and in the purity and intelligence of the style.

 

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Frithjof Schuon

 

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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)

 

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