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Why are so many so attracted by the beautiful in Nature and Art, in creatures and ideas, and so repelled by the ugly in form and thought? Did Plato the cultured Greek and Baal Shem-Tov the unlettered Hebrew share the same truth when they asserted that beauty, rightly understood and properly regarded, could lead us Godward? For different persons react to the Divine differently, because it has--like themselves--different aspects or attributes. If some are attracted to the Truth-side and others to the Love, why not also to the Beauty?

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 64