“Beauty, whatever use man may make of it, belongs fundamentally to its Creator, who through it projects into the world of appearances something of His being.”

—  Frithjof Schuon

[2019, Esoterism as Principle and as Way, World Wisdom, 190, 978-1-93659765-9]
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