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Ron Gaudio's blogpost on Pythagoras and his lasting influence on Western Civilization

Ron Gaudio's blogpost on Pythagoras and his lasting influence on Western Civilization

For Pythagoras and many other Greek philosophers, the beauty of the cosmos reflected not only a harmonious order but divinity itself. That is why they were also a community that worshipped. Pythagoras’s legacy reached even to the United States, being responsible for the architectural beauty of Monticello, Harvard Hall, and the Capitol Building.

Beauty in the Spiritual Life, Part 3: A Meditation on A Painting of Christ as the Eternal Flower of Paradise

Beauty in the Spiritual Life, Part 3: A Meditation on A Painting of Christ as the Eternal Flower of Paradise

The impulse to beauty in our hearts helps us to be by degrees an ever more brilliantly colored, beautifully formed, and sweetly fragrant Christ-like Flower of Paradise.

Beauty in the Spiritual Life, Part 1: Beauty as a Principle of Choice

Beauty in the Spiritual Life, Part 1: Beauty as a Principle of Choice

The conscience can act in a prohibitive sense, that warns us against sinful acts. But there is another principle of choice that is more positive and affirmative and is a creative impulse that works in harmony with the order that underlies the beauty of all things. That is the conscience of creativity that chooses the most beautiful option.