The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity.
The Urantia Book,
(48:7.23)
Beauty, art, is largely a matter of the unification of contrasts. Variety is essential to the concept of beauty. The supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature. Man finding God and God finding man--the creature becoming perfect as is the Creator--that is the supernal achievement of the supremely beautiful, the attainment of the apex of cosmic art.
The Urantia Book,
(56:10.3)
The search for beauty is a part of religion only in so far as it is ethical and to the extent that it enriches the concept of the moral. Art is only religious when it becomes diffused with purpose which has been derived from high spiritual motivation.
The Urantia Book,
(101:9.4)
Art proves that man is not mechanistic, but it does not prove that he is spiritually immortal.
The Urantia Book,
(195:7.15)
In a high civilization, art humanizes science, while in turn it is spiritualized by true religion--insight into spiritual and eternal values. Art represents the human and time-space evaluation of reality.
True art is the effective manipulation of the material things of life; religion is the ennobling transformation of the material facts of life, and it never ceases in its spiritual evaluation of art.
No appreciation of art is genuine unless it accords recognition to the artist.
The Urantia Book,
(195:7.16)
The domains of philosophy and art intervene between the nonreligious and the religious activities of the human self. Through art and philosophy the material-minded man is inveigled into the contemplation of the spiritual realities and universe values of eternal meanings.
The Urantia Book,
(5:4.4)
Truth is the basis of science and philosophy, presenting the intellectual foundation of religion. Beauty sponsors art, music, and the meaningful rhythms of all human experience. Goodness embraces the sense of ethics, morality, and religion--experiential perfection-hunger.
The Urantia Book,
(56:10.10)
Emotionally, man transcends his animal ancestors in his ability to appreciate humor, art, and religion.
The Urantia Book,
(69:0.1)
Religion stands above science, art, philosophy, ethics, and morals, but not independent of them. They are all indissolubly interrelated in human experience, personal and social.
The Urantia Book,
(196:3.25)
Art results from man's attempt to escape from the lack of beauty in his material environment...
The Urantia Book,
(196:3.27)
And this is the story of the celestial artisans, that cosmopolitan body of exquisite workers who do so much to glorify the architectural spheres with the artistic portrayals of the divine beauty of the Paradise Creators.
The Urantia Book,
(44:8.6)
Whereas your artists must resort to inert paint and lifeless marble to portray their concepts, the celestial artisans ... more frequently utilize living materials to represent their ideas and to capture their ideals.
The Urantia Book,
(43:6.7)
You will first begin to glimpse these transplanted arts of Havona on the mansion worlds, and their beauty and your appreciation of their beauty will heighten and brighten until you stand in the spirit halls of Salvington and behold the inspiring masterpieces of the supernal artists of the spirit realms.
The Urantia Book,
(44:0.7)
Such artisans are distributed throughout the grand universe--on the headquarters worlds of the superuniverses, the local universes, the constellations, and systems, as well as on all spheres settled in light and life; but their chief realm of activity is in the constellations and especially on the seven hundred seventy worlds surrounding each headquarters sphere.
The Urantia Book,
(44:0.1)
Although celestial artisans do not personally work on material
planets,
such as Urantia, they do come, from time to time, from the headquarters of the system to proffer help to the naturally gifted individuals of the mortal races.
The Urantia Book,
(44:8.1)
Cosmic concepts of true philosophy, the portrayal of celestial artistry, or the mortal attempt to depict the human recognition of divine beauty can never be truly satisfying if such attempted creature progression is ununified. These expressions of the divine urge within the evolving creature may be intellectually true, emotionally beautiful, and spiritually good; but the real soul of expression is absent unless these realities of truth, meanings of beauty, and values of goodness are unified in the life experience of the artisan, the scientist, or the philosopher.
The Urantia Book,
(44:7.3)
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